For those who dont wan't to browse through the universe-long ME2 Models thread
[release]Ported by [URL=http://www.facepunch.com/members/98495-CJay]CJay[/URL] All credit goes to him.[/release]
[img]http://brainfuck.square7.ch/stuff/miranda/miranda.png[/img]
[img]http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8909/sinttulokli.png[/img]
[release]Pose by TheManest
[img_thumb]http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4517/dmhotcnv10003.jpg[/img_thumb][/release]
[media]http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8637/plrhightower0002.jpg[/media]
[release]
Loyalty Outfit Progress (Not Yet Released)
[img_thumb]http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3538/d1trainstation050106.jpg[/img_thumb][/release]
[release]Character Info:
Miranda Lawson is a human informant, a major character in Mass Effect Galaxy and a squad member in Mass Effect 2. As Jacob Taylor's informant, she gives him guidance and advice during missions, often via hologram. Miranda is very well traveled and has many contacts, extending from Citadel space and the Terminus Systems, to as far as the hostile Nemean Abyss. Her vast network of contacts may be explained by the fact Miranda is a known Cerberus operative, one who still has friends — or at least friends of friends — in the Alliance military.
Miranda is both voiced by and modelled upon the actress Yvonne Strahovski[/release]
[release]Model Info
Model is Face, eye and finger poseable.
[release]CREDIT: Ported by CJay. I just provided mirrrors by uploading to different servers[/release]
This model does NOT include the loyalty outfit, that one is being worked on by CJay[/release]
Download:
Megaupload:
[url]http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ES8DUZFQ[/url]
Others:
[url]http://brainfuck.square7.ch/stuff/miranda/20110105_Miranda.zip[/url]
[url]http://www.badongo.com/file/24913167[/url]
[url]http://www.zshare.net/download/848169973ca0bc78/[/url]
[url]http://depositfiles.com/files/t3dlft1la[/url]
[url]http://www.2shared.com/file/nBzN4X4D/20110105_Miranda.html[/url]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/d2_prison_040045.jpg[/img]
Butt.
Yay! Good work, CJay.
This is relevant to my interests.
It's a pity her face is so weird. That's not your fault, though. Thanks for reminding us that this exists!
That outfit would be really uncomfortable.
Finally. Thank you so much.
Oh cool.
Oh wait, the vmt/vtfs are poorly named and there's no normalmap, no phong, and the envmapping looks terrible. Overall a half-ass rip, at least way too early for something even near the level of quality that's considered minimum nowadays.
[QUOTE=Lt_C;27229875]Oh cool.
Oh wait, the vmt/vtfs are poorly named and there's no normalmap, no phong, and the envmapping looks terrible. Overall a half-ass rip, at least way too early for something even near the level of quality that's considered minimum nowadays.[/QUOTE]
With all due respect you made yourself sound like a total ass.
If you're going to rip something, you might at least take the effort bring the model over with some level of quality, since, you know, you're not modeling or texturing a model. There's so much more that could go into this, skingroups for the loyalty skin, or even bumpmaps (I mean goddamn, it's not like the files aren't right there in the original file directory or anything). At least do the model justice by putting some effort into the visual appearance since it's not really your own work.
Given the quality of other ME ports, this is a bad release, at the very least premature. The framework is there but this isn't release quality.
[QUOTE=Lt_C;27230035]If you're going to rip something, you might at least take the effort bring the model over with some level of quality, since, you know, you're not modeling or texturing a model. There's so much more that could go into this, skingroups for the loyalty skin, or even bumpmaps (I mean goddamn, it's not like the files aren't right there in the original file directory or anything). At least do the model justice by putting some effort into the visual appearance since it's not really your own work.
Given the quality of other ME ports, this is a bad release, at the very least premature. The framework is there but this isn't release quality.[/QUOTE]
If you are going to rip something you might as well release it.
The model has faults which need to be addressed but going "oh cool, just kidding it sucks" is in no way constructive.
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;27230055]
The model has faults which need to be addressed but going "oh cool, just kidding it sucks" is in no way constructive.[/QUOTE]
Good thing I gave a set of concrete reasons why it's not up to par.
I'm happy it's released. Given that I had plans to modify the texture, I don't see that happening now since I'd be spending more time trying to decipher file names then its worth to texture it. I'm glad it has face and finger posing, but it's not going to look as good as it could in screenshots. The feels rushed, and the quality of the rip suffers, and it kills the chances of someone to improve upon the textures or really using in a high quality screenshot or comic.
yahoooo!) thanks CJay) great work)
Great work!
Sorry, but I'm with the Lt. Commander on this one -- CJay could easily have taken the few minutes required to slap on the bump map (at the very least) and give it some basic phonging, especially if he took the time to face/fignerpose her.
It's the little things that really make a model, and he's left them out. D:
And as an added note to Carbon Knight... it would be beneficial to your arguments if you were to actually consider the points Lt. Commander had in his posts, rather than skimming through them. Quite a bit of work goes into ripping things, and honestly, nothing should be left out. All of the work done makes the end result worth releasing to the public.
[QUOTE=Lt_C;27230035]If you're going to rip something, you might at least take the effort bring the model over with some level of quality, since, you know, you're not modeling or texturing a model. There's so much more that could go into this, skingroups for the loyalty skin, or even bumpmaps (I mean goddamn, it's not like the files aren't right there in the original file directory or anything). At least do the model justice by putting some effort into the visual appearance since it's not really your own work.
Given the quality of other ME ports, this is a bad release, at the very least premature. The framework is there but this isn't release quality.[/QUOTE]
Oh you...
I told CJay to release his half-assed rip because people were so wanting a Miranda release as the other one was only going to have his "Big pack release" with the better model in it.
Now you have one.
The old adage "good things come to those who wait" comes to mind. I don't want to drive a sports car that can't go in reverse, or fly a plane that can't land. You've got to give people time to finish what they started, or you end up with things that are marginally or hugely weaker as a product then they could be.
I'm not saying that CJay is a bad ripper, but I am saying that he was either lazy to the point of negligence, or more likely, was forced to get this one out the door before he was ready. Given the fact that he took the time to face and finger pose, I'd be willing to bet on the latter.
Finally... the time of waiting is OVER!
Thank you very much!
[QUOTE=Lt_C;27236149]The old adage "good things come to those who wait" comes to mind. I don't want to drive a sports car that can't go in reverse, or fly a plane that can't land. You've got to give people time to finish what they started, or you end up with things that are marginally or hugely weaker as a product then they could be.
I'm not saying that CJay is a bad ripper, but I am saying that he was either lazy to the point of negligence, or more likely, was forced to get this one out the door before he was ready. Given the fact that he took the time to face and finger pose, I'd be willing to bet on the latter.[/QUOTE]
CJay originally intended to have this Miranda Lawson model as an alyx replacement.
That is why it was face and finger posed.
But the constant ass sniffing did not make that work very well.
If it was not for me CJays model would never have been released.
He forgot to add some materials to the model, so?.
CJay is very much capable of finishing great quality rips that you speak of but I believe that he did not take this model that seriously after all the animations failed.
Cameltoes.
The fuck is going on here :v:
I never really intended to release this, but people seemed to want it and the port of that other dude seemed to take a while so I thought to myself "why not?".
Yes, the texture names are cryptic 3d Ripper bullshit, the wrists are fucked up, the faceposing looks awkward and the VMT's genereally suck, but that's why I didn't make a big fuzz about it.
[URL=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/202588/screens/anitest0007.jpg]The animation set was pretty boss, too.[/URL]
But whatever, if you don't like it, don't download. This model was more of a practice, not something I intended to make public or whatever.
[QUOTE=Lt_C;27236149]I'm not saying that CJay is a bad ripper, but I am saying that he was either lazy to the point of negligence, or more likely, was forced to get this one out the door before he was ready. Given the fact that he took the time to face and finger pose, I'd be willing to bet on the latter.[/QUOTE]
I was even more lazy than that. :v: The model is directly extracted from ME2, so all the rigging was already done (there were even some bones for facial animations). All I really did was to Valve-ize the rig, fix some errors that happend during that process and made the facial shapekeys (which still look horrible, but w/e) Yeah, [b]that[/b] lazy. (But I probably would have done it myself if it weren't already done)
Yvonne is damn hot.
[Img]http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/4673/66252806.jpg[/Img]
[QUOTE=ffrasisti;27228606]For those who dont wan't to browse through the universe-long ME2 Models thread
Ported by [URL=http://www.facepunch.com/members/98495-CJay]CJay[/URL] All credit goes to him.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/46/1275217-miranda3_large.png[/img]
Any chance you/CJay are going to release her loyalty outfit as skin for this model as well?
[QUOTE=mercurius;27262040]
Any chance you/CJay are going to release her loyalty outfit as skin for this model as well?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I'm already working on that.
people say this is bad but i tink it is good but the fingerposeing is messed up.
[QUOTE=CJay;27264526]Yeah, I'm already working on that.[/QUOTE]
Awesome! I'll edit the thread once you do.
@ObnoxiouspeoplewithOCD: It's not that bad, I was able to pose it and work with it, I suck at posing and i always complain about details. If an obssesive such as myself was able to work with this, so can you.
And if all else fails, just wait for TheMannest to get angry enough at Nexus to release his port that looks better.
On topic: Can someone upload to gmod.org and make some better poses to post on the main post? Thanks, mine suck
I'm okay with this.
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