Shiva model!

[Yukagama]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/blog/post/171

Lookin' good there, Shiva! Can't wait to see you rendered in-game!

I like the different colored streaks in her hair. Kind of odd to see her without blue skin though.

I' do hope in summoner job , we can summon full body summom, she would look epic following the summoner. I mean floating near the summoner,if we can keep them out for a period of time.

[Lirion]

Really like that design!

[Imoen]

Threw together a quick visual example... hopefully this helps people understand a little bit.

-This is a very quick rough example.

- I chose to use a flat plane as the low poly... because it better shows what a normal map does visually. It adds bump information the lighting can react to on the low poly. This gives the "appearance" of more detail than the low poly actually has.

The purple map is the "Normal map" forgot to put that in there.

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

[Hulan]

Threw together a quick visual example... hopefully this helps people understand a little bit.

-This is a very quick rough example.

- I chose to use a flat plane as the low poly... because it better shows what a normal map does visually. It adds bump information the lighting can react to on the low poly. This gives the "appearance" of more detail than the low poly actually has.

The purple map is the "Normal map" forgot to put that in there.

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

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

[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

[Kinyoto]

She's creeping me out. I do like the original artwork more though.

[Bowen]

I guess you could say she has an Icy stare.





I'll see myself out.

[Nuinn]

I guess you could say she has an Icy stare.

I'll see myself out.

Waaaaait!

You forgot these sunglasses!

[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.

[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!