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Star Citizen Live ·
Published on this date.2020-11-13
· 5 Q&As

Star Citizen Live: The Pico Proposition

A developer builds the "Pico" prop live in Substance Painter, explaining the texturing steps. They say the visor can't be added in time because it needs an earlier step before baking. Pico won't be a subscriber flair or cost money, and its place in the verse is undecided.

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Did you pre-game any of this? [You seem to have all the steps down and you're speaking in the past tense when you explain yourself.]

John CarneyProp Artist

I had a little think before the stream of how I did it and what I was going to talk about. So it's not completely off the cuff. But yeah, I may have done it before. It might be a surprise. We'll see how far we get.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

People who watch the game dev streams know that you very rarely, if ever, can make something in an hour.

John CarneyProp Artist

In that case, yeah, the gig's up. I've made this before, guys. But I'm going to show you the steps.

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What program are you using?

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

For those who asked what program, you can see in the upper left-hand corner, right now we're in Substance Painter.

John CarneyProp Artist

Yeah, so this is Allegorithmic, I believe, makes Substance Painter. We use a couple of other softwares. I think in the 890 episode that I was last on, we were using Designer. But this is Painter.

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Who bets it will be a sub item?asked by Deathsnake

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

It won't be a sub-item.

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What about Pico's visor? [Chat is pretty insistent on it.]

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

I don't think we'll have time for the visor today, guys.

John CarneyProp Artist

Yeah, maybe after the stream, I could make a few tweaks. Unfortunately, the visor requires going back to step three and adding it before we baked it down.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

It's just about fidelity. It's just about they know a thing's supposed to be there and it's not there.

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Where will Pico go in the verse?

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

As for the folks who have been asking where Pico will go in the verse, we don't know yet. It won't be a subscriber flair. It won't be anything that costs money or anything. The props team was just like, we'd like to make it and stick it in the verse somewhere fun. I have no idea if or when it gets added. You guys can tell me because I honestly won't know.

Star Citizen Live·
Published on this date.13 Nov 2020