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Tol’Raz’s favorite food would be space fast food. He’ll like food that makes him nostalgic such as any thing from Mek’sha or the wierd hodgepodge soup spacers put together out of their remaining rations.

He is definitely spontaneous throwing himself constantly into situations where he has to ride by the seat of is pants. For a more serious mission like sneaking into an enemy base he might memorize key some bullet points.

As his crew grows bigger he’ll learn some more organizational skills to be a good captain. But he’ll always be that guy that needs someone else to do most of the planning.

The thing Tol’Raz gets most stressed about is living up to his own expectations. He wants so badly to be the best Captain that he’d stress out about the little things that he’s afraid he isn’t doing well enough.

The other thing that would wig him out big time it big time would be meet someone idealizes. This really true if he has to work with them, he wants so badly to succeed, especially in front of them.

Tol’Raz wants to the guy that people can rely on. However his inexperience means that he has to suffer through doing the things that matter to him badly, until he gets better at.

Meet Crodek Ger’nok

He is my first Sith. Right now what I know is that his fatal flaw is pride, he is as proud as he because he is capable. Very capable.

Crodek has the rage and passion of sith but he is also quite measured. He just flunked Temel’s prisoner test completely which has dented his acolyte’s reckless confidence somewhat. This ‘failure’ has taught him some strategy at least regards to what sith prioritize.

He doesn’t care for some of the finer points of sith trickery. He believes his sheer skill will compensate for this lack.

I don’t understand 3d art but I understand enough to see how awesome this is. The amount of thought poured into this really comes through, love how complete this feels. Like you could just plop it straight into an animation.

"Live Action" SWTOR ship: the Flashfire

Attempted to make another "live action"-style version of a ship from Star Wars: The Old Republic in Blender. This time it's the Flashfire scout ship from the Galactic Starfighter pvp gamemode. I decided to place it on the landing platform of the new Copero stronghold because of its beautiful scenery.

I even fully detailed the interior of the cockpit, which required a lot of "making stuff up" because the only way to see the interior of the ship in-game is by using the mount version of the ship, and that interior is not very detailed at all. I took inspiration from the aesthetics of X-Wing cockpit details for this.

The exterior remains pretty faithful to its in-game appearance, for the most part, but I did have to re-interpret a lot of details to bring the scale of it to a believable place. In some places that meant increasing the level of detail and making greeble parts with thinner shapes, and in some places that actually meant reducing the amount of detail and eliminating unnecessary panel lines that I feel wouldn't be in line with how ships appear in live-action Star Wars.

Texturing this baby was a lot of work, but I really wanted to make the surfaces feel real. I used directional smearing textures in the roughness and sheen weight channels, to create the appearance that the ship had been hurriedly cleaned off with a rag, but perhaps not very thoroughly, so the layers of grease and grime had just been smeared across the surface. This is especially visible in places where I added streaks of soot; I allowed the smear textures to influence the lighter layers of soot, but not in the darker places where it would have already built up since the last time the ship was cleaned.

I also created fully functional landing gear mechanisms, which are being demonstrated in the video. The cockpit canopy also has fully functional hydraulics but I didn't render an animation of them.

I encourage you all to zoom in on the beauty renders, (which I rendered in Blender's Cycles render engine) because there are a lot of details to take in.

I've also included a wireframe render so you can take a little peek behind the scenes.

Love how Jazz is drawn here. It blends a lot different elements of his character very well. Like a love the all roundness in his design it brings how friendly and bubbly he is.

There is more black and red in this design. Then is typical for a Jazz design but it does highlight the darker parts of his character. It also works great for the Jazz in the fic (Mistakes on Mistakes Until, by Jabbrish) that that is fanart was drawn for.

All this was just say I love this plus it introduced me to a good fic.

I’m back with even more of Mistakes on mistakes until fanart ahahhcjvmgkb

They are….very special to me you don’t understand

SWTOR Encyclopedia - Companions

So someone on reddit posted the link for the extremely hard-to-find SWTOR Encyclopedia - which I recommend checking out because the quality of these screenshots came out really bad for some reason. 

There’s a lot of super interesting stuff there, but the companion pages I found particularly striking. They contain a lot of info that is never given in-game, so I thought they were worth sharing! 

SOURCE. - I’m just posting it here as an aid and taking no credit.

Galactic Standard Time Measurement

60 Seconds = 1 minute

60 minutes = 1 hour

24 hours = 1 day

Galactic Standard Calendar

5 days = 1 week

7 weeks = 1 month

35 days = 1 month

368 days = 1 year

10 months + 3 Fete (Festival) weeks + 3 holidays = 1 year

Fete/Festival Weeks

New Year Fete Week = first five days of the new year (takes place before the first month)

Festival of Life =  five days between the sixth and seventh months. It was marked by parties, get-togethers, and gift-giving.

Festival of Stars =five days between the ninth and tenth months of the year that celebrates interstellar space travel. It was marked by vacations to other worlds most often.

Days of the Week

Primeday (first day of the week)

Centaxday (second day)

Taungsday (third day)

Zhellday (fourth day)

Benduday (fifth/last day of the week)

The Galactic Standard Calendar is based on the luno-solar calendar of Coruscant (from before the official founding of the Empire). It is the ‘standard’ in both the Republic and the Empire for basic measurements. However, there are many, many variations for various species, planets, etc. This is just the ‘standard’ used; similar to measurements of weight, etc. 

Basically, this is not the ‘only calendar’ but the one used most often by governments, the military, etc. to be the ‘standard’. I thought it might be useful for people writing or roleplaying in the Star Wars galaxies to have a rough idea.

NOTE: There is mention in some sources of a 12 month/368 day calendar, but it doesn’t mention length of weeks, months, etc. other than ‘30-31 days’ so basically seems to be a ‘real life calendar’. I’m not 100% sure which is considered ‘canon’ so I choose to list the one that was a bit more ‘different’ for fun.

SOURCES http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galactic_Standard_Calendar http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Fete_Week http://swtor.wikia.com/wiki/Galactic_Standard_Calendar http://starwarsrp.net/topic/63474-resourse-galactic-standard-calendar/

The rough and tumble combat medic comes through strong.

A couple more Emryn outfits! I really like how rugged the brown one looks in particular.

NPC Sunday

Thank you @frauleiiin and @reigrace-keyboardjam for tagging me.

Answering for Crodek because he’s been on the mind lately.

What type of npc would they be and where to find them?

He would be Sith Lord that the player character has to work with for a military mission. He more of a warlord type Sith so it would a military mission.

Crodek can be found on either Yavin 4, or stationed at random imperial military base. Walking around the soldiers making sure everything is in order is one of his happy places.

Yavin 4 is Crodek’s favorite planet because of its beauty and atmosphere. Some of this is his Cathar genes talking because the Cathars home planets is jungle planet. He also likes how strongly he can feel the planet’s ancient connection to the force is, he finds it reassuring.

If they were a merchant what would they sell?

Crodek wouldn’t a merchant unless it had been the family business for generations. In which a case would proudly inherit the business and seriously apply himself to his trade skill until he’s a master at it. His products would only be the best.

This business would be old school weapon smithing or armor smithing, me thinks.

As a quest giver what’s the question they’d give? A one off or a chain? What the reward be?

Crodek would have a question chain. Where he has a slightly rivalish disposition toward the play character through out the question line. The first quest is sending the player character off to do something menial or beneath them. This entirely for the purpose of testing them.

Crodek used this ‘test’ to determine the player capability and if he can can work them to complete the larger quest line’s missionThe fast be failed by certain character choices which terminates the question chain for that character.

The reward is the usual credits and gear. The only special reward is his grudging respect.

This question would be roughly alliance era were he hasn’t joined the alliance and doesn’t think to much of them. Dismissing them as so something more wishful, rather than an actual faction with power.

If they were a companion how do you unlock them? Do they have a specific quest.

Yes he would be a companion. Crodek would receives after his quest line as a reward. What happens is that as they accomplish the mission together, Crodek makes the alarming realization that the player character is not only his equal but perhaps more capable than he is.

There is two different ways he can be recruited depending once again player choices the first peaceful solution. One he agrees to/offer to join the player as result of his growing respect for them.

Or he can fight them when defeated he will join them once again as a sign of respect. He still feels a rivalish, but the respect is very much their.

Can they be romanced? If so what’s the reward?

Crodek is can be romanced! But only by female characters, apologies to the all the good gentlemen. He doesn’t flirt first but once he is flirt with. He is flattered and toys around a the possibility before fully going for it. Once he committed though he stays.

I don’t fully know what reward means so I’ll assume this means how far the relationship goes. He’ll fully commit to the character but he expects them to commit back or no deal. Crodek is more private, so most romance content is banter. With some physical displays of protection and affection. The procterion hauling the character to safely, shielding with his body type of stuff. The affection is meaningful forehead bumps and the rare hug. Kisses are for total privacy in either a special place or declaration of commitment.

As a regular npc what’s their dialogue?

Crodek doesn’t give opinions he gives statements. Which will happen as reponses to what’s going on.

Occasionall he’ll point out acts or honor skill, or to comment about the the lack of it.

There are a few strategy, war or philosophy saying type stuff he’ll pop out with.

He occasionalmy share a fond memory.

Tagging @blackberry-command-cap, @villainship, @califrey, @queen-scribbles and @kemendin if you’re interested in this challenge.

Zenith Dynamics

He is bit tougher to figure out for me. Grit and willingness act to are what he inadvertently teaches Elvira. Zenith has Mad Eye Moody’s mindset of constant vigilance.

This trait in particular is necessary for Elvira to learn from because of her penchant for being a being distant. To play the roles of diplomat, consular, duelist, and Barsen’thor she has be alert! Through Zenith she sees what it looks like actually do it.

What Elvira desperately want to provide Zenith with is a more developed vision. She wants to show Zenith what peace is. Because Zenith literally has no conceptualization of what peace even is. She would love for Zenith to reach a point where he see a future that involves more than fighting the empire and standing up for Belmorra. Elvira does want forcibly change him being a fighter but does what him to fighter and… whatever he chooses to be like his potential interest in politics.

You know writing this out allowed me to see why I was struggling to figure out Zenith dynamics. I was trying feel out how he’d interact with other crew member domestically and I realized Zenith doesn’t know how to be domestic! Cause of his upbringing. I guess the dynamic would be being awkward as he learns how live outside of being a soldier.

Turned out good!

SWTOR OC sketches! Pt.3

I've got 3 sketches freshly out of the oven! I drew @nekorinnie's best birb Evo, @catohphm's sweet guy Fernie and @blackberry-command-cap's hippie smuggler Shae'zena!

Evo was truly amazing to draw, I've always wanted to draw him in his Asizi (original @nekorinnie's species) form and I'm really proud of this drawing! I really like Fernie, I think he's a cutie patootie so I'm really happy how he turned out c:! Also, a hippie smuggler? I just had to draw her lol.

Again, if y'all want to color these sketches feel free to do so just be sure to not alter the original drawing (like tracing, removing the signature, etc.) and to give credit! Also if you want the uncompressed file dm me!

Part. 1 & Part. 2