Marathon:Legend First Look

[treellama]

First off the thumb can't be in that position, it would break. When making a fist you must keep the thumb to the side. Next off is anatomy and perspective. Unless the player is doing an upper cut you would not see that much of the fingers.

Is this why I've been so unsuccessful punching people all this time?

Edit: Your avatar is hot

[goran]

First off the thumb can't be in that position, it would break. When making a fist you must keep the thumb to the side. Next off is anatomy and perspective. Unless the player is doing an upper cut you would not see that much of the fingers.

The thumb seems to be at a natural postion to me. Not tucked in between the fingers, but on the side. The uppercut critique is spot on though.

QUOTE(DADDY Z3RO)I took resized pieces of the original sprites to make mine, the posing is the same.[/quote]

I've attached images of the infinity fists for reference. Your last frame is different in perspective compared to infinity's last frame.

[Ares Ex Machina]

Unless the player is doing an upper cut you would not see that much of the fingers.

The uppercut critique is spot on though.

Not sure what you guys mean. Uppercuts end with the backhand facing the opponent -- his frame does not. Regular punches can begin from a variety of fighting stances, including those which feature the finger side of the fist facing inward -- as both his frame and the original frame indicates.

What leads me to perceive an uppercut motion in his frames is not how much of the fingers we are seeing, but rather the lack of change in the angle and axis of the arm and its perspective as it makes its transition from an idle fighting stance to a thrown punch. The underside of the forearm should begin facing us, and end facing the floor. Right now it's ending facing the opponent.

[ellio7t]

The original fist sprite has the player gripping something(brass knuckles and a roll of quarters with an armbrace). When you traced it you removed these elements however you did not compensate for their absence. You have fingers bending in all sorts of ways as well as a total lack of a wrist. Thumbnails?


You want to keep the thumb to the side so you don't roll it when you make contact. It's mostly a safety thing for when you don't land the punch directly. The upper cut remark was just a note on the lack of perspective.

[zero]

The original fist sprite has the player gripping something(brass knuckles and a roll of quarters with an armbrace). When you traced it you removed these elements however you did not compensate for their absence. You have fingers bending in all sorts of ways as well as a total lack of a wrist. Thumbnails?
You want to keep the thumb to the side so you don't roll it when you make contact. It's mostly a safety thing for when you don't land the punch directly. The upper cut remark was just a note on the lack of perspective.

ok.
his wrist is there.... where his hand ends.

I may just add the "brass knuckles and a roll of quarters with an armbrace".

That would make sense.

[zero]

Not sure what you guys mean. Uppercuts end with the backhand facing the opponent -- his frame does not. Regular punches can begin from a variety of fighting stances, including those which feature the finger side of the fist facing inward -- as both his frame and the original frame indicates.

What leads me to perceive an uppercut motion in his frames is not how much of the fingers we are seeing, but rather the lack of change in the angle and axis of the arm and its perspective as it makes its transition from an idle fighting stance to a thrown punch. The underside of the forearm should begin facing us, and end facing the floor. Right now it's ending facing the opponent.

I am goint to go and rotate the third frame now...

You are correct, and it is not an uppercut, just a punch with weird perspectve... I intend to correct that with a simple rotation.

[zero]

"I knowingly took bad pieces of work and copied them to make new bad pieces of work even though I did mine from scratch."

only the thumb and lower palm was used as a frame for my new art. I copied nothing, as nothing remains of the original thumb now.

[Ares Ex Machina]

It might be helpful for you to also use the fist frames from the Xbox Live version of Marathon: Durandal as reference. I haven't seen them animated, but from the screenshots it looks as though one thing they seem to have done well is the axis of the arm and fist as it tilts from idle to having just punched.

[zero]

It might be helpful for you to also use the fist frames from the Xbox Live version of Marathon: Durandal as reference. I haven't seen them animated, but from the screenshots it looks as though one thing they seem to have done well is the axis of the arm and fist as it tilts from idle to having just punched.

I getcha, I would use them for reference, but I would need to have all of the frames.
If I wasn't gonna get whined to about using copyrighted content, I would rather just take and use the XBLA versions sprites.

[Kurinn]

I'm sorry, but this is total bullshit. Stop what you are doing, and go find a better way to live your life.

Just kidding... Really though, you went through such trouble to "improve" the fist? The FIST?

Throughout history artists have imitated older works in order to learn and improve their skills. I think it's good that you have started down this road, but you should probably aim higher in order to find your way.

I'm not even saying that the fist cannot be improved. Nevertheless, please try harder. I'd like to see a new take on the plasma pistol, but the fist is kind of lame. Not even just your fist, but the fist in general. It's the most unappealing weapon within the scope of all of the manifold methods of pain delivery. Even something as ridiculous as MSPAINT knuckle dusters would be an improvement. Did you use MSPAINT? It sucks that much. Don't get discouraged by what I'm saying here, I wouldn't even presume that you would be; But, please reconsider what you are doing.

[Kurinn]

With all seriousness, why not just use the original?

Moppy said something that makes sense. Holy shit...

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

[MoppyPuppy]

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

What did that quote have to do with anything?
Is copying and pasting well known quotes supposed to make you look smart and sophisticated or something? Cut the crap.

Listen, the fist doesn't need to be improved, or even simply re-done. It needs to be CUT.
Give the player a machete or something, in Phoenix, your given the katar, so what are fists for?
Removal of the fist opens the door for another dual wield-able weapon.

[Drictelt]

A poking device!

[Ares Ex Machina]

giggity giggity

[Kurinn]

[So as not to feed the troll]

[zero]

I kept the fists because no matter how much i detest their concept, I wanted to maintain the original concept, and create an enhanced sprite...

Fists have never been remade or enhanced before.

[$lave]

Fists have never been remade or enhanced before.

Yes they have. They were in the WEP originally, but people preferred the original fists to the replacements and they were eventually removed.

[MoppyPuppy]

Yes they have. They were in the WEP originally, but people preferred the original fists to the replacements and they were eventually removed.

That's probably because they weren't enhanced.
They were plastic.

I'll take this opportunity to point out that a lot of things in Marathon were not 3-D modeled, and they look better because of that.
If your going to enhance the fist, I'd seriously recommend using Photoshop.
To think that plastic looking 3-D models enhances anything is like thinking that any object covered in chrome looks more futuristic.

[zero]

Yes they have. They were in the WEP originally, but people preferred the original fists to the replacements and they were eventually removed.

May I see them?

and I agree with Moppy, 3d is a pain to do and it usually looks like plastic.
I hated every weapon in WEP except the alien weapon (it was already plastic), the SPNKr, and the SMG.

[$lave]

May I see them?

I don't have any of the WEP or images of them, you'll have to try to find them yourself.

[Dis]

How about "just stop for now?" You should really start with netmaps or Project X or something.

[zero]

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE!!!!!


NEW SCREENSHOTS FROM THE DEMO.


Mind you there are still many thing to be altered still, but i think it is moving along nicely.
In a few days, I'll have it ready for testing


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Multiplayer colors will be different in Legend. Most notably, "Slate" is now a medium gray color, and "Yellow" is a pale tan shade.

I need a lil' assistance in how to make the player color menu display these colors.

[VirtualX1]

Nice shots, I'm itching to play it myself so keep it up.

[Dis]

I like the alterations you've made to the pistol, keeps the original concept but makes it look a lot less ugly. As for the pipebomb(?) I'd recommend taking a look at Marathon: Hoth for the best implementation of grenade like explosives I've seen in Marathon.
Also, for multiplayer, I'd recommend patching your shapes file and merging it and the physics into your netmaps so they can be played with a regular Infinity set-up.

[goran]

for multiplayer, I'd recommend patching your shapes file and merging it and the physics into your netmaps so they can be played with a regular Infinity set-up.

There are limits to how big a shapes patch can be for this purpose. We're talking about a couple of textures.