Random WIP 2006-2011

[Hoi]

Yeh, it's supposed to be a cool robot tank.

[Warlord Zsinj]

Chassis and proportions are quite nice, turret needs work though. What's with that weird hat thing o_O

[Hoi]

itsa tankos robotica mexicanos eh?
nah, that's an older version of it.

[Hoi]

Almost done @ 2024 tri's. It's like a general transport for the robots I might add the option to buy it, loaded with units (more expensive ofc).

Now I have this question, I think I can change it to have only quads, then if i'm right upspring wont triangualate so it will be rendered as quads, but would that be really worth it or not? (will cause a few texture problems)

Now I have to go and forgot to crop so, forgive me

Maor:


e: removed the inf and veh part, I planned to add the inf on those clamps but it would look really stupid so it's just going to be a normal transport.
e2: the window normals are incorrect, ignore them.

[FLOZi]

If you make it an s3o upspring will triangulate it no matter what.

[KDR_11k]

and if you make it a 3do your GPU will triangulate it.

[Argh]

Will it? I thought quads were something hardware could draw natively. Learned something new there.

At any rate, Hoi, they're right- all S3Os are triangulated by UpSpring. I was under the impression that the quads stayed quads, because of some lines in Spring's source, but it appears that they're triangulated when they're saved in that format. Sorry, the whole quad thing is a myth, mainly based on something I said in error awhile ago, and is incorrect. If you want them to stay quads, mesh-wise, then it'd have to be 3DO.

[Erom]

I really like that ship.

[Saktoth]

How should I animate the tank tires?

uhm..

[Guessmyname]

Don't be annoyed: if he copied some elements of the design, that just means he likes it and you should take it as a compliment. Besides, judging things by model alone is unwise as the texture can change everything (which is likely, given that it will be used for a different project). And have you even used that model?

[Warlord Zsinj]

lol, yeah, but that's a fairly straight forward lifting of the design, the only thing that's changed is the turret.

/me notes that the only thing that he had issue with was the turret

[Peet]

It's a pretty standard scifi tank design in any case.

[Hoi]

Origially the tank did'nt have the things on the wheel and the holder for them, I thought that it missed something, but I remembered sakoths tank, and I thought that those would fit on great, yeah, it looks a bit like the other one, but I don't really care.

[Warlord Zsinj]

it's not so much whether you care or not, you've sort of verbatim taken someone else's design and claimed it as your own (and let's be honest, it wasn't just the wheels - the whole chassis is pretty much straight from saktoth's tank).

As GMN noted, it's not the end of the world, but you should say where you got it from, and really probably should've checked with saktoth to see if it was cool first.

[Hoi]

I changed the chassis a bit too, but I didnt make it to duplicate sakoths tank, but if he think's its a problem I'll be happy to change it or make a new one.

[KDR_11k]

Will it? I thought quads were something hardware could draw natively. Learned something new there.

It never draws quads. There's a GL_QUADS mode but while the geometry data is sent as quads the hardware will triangulate it. N-gons aren't necessarily planar while triangles always are so they'd be more complicated to render.

[daan 79]

it's not so much whether you care or not, you've sort of verbatim taken someone else's design and claimed it as your own (and let's be honest, it wasn't just the wheels - the whole chassis is pretty much straight from saktoth's tank).

As GMN noted, it's not the end of the world, but you should say where you got it from, and really probably should've checked with saktoth to see if it was cool first.

you should say....

taken someone else' s design...

claimed it as your own...

should've checked....

I say i bet he allready has a mom

Other than that your right its the same tank

[Hoi]

Okay, sakoth, IF you don't want me to use that model i'll make a new one.

[Warlord Zsinj]

You can't really put him on the spot like that hoi, it's not fair to him, he hasn't done anything wrong here, and you're putting him in a situation where he has to come off like an asshole if he doesn't want you to use his design, which really he has every right too. Which is why you ought to have asked him privately first.

In my opinion the best option is to drop the tank, or thoroughly edit it, and next time just be a little more aware of intellectual property. Despite how much people like to kick and scream about it here, we're not in a particularly litigious environment (ie: noone's going to actually do anything about it), but it just means that we have to be all the more 'gentlemanly' about it in order for this whole thing to succeed reasonably.

[Pressure Line]

You can't really put him on the spot like that hoi, it's not fair to him, he hasn't done anything wrong here, and you're putting him in a situation where he has to come off like an asshole if he doesn't want you to use his design, which really he has every right too. Which is why you ought to have asked him privately first.

In my opinion the best option is to drop the tank, or thoroughly edit it, and next time just be a little more aware of intellectual property. Despite how much people like to kick and scream about it here, we're not in a particularly litigious environment (ie: noone's going to actually do anything about it), but it just means that we have to be all the more 'gentlemanly' about it in order for this whole thing to succeed reasonably.

Indeed. Sak also has the option of "If you had asked, I would have said yes. But because you didn't, I'm going to say no." Again, perfectly within his rights to (epic lulz and +9001 points if he does) do so.