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I do all kinds of different kitbashes and retextures.
I am currently struggling with burnout and I am learning to live in some healthy balance. That means I will not release models very often, but sometimes I will make some when I feel like it. So I guess you could consider me semi-retired ? Anyway, I am not doing any requests for the moment, until my mind is healed, which might take a long time. So please do not ask any requests of me, no exceptions (Asking for a fix if model is broken is not a problem). But I still want to do at least some models and share them with you. Hopefully you will find some of them useful :)
Stay healthy and don't forget to rest regularly ! :)
Here you can find a list of models I want to make one day (Note that there is no order to this list): Models I want to make
I would also love to continue making story maps that would include my own models (But that's probably only a dream now. I have very little time and energy for that).
And last but not least, I'd really love to do more commander concepts with videos, because people seem to love those, of course those would require additional models and lot of them. You can find the list of potential commander concepts that I currently have in mind here: List of potential Commander Concepts (on the bottom of the page).
Original credits go to Activision Blizzard and their respective authors. Most of my stuff is made from their models, textures and voicelines, which means, don't use my assets for any commercial purposes. Otherwise you are free to use my models as you want including edits. Crediting is not necessary as long as you don't claim the model as your own. For edited models, I'd like to be credited as original author.
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Posted Sep 23, 2023Hello DaveSpectre, this might be embarassing or difficult ask to you, but can you teach me how to model and animate models for SC2?
+edit: Also if you don't mind, making textures for models, too.
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Posted Sep 23, 2023In reply to Notybang:
Hi.
First of all, I do not make models from scratch. I do kitbashing, which is basically putting parts of models together.
For that I did some tutorials here: https://www.youtube.com/@davespectresassets5469
If you want to make models and textures from scratch, it's better if you find dedicated videos for that. Same with textures, if you want to edit textures, find a software you like and learn to use that.
I may add some tutorials in the future, but I am struggling to find energy and motivation to do that, so I have no idea when it will be.
That being said, I love to see people wanting to learn ho to make more models for SC2 and I wish you a good luck :) You can start by making some simple stuff, like adding extra decorations to some models and try different things to learn. If you encounter a specific problem, feel free to message me and I will try to help :)
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Posted Sep 23, 2023In reply to DaveTheSpectre:
Thank you very much for replying.
I'll do my best :)
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Posted Sep 24, 2023In reply to Notybang:
You're welcome :)
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Posted Sep 15, 2023Hello, im trying to edit the Immortal model in Blender, but it imports broken. - one of its connons is very misaligned. I followed your tutorials on YT, but they dont cover what to do, when model imports with broken weights or animations. (btw please check your youtube comments i posted there weeks ago)
Im not sure, what the problem is, but you have plenty of modified immortals. Weights seem to be assigned correctly, i guess some bone is misaligned?
I found i tutorial online for these kinds of errors, but weights seem to be painted fine. Blender M3Addon, overall, is very disappointing. So many of the models end up exporting broken. Zealot lost its charge effect, after export. High Templar has bugged effects and animations.
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Posted Sep 16, 2023In reply to simplycool987:
Hello. You are right, the tutorial does not cover this issue and the reason is that there is actually nothing you can do with such broken models. Problem is, that their bones have negative size (probably result of some weird mirroring during creation) and Blender plugin cannot deal with that and as a result messes the model up and cannot be repaired. Most known models with this issues are variants of Dark Templar, Preserver and Tychus. And of course the immortal cannon.
I do have some Immortals uploaded, but none of them were actually edited in Blender for this particular reason, they are just retextures (No editing of the mesh shape itself, just color of textures) which I have done different way.
Unlike other models the Immortal can sort of be fixed, by separating the cannon from the rest of the model and then in "Pose position" (So with animations allowed) move it and rotate it into correct position. That way it will be misaligned in the "rest position" (used for editing), but will look fine on the ingame model. I think all Immortals made by Hammer are done this way, so maybe you can use his models as a base, unless they get messed up again by import, which is something I have not checked.
Yeah, the addon is not working well for lot of stuff. It is just a fanmade addition afterall. The charge ribbons of Zealots do indeed get messed up by it. Never had a problem with HT tho. It is generally better to learn with 3Ds max as it has official plugin that does not break stuff. Or use combination of both programs. However I never learned with 3Ds max.
And about the comments, yeah, I forget to check those sometimes for months. It is not my main channel so I do not see notifications unless I go there. It is better to contact me here.
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Posted Sep 16, 2023In reply to DaveTheSpectre:
Damn, that was quick. Thnak you. Im trying to make some models from the game alpha/beta, but im too lazy to learn max from the ground up.
Looking at you portfolio, you have a lot of expirience. Just, out of curiosity how many models import broken. Is it the majority of them. It the mothership.High Templar has a lighting effect after exporting, i think its from one of the animations.
For some models, i just like to do simple stuff. - Like adding a new texture diffuse, or normal map. I find that much easier. Are there alternate programs, that allow for quick simple stuff like just renaming textures/ animations.
I also want to know how to modify the camera zoom for portrait .m3 Like, do i move the bone in pose, or rest mode.
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Posted Sep 16, 2023In reply to simplycool987:
Yeah, I react here much quicker xD Same, I kinda can't get to learn that too.
I think most unit models are fine, but effects and death models suck a lot. I think for the HT it never happened to me. Try getting the newest version of the addon, especially the structures.xml file, that makes things better.
Yup, this thing called the M3 editor is perfect for just changing texture paths: https://github.com/tangorcraft/m3editor/releases/download/v0.9/m3editor-win.zip
You move the bone in edit mode, which will always be rest mode.
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Posted Sep 16, 2023In reply to DaveTheSpectre:
You have a link to the latest version? I think i have it, but its still several years old.
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Posted Sep 16, 2023In reply to simplycool987:
I think you can find the new ones for newer blender versions here: https://github.com/SC2Mapster/m3addon
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Posted Sep 17, 2023In reply to DaveTheSpectre:
Could i just bother you to check the mothership. For me, it exports with a broken effect. Just so i know, i have the latest addon. Maybe i should go back to 2.7
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Posted Sep 20, 2023In reply to simplycool987:
I have checked it and it looks the same as the original, when I import it and export it. What gets broken for you ?
Btw I was recently informed about this: https://github.com/Solstice245/m3studio, it is new experimental alternative to the old plugin and it seems to work better with some stuff.
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Posted Sep 28, 2023In reply to DaveTheSpectre:
The Cast Effect with the lighting, when the mothership uses spell, applies all the time.Instead of just during that particular animation.
Same issue with the High Templar.
Its either my M3Addon version or maybe my Blender version 2.93. Would that matter? Tried using all options during export, (ver. 23, 26, 29) Same result, last one even crashed.
New Plugin also need 3.0, apparently.
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Posted Sep 29, 2023In reply to simplycool987:
Interesting, I might check it out tomorrow. But I don't think my Nerazim Mothership or HT based models do that.
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Posted Sep 30, 2023In reply to simplycool987:
Tried it and actually for me it does the opposite, the lightning gets deleted from all anims.
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Posted Aug 29, 2023Nuclear archons are now teal? I like that, well done.
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Posted Aug 29, 2023In reply to Gumba_54:
Why nuclear ? xD
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Posted Aug 30, 2023In reply to DaveTheSpectre:
The particulates around the SC1/golden/Ihan'rii archons look like electron shells according to the Bohr model to me.
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Posted Aug 30, 2023In reply to Gumba_54:
Yeah, I realized later that this might be what you are reffering to :D And yes, it indeed does look that way :D
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Posted Aug 27, 2023Wow, what a model.
Can I use them in my friend's project? If I can use these high-quality models, my friend's project will be more brilliant!