Very cool!  I love the undead.

That pic looks awesome! Would be really cool with undead in the game. Great work! 

gj man, I love it

I'm working on the rib cage and stuff now. I found you can use the skin color for various effects with this. If I go with a white skin color like I did there it highlights the skull because that was just a test and I didn't do the whole skull yet. If you make the skin total black then I can put in other bones. Keep in mind, it's just a skin change, not a model change, so the guy/girl's body is still actually there. It's taking a lot of skinning talent to make the skeleton look 3D but I'm pulling it off slowly using the body as a black skin base-plate. It looks pretty awesome either way though until they actually come out with a 3D skeleton model.

Hat's and armor don't ruin it, that pic there is with a in game robe and hood and not part of the skin. Put him in armor and add a helmet and it looks like a skeletal unit. Pulls it off real nice in fact .

More soon...

Looks awesome Raven; I look forward to (eventually) marching forth with armies of the unliving.

If I keep going at the rate I am now I'll have it up before morning. You know me and my "perfectionism", I want the completed skeleton to look as complete as possible. I don't want to be responsible for any flawed skeletal half and halfs running around out there. lol.

Oh, I just got a bad ass idea for my next version which will have chunks of bloody flesh on it.

More soon, very soon.

Thanks again bro.

very, very impressive already... I wonder... if you made an 'undead' ability... then use the magic editor for particle effects to make certain undead troops have special visual differences in tactical combat... like a dark mist around the feet or similar? just a thought

+having some rusty or battered armour would look good, love the armoured skellie though so any armour would work

It's probably pretty easy to do actually. I need a lot of practice with the particle cauldron though before I try spell like effects. I want to be good at it like a few others on the forums here who have posted using it. Once I get to that level and I'm happy with the effects I can make then I'll start applying them to stuff. At that point, watch out!!! LoL, because I'll be making Flaming swords, Electrical swords, Ice swords (any effect any weapon) and rings of eternal mist and all kinds of cool stuff.

As for the Undead, I'm starting on the arm bones and hands now so not much longer and I'll have them up for everyone to enjoy.

Stay Tuned Undead lovers!!!

Here's the last update before I finish. Just some last minute screen tests. One of the arms and hands are done as well.

Notice the hands. Finger bones for each finger so griping objects looks natural.

The back side of the rib cage is hard to do and to get "just right" so I may save that for an update if I can't bring it together soon.

The neck bones connect and look good but you can't see them from the back....yet. (Note: ask SD to put in the ability to rotate our view in the in game tools so we can see our creations, Sovs, Units, etc, from all angles.)

The tops of the shoulders look a little...odd. Skeletons don't exactly have a lot of "mass" and the model is still 3D with a piece of 2D artwork (the skin) wrapped around it. The top arm part looks fine but the bones where the clavicle should be can't be seen from that angle. I'm worried if I put them in it might complicate the skin too much and make it look less like a skeleton from certain angles. Then again I don't imagine most players will be running around naked. They'll have a shirt or armor of some kind on as will the units they make using this skin.

It's 1 AM now. I'm going to see what I can do in the next few hours to see if I can get some more detail into it. Also as it is now you still have to make the skin color Dark Black for the bones to show properly. Then again maybe you just want a soldier or Sov who has a skull painted on his face in which case it looks cool for that as well. I also have no idea what the offspring of these characters would look like. That should be...interesting heh. I'm not going to spend much longer on version 1.0 so you'll all be able to find out first hand here shortly. I'll put it up by 5 AM so people can download it and start a fresh new game with them tomorrow morning (Saturday) and have Undead in their game for weekend.

Stay tuned...

Regarding some of the oddness in the images: Some of the poses they give us mess up all the displays. For example, that last one of him bending over will mess up normal armor and clothing too.

And, I second the whole rotation thing.

Excellent work Raven!

Yay that's the good stuff! Really like em.

But I think I might wait until we have a chance to actually put in 3D model based undead into the game till I'll start playing with undead in MY Elemental

Awesome stuff!

I will build and altar and make you my patron Elemental deity if you can make an 'Army of Darkness' mod.

Bruce Campbell could kick Chuck Norris's butt any day! (Because he cheats... )