Spring RTS Engine

Oh, that table-like stance is what turtles have (because their shell goes above and below their shoulder and hip joints), you should have looked at a moving turtle to see how to animate that.

Yay, PURE is back! What still needs modelling?

In tank model competition thread FLOZi asked for M-30. It would be be offtopic there (as it's not a tank), so I'm posting it here.

YAY! Cheers Yuritch

I just don't get it, everyone here is a better modeller then me.

And as far as Argh's in concerned, that mod better get released before 2012, I want to play it.

rcdraco wrote:I just don't get it, everyone here is a better modeller then me.

How long have you been modelling? That is what I thought. I've had, roughly, 4 or 5 months of modelling experience, probably more since I dicked around with Wings for a while before actually going to make my mod. With time and practice comes experience. These guys have been around for a few years and know the routine.

I've had a year and a bit more practise (can't say with greater accuracy due to shoddy memory)

I was lucky enough to get good ish after my 3rd model... and pretty good at UV maps by my 5th. Myself, I found I learnt more and got better faster when modeling something that existed and I hence had something to aim to make it look right against. Maybe you should try that, not trying to model from your imagination. (u might be doing that already... I dont know )

Most important thing is, keep in mind some people here are almost (if not) good enough to do this for a job.

aGorm

I've been modelling since, erm... early 2002. So over 5 years. Heh.


Really don't have much to show for half a decades experience!

Well, I made a new model today, nothing special, my Eucolon Carrier for The Plot of War, it resembles the original better then a few of the earlier ones.




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Initial WIP of the last of the land units for the Overmind, a super-heavy tank with a particle beam weapon. Yes, those treads will be fully animated...

Quite a phail of a render.

Good luck on those treads, I tried some like those once, they are pretty damn hard, but I have a feeling you can do it. Mine came out.. alright. I killed the unit because it was pretty laggy, though, didn't look well either.

Lots of moves, have fun, lol. Takes way too much time IMO.

They're fairly easy if you can wrap objects around a bezier line and nigh to impossible if you can't. Argh, show the edges next time please, it's rather difficult to make out the body shape. Looks like a star destroyer on tracks.


1012 tris.

Is dat sum dune spice harvester?

As Rattle stated, it's pretty easy to do if you can use a bezier curve to wrap- just make the first tread, uvmap it, then re-import the mesh, and use the spline curve to make copies wrap around it... then move the mesh a bit forwards, repeat until you've reached the desired number of animation steps (3-4 is usually enough).

At any rate, I've re-rendered to give you a slightly clearer view. The body, etc. is kept very low-poly to keep total polycount per frame within reasonable spec- about 1350 tris. Which is high, and I could save about 800 by just using uv-map treads, instead, but I really like real treads, and this isn't a unit you'll be spamming, so it's cool.

Much better render. In any case, I await PURE's release. Too bad you've spoiled all the units, heh.

Much better indeed. These treads save a lot of UV space by the way.
edit: Hm, no they don't.

Peet wrote:Is dat sum dune spice harvester?

Yes.

bezier line

Quite an antagonism... like straight curves.

Here is my new one, this is mostly a concept.

The Europian Crusher[name pending] - Front Assault Tank



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This will be my first go at a limited arc gun.

Here are 2 of mine, the Europian Landing Craft, and Europian Mole.






Click to enlarge, etc.

The finished tank.