So for any of you NG users, do you know where to get some good quality HI-Res characters and stages for MUGEN.

My gamertag is Kirbykiller13,add me,well go hard and kill some scrubs.

Hmm Im deaf. Mugen is an editable fighting game, in which people can program their own characters, stages, even menus There is more info about M.U.G.E.N.

Whats a mugen Asian for Megan You know there are people that confuse Mugen for the Engine system used in Japan or the cars they drive.

As I used the game model rig from my game dragon I had to remove a bunch of IK stuff which is not required for a simple animation system like that.

Its a sort of highly customizable fighting engine for games in the spirit of Street Fighter and others where two players beat the hell out of each other in a 2.5D view usually using sprite graphics ( nowadays mostly 3D graphics ).

M.U.G.E.N is based on the original sprite driven version.

Especially you can create your own characters which is usually done by ripping sprites from such fighting games or in a few cases by doing them on your own.

They are though in general not usable for player usage, at best as CPU controlled opponents.

In general they are cartoon type characters usually of bizarre look including strange clothing or other kind of gadgets.

For this purpose I went for a cartoon type dragon, in particular a female dragon with a bunch of accessories attached here and there as well as more cartoon type color scheme.

Shes supposed to be a bit high-nosed and quite ill tempered ( well, a bit of a spoiled brat one could say ).

For this I chose to use a 3D-2.5D setup which is obtaining the sprites from a 3D model using isometric rendering and down sampling ( since M.U.G.E.N requires palettized images ).

I also want to play with a few specialties found other fighting games seeing if I can reproduce them somehow in M.U.G.E.N.

I used the game model of Sean and heavily modified it to be a cartoon like female dragon.

I dont put too much detail into it since it will be down-rendered to a 130-260 tall image so not much is going to stick anyways.

Since the final sprite is a palettized image the coloring can be easily adjusted later on.

The only thing missing are the animations and creating the M.U.G.E.N character with the rendered results.

A second deviation contains a preview render of how this would look like.

The red and blue things on the various bracelets and the helmet are supposed to be gems ( ruby and sapphire ).

Not sure what it is supposed to be but lets say it represents some status or something like that.

The huge sapphire gem at the front side is not for decoration.

Concerning the fold its currently due to the model having a straight neckbody and being posed.

I first want to get the shape right before applying the pose to the neck ( which modifies the rig ) and fixing the fold.

I hope a dragon would have some good aerial combos.:evilgrin.

So my only option had been to leave default Blender materials in place.

Maybe I could hack up a nodes material to fake a real game cell shader but the material nodes in 2.49 are rather limited.

Also cleaned up the armature to contain only the required bones.

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