liquid mesh

[Cairo]

OK, first time posting, so I will start by thanking everyone in the community for helping make a fun game, unbelievably fun.  It amazes me how the work on these sites keeps FF fresh and new.

That said, this being a request thread, I do have one. 

1.  has anyone ever made a liquid mesh for a water form character?

2.  If not I have a work-around I can use, but it too is beyond my meshing skills.  If someone could find a way of making the plasticman keyframes (Texas Jack's I believe) work with one of the translucent meshes, or conversely, making one of the plastic-man meshes translucent that would work.

I would try to do these things myself, but I'm afraid my meager skills stop at some light skinning.


this would be for  :ffvstr:

thanks, and keep up the great work

[daglob]

Hmmm...

Somewhere there is an explanation on how to turn the Alpha effect (or however you put it) on in a mesh. That would let you make the skin semi-transparent. I took C6's Metamorpho skin and put it on Male Basic Effects, Photoshopped it a little, and produced a watery-looking blue-tinted semi-transparent skin. I hadn't connected the possiblity of turning the Apha evffect on in TJ's Plastic man or seeing if Tommy's Mr. Fantastic meshes had that ability...

[Panther_Gunn]

Another possibility would be doing something like that to one of the Sandman meshes, which should work really well for Hydroman (but there may be a skin for him on one of those meshes already....dunno).

[daglob]

Oh, man!

I alpha-enabled ALL the meshes in the Plastic Man Buff nif, and it looks fantastic with the water-form Metamorpho I did.

Now I HAVE to do a golden-age Hydroman, despite the silly shirt.

The head and hands show through on some of the animations, but I believe they won't be as noticiable in game.

I think Plastic Man Buff is a hex of Plastic Man TJ. Texas Jack is on the Nifscope permission list, but what about the hex of a mesh?

[Cairo]

Thanks for the tips Daglob.  I've started making TJs old Plastic Man Mesh and it looks like that is going to work out almost perfect.  I may still check out the Sandman meshes but being able to make the mesh translucent is going to work great.

thanks for the help guys.