Spring RTS Engine

LordMuffe wrote: @smoth: do you mean the sky-snake dragons? that would be painful to animate wouldn´t it? Also, additional tail elements: as it is now, i think it´s to short for that kind of movement to look good.

not as bad as you think. Just have to spread the rotations over joints.

WIP. Compliments about my pictures motivated me to produce more pictures
Hovers almost done. Think I'll do the water based factories next.

Can we get a screenshot from above, of the transport hovercraft, with the doors wide open - come on honey, show us what you got- shake that atlas of yours...

bigger
Not sure what you expect to see on the WIP model. Plan on making it black like with the ship.
I also had the idea, maybe the transports carrying multiple units need some kind of hightech-transdimentional-glowing-super-Lua-sphere-of-infinity-storage. basically a portal, making it look less strange when a squad of units bigger than the transporter itself, boards it. Don't know yet...Transporters are strange units in multiple ways

Looky you, others had this problem before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqYTYC6tt8w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFHVukDUI2U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ADMQ_Q81c

I've been toying with baked materials and automated unwrapping:


Model courtesy of Lord Muffe.

Full bright please

What do you, i don't even...
Do you mean shadeless or something?

Whats the triangle count on that model?

Anarchid wrote:What do you, i don't even...
Do you mean shadeless or something?

Ah, so i guessed right. Will need to figure a bit of how to bake object color in materials settings first.

Whats the triangle count on that model?

8k tris

Anarchid wrote:What do you, i don't even...
Do you mean shadeless or something?

http://www.harrynesbitt.com/blog/illust ... dimensions

The image above is a very simple ‘full bright’ render showing the model with only the diffuse map applied and no lighting of any kind.

you don't know what fullbright means in the context of modeling? I don't even..

Well there are other names for it? Selfilumination to the Max, all other Maps deactivated?

Also Anarchid its beautifull.

Shadeless version as requested, thus. I think i managed to break the UV's at some points, as there's obvious overlap. Good that i can just regenerate both layout and textures on a whim :)

Ah this is what I feared

just some random rocket vehicle. It is not for any specific project, so it was more or less just a design trial.
Additional, I think I borrowed heavily from some other design I saw somewhere.



@ Anarchid, can you share your version of the pene with me? i like how you fixed the "neck".

Even-though it might just be some random vehicle, it looks pretty cool.
And yes, the design is clearly a rip off. I suspect you don't need to worry about it

@ Anarchid, can you share your version of the pene with me? i like how you fixed the "neck".

Sure, there you go.

(piece parenting and offsets are zeroed because i've been doing things to geometry and uv's again)

@ FireStorm_ : Ah, that could actually be the case :). Although I´m quite sure that I have seen a rts-unit with pretty much the same design ( rockets, tracks etc). For example, I wouldn´t be surprised, if it was something guesmyname made back when he was still active.

btw, really like your hovertransporter.

@Anarchid: thx, but could I have that as an .3ds or .obj file if its possible with Blender? Don´t have Blender atm and wouldn´t like to install it just to export that model to wings :)

could I have that as an .3ds

Sure, here's a 3ds. :)