copperhead5858
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This is my first post!
With the funds my family has unwittingly given me this holiday, I am VERY close to pulling the trigger on ordering everything I think I'll need to build my first cosplay. A Mk V with the Mk V helmet previously mentioned.
Before I sold the dold with that though, I checked the pep files once again to make sure I had everything I needed to start... I did not. The zip from the armory doesn't have the foam unfold for the Mk V, at least not where I would expect it, and I am not going to bend the knee to Pepkura's will. Not that I think I could, I don't think the paper unfold for that model is very good, and that is coming from the guy that has never done this before. What the zip DOES have is the original model of the helmet from Reach as a .blend, and its textures! $o$
Where has that led me tonight? Well, all I have really done today, compared to what I regularly do during breaks (rotate between playing Fortnite, Splitgate 2, MCC, and some fourth "game of the month"), is have Blender open for 3 hours and accomplish a few small steps, as I invent my own workflow into something that may not pan out at all--as well as have very little to actually save because it's Pepkura Designer.
First, I chopped up the helmet and realised I didn't like how it looked.
Then I color-coded it, removed the edge faces so they leave me alone in Pep [POSSIBLE FORESHADOWING].
Then chopped it up again, in order to have less to deal with in Pep, because I haven't been using the mirror modifier...
Finally, I made most triangles into quads because it gives Pep fewer ghosts to fight.
Some time in I also removed the cheek lights, they will come back though... they will come back.
This is where I'm standing now. Some of it is pretty messy, I think-but I made it so I understand it.
I haven't scaled this yet, but I've read HaloGoddess' tut abt scaling, idk if it's still to standard. I couldn't find my ruler tonight, so I used my phone's measuring app in a mirror to measure from my face, from my chin to my hairline, which has a respectable forehead between it, and then that still didn't feel right, so I added another inch to close the gap with the very top of my head. That totals to 9 1/2", which I am also iffy about. Google's search AI tells me a male's head height is 7-8 inches, which then makes my head a little big, but Google could be lying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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It's 4:17 am now, I am writing at the end of an impromptu Fortnite sesh, I'll measure my head again when I wake up. Tomorrow, I might post about what style of foam to buy. Goodnight spartans and other halo people!
With the funds my family has unwittingly given me this holiday, I am VERY close to pulling the trigger on ordering everything I think I'll need to build my first cosplay. A Mk V with the Mk V helmet previously mentioned.
Before I sold the dold with that though, I checked the pep files once again to make sure I had everything I needed to start... I did not. The zip from the armory doesn't have the foam unfold for the Mk V, at least not where I would expect it, and I am not going to bend the knee to Pepkura's will. Not that I think I could, I don't think the paper unfold for that model is very good, and that is coming from the guy that has never done this before. What the zip DOES have is the original model of the helmet from Reach as a .blend, and its textures! $o$
Where has that led me tonight? Well, all I have really done today, compared to what I regularly do during breaks (rotate between playing Fortnite, Splitgate 2, MCC, and some fourth "game of the month"), is have Blender open for 3 hours and accomplish a few small steps, as I invent my own workflow into something that may not pan out at all--as well as have very little to actually save because it's Pepkura Designer.
First, I chopped up the helmet and realised I didn't like how it looked.
Then I color-coded it, removed the edge faces so they leave me alone in Pep [POSSIBLE FORESHADOWING].
Then chopped it up again, in order to have less to deal with in Pep, because I haven't been using the mirror modifier...
Finally, I made most triangles into quads because it gives Pep fewer ghosts to fight.
Some time in I also removed the cheek lights, they will come back though... they will come back.
This is where I'm standing now. Some of it is pretty messy, I think-but I made it so I understand it.
I haven't scaled this yet, but I've read HaloGoddess' tut abt scaling, idk if it's still to standard. I couldn't find my ruler tonight, so I used my phone's measuring app in a mirror to measure from my face, from my chin to my hairline, which has a respectable forehead between it, and then that still didn't feel right, so I added another inch to close the gap with the very top of my head. That totals to 9 1/2", which I am also iffy about. Google's search AI tells me a male's head height is 7-8 inches, which then makes my head a little big, but Google could be lying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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It's 4:17 am now, I am writing at the end of an impromptu Fortnite sesh, I'll measure my head again when I wake up. Tomorrow, I might post about what style of foam to buy. Goodnight spartans and other halo people!
