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The lines go SWOOSH!

I’ve just released some additional items for the Backplane -> Auro set, more “speed lines” to make your character GO FAST! I hope you like them.

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HM3 Sunday SMACKDOWN! New Wrestling items!

With many thanks to all the folks who’ve requested these kinds of items and who’ve waited patiently for literally years, and especially to AMS and Colby Primeaux for timely reference and guidance, I’m happy to launch two new wrestling-themed sets, Headgear -> Luchador and Belt -> Championship.

The belts are a little unusual, ones with nothing in the big center area have the itemMask set to that shape, so you can position Insignia or other items to fill it without the edges bleeding over.

On the masks, this is just a basic starter set. I don’t know the world of wrestling all that well, but I included a few blank masks with the eyes/nose/mouth holes cut out so you can mask other items onto it to get the custom look you want, hopefully.

Enoy!

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I could use some Luchador / Wrestling help

I’m working on the Luchador masks lots of folks have requested over the years and I’m struggling a bit because I don’t know that world at all. Here’s what I have so far, what direction should I go from here?

Should I be adding seams to make them more realistic? Come up with a set of x patterns (the yellow area shapes) that get repeated across different eye/nose/mouth shapes? Make a blank overall head/mask pattern, then add individual eye/nose/mouth shapes that you could apply the skin color to, then mask eyes/noses/mouths to from their sets? Add shading for that interior head color on all items (the yellow area on that first example)? Ears or no ears?! I’m floundering!

I really don’t know where to go from here. I also haven’t found a great image reference for these so I don’t know what kinds of designs are useful.

Help?

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Headgear Military New Items

Dblade continues to impress, this time with two new helmets that are built with 3 individual items each. 6 Items total. Here’s a preview of the individual Items along with a preview of them placed together for the full effect.

These were based on some requests from Yuri Lucia, so shoutout to both him and Dblade!

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Whip it REAL good

Cracking good artist Dblade has whipped up a great set of new Item Right/Left -> Energy for all your sci-fi Indiana Jones needs. Please thank him in the comments for his ongoing excellent work!

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