New Monster Skins

[Lightning_Hunter]

Purple? The chest armor is pink-ish. I sampled the colors from the original and used those as a base for the new skin's colors. I'm not going to limit myself to the quake's palette when I have 16 million colors to choose from. To me, the armor needs to look like metal, that's all. Also, I ran it through Lightning_Hunter (he seems to be my main tester-feedback source) and it seemed to be fine, but I can always make a new one using different colors.

Are you referring to the new classic Grunt skin? Actually, I don't believe I ever gave you feedback on that one. I know you posted it in the "finished skins" section, but I don't ever recall getting a PM for it. Anyway, I think you gave us enough versions of the Grunt that at least one of them would satisfy someone.
People, don't forget the alternative Grunt skins, also made by Fragger:
http://www.quaketastic.com/upload/fi...Alt_Grunts.zip

On the topic of the Knight's mouth - I thought it looked ok in the game. The open mouth might only slightly resemble a smile when looked at in certain screenshots.

When I playtest skins, I try to take the middle position on everything. If I were to be TOO picky, then nothing would ever get done, and I'm sure there would be some frustration. Fragger already made 4-5 versions of the Knight face as it is, and I felt this one was the best. I'm sure he can make an alternate version further down the road, but at this point I'm very satisfied with the version he made. Fragger has many more skins to do, so I try to point out the "glaring" issues with each one so he can move on. There is no point spending weeks on the same part of one skin when the general consensus is that it looks great. Believe me, it's hard to get approval with faithful remakes. I've been part of many communities that have re-made old games, so I see this all the time.

I'm planning to do new skins with different themes after I'm done with this set, so nothing's final or set in stone.

Sounds good. Do you still plan to complete the second mission pack?

[Fragger]

Yes, but after I finish this batch.

[Lightning_Hunter]

Yes, but after I finish this batch.

I figured. I completely understand why you chose this order. Perfecting the original Quake monster skins first would have been my top priority as well.

[Fragger]

It's not easy to make Quake content look like Quake content.

[Lightning_Hunter]

How's it coming Fragger? I've become spoiled by your constant updates, so a week of silence is new for you.

[Fragger]

Hello? Where did everybody go?

[Trickle]

we are eagerly awaiting a new update =]

[Trickle]

just know you're on a great roll, because your stuff really is as faithful as you can get and you're doing a kick ass job! can't wait to see that knight in action!

[Fragger]

Having finished the knight, it's the zombie's turn:

That's basically the skin that's already released but with a few things added to make it a little more faithful (new face and fixed toes).
What do you think?

[Trickle]

I think it looks great. he looks disgusting like hes suppose to, I'm going to have to think of what can be changed.

[Fragger]

OK, The knight has been posted for download at my site:
Fragger's Quake Skins
Holiday got in the way, but it's over now.
(BURP!)

[Trickle]

sweet! =]

[Lightning_Hunter]

Awesome site Fragger! I just now got back from a small vacation myself. I guess I wasn't the only one who was silent for the past 5 days.

Looking forward to seeing more from you now!

[luizera]

Hey Fragger you're skins are great, but grunt's face annoys me. I don't know exactly what's "wrong", it just don't feel right to me. I think they should look more like these guys:
http://forums.risingsunajax.com/imag...ranger_red.gif
http://www.ugoplayer.com/forum/image...anger_blue.jpg
(sorry about the bad pics, will try to get better ones later.)
I understand you have to finish other skins, so don't bother changing grunt's skin right now just to please me . There's no need to rush.

[Fragger]

Hmm... Isn't Ranger the "Quake guy"? Anyway, I have been thinking about redoing the grunt (to match the enforcer) so everything is possible. I wanted the grunt to look like a monster, even though he used to be human. That's why I used that face.
Keep the feedback coming!