Metroid, i need a little help for once

[rvb18]

hey guys, i am starting on a PED trooper from prime 3 and a phazon suit samus from prime 1. i need some help. I've looked on google and can't find but one picture of the PED trooper, same goes for the phazon suit. i was hoping that you, the 405th community, might have some pics or even models of the suits. this build will be made of eva foam so i only need a model for reference (i still could use the samus pep files for some parts). please help, as this will be the hardest and greatest build I've even done.

BTW this is what i'm making

 

[Revenant1988]

You may find a few images of the trooper in the strategy guide for the game, I used to have it and I recall a few being in there, but for Phazon suit Samus, it's just a color pallet swap from the Varia and Gravity schemes. If you have the PDO's of them, you are pretty much good to go.

The only difference in the game between the suits is they way her arm cannon expands, if your trying to replicate that effect its harder to explain unless you play through the game and study it.


I wish I had the pep files for samus.....I've looked all over the net trying to locate some so I could pep myself a suit! As of now I'm working on my Mk V for halo, but I'd LOVE to have a samus suit. If you have ANY files for that, you are much further ahead of me my friend. Good Luck!!!

 

[ShadoKat]

The Phazon suit Samus is just the Varia suit with a different paint job. I did a lot of research for reference pics for my Prime 3 Samus, and really the only major difference between the Prime 1 and Prime 2/3 suits is the helmet. The best reference I found is a 3D model *ripped from the game. I also found a full Prime 1 Samus here, on the 405th, I think, in **gmax format. Not sure if it was game-ripped or user created. If you like, you can e-mail me for more information.

As for the PED trooper, you might try to see if you can view the model in-game after scanning one. GOOD LUCK!!

* I could have just converted, unfolded, and pepped, I guess, but I wanted to go the sculpting route, and honestly I didn't feel comfortable doing that with a game-ripped model. It's debatable whether that might fall under fair use.

** Gmax was a free, scaled-down version of 3DS Max that discreet released, like ten years ago, specifically for user-created game content, and it can still be found with a quick Google search... it can also import and edit .3ds files. I'm sure there are better options out there for this purpose, but I've never really checked, and I don't know that anything else can import gmax files, anyway.

 

[rvb18]

i have the models of samus and i know how and what i'm doing on the phazon suit. it's the PED trooper thats is going to be hard. if anyone can provide me with the model of the trooper(even the standard, as they are similar) if would help me. i really only need the trooper's helmet. and any, and i mean any reference of the trooper will help

BTW shadow, why did you call my jun a poorly done master chief on the e scapeist?

also i would like to know the info on buying one of your helmets, my email is kwcrafton@sbcglobal.net

 

[Nintendude]

I got the PED trooper here:
http://www.woofiles.com/dl-203213-EPaxYxy3-MP3Marine.obj

 

[ShadoKat]

Nintendude, you have proved, once again, that you are awesome. Did you make that or get it from somewhere else? If you got it from somewhere else, is it from Prime 2 or Prime 3?

BTW shadow, why did you call my jun a poorly done master chief on the e scapeist?

That definitely wasn't me! I don't even have an account there, and I would never post anything negative like that. Polite, constructive criticism I'll do, but only if I can actually be helpful.

 

[rvb18]

odd.....someone has the name shadowkatt on there. you have a copy cat (ya get it ?) lol. thanks again Nintendude

 

[Nintendude]

ShadoKat the model was pulled from Metroid Prime 3 right now I'm also trying to see if I can get the Samus Phazon suit but that's turning out to be harder than I thought.

 

[mustang2500]

What will you possibly do with two suits? Haha, still, looks like a great project.
I was a big fan of Metroid until I found the deity known as Master Chief.
Good luck! I better see some LED's!

 

[rvb18]

one is for my niece, btw nintendude the link is leading me to the home page of the site

 

[mustang2500]

Oh, cool. Does she know she'll be getting this? That's be one hell of a surprise. Either way, I know you'll do good. Don't know how, I can just feel it.

 

[rvb18]

she requested i make her a costume after she saw how fun it is to go to conventions with them. so i asked here if she would want to be samus, and i showed her the suits, she picked the phazon. i wanted to do the light suit. another time i guest. hey, nintendude can you just send me the file via email? my email is just a few posts up

 

[Nintendude]

Do you mean it's not taking you to the file itself, because if it's just taking you to the main site for Woofiles I can upload it somewhere else. Got the message but you never know someone else may want the file so I'll upload it to 4shared.

 

[rvb18]

it's taking me to the main page, also is it the full model or is it cut up into parts?

 

[Nintendude]

Try here, http://www.4shared.com/file/sExROcYK/MP3Marine.html

 

[rvb18]

thank you! finally some good reference. BTW does anyone know how to "chop up" a model? i really would like to use the helmet as a base but i need to separate it from the rest of the model

 

[Nintendude]

Here's the helmet http://www.4shared.com/file/9G_7ah2Q/MP3Marine_Helmet.html it's in a MQO file but Pep Designer should still open it.

 

[rvb18]

oh man! you rock! i was trying to edit it in pep and blender, i failed but thank you so much! BTW it scales like a normal helmet right? it loaded in pep 3 on it's side so i was just wondering if it will scale like any other.

 

[Nintendude]

If you have the helmet on it's side you should be able to flip it by clicking on those colors when it first opens, not sure if it will do that or not because it's a MQO file, if you need to export it as a OBJ with Pep Designer then re-open it and rotate, or if you just want to pass all that just use the height for the width parameters.

 

[rvb18]

thanks! I'll fix and unfold it

Edit: crap, pep will only let me export to pep2. I'll look for a program to change it.

Edit again: i got it in obj but pep wont load it. i used the program that makes mqo files to export into autocad files then blender to export autocad into obj. what am i doing wrong?

Edit: i was able to fix by loading the autocad file into pep. no more problems


heres the helmet unfolded trooper.pdo