Spring RTS Engine

Wow, thats pretty close if you were just working from scratch off the short animation video I had posted earlier. Some things are a bit off though and you forgot to make the inside connecter unfold, I'll type out the movements I had for the sequence so you can get things to line up a little better. ...

Here is the .s3o model and textures for the Aircraft factory guys. I have to figure out a good order for the animation first, but I'll get those movement #'s posted up as soon as I can sort it out. With the construction pad on the runway, I have it setup to object swap for a tiny animation, so it wi...

I'm going to use this post as a group release, and just post up each aircraft as I finish them. I thought I would start with the Bladewing. 412 triangles so far, might try to cut it down even more since I know its a spammed unit. Same will go for most of these T1 units, I want to keep their polycoun...

Thats the one, thanks Sinbad.

Does anyone know where I can find that concept art for Arm/Core units that sombody had hand drawn from an above perspective? I can't seem to find it anywhere or even references to it. Sombody had actually released a set of Air units based on it at one time, but I can't even find that. It had a ton o...

Sorry that its been such a long time since any update on the model guys, just been too busy with work and other things to get any real time in on this. I have some small things to work out yet, but the model is about 98% finished. Mostly I'm trying to tweak out the #2 texture and its layers, but I s...

They look good Cremuss, maybe a tad too clean but still excellent work there. I think that the higher contrast palette will really give these units a strong visual consistency in-game when mipmapping and everything comes into play. One thing you might want to explore is finding a way to work in some...

I like to imagine ARM kbots as Gundam or Battletech in style, where there is a live human pilot in a cockpit controlling the machine, maybe even jacked into the machine like the matrix as far as control. And Core as more like transformers or Terminator vehicles or Ghost in the shell in theory, where...

I don't mean to be a jerk, but that Krow model looks kinda bizarre and not something you would expect to see flying, if you put a stick on the middle of it then it would more closely resemble a garden tool for tilling.. It really needs to look meaner and more streamlined, its texture and design isn'...

I've honestly never found splines to be much more useful than regular mesh creation or using preset shapes. Its good for creating custom shapes quickly, but you still gotta go back and redo polygons and all sorts of extra work to clean it up. At least thats my experience with splines in max, especia...

I just have a hard time believing that a pewee would be the size of an elemental, and more of a full sized mech instead of a tiny powered armored suit.

I dunno, the scale seems fairly appropriate considering the size of the Pewee.

At least to me it looks about spot on for what I would expect of an ultralight mech under 25 tons.

Alot of style into those concepts.

Undeniable.

Reminds me alot of the same futuristic art style that went into Aliens (2) such as with the Sulaco and Dropship design.

Only thing that bothers me is the unfinished appearance of the AK's legs.

Still could be great, there are a few spots on the model that could be cleaned up where vertices could be removed to lower the polycount.

With a good texture it could look sweet.

Finished up the animation sequence, and I'm going to get this unwrapped this weekend and start working out the texture. Model got a few parts chopped down on the toothed lock for the 2 halves that open to save some polies. Its now at 1260 triangles. Hopefully this animation is a little more interest...

Pretty sexy model there Masse.

Afaik, with text-2 Red = glow Green = reflect blue = specular alpha = transparency I think when Rattle was helping me with scripts and wrapping up the models, he would switch the Reflection map to being blank and use what I had for the specular map. Might just want to switch the reflect map to being...

Maybe the Self lighting and Envmapping(reflect) are on the wrong channels, thats all I can think of. It looks way too washed out ingame, but might also be the map lighting too. Maps like Deltasiege use way too much light and all units get washed out looking and superbright. The bottom ingame pic loo...

So how does it look ingame?

Why would you want land units to come out of an Aircraft specific factory.. really wtf.. Its an aircraft lab, not a random&Miscellaneous units lab. Question though, when it comes to putting the script together, does the sequence play by a normal frame by frame setup? Just asking, since in max ev...