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rattle · Post by **rattle** » 13 Sep 2007, 13:33

Who's going to UV map it?

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 14 Sep 2007, 02:54

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 14 Sep 2007, 02:55

iz dat sum legospring?

TheBigPK · Post by **TheBigPK** » 14 Sep 2007, 04:48

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 15 Sep 2007, 03:28

IMO, lego spring should be TA, in lego form... ^_^

Archangel of Death · Post by **Archangel of Death** » 15 Sep 2007, 03:50

Indeed. If there is any world upon which an RTS derivative could immensely benefit from the mass carnage style of TA, its is Lego. But with more superweapons than TA, cause everyone knows that they built lots of superweapons for their lego armies. And everyone knows that they want to see hundreds of lego creations exploding into thousands of flying lego bricks, in many creative ways.

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 15 Sep 2007, 07:09

Yep, thats pretty much the idea.

After being presented with the challenge of balancing a mod, i really think my respect for modders needs expressing. Its a very difficult task. They might fuck up the unit balance in your favourite mod, but give 'em a break everyone once in a while

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 15 Sep 2007, 07:44

modeled loosely off the AIM-54 missile used by the USN Tomcats

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 15 Sep 2007, 08:15

Are the gaps in the fins done with transparency?

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 15 Sep 2007, 11:23

removed

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 15 Sep 2007, 12:05

Warlord Zsinj wrote:Are the gaps in the fins done with transparency?

no.

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 15 Sep 2007, 17:33

Could save yourself some polies (admittedly not many, about 16) with no visual difference.

FLOZi · Post by **FLOZi** » 15 Sep 2007, 18:58

Warlord Zsinj wrote:Could save yourself some polies (admittedly not many, about 16) with no visual difference.

For those with the right graphics options enabled...

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 15 Sep 2007, 19:03

Those without probably wouldn't notice

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 15 Sep 2007, 21:59

FLOZi wrote:
Warlord Zsinj wrote:Could save yourself some polies (admittedly not many, about 16) with no visual difference.
For those with the right graphics options enabled...

exactly, i considered it to not be worth the trouble.

*edit* and for the record the difference is 8 polygons

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 16 Sep 2007, 00:51

the reason the barrel texture is essentially flat is because it will have extremely high reflectivity (look at my AK for how reflective) if people are playing without reflections, lol tough.

lol tough?

Anyway, no matter.

and it'd be 16 tris, because you'd be able to merge the two existing rectangles into one =P

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 16 Sep 2007, 01:38

yes. lol tough.

and maths + hangover = fail.

*edit* wait. teh fins pass through the body of the missile . so each fin pair is a single rectangle (2 sided, so 4 tris per rear fin pair). so by eliminating 8 tris i can cut the polycount by 16? explain.

**edit2** added explanation image

Wolf-In-Exile · Post by **Wolf-In-Exile** » 16 Sep 2007, 09:35

What Warlord Zsinj says is correct. Using transparency is standard procedure for details such as this.

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 16 Sep 2007, 10:06

Ah, I didn't realise the fins went through the model - in which case your calculations are correct.

It would result in a better visual effect if you did not do that, as over 50% of the fin is being hidden within the model. By having four fins repeated around the model, you are able to get far higher resolution on the fins, while only gaining a total of 8 polies (if you use transparency).

Of course, it's much over muchness, given that these missiles are unlikely to be seen in any quantities to be of concern, and that they will move too quick to really need to be much more then the right colour and proportions - but it's a good case study example for other things.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 17 Sep 2007, 20:09

1480 triangles or so, still needs the dual tankcannon rifle (at first I was thinking about two rifles but I think I'll go for a double-barrelled rifle, still need to draw a concept for it though). It's a heavy tank loli for Lolimod and the first custom concept I'm making for the mod

. The idea is partially a mecha musume for the C&C3 Mammoth Tank. Will probably fulfill an artillery role because Lolimod needs an arty and because I wanted to get some dancing missiles into Lolimod.

I'm unsure if tank lolis should bleed or explode...

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