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By Miranda (RL) - 7 Years Ago
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Thank you for your patience!
Battle Mech Series Packs are available NOW!!! (Sept. 22nd)
Know More:
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Raptoid is not alone anymore!
There will be three Sci-fi content packs coming up, Female, Male and Mech Monster.
Each one of them are painted into three themes: Steel, Alloy and Rust.
Look some key shots rendered in iClone!
Theme: Steel
CC Content
Female & Male packs are CC content, users can easily dress up a character with different components:
More...
Product Information
Agile Flexile (Female)
- Character Creator Content
- Accessory: Helmet x 3
- Cloth: Arms x 3 (.ccGloves), Lower x 3 (.ccShoes), Cloth x 3 (.ccCloth)
- iClone 7 Content
- iAvatar x 3
- Materials Lib x 12 (.iMtl)
Brute Armor (Male)
- Character Creator Content
- Accessory: Helmet x 3
- Cloth: Arms x 3 (.ccGloves), Lower x 3 (.ccShoes), Cloth x 3 (.ccCloth)
- iClone Content
- iAvatar x 3
- Materials Lib x 12 (.iMtl)
MechREX
- iClone Content
- iAvatar x 3
- Motion x 15
- Materials Lib x 12 (.iMtl)
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By paulg625 - 7 Years Ago
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Cool, looking forward to this one!
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By rogyru - 7 Years Ago
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Looks great Take my Money
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By Kelleytoons - 7 Years Ago
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Female and Male look great (monster - bleh, not so much).
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By Miranda (RL) - 7 Years Ago
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Kelleytoons (8/23/2017)
Female and Male look great (monster - bleh, not so much).
How about this one?
And you can see the size of Mech Monster from this image.
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By Kelleytoons - 7 Years Ago
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Don't worry, Miranda, it's probably just me (those sorts of things don't do anything for me -- the TRUE monster is the human being).
But I do love the male and female stuff -- anything we can get for CC is a real treasure, and I love the idea we can mix and match these parts.
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By mtakerkart - 7 Years Ago
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Thank you Miranda. Looove all this new stuff!!! Will buy it any time !
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By rampart - 7 Years Ago
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Looks good...however. Just like so many other armored SCI-FI suits there are problems.
The upper inner thigh is not armored. A hit in this area is instant death.
Upper chest is not armored properly. A hit in this area is instant death.
Groin area not armored properly. A hit in this area is instant death - many veins and arteries converge in groin and upper inner thigh.
These suits must have protection in areas where inner organs and vascular bundles are located on human body
Modern day weapon targeting systems are very precise. Laser scopes on pistols, etc.
It does not make sense to think future combatants will not have precise targeting as well.
Characters in armor should be extremely hard to kill or injure, even if the enemy is using AI assisted targeting.
The suits should ALSO be adaptable for less restrictive use in non-threatening scenes.
The suit needs to provide look of uniform, but character is not all bundled up in armor plates.
Belly area is not covered well in some configurations. This should be OK for uniform with less armor.
We should have the ability to use the entire suit to be a character without the extra baggage of a rigged human character inside the suit.
My interest is this content is in CC human characters, not mechanical scorpions, spiders, etc. There are a zillion zombies, spiders, mechs, non-human based characters available. I have more than enough of that stuff.
I don't like to use mechs because when you bring one of them into scenes they dominate. They are nothing less than walking tanks. Humans don't stand a chance against them, even in armor suits.
Whenever you introduce a mech into a scene it is time for the humans to get the heck out there FAST. AI targeting, superior firepower, and it takes extremely powerful weapons to destroy them.
Look the firepower of this mech, which is very common. If a mech shoots and hits a human target in full armor and does not penetrate the armor the shock from the mech weapon is enough to pulverize the human body in the suit.
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By mtakerkart - 7 Years Ago
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Modern day weapon targeting systems are very precise.
Modern weapon are anti-matter bomb. Precision is not required. 
Just saying that you will never never see this kind of suit/behavior war in the futur. The cost of this kind of suit cost 200K $ for each soldat that could be destroy in 15 sec.... 
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By rampart - 7 Years Ago
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The purpose of the armored suit in this content pack is enable us to humanize conflict. Like the suit is going to really protect the human. Armor suits basically were a done deal after medieval ages.
Modern day Body armor does help against smaller caliber weapons, but if you are hit with a 50 cal you are pulverized. (dog food)
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By mtakerkart - 7 Years Ago
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That's why for me this kind of suit are only to protect for hostile weather , generating magnetic shield to be lighter, to generate vision distortion to mimic environment , Data screen availaible, etc.... But never a weapon shield.
It's not credible Technologically speaking.
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By rampart - 7 Years Ago
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Miranda (RL) (8/23/2017)
Kelleytoons (8/23/2017)
Female and Male look great (monster - bleh, not so much).How about this one? And you can see the size of Mech Monster from this image.
Separate the Mech from the CC character and armor. I definitely am not interested in another Mech. It is just not in the same category of content either.
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By rampart - 7 Years Ago
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mtakerkart (8/23/2017)
That's why for me this kind of suit are only to protect for hostile weather , generating magnetic shield to be lighter, to generate vision distortion to mimic environment , Data screen availaible, etc.... But never a weapon shield.
It's not credible Technologically speaking.
Fact is - Sci Fi is pretty well absurd nonsense, but people do like fantasy stuff. So... it will continue to be popular. We must provide some kind of fantastical nonsense to confirm our fantastic scenarios. Viewers will buy the nonsense we spew at them because they want to. Still we have to make our nonsense explanations sound plausible enough viewers can go with it. LOL
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By mtakerkart - 7 Years Ago
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We can debate long time about nonsense of sci-fi but for me good fantasy/scifi/horror etc must be coherente to be interesting. non existing things in story must'nt be nosense.
That's the problem today for our kids. Metaphore , poetrie , fantasy ,etc have been relegeted in the "nosense" wolrd...
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By Kelleytoons - 7 Years Ago
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I agree with both of you, but to bring it back OT I really DO hope RL doesn't package the mech in with the suit stuff. We don't need that kind of monster robot crap (and it's the kind of thing available almost anywhere -- Daz3D is full of those things). RL's strong suit is Character Creator, and content for it should be what they concentrate on (they can contract with third parties for things like the Rome Set, which is very nice, but we need a TON more CC stuff that isn't available anywhere else, like more hair).
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By animagic - 7 Years Ago
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rampart (8/23/2017)
mtakerkart (8/23/2017)
That's why for me this kind of suit are only to protect for hostile weather , generating magnetic shield to be lighter, to generate vision distortion to mimic environment , Data screen availaible, etc.... But never a weapon shield.
It's not credible Technologically speaking.Fact is - Sci Fi is pretty well absurd nonsense, but people do like fantasy stuff. So... it will continue to be popular. We must provide some kind of fantastical nonsense to confirm our fantastic scenarios. Viewers will buy the nonsense we spew at them because they want to. Still we have to make our nonsense explanations sound plausible enough viewers can go with it. LOL
We are not making documentaries here, so it's all fantasy, imagination, and make-believe from there on, not facts.
Also, you can't blame a particular genre, such as science fiction (now abbreviated to that horrible sci-fi) being taken over by an illiterate Hollywood money machine, which is an insult to intelligent science fiction writers such as Asimov, Clarke, Herbert, Vance, Le Guin, etc. We should at least respect each others creations and interests. Personally, I don't give a hoot about the various military packs, but I would never complain about that.
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By Miranda (RL) - 7 Years Ago
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@Mike & rampart,
Female, Male and Mech are the individual packs, and users can choose to buy all with a competitive price. (combo!!)
Kelleytoons (8/23/2017)
I agree with both of you, but to bring it back OT I really DO hope RL doesn't package the mech in with the suit stuff. We don't need that kind of monster robot crap (and it's the kind of thing available almost anywhere -- Daz3D is full of those things). RL's strong suit is Character Creator, and content for it should be what they concentrate on (they can contract with third parties for things like the Rome Set, which is very nice, but we need a TON more CC stuff that isn't available anywhere else, like more hair).
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By Miranda (RL) - 7 Years Ago
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Now we move the scene to space!!
Theme: Alloy
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By rampart - 7 Years Ago
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Can we use the male and female suits as CC Characters (without human character inside) to lower poly counts. These suits look like poly count hogs.
I just bought this fabulous suit for 6.25 during a daz3d sale. https://www.daz3d.com/cyclops-suit-hd-for-genesis-3-male-s
If RL is going push out their pack at $100 they really need some stuff to compete with this.
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By rogyru - 7 Years Ago
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Alloy set looks great love the work on the spine , look forward to getting this pack.
Regarding Rampart and other comments you guys serious ? how can you compare outfits used in Daz for renders to outfits that can be animatited in real time in Iclone and configured in CC ??. Surf the web and look for game ready sci fi suits of high quaility that are modular and easy to customize . You wont get much for under $ 300. Its plain stupid to compare DAZ outfits to Iclone outfits its like compareing chalk and cheese .
Help if some of you could post some of your work to back up your comments and master critique. Always best to put "in my opinion" before a sweeping statment like " Fact is - Sci Fi is pretty well absurd nonsense, but people do like fantasy stuff." .
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By rampart - 7 Years Ago
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rogyrue (8/24/2017)
Alloy set looks great love the work on the spine , look forward to getting this pack.
Regarding Rampart and other comments you guys serious ? how can you compare outfits used in Daz for renders to outfits that can be animatited in real time in Iclone and configured in CC ??. Surf the web and look for game ready sci fi suits of high quaility that are modular and easy to customize . You wont get much for under $ 300. Its plain stupid to compare DAZ outfits to Iclone outfits its like compareing chalk and cheese .
Help if some of you could post some of your work to back up your comments and master critique. Always best to put "in my opinion" before a sweeping statment like " Fact is - Sci Fi is pretty well absurd nonsense, but people do like fantasy stuff." .
I like the sound of it, but not buying the music.
RL took so long to release CC there were some of us that had to have higher quality characters, etc. I found solutions with Daz3d and 3dxchange.
I only produce video- no games. My work is Indie and I rarely post higher than 720. No one viewing the videos seems to balk on the quality.
Maybe coming one day 16K quality and video hosting that will accomodate it. At this time, Youtube constantly downgrrades videos...even when they upload as 1080. You may think your videos are viewed at full 1080, but you need to confirm that for yourself. I suggest not to login and tell YT who you are. YT has methods of doing things you don't realize. You can spend all kinds of extra hours producing a 1080 or 4K video for your viewers. You think it is a done deal, and you go anonymously to your channel...and there your gorgeous videos is displayed at 240 or 360.
I am not knocking RL. I am just sharing thoughts for what I would appreciate to buy.
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By Miranda (RL) - 7 Years Ago
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Theme: Rust
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By raxel_67 - 7 Years Ago
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All you need with this pack is some suspension of disbelief and some deus ex machina
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By rogyru - 7 Years Ago
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Is this going to drop soon ?
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By Kevin.S - 7 Years Ago
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I could have some fun with this .....
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By animagic - 7 Years Ago
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This is slightly OT, but I would like to comment about what YouTube does or does not do with videos that are posted.
I have been creating in 1920x1080 for a while, because a lot of work goes in making a video and it's the same amount of work (except for render time) to get better quality. I'm able to watch my videos on a large projection screen, so I would easily notice if a YouTube version was mucked up. It isn't. Just after uploading you may see a lower resolution as proxy, but that's replaced as soon as the HD version is ready.
As to the new content, the topic of this thread, who could express its merits more eloquently than Armstrong?
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By Rampa - 7 Years Ago
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Remember that these are CC clothing, and probably have interchangable parts. So not only can you alter that mesh material on the girl armor into something more durable, you can also put the male armor on her.
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By TheOldBuffer - 7 Years Ago
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The body armour and mechs look amazing. Scifi is exactly that, science fiction. This being the case anything is possible. The only thing I have a slight problem with is the rust. Hi tech armour wouldn't be made with steel but still more plausible than Unobtainium lol.
They're all on my shopping list.
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By rogyru - 7 Years Ago
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TheOldBuffer (9/1/2017)
The body armor and mechs look amazing. Scifi is exactly that, science fiction. This being the case anything is possible. The only thing I have a slight problem with is the rust. Hi tech armor wouldn't be made with steel but still more plausible than Unobtainium lol.
They're all on my shopping list.
Problem is not the rust . Problem is some people lack imagination . There are numerous scenarios where rusted armor would be used. Story line of a resistant movement using old tech that they have scavenged being just one of them.
Hope they release it soon going through my monthly play funds fast at the moemnt. Tempted to pick up 3d coat
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By rogyru - 7 Years Ago
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Any news on a release date ?
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By Miranda (RL) - 7 Years Ago
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Hi rogyrue, these three Battle Mech Series packs will be officially launched next week!
rogyrue (9/4/2017)
Any news on a release date ?
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By rogyru - 7 Years Ago
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Great , thanks for the update
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By mtakerkart - 7 Years Ago
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Really love It Miranda!!
I'm in love with Horizon Zero dawn animals !! Be free to create another one!!
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By rogyru - 7 Years Ago
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Thanks for the update 
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By mtakerkart - 7 Years Ago
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I have to add that the Heroine is probably one of the most unrealistically cluttered unflattering messes Ive ever seen in a femme fatale.
Regarding the story of the game , it's the more coherent behaviour I saw in the video game. This girl was born in a artificial uterus thousand year in the futur
in a unfriendly world. Her main problem in her life is not to seduce a male with artefacts to survive.
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By Miranda (RL) - 7 Years Ago
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Full MechREX motion clips can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/ReallusionSoftware/videos/844230352404029/
It will be cool if there is background sound!
Miranda (RL) (9/8/2017)
Hi everyone,
MechREX pack contains 15 motions, and here are some examples for your reference!
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By Miranda (RL) - 7 Years Ago
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Thanks for your patience, the Battle Mech Series packs will officially launched next week!!!
Not sure why I couldn't find my last message regarding to the schedule update.
rogyrue (9/8/2017)
Thanks for the update
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By rampart - 7 Years Ago
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Hmmm... are there going to be audio files, effects similar to the UN Task force pak. (worth the money, saved alot of time setting up for scenes)
Any price information available.
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By Miranda (RL) - 7 Years Ago
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No audio files are along with this pack. Maybe you can create your own 
rampart (9/15/2017)
Hmmm... are there going to be audio files, effects similar to the UN Task force pak. (worth the money, saved alot of time setting up for scenes)
Any price information available.
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By Miranda (RL) - 7 Years Ago
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Thank you for your patience! Battle Mech Series Packs are available NOW!!!
https://forum.reallusion.com/342467/PBR-Battle-Mech-Series-MechREX-Now-Available
https://forum.reallusion.com/342464/PBR-Battle-Mech-Series-Brute-Armor-Male-Now-Available
https://forum.reallusion.com/342465/PBR-Battle-Mech-Series-Adroit-Armor-Female-Now-Available
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By TheOldBuffer - 7 Years Ago
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Very nice indeed and top quality but way too overpriced for me. I'm saving my pennies for the faceware mocap plugins.
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By rampart - 7 Years Ago
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TheOldBuffer (9/22/2017)
Very nice indeed and top quality but way too overpriced for me. I'm saving my pennies for the faceware mocap plugins.
I will delay my purchases as I suspect I will have to upgrade to IC7 exchange pipeline version to acquire the graph editor thing, I am sure it will probably be over $200, since RL only thinks in hundreds nowadays.
As far as content purchases - It will take another great content pack like the UN Task Force to motivate me.
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By animagic - 7 Years Ago
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Businesses, including RL, need cash flow to survive, so these continuous stabs at their charging for things gets kind of tiresome.
Over the years I have seen quite a number of 3D software companies fail, because they didn't keep their balance sheet in mind. I think we are very fortunate that RL is able to remain independent and doesn't get gobbled up by Adobe or, worse, Apple, as that would be the end of easy communication and the ability to have your say into the development of the software.
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By videodv - 7 Years Ago
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In Motions the MechRex folder installs as Rex you need to rename it to work correctly RL need to look at this and change it.
Regards
Chris.
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By rampart - 7 Years Ago
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https://www.reallusion.com/ContentStore/iClone/pack/SciFi_Machines/default.html
No way Jose... $199 for 2 suits 3 textures per suit and a swinging tail mech. LOL
Hey... I am fine with it, if other users like this pricing. There are millions of people in this world, and they all have their priorities.
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By animagic - 7 Years Ago
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I think you have made your point by now.
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By rampart - 7 Years Ago
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animagic (9/25/2017)
I think you have made your point by now.
Maybe so, maybe not...are you sure the point has been made, most importantly is RL getting it?
Content store items keep getting more and more expensive Are they worth the price?
It has always been a priority for me to support RL and Iclone, which I have done since 2011.
I would NOT feel comfortable buying this content at the promotion price, which IMO is too expensive.
Do other long time users feel RL is really thinking of Indie video producers like they did in the past?
This recent release is a very good example of over-reach pricing for my indie work. IMO, of course.
I should probably move along as I have learned of many new sources for content, and quit trying to be an Iclone patron first.
RL is making changes, and I can either go with them or not.
I am sure I will still continue to find some content and applications I can use in the RL shop.
Note: I don't want to neglect third party developers and have readers think RL content packs and 3rd party packs are the same
I find most 3rd party developers to be fair, and careful about their pricing of content.
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By Miranda (RL) - 7 Years Ago
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for informing us this issue!!
The issue was fixed yesterday, and our Support Team have sent out a notification to inform users who purchased this pack to download the pack again.
videodv (9/23/2017)
In Motions the MechRex folder installs as Rex you need to rename it to work correctly RL need to look at this and change it.
Regards
Chris.
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By rogyru - 7 Years Ago
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I picked this up today. Looks very good so far. But i cant find any reference to any of the items in any of my CC folders when i am using character creator ? apart from the helmuts in accessories. Am i missing some thing ?
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By Kelleytoons - 7 Years Ago
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rogyrue (9/29/2017)
I picked this up today. Looks very good so far. But i cant find any reference to any of the items in any of my CC folders when i am using character creator ? apart from the helmuts in accessories. Am i missing some thing ?
I actually had to manually move some things over. Let me check for a moment...
Ah, it was the helmets themselves. They installed for me not in Accessories (like you have) but in the "Heads" section (there is Accessories/Heads and there is Heads, and one is NOT the other). I moved them over and all was well.
Sounds like you have the opposite problem, that the other stuff didn't install for you (this pack might just have a flaky installer, since Rampa had no problems). I think the first thing I'd do would be to redownload the RLD and try again. Then if you still can't find the stuff do a search (the RLD will tell you where you can find everything) and move stuff over manually if you have to (I move stuff around manually in CC all the time anyway: kind of hate where stuff is stored by default).
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By rogyru - 7 Years Ago
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Thanks but its still the same checked the install logs and there is nothing for CC. The items have not been put in to individual folders in side of Character creator .
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By Kelleytoons - 7 Years Ago
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Well, it isn't all that much -- it's just two folders, Adroid Armor_Female and Brute Armor_Male, and they go in Cloth/Others. All the parts are in there (assuming you bought both the suits) under a main folder called Battle Mech Series.
But you should definitely have that -- if that isn't installing after redownloading put in a help ticket.
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By rogyru - 7 Years Ago
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Thanks
I downloaded them again and now they have all shown up in the others section in CC that just fine. Only problem i have now is the helmet dont have a opacity map for the visor. Why would you not make a opacity map for a helmet visor ???
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By Kelleytoons - 7 Years Ago
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Glad to hear you could get the content.
Yeah, it's a bit odd they don't give you opacity maps but they are easy to create. I created one in less than 30 seconds for the female:
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By Jfrog - 6 Years Ago
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I already posted this question on another part of the forum but maybe this is the place to have a quicker answer:
"One MechREX texture style is composed of three different sets of PBR materials used separately for head, body, tail, and leg segments. Additional materials have been provided in 4K resolution for ultimate render quality and details."
Does anybody knows where to find the 4k textures for the Battle Mech series models? I really need the 4k version as soon as possible.
Thanks for your help!
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By Jfrog - 6 Years Ago
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I found it! Thanks.
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By Akantha_Nox - 6 Years Ago
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How can you activate the lights?
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