Shiva model!

[Yukagama]

Curiously though, she does seem to have pale blue skin both here:

and here:


Judging by all the other Primals, I don't think they'd make her look too different from the actual artwork. I don't mind the pale skin if it's not blue, but I do wonder why they would show it pink and not grey.

Also, I can't wait to see how her hair is textured to look like ice!

Icy look and aircold coming from the textures it's gonna be beautiful

I can hear this song playing in this thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K4myv1Z3U8

[Lirion]

I guess you could say she has an Icy stare.





I'll see myself out.

Don't forget to put on your sunglasses as you leave and do it quick so that no one have time to retort.

[Imoen]

Great example. even knowing what it does, I'm always shocked at how powerful normal maps can be.

Thanks, Ya sometimes I feel like just showing people visually does a lot more than a wall of text from wiki. (or at least that is my hope)

even though it kind of got buried already... lol

[Daniolaut]

I'm excited to see the final version of Shiva.

Its great to know that SE is in fact working on getting her ready for hopefully release, if not beta. This game should be an amazing one!

[Gramul]

Diggin those ice horns.

[KoujiGeki]

lets the sexism begin!

[Leoheart]

Might be worth noting;

Ifrit starts off black/brown when you begin to battle him, and then turns bright orange some time into the fight following the message "Ifrit is engulfed in flames".

This might be the basis for shiva's human like skin tone, and as the fight ensues she might turn this pale blue with a similar like message, covering her in body ice or just becoming colder in general.

[Lirion]

I think the 3D model is just not finished yet. It is a developers blog after all.

[Gramul]

By the way I was looking through the earlier portion the thread and noticed some of you are confused about digital sculpting in regards to texture and color.

I dunno if it was fully covered or not, but I thought I'd chime in anyway because I'm like that. Zbrush can be used to texture models with various materials and the ability to paint individual polygons on a dense model. As you can see here with a default project in version 4R4:
(lovely right?)
Now here's the same model but with me painting in random materials and erasing some of the color from the polypaint:

Shiva here looks to have default materials, in this case what looks like a basic matte skin shader with placeholder colors for clarity when they decide to texture it, probably by hand as painting in another program as zbrush is limited by polypainting, especially when converting to lower resolution. They will probably use this as a base model to construct the low poly from and convert the detail to a normal map so it appears to have the same level of detail in the game model.

Basically, what the texture looks like now isn't important. As a game asset, textures will be done differently.

[Imoen]

By the way I was looking through the earlier portion the thread and noticed some of you are confused about digital sculpting in regards to texture and color.

I dunno if it was fully covered or not, but I thought I'd chime in anyway because I'm like that. Zbrush can be used to texture models with various materials and the ability to paint individual polygons on a dense model. As you can see here with a default project in version 4R4:
(lovely right?)
Now here's the same model but with me painting in random materials and erasing some of the color from the polypaint:

Shiva here looks to have default materials, in this case what looks like a basic matte skin shader with placeholder colors for clarity when they decide to texture it, probably by hand as painting in another program as zbrush is limited by polypainting, especially when converting to lower resolution. They will probably use this as a base model to construct the low poly from and convert the detail to a displacement map so it appears to have the same level of detail in the game model.

Basically, what the texture looks like now isn't important. As a game asset, textures will be done differently.

Exactly, only they are most likely using normal maps not displacement maps not trying to nit pick but there is a difference between the 2. This is the normal example I shot out but it got buried.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18215724/normal_example.jpg