Dragaera

What does a jhereg nest look like?

Tue Aug 24 09:27:14 PDT 2004

paul w wrote:

> Hi again. Thanx for putting some thought into that Linda! You gave me 
> some things to think about. I'm in the process of creating some "art 
> work" based on Vlad and Loiosh, and possibly Loiosh and his mother 
> before he hatched.
> 
> I figured if anyone on the planet would be insterested in my work in 
> progress, it would be you fine people, so I've posted some of the 
> material in it's current state. I've found that getting reactions from 
> people half way through can motivate me to finish! This is a working 
> model of Loiosh in a real-time 3d engine. You'll need a decent computer 
> to be able to rotate around it smoothly. It also requires Shockwave to 
> view. (if you are prompted to install Shockwave when you try to view it, 
> make sure you uncheck the yahoo toolbar that tries to install with it!)
> http://www.stuffycorporatedesign.com/misc/loishviewer.htm
> 
> I realize that most people aren't power users like myself, so I took a 
> "snap shot" in case you don't have the capability (or desire) to view 
> the actual project from the link above:
> http://www.stuffycorporatedesign.com/misc/loiosh.jpg
> His textures still need work, but it's getting close. The animation, 
> such as it is, is an authoring pose that exists only to test Loiosh's 3d 
> mesh. I'll be doing a 5 second or so animation in the next few days to 
> put the model through it's paces and make sure he moves ok. I'm really 
> excited about how cool this will look once I'm done with Vlad (end of 
> week most likely)! Wish me luck, and thanx again for the feedback.

Hmm. Doesn't Loiosh have 4 limbs (two legs, two wings) rather than 6 
(two legs, two arms, two wings)?

Jose
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