A new, alternative version of the so-called Space Jockey...
Not sure whether I prefer this one or my earlier attempt at making a big, weird, alien dead git in a mutant chair. Perhaps I'll do a third version at some point using the best bits of both.
For now, I'll just concentrate on getting the second Alien Hak on the Vault. Not too much more to add now. At least for the time being. Probably.
I've got the Dropships finished properly now...
Available in military drab green or the disgustingly capitalistic drab grey of the Weyland Yutani Corporation with their nasty, insidious, money-grubbing tendencies (who obviously were too mean to fork out for anything but an undercoat due to their being the exact shapes of Spleens).
Thus you can have Dropships with weapon pods deployed or stowed since I've gone to all the lengths of pulling bits off and sticking them back on in different positions... Finishing the APCs next.
APCs, as promised...
Again two versions, military drab green and filthily, dirtily capitalist scum Weyland Yutani drab grey with nasty, materialistic corporate logos on... Oh yes, and a third version that's all crumped into scrap 'cause the moment I'd finished them, the Alien Queen came along, inspected the row of gleaming new APCs and commenced jumping up and down on them in a towering rage. She does that a lot. (It wasn't me hitting it with an extra large brick, honest).
In point of fact, I've just this second noticed that the ruined APC's geometry has become mirrored somehow and turrets are the wrong side and so forth. Hm. I'll amend that before release. Can't imagine how I didn't notice earlier.
Have started cramming Xenomorphs in a Big Bag. Currently checking walkmeshes on Dropships and things.
All new PHoD ALIEN Hak Part 2 should be on the Vault in the next two or three days (allowing for the fact that I seem to be utterly incapable of just doing one thing at a time and keep going back to Atlantis and messing with that too...
Your vehicles look terrific, particularly the worn edges. You must be using fairly large texture files for that much detail.
Nothing bigger than 512x512s...
And I really, really will definitely honestly have this on the Vault REALLY SOON. Honest. Promise.
Just trying to hammer an animation glitch into dust with a big brick... Damned self-disintegrating Spleens...
Lucirath at home, with a few trophies...
Luce doesn't collect trophies actually, but she or I or both of us couldn't resist...
This is rumour control, here are the facts... At 06:00 on the morning watch, Prisoner Garlic reappeared in a deranged state. Prisoners Boggs and Rains are still missing, believed Penguinomized... No, shut up, forget about that, never mind... What I meant to say was the Shabby Hyena Object apologizes for delays. I still haven't ironed out all the issues with the ALIEN3 type Alien, which isn't surprising since it's the first time I've attempted a completely new custom animation model and I keep getting distracted by other stuff. So, I think I might just cram all the other new Alien stuff that's ready in a big bag and nail it to my ALIEN page on the Vault and add the quadrupedal horror later, when I have the time to sit down and deal with it properly.
Just adding a few last minute items now, such as the Alien Skull shown here.
As I said in the last post, the ALIEN3 Alien is my first effort at a completely new animation model. So naturally it's having some difficulties. Had another brick session with it late last night and I've got it mostly sorted out, and it can now actually get into a fight without instantly throwing all its limbs away for no apparent reason (see below). However, it still isn't perfect and, having put so much work into it thus far, I want it to be COMPLETELY PERFECT, so I'm going to leave it out of the second Hak for now...
Also, annoyingly, left out for now is the "Sulaco" which is having a few practical problems as I have to rebuild it from scratch due to irreversible cretinism in Blender corrupting the near completed model beyond any hope of restoration. The death of the backup copy was entirely my own fault. But I have still got the blocked out base in gmax so the proportions and relative positions are safe and I don't have to go measuring the maquette at great length again...
Also I've got NEW Facehuggers and Chestbursters on the way and a few other twisted Xenomorphic aberrations... but if I wait until EVERYTHING is done, you'll still not have had any new Aliens come the next Ice Age, so I'm putting the second part on the Vault NOW...
Final last minute addition, the "Betty", from Alien Resurrection, which was a rubbish film and failed abysmally to live up to the Alien Trilogy, but, just in case anyone ever needs a rusty spaceship that looks a bit like a mutant fish from certain angles, I've thrown it in the Big Bag which will soon be yours. 24 hours. Guaranteed this time.
Will there be a "bursting outta chest" aline type/animation?
Eventually I hope to have a completely smooth, perfected model/anim/vfx transition for both Facehuggers attaching themselves to people and Chestbursters bursting forth unpleasantly.
Experimented a bit already but I packed it in when I started faffing with the geometry for the new Facehugger and Chestburster models for obvious reasons. However, the animations are a long way off being ready at the moment due to me not having done much with them. They won't be in this Hak - which is almost on the Vault now - but as I said, this second Hak isn't going to be the end of it. There's still lots more to add and improve.
PHoD ALIEN 2 - now available!
No, really, it is... honestly! Go and look...
http://neverwinterva...kpak/phod-alien
You've got the new Alien Warriors, new Alien Queen and XenoInfernalis.
You have a usable Pulse Rifle with sound fx.
You have Placeable Alien Skulls, alternative Space Jockey, Dropships, APCs, Powerloaders, Nostromo, Betty, Sentry Gun...
You have Alien sound fx (the generic voiceset I've been using for all the Aliens in AvD1).
And there might have been something else too, can't remember now...
Currently, with my customary inability to just do one thing at a time, I'm working on Alien vs Demoness 2 some more and thus getting more ALIEN CC done which should have gone in the New Second ALIEN Hak but, since that's already on the Vault (see above), I suppose I'll have to indulge in some sort of putridly lame updating activity of some sort at some point...
Now finished are the Improved Facehuggers and Chestbursters...
The Facehugger (this one's about to get trampled underhoof by a certain curvy Infernal) is done except for its actual facehugging animation which, despite set to target head dummies, wherever they happen to be, nevertheless causes the Facehugger to rocket toward the ceiling like a debased marsupial and then remain immobile twenty feet off the ground for no good reason. But I'm dealing with that with a severe application of profoundly large bricks.
The Chestburster is a VAST improvement upon my first unspeakably rubbish effort, but bettering that noxious pile of dribble didn't exactly constitute an above average feat of modelling prowess. The so-called Chestburster in the first Hak was pathetically lame and resembled a sort of freakishly bloated nematode more than anything else. This one I actually like.
Anyway, just to assure those interested that there is still yet more ALIEN stuff to come from the Shabby Hyena Weirdo...
So you have gone for the no back-legs interpretation then? The way it moved in the 1979 movie makes me think that it had some as it didn't move in a snake-like manner. But that's your choice.
TR
Planning an ALIEN3 type "Dogburster" or "Oxburster" (depending which version of the film you watch) but after the animation issues with the Alien3 Alien, I'm being slow and cautious with it. This should please you if - as it sounds - you don't like the "traditional" Chestbursters... Which DO NOT have any trace of rear limbs. Or at least, mine don't and they all devolve from original moulds and one of them is an original prop. Definitely no legs... So where they so suddenly sprout from on the adult is anybody's guess.
Might also do a Queen Chestburster (the prop of which I can confirm has all six limbs).
The way the one moved across the table in ALIEN, head end upright and tail lashing with a load of air bladders stuck up it, doesn't really leave much organism in contact with the surface and so probably couldn't move at all - if it didn't have Roger Dicken's hand up its bum from below the table... So, fictionally speaking, perhaps we're to assume it births complete with some small, xeno-skateboard contrivance which it later throws away when it's made good its escape... No wonder poor old John Hurt was looking uncomfortable.
This is just one of many small, perplexing questions that arise after you've watched ALIEN a thousand times...
Then there was the patiche version in Spaceballs...
TR
True. That one, if I recall the one time I watched that one little bit of said film, managed to perform an entire song and dance routine so it presumably had legs of some description. But I don't think it can be counted as canonical even if John Hurt did undergo bursting a second time. What's wrong with him? The man's a Chestburster magnet or something.
Much of ALIEN vs DEMONESS 2 takes place in a remote industrial colony unimaginatively named "Facility 13" and secretly being used as a Weyland Yutani Experimental Station... The colonists are unaware that deep within their midst the Company have several live Alien specimens (which inevitably escape, as they do) and, worse still, the Spleen Company scientists are messing around with a curious artefact found in the wreckage left after events of AvD 1. This artefact is Infernal and, a few unwise and ill-planned experiments later, the Company accidentally opens a gate to Hell...
Aliens and Demons on the loose, all of them more or less the exact shapes of Spleens as far as Luce is concerned, means all out war...
But where to set this war? Coming to the conclusion that I didn't want to use a single major building Placeable I'd used before, I decided to be impractical, as usual, and build the entire Facility 13 industrial colony from scratch.
Given that you can't see entire Areas at once in-game, here's a Toolset image that should give you the basic idea...
Instead of a stupidly vast and inflexible town, as my first loony impulse suggested it should be and which Gmax just laughed at, I became normal and created Facility 13 as a modular set of different buildings and structures which can thus be arranged together to create... well, to create big, ugly industrial complexes. Not much else you can make with piles of colossal refineries, reactors, silos, factories and so forth...
Shall post some proper screenshots soon when I've tidied up a few loose ends and hit a few more textures with bricks.
The question is: Can you hear the Demoness breath in space? Does she even have to breath?
The question is: Can you hear the Demoness breath in space? Does she even have to breath?
Maybe not, but fear it's enough to imagine it. 
So that's why you needed to know about screen grabs. Wow. Does it beat that 100m x 100m placeable you've made for one of the Dr. Who modules?
TR
When in doubt, go the Elder Scrolls route
Which is, of course, that you can breathe in space. However space has an effect on you that makes you forget you can breathe. So any sort of way to make you forget that you're in space and breathing works to let you breathe, be it a big ol' spacesuit or, y'know, a scarf around the mouth
Of course the universe of Elder Scrolls is a complicated mess where the sun and stars are just big ol' holes where things fled the universe so as to not deal with that whole universe business
Luce doesn't need to breathe. Air, void, underwater, molten lava - it's all the same to her. If there's Spleens or Merry Minstrels or something that needs trampling underhoof, she'll hunt it down wherever it lurks...
Anyway, here's a closer look at Facility 13, on the ground...
Note huge atomic reactors. Not generally a good idea to engage in "all-out war" around these, but like I said - if the Spleens are there, she does not care... And a full-scale nuclear meltdown is fractionally less lethal than Luce's personal brand of Hellfire anyway.
But Hellfire's for ultimate contingencies. Mostly, she enjoys fang, claw and blade stuff. That's fun.
Anyway, Facility 13; It's the usual battle in Gmax to restrain the desire to plaster stupidly immense piles of detail into every building and keep the polycount at a level where lots of buildings can be piled into an Area to create an entire colony that won't cause hideous lag when populated with lots of Creatures and sundry other Placeables and everyone starts knocking the stuffing out of each other. Having conducted assorted tests now, I think the balance is about right - though I keep wanting to add just a few more verts for more industrial rubbish and just a few more and...
Colony landing grid with cute little set of steps which, being as it's a Placeable, can't be climbed up. Rrrrgh. But there'd be no point in creating Facility 13 as a Tileset since that would immediately limit iterations of buildings and their angles and distances to and from each other. Also, the idea is to make a set of buildings and other elements that will allow for the construction of filthy great industrial complexes within any Tileset environment. Much more versatile as Placeables.
The landing grid was primarily scaled for use with the Dropships in my ALIEN Hak since that's what'll be on it in AvD 2, but there are several other spacecraft that'll be in the Facility 13 Hak that'll also sit on it happily... and a few that won't.
Hopefully, it shouldn't be more than about a week, give or take, before all these nasty, pollution-spewing refineries and things are ready to go on the Vault. This will include a number of older Placeables, including some of the gargantuan domes and things I did for the Doctor Who Modules, as Tarot mentioned, plus some of the stuff from my Kyru series, all futuristic buildings, vehicles and big, strange, technological things, not too sure what they are. And some other stuff too.
I'm currently just finishing the retexturing on two subsets of the administration, research, dwelling and storage blocks, plus perimeter walls, from Facility 13 in a sort of shiny silver version for Kyru and a sort of evil, black, menacing version (which I'll be using for the Daleks to inhabit). This should expand the ensemble ability to create dodgy futuristic colonies absolutely anywhere at a moment's notice. Which will doubtless immediately get overrun by hostile Xenomorphs.
Actually, given all the other stuff I plan to throw in the big box for you, it's not going to be specifically relevant to ALIEN as such, so I'll probably not put it on the Alien Vault page as I planned and put it on one of its own.
Further to the last eerily massive post, the Utility Vehicles are done and in the enormous sack now... though I still fail utterly to understand why Fifi insists upon referring to them as "Sumobiles" at all times... no, no, not that I'm arguing with you, darling, I'm just saying it's weird is all... Ouch. Thank you, darling.
(Shabby Hyena item delves under desk, looking for his ear...)
Four versions are available - or will be when I throw all this rubbish at you - remember to duck...
Above is the cargo version I nailed a big box onto, plus an additional big box Placeable to match, (with vile, money-grubbing Weyland Yutani corporate rubbish on).
Below are the boxless "long" version and the "short", somewhat Unimogesque version. Also note the inevitable "mushed" version. I don't know what it is, every time I make a nice, shiny, new vehicle Placeable, there's the Alien Queen, straight in, tears it to pieces and jumps up and down on it something chronic. She just can't see anything without wrecking it into tiny pieces... A bit like certain other individuals I could mention, Fifi, dearest...
(Looks for other ear under desk too...)
Suddenly, horrifyingly, in order to confuse and irritate, the rubbish narrative now switches over to the PHoD Things thread since it's becoming progressively less specific to Alien from here on in...
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