Category Archives: HeroMachine 3

On one hand, I’m sad to report that the HM Mini I’ve been talking about has been canceled again. They didn’t like the coloring book idea, so the whole thing is dead at this point.

On the other hand, that loss is your gain, as I have now translated over all of the mech stuff from it to the HeroMachine 3 Alpha! It’s in two parts, “BodyMech” and “HeadMech”, with the Body set having torsos, arms, and legs. All of this was drawn at a three quarter angle view as opposed to the regular HM straight-on model, so the pieces aren’t going to work with most of the existing clothing and such. But you can build a pretty cool looking robot and some of the heads go well on existing creations, giving them a looking-off-into-space look.

Here are a couple of screen shots to show you some of the options:

Let me know what you think, and if you want me to edit the arms so they lack hands (allowing you to drop in your own from Left/Right Hand).

The next few days I’ll be working on cleaning this stuff up, adding some more to Mark’s great Polearms set, and then we’ll see from there.

I’ve just added the Companion-Vehicles set to the HeroMachine 3 Alpha, including the following:

Most of these were drawn by using Flash’s automatic “Trace” feature and then patching, so they’re a little different stylistically than most of what is in the program. The very last car (not shown above), the 1920’s style roadster, was hand-drawn, I’m curious what you think of the difference between the tracing and the drawing styles. Auto-tracing (no pun intended) is a LOT faster than hand-drawing, I did about six of these in the time it took to draw the one roadster. But, if the quality is different enough, I’ll do what I have to do.

Let me know any other vehicles you’d like to see, and while we’re at it, any Polearm bits Mark didn’t include but that you want to see added in.

It looks like the Mini I was working on has been canceled after three weeks of hard work. Such is life. On the upside, most of these vehicles were drawn for it, so you’ll get some spillover benefit. Most of the rest of it is probably not applicable to the main HM but we’ll see.

Mark has updated the ItemRightPolearms set with another group of items (including some favorites from 2.5) and a few tweaks to existing ones. Check it out when you get a chance, and thanks once again to Mark!

With thanks to Demented the Clown for the gentle nudge and the painful (in a good way) face-plant of idiocy I subsequently administered to myself for not thinking of it before, I just posted the “TopsZombie” set to the HeroMachine 3 Alpha. This should be of particular interest because it includes the Zombie Female tops like the cheerleader outfit, the fitted jackets, etc. so you can hopefully get a somewhat better female figure assembled a bit more easily.

Note that I was able to squeeze this in because it only took like thirty minutes. All I had to do was rename stuff and update the previews, so it was quick. The down side is that I don’t have time to do the tops up in the “new” style of removing the sleeves as separate elements, so for some of these you’re stuck with the arms in the regular down position.

This is just a quick and dirty stop-gap measure to get you something nicer than what we have, without implying that it’s the optimal or final resolution.

Anyway, hope you get some use out of it until we can get the real female template up and itemized. In the meantime, back to the Mini grind, which hopefully should be done soon.