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Well, I have done it, recompiled the Portal 2 Personality Sphere with all possible skin combinations as options. I have started trying to come up with custom eyes and such to use as well. Anyone have any designs in mind for new 'Personalities' complete with eye design? I will allow for multi-texture eyes in some cases, or animated textures or ones using proxies. ATM I am looking at a basic one that might have a really slow spin and some scan-lines generated in the VMT by a simple proxy application.
On the note of proxies, all the eyes have in their VMTs something about a LightedMouth proxy. I assume currently only Portal 2 has code for that.
For those who don't know WTF a proxy for a material is, its a series of parameters and a given name that cause special code to run for the material, scrolling, rotating, or any number of other things the base image.
So, what I need are Personality Sphere designs. There are Moron (Wheatly), Space (corrupted), Fact (corrupted), Adventure (corrupted/Rick) already. I plan to add a Morality, Curiosity, Logic, and Anger of custom design as well as some weird green one I don't know the personality for yet. I might be able to get some custom sounds for the new ones if I can get voice mechanization working, so voice actors chime in too.
I can post an image template later for the eye, though I would prefer that if you do make your eye directly, I get source files like PSDs. Eyes are 256 by 256 textures that are circular, but they don't take up the entire texture. The alpha is the self illumination but if you make such a thing with Photoshop shapes, that is easy. Designs made in Ink-Scape are perfect since I can convert them and spruce them up with no sizing artifacts.
I am mostly expecting you will all have suggestions for personalities and simple eye designs but no actual files for me.
In the end I hope to get this on the server so E2s can be made using these models, animations, skins, and sounds as ship interfaces or other devices.
On the note of proxies, all the eyes have in their VMTs something about a LightedMouth proxy. I assume currently only Portal 2 has code for that.
For those who don't know WTF a proxy for a material is, its a series of parameters and a given name that cause special code to run for the material, scrolling, rotating, or any number of other things the base image.
So, what I need are Personality Sphere designs. There are Moron (Wheatly), Space (corrupted), Fact (corrupted), Adventure (corrupted/Rick) already. I plan to add a Morality, Curiosity, Logic, and Anger of custom design as well as some weird green one I don't know the personality for yet. I might be able to get some custom sounds for the new ones if I can get voice mechanization working, so voice actors chime in too.
I can post an image template later for the eye, though I would prefer that if you do make your eye directly, I get source files like PSDs. Eyes are 256 by 256 textures that are circular, but they don't take up the entire texture. The alpha is the self illumination but if you make such a thing with Photoshop shapes, that is easy. Designs made in Ink-Scape are perfect since I can convert them and spruce them up with no sizing artifacts.
I am mostly expecting you will all have suggestions for personalities and simple eye designs but no actual files for me.
In the end I hope to get this on the server so E2s can be made using these models, animations, skins, and sounds as ship interfaces or other devices.
Comments
Good thought. Color? Eye design? Phrases?
We should probably mix some useful stuff in too, like numbers and resource names and such. Then we can use these for ship AIs.
Pupil could be really small and sharp looking
and some phrases could be like...
"Nice gun, I want that gun. Can I have that gun? Give me that gun. Why can't I shoot portals. I wish you didn't have that gun. You ruined everything. "
Now that i think about it this sounds more like envy, so yeah.
the eternal pain in our beloved superadmins asses. Does stuff.
Ignore colors already used since we have more options than just color.
Also: I read on another board, a depressed sphere that says things like "Just jump down that pit", "this is hopeless", etc
If you can create your own decent portal sound clips then i recommend the following phrases
"I'm going to go and nerf ship cores again."
"My spaceship got killed by lasers,lets nerf them so nobody uses them!"
"I cant code LUA,i just hit random buttons and hope it works."
Then I recommend forcing any sphere Zardian spawns into a grumpy sphere.
"moremjolnirsmjolnirsmjolnirs"
"gotta have more resource caches lady lady give me resource caches"
"shield strength 200! 500! 800! TWO OF THEM! IT'S NOT ENOUGH"
"this facility only has 6,000,000,000 core hp! plug me in, I need to order more panels!"
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
Grumpy
Emulous/Competitive
You guys make me want to pursue a full on SENT suite with docking bay and ship core interaction. We start with just the base files for E2s though.
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
But if these cores are fixed up they should be configurable boosters instead of having craploads of shield batteries and relays all over the place you should be able to have a few of these to replace them all.
*All is opinion
Incidentally, I can hardly wait until Portal 2 sounds are in GMod. I shall have Wheatley fixing my shields by telling the low HP siren to shut up.
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
We really should remove translucency from image entries. They are inheriting it from the rest of the CSS so we need to explicitly state it.
It screams "DICK DICK DICK" at the maximum volume and rolls around with a 10000 strength pressure field for 1000 radius.
the eternal pain in our beloved superadmins asses. Does stuff.
I just modeled it after HAL.