Mr.Black Dude (A new playable critter for Fallout 2)

Re: Mr.Blackie (A new playable critter for Fallout 2)

:Ahem:

Indeed; I won't be ready to start helping just yet, but I will soon enough....

 

Looking forward to this!

Too bad Mr. Blackie made by brother_soifran and me (anyone else? can't remember) was never finished. If you need any of the stuff that is finished thus far, just let me know.

Since you want to start from Mr. Baldie, which may be even better than we did with the default male character, you may want to avoid making something similar to the BIS black guy in metal armor, because it looks too 'red-ish'.

And I vote for the 2nd variant as well, although none of the presented ones are red-ish, hence rendering all of them suitable for the game (it's just the 2nd one looks best).

 

Re: Mr.Blackie (A new playable critter for Fallout 2)

Heh, really? Couldn't be more like the black dude in the fallout 2 intro? It wouldn't look so.. dunno.. funnily racist?

Anyway, good luck with the project. This could be a great addition to the game.

 

Re: Mr.Blackie (A new playable critter for Fallout 2)

Please don't.

 

Indeed, that is nice!

If you give me the values you're using for the darkening, I could help out as well. Check out my sexy black boxer:

... ... ...

I do it slightly differently though:
1) Action to select blue
2) Action to select inverse
3) Manually use the Brush tool to darken desired areas
4) Action to Save, Overwrite & Close

I find the using the brush with specific colour settings is a bit faster and easier than the lasso tool.

 

I actually liked this one... I bet you anything the original Fallout devs would have done it that way... (no racism intended at all, seriously ) It just has that Fallout 2 look about it

 

Looks good though I would have preferred if the black guy wouldn't be bald but I like the overall concept of this. Though I can't really help you guys but I'm sure I can some frms if you want.

 

You mean something like this? It has vault suit and combat armor animations finished, as well as some other armors started/WIP. I should upload everything to wikia once I get back home, it's someplace on my home-PC HDD.

 

I would prefer that one over the bald blackie, but I realize that it's less of a pain in the ass to make the bald one. Let's just hope one day we will have both options

 

I updated el blacko and gave him a neat little soul patch.



I tweaked his head.

 

Both posts above me are looking good.

 

Soul patch =

 

I changed my mind the bald black dude would look awesome too especially with the new screen PastaMasta made. Anyway for one or two frm I can help you guys out just drop me the setting you use for the critter process.

 

Great ideas! Dunno tho, somehow the title "Mr. Blackie" just rings "racist" to me; maybe it's just me, but I can't think of a non-offensive context where I've ever heard "blackie" applied to a person. Maybe "Black Dude" or "Mr. Cool" or "Mr. Samuel L. Jackson"? heh ...

The blackface image also caught me off guard as a quintessentially racist image (it's just a cultural heratige we have no control over; sorry). The revised vault guy pic is much better! Looks cool and fits the theme. (And I think it's definitely what the devs might have done - definitely not the blackface one though.)

just some thoughts, fwiw. ...

-m

 

Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for best supporting actor in 2009 for blackface so I don't see why an obscure (for general society) Fallout 2 mod can't get away with it!

 

In every context I've ever heard the term "blackie", it was for a lulzy effect, as in comedy sketches and whatnot. Pixote I daresay if the farthest thing from racist, as well as I.

In fact, as many people who grew up in the 1960's - 1970's would know, the term "Blacks" was widely used to refer to African people. It has historical background as a common name for the general group of African Americans living in America after the civil rights movements going on in the 50's.

Now, "Mr. Blackie", in this context, is just the 'codename' for this critter project, just like "Mr. Baldie". See the similarities? It's purely naming conventions here.

Now, about the critter project, I would indeed like to see a bald, black hero done, as well as the original critter by the Fallout devs, whom has hair.