Link Beta Release / Fish Pond Complete*
Finally finished Link V1.00 and completed the Fish Pond with the footnote that I could still never get the reeds looking right. Perhaps the reeds are for someone else or just later down the road.
Link Beta: http://www.mediafire.com/file/dami0mlvj3y/Link.zip
Fish Pond Final: http://www.mediafire.com/file/onjkzgjm1nh/Fish Pond.zip
Fish pond done including the outside walls (which I had talked about earlier) and the poster. Also the trees on both the inside and outside (on the lake Hylia side). Couldn't get the crack in the wall to seam perfectly into the rest of the background, but I think it still looks decent. The crack itself - I'm proud of.
Now on to Link... Lots to be said. If you just want the files, you've got Link's Link up there. However for Death--Droid there are some footnotes below concerning folder structure etc. I'll highlight them to make it easier for you.
Most of the changes are subtle, and I think that's a good thing. I re-touched EVERYTHING except Link's mouth and his belt (belt already done and looks great). No worries about the eyes though b/c the ones that come with the original pack are absolutely perfect and can't be topped. Trust me, I spent several hours trying. Congrats to the original artist for making them so perfect! However, the original artist only made 3 textures - fully open, half closed, fully closed. I completed the expressions by making: bug-eyed in amazement, bug-eyed with small pupils, squinting in pain, looking left, looking right. Did them all in the original artist's style; took hours, but I had to make sure they were perfect. Added a little eyebrow expression to the looking left/right and the squinting in pain.
Death--Droid: the eyes are easily added into the pack, but honestly I see no point in seperating out Link's textures into multiple folders (unless you want to just to keep the artists straight, but that's kinda silly to me).
Link's tunic has that clothing weave texture to it, but at higher rez than my previous version and with 2 layers of weaving. His forearms and legs are one of my favorites. I did those at very hi rez with an ultra-tight weave. From a distance, looks like shimmering fine silk; close-up you can barely make out the stitching as if it's an expensive linen.
Did the gloves after all, even though we can't touch his bracers. Took a creative license here by adding an ornament to the top of his glove behind his knuckles. Give me your opinion here, hope it's not distracting or gaudy.
My fav pendant is there, new earring, new ears, new hair (I have an alternative version of the hair if you all don't like it), new Master Sword scabbard, new Master Sword hilt (someone already did the hilt, but honestly it looks bad; it's pixelized, so I re-did it; hope not to offend the original artist but I think he/she would be pleased), new back of the Hylian Shield, new boots.
Footnote about the boots: what a pain! The top part of the boot, the buckle, has 3 layers of stretching just on that one texture. So after a few hours of trying really hard to get a good highrez version, honestly all i could do was scale up the original, add a little rough texturing to it, and that's it. The middle and bottom of the boot weren't as difficult but they had major challenges too which again kept me from making an awesome version. Oh well...
Death--Droid: if you like my version of the Master Sword hilt, you'll need to remove the original. And again, I can't think of any reason not to just dump ALL of Link's textures into one Adult Link folder and call it good.
Sorry for the very long post, but Link is major business here and I thought he deserved some detail. Please post your opinions, b/c we all need to have a say-so in our hero.
EDIT: Forgot that I didn't re-do his fingers. Impossible. Texture used for his fingers is mirrored on the inside and palms of his hands. Try to add any details to it, like knuckles or fingernails, and they end up on the inside too making him look like he's got nasty warts or something.
Finally finished Link V1.00 and completed the Fish Pond with the footnote that I could still never get the reeds looking right. Perhaps the reeds are for someone else or just later down the road.
Link Beta: http://www.mediafire.com/file/dami0mlvj3y/Link.zip
Fish Pond Final: http://www.mediafire.com/file/onjkzgjm1nh/Fish Pond.zip
Fish pond done including the outside walls (which I had talked about earlier) and the poster. Also the trees on both the inside and outside (on the lake Hylia side). Couldn't get the crack in the wall to seam perfectly into the rest of the background, but I think it still looks decent. The crack itself - I'm proud of.
Now on to Link... Lots to be said. If you just want the files, you've got Link's Link up there. However for Death--Droid there are some footnotes below concerning folder structure etc. I'll highlight them to make it easier for you.
Most of the changes are subtle, and I think that's a good thing. I re-touched EVERYTHING except Link's mouth and his belt (belt already done and looks great). No worries about the eyes though b/c the ones that come with the original pack are absolutely perfect and can't be topped. Trust me, I spent several hours trying. Congrats to the original artist for making them so perfect! However, the original artist only made 3 textures - fully open, half closed, fully closed. I completed the expressions by making: bug-eyed in amazement, bug-eyed with small pupils, squinting in pain, looking left, looking right. Did them all in the original artist's style; took hours, but I had to make sure they were perfect. Added a little eyebrow expression to the looking left/right and the squinting in pain.
Death--Droid: the eyes are easily added into the pack, but honestly I see no point in seperating out Link's textures into multiple folders (unless you want to just to keep the artists straight, but that's kinda silly to me).
Link's tunic has that clothing weave texture to it, but at higher rez than my previous version and with 2 layers of weaving. His forearms and legs are one of my favorites. I did those at very hi rez with an ultra-tight weave. From a distance, looks like shimmering fine silk; close-up you can barely make out the stitching as if it's an expensive linen.
Did the gloves after all, even though we can't touch his bracers. Took a creative license here by adding an ornament to the top of his glove behind his knuckles. Give me your opinion here, hope it's not distracting or gaudy.
My fav pendant is there, new earring, new ears, new hair (I have an alternative version of the hair if you all don't like it), new Master Sword scabbard, new Master Sword hilt (someone already did the hilt, but honestly it looks bad; it's pixelized, so I re-did it; hope not to offend the original artist but I think he/she would be pleased), new back of the Hylian Shield, new boots.
Footnote about the boots: what a pain! The top part of the boot, the buckle, has 3 layers of stretching just on that one texture. So after a few hours of trying really hard to get a good highrez version, honestly all i could do was scale up the original, add a little rough texturing to it, and that's it. The middle and bottom of the boot weren't as difficult but they had major challenges too which again kept me from making an awesome version. Oh well...
Death--Droid: if you like my version of the Master Sword hilt, you'll need to remove the original. And again, I can't think of any reason not to just dump ALL of Link's textures into one Adult Link folder and call it good.
Sorry for the very long post, but Link is major business here and I thought he deserved some detail. Please post your opinions, b/c we all need to have a say-so in our hero.
EDIT: Forgot that I didn't re-do his fingers. Impossible. Texture used for his fingers is mirrored on the inside and palms of his hands. Try to add any details to it, like knuckles or fingernails, and they end up on the inside too making him look like he's got nasty warts or something.
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