{"id":5438,"date":"2010-10-19T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2010-10-20T14:13:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T12:13:25","slug":"using-3d-to-generate-npc-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5438","title":{"rendered":"Using 3D to generate NPC pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

All you who have followed this site for a while know one thing, I am really bad at drawing, really bad. Actually so bad that I will never show anything hand drawn here ever. That what brought me into computer aided map making, somewhere back in 1985, when we made the first dungeons using a Mac 128k and MacPaint. Time flies.<\/p>\n

Why this sudden break in map making and prop making you might ask?<\/p>\n

One of my favorite items as a DM and also as a player are nice pictures of the NPC s you meet, or are trying to run away from. One of my favorite games ever, the James Bond 007 RPG had such nice grey scale photos<\/em> in the adventures of bad guys, and also of the beautiful foils. I loved that, and I’ve bought my share of faces to use in my adventures. Now, when I’m seriously addicted to DAZ Studio and all the Poser content in the marketplace, I thought that maybe I can use that for NPC photos, and that is what I will show today.<\/p>\n

So I start up DAZ Studio 3<\/a> and import a figure from the DAZ 3D Peoples, the Michael 4, who is a free figure that you can use in the free DAZ Studio.<\/p>\n

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This is Michael 4, say hello to the audience Michael. Hello audience!
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So, I add a tank top underwear (from the Michael clothes pack) and a shirt from the Regency package. As you see, layering multiple clothes might cause bleed, but that can easily be fixed by adjusting cloth params.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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OK, not needed for todays NPC face picture, but I added pants and the cool Mafioso shoes (from the Mafioso Pack)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Here I’ve added the Regency vest, and adjusted it a little, now he starts to look well dressed.<\/p>\n

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Using a built in pose for Michael 4, we pose the figure like this, sitting. I did this \u00a0just to show how flexible this is. I had and played with Poser 2 or something back in the late 90’s, but that was a long time ago. This is the same but the figures are so much better.<\/p>\n

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But if was an NPC face we were supposed to do today, so here is a closeup on the face. I’ve already added the morph called Aged for M4\/V4<\/strong>, where M4 means Micheal 4, and V4 means Victoria 4, the two base characters. You will meet Victoria in another post, I promise.<\/p>\n

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Now, I applied some different morphs from a package called Men of character<\/strong>, which is a very cool collection of great morphs. As you see, age and evilness starts to show.<\/p>\n

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Adding some trimmed beard with Beard_ M4<\/strong>, and some more age to the face, he starts to look like a personality. I added some hair too from Mature_Mark_Hair, of the few hairs I’ve got. I need more hairstyles I think, adding that to my wish list for the next DAZ platinum member sale. $1.88 for something like this is well worth it. I’ve spent about the cost of a three day green fee and a pair of golf gloves on this, and as I don’t play golf, who can complain \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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I replaced the hair with some interesting head wear from Headware_for_M4<\/strong>. Also, I positioned the eyes and opened the mouth a little, like he is saying something. I got the Mimic Pro lip sync program for $1.88 the other day at the DAZ 8 years anniversary sale, so I can make speaking NPCs too as movies if I want to. Maybe next time.<\/p>\n

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Here is the rendered image, it looks much better that the screenshots from the OpenGL previews. Now, looking on the web for some photos of London streets in the 1930s, I did find this fantastic picture.<\/p>\n

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So I placed it as a background behind our NPC, using OmniGraffle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now, using my favorite FilterForge<\/a> Filter, Old Photo, I got this old result.<\/p>\n

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So, who is he, and what will he say to the characters? I have no clue right now, but I will use him in some upcoming O:FR<\/a> adventure. Next time I think I’ll make a fantasy NPC out of Victoria 4, I guess you all would like that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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