Predators: The Lost Tribes - a Skyrim MOD

[roland113]

Are you rigging the Predator's eyes, mouth, etc... too?


Unfortunately no.   

Sadly in Skyrim the speaking Morph targets are overly complicated and done with a completely different App - FACEGEN.  Getting facial /head morphs  working without that app was pretty difficult - but since you don't carry on any predator NPC conversations you don't really notice. 

I'm pretty sure there is a way to do a manual job of it with blender and some tri strip tools from some very industrious people - but that's a lot of work that mostly won't show up (or if you were wearing a helmet - you wouldn't want it to show up - ie go through the helmet. 

I might go poking around trying to get mouth morphs working again - but I've so many other bigger things I want to spend time on - like dungeons, AVP monsters and predator NPCs before I go back to dealing with the morph targets to get the mouth to animate.


The morph targets that I do have done are all body sizes morph targets. These are standard morph targets you can do in Studio Max without any 3rd party apps -- - so when you shift body weight sliders and the male and female avatars - all clothing and armor sizes change with it.

[ikarop]

I thought so. I think you can add some idle animation to the mandibles using havok tho. It's tedious but probably worth a try if you want the preds to have some extra realism.

My Steam username is in my profile if you want to chat sometime with a fellow modder.

[Ralkahn]

Another biomask you might look at adding: http://the-predator-club.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2c8ec8

Maybe craftable after a certain point in the quest line using dragon bone and another biomask, or something like that? It totally fits both the mod and the original game setting.

[roland113]

Thanks -

I'll have to post pics of the troll skull bone bio helm i've created.  I've also got a falmer helm modified to fit the pred (Since falmer helms are so cool and fit over the face like a mask to begin with.)

I was thinking of making more Dragon and monster bone 'add-ons' as other craftables in later mod versions.

What I'd like to do most is make a dragon skull part of armor that goes over one shoulder. Similar to what artists did in the game AVP 2 as Heavy Predator, Juggernaut armor.

[chupacabras acheronsis]

how do you plan to implement the HUD system for the masks?

[roland113]

Game hud for masks.

The whole game's hud won't swap when you put masks on/off - (as cool as that would be - the work would be huge)

What I do have is pretty light -

I'm working on a few 'predator mouse cursors' as add-ons you can drop into the HUD folder.  the tri dots, or the triangle 'lock on' cursor.

I'm still working on the last stages of 'predator heat vision' mode - so you can run around with the world 'blue and heated skins reacting as you'd expect in heat vision.  This may be an add on item that sets this vision mode - so you can have it "on" all the time or deactivate it.  I'm also using it as a 'spell' though I dont' like that so much at the moment but it might be what I use.

Skyrim has its own HUD for damage / mana / stamina (red, blue, green bars) - and a Compass on top - i'm not planning on 'predator-izing' the art on that since its pretty sparse to start with

[roland113]

Some examples of a few Bio helms and some outfit/Weapon combinations

[chupacabras acheronsis]

looks kinda out of place.

could you make their necks shorter?

[roland113]

Those are skyrim's proportions - they fit the rest of the game's bodies and outfits so they can mix and match

[roland113]

Getting close to shipping V 1.0



Still have to add monster NPC predators to battle. The AVP style "drop pods" with extra gear and loot is coming along nicely.

[darksword]

cant wait!

[roland113]

cant wait!

I just finished the work for the public V 1.0 launch! More work will be done, but this is past Beta and is quite fun to play.

Its now available on the Skrim Nexus!  http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/

just search for 'Predators The Lost Tribes' in the mods Race section.

[Byohzrd]

you should look into adding some Aliens and a Hunt quest of a sort.

[roland113]

"you should look into adding some Aliens and a Hunt quest of a sort."

Yup - you've got that right. I've still got a lot of work to do to finish - but its got a lot of opportunity to model some Xenomorph hybrids and drop them in to make some very exciting levels.

[ikarop]

Congrats on the release! Hope it gets many downloads.