TRU: Dual Outfit release by Trangel

[B]Originality: 9/10[/B] I gave the outfits a 9 seeing as the TRU outfit is another update, and the TR movie outfit (although new) is similar to the Dark Raider outfit by Po Yu. [B]Quality: 7/10[/B] The quality of the outfit is OK, the textures are high quality and the meshes are high poly, however the meshes are quite unproportionate. [B]Usable: 9/10[/B] Can be used in most levelsets. [B]Custom Textures: 9/10[/B] I see no flaws in the texturing of the meshes nor the actual textures. However I think you could have made some of the textures much smaller while still achieving good quality. [B]Custom Meshes: 5/10[/B] I'm sorry to drop so many points on the custom meshes, but their is too many problems with them. Lara's hip mesh and below all look quite nice. Lara's boots are a tad blocky, but it's nothing major. You've fixed the holsters too, which is great! They no longer sink into Lara's legs. Lara's chest mesh however is pretty bad. Lara's breasts are way too high up on her torso. It looks as if her bra is pushing them incredibly far up! Her torso is also too cuvey all in one spot. Lara's shoulders are way way way too broad. They look very manly. I also found that Lara shoulders stick out horribly in-game. This is very noticeable when running and hanging from ledges, which really distracts the overall look. The arm mesh is OK, but the textures on them look very manly. I know Lara is suppose to look strong, but she is suppose to look feminine as well. Lara's hand mesh sticks out a little in game too. The headmesh needs work. Lara's head is really flat looking. Her hair appears to be plastered directly on her scalp. It should look a bit thicker. And the color of Lara's hair is really dingy looking. A more reddish brown would have been much more appropriate instead of the brownish black she has. And in the back of Lara's head her hair is connected from one side to the other!?! That makes no sense at all. No 3D eyelashes? It cannot be that difficult to add a simple eyelash mesh, so you have no excuses for not adding them. Please do not tell me 'if you think the meshes are so bad why don't you try doing better?' Well I can't, but that doesn't mean the outfit isn't bad looking. Think of it this way: You order food from a resuraunt and it is horrible tasting. Could you make a better tasting dish? Probably not, but the food still sucks.

(07 Jul 2008 05:28)

Originality: the TRU one is an update of the last version and the black one is just like po yu\'s outfit just with higher detail. :) you could give the black one a different hair style or something that will make it unique. Quality: gave it 7. details on the rest of the sections. Usabilty: everywhere, like the classics. Custom Texturing: just perfect. flawless. and there\'s an improvement from last version. Custom Meshes: these are the things that bug me. i also wrote those in my last review: 1) her sholders stick out of her body, it\'s a mesh problem. you\'ve changed the shape of the joint i think. 2) there\'s this problem with the neck. the joint is not placed correctly and it\'s broken when playing some animations. (or it\'s just on my pc) :p in almost everything, i agree with the review above mine. [i]Edited by ayal91[/i]

(07 Jul 2008 11:10)

An extrodinary piece by Trangel! I love the TRU outfit but this is different in a way, updated from the original outfit, Trangel has made great progress and results in his new two outfits. The movie outfit is such a good idea so say if someone were to do a TRLE level based on one of the movies of tomb raider, this outfit would do well. The textures, i would say are nicely designed and layed on to the meshes and the meshes are smooth giving lara a much more realistic figure. I have not found any problems with this outfit and is reccodmended to people of TRLE to use if you get the chance!

(07 Jul 2008 12:31)

This outfit set is definitely an improvement on the last one you did, I must say I truly was impressed. :) Her face especially is beautiful, even though she doesn't have the usual 3D lashes she looks superb. :) And during gameplay lots of detail can be lost since rarely do you see the model up close anyway... so really I think it doesn't matter hahah. :3 I played through a few levels with the movie version and looked at your TRU version in the Karnak level, both look really nice. :) Seamless texturing! You cut them and everything very well. The meshes look a lot better too. No offense is meant by this but, in most of your previous outfits her butt seemed to square somehow, and in this model it looks more smooth. :) I like the improvement. :D Her arm meshes are also better, with more vertices at the shoulder. I must ask, did you alter the arms from my Masurao/Menetnashte skin? It looks awfully similar. :/ Nonetheless, very well done! :) I think this skin even beats the quality of some of PoYu's stuff quite honestly. You've gotten so much better at human proportion! And I have to say the stronger shoulders of your models makes more sense for Lara. She should have a lot more upper body strength than she usually looks to have hahah. So great job! You made a model that's really believable, and she looks even more realistic now. Beautiful job overall, I'm truly truly loving this outfit to pieces. If I ever levelbuild (or rather, actually FINISH something lol) I'd definitely have to use your skin in a level. She's just too gorgeous not to get some love. ^___^

(17 Aug 2008 06:44)