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Ronnie wrote:Lot of work left, but here's what I got so far. Comments and critiques are more than welcome. Definitely still tweaking his proportions, so lay it on me if you have a suggestion. I'm starting off with a sort of werewolf/alien hybrid, but want to hopefully whittle him down to something you described, Plasma Captain.

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Capn, my state machine for Yorps and Gargs are much like you describe. I have an Idle, Left and Right for Yorps, with a chance to jump while moving, super basic. Gargs are the same with no jumping, and will charge when Keen enters his 'attack zone'.
His head looks too much like a dog's one and overall he looks too brutal with that body, especially when you compare it to this.
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Yeah, I'd say that the current Vort looks way too muscular and doglike.
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Thanks for the comments, guys. I'm toning the down musculature as we speak, and I'll see what I can do about the head. I think I'm too attached to it, haha, but it needs to look like a Vorticon, not a dog/
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I'm attached to my head too.


I do like that model but yeah, it's just a little too non-Vort-ish. Close though! Lovely work!
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I think the neck is too heavy. The Vorticons never had such amount of fur (or they shaved it).
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These are the sorts of Vorticons you'd expect to find wearing tartan flannelette shirts and living in log cabins in forests. The Vorticons Keen met were clearly the slimmer, less rugged metropolitan kind.
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Still much to be done, but I scrapped the old dog head. Going to try and keep it more cartoony, like the garg and yorp. Looking at it now, I need to slim down his midsection more and make the sleeves less skin-tight. But anyway, progress!
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Oman, much better! Snout and ears scream Vorticon.
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Looking good, Lt. Barker approves!

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Bravo!
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Now there's something I wouldn't mind getting beat up by. Makes for a more convincing vort ninja if the need arises.
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How is this 2.5D when that is very clearly a 3D model of a vorticon? :confused

Unless... this isn't that OTHER kind of 2.5D, is it? The yoshi's story kind *shudders*
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3D models are employed to give a degree of perspective to the platformer. If you actually play (I assume you haven't given your question) one of the demos linked in this thread you will notice you see different parts of static objects depending how far and what direction you are away from them. Same goes for non-static, it's just harder to notice.
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The same difference between the old Donkey Kong Country(SNES) and the new one(Wii/3DS). 2.5D is like the newer one.
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Here's the new head I came up with. Whatchew think? Vorticon enough?
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