Spring RTS Engine

keep going mr. D, I think it is *using gay voice* fabulous and you do a great job.

This reminds me of several designs from E&E, waking a nostalgic feeling. Keep it up!

I think im going to have to play CA core now. Once they get this model in.


Shit that is so awesome.

Can i use this model in a mod that is not TA-based? Please please please?

Shouldn't be long now guys, I just have to work out the teamcolor, reflection/glow layers and its ready to go.

I'm going to give it a good once over and check for errors ect, but this is how the final texture will look.

I decided to dump the Camo layer, because I couldn't get it to look right on the unit, and the metal shell looks pretty good all by itself especially when teamcolor and the glow maps are working.

Final model is 1624 triangles, and being a unit that is not often spammed, I think that is a fair Tri count for this specialized unit.

Just perfect. Thanks for that one !

First, I would have said that black & yellow stripes could mess with builder design guideline but it doesn't look it can be misunderstood. Moreover, they re visible when the shell is open only.

Nice. Look forward to seeing this ingame

It's looking very nice, but I do agree with the first half of masure's sentiment - from a visual design point of view, you should make a rule whereby 'only construction units can have hazard stripes' and stick to it, imo.

Would be cool if you could share your "raw" PSD files (if you use Photoshop) for learning purposes. Imo you should do that for nearly all of your units anyway so that e.g. the guys from CA can replace the Core logo with another one in a pretty easy way and don't have to redo that entire area which might be a quite diffult task if you want it to look uniform to the rest of the texture...

+1 to psd comment

I agree with the sentiment over construction stripes, but otherwise this is one of your best reduxs so far, I think you should 'redesign' more like you did with this with future units.

Yes, as in completely vary from the unit so it may be usable in a context other than TA.

The raw PSD's are 40 meg tho, and most of those kind of things I build right into the main layer, as the bevel tool I use for edges and highlights operates on shading the surrounding colors instead of making their own overlay for it via transparent fill (dunno why).

In my defense of the Bumble stripes on those 2 sections, the model is almost completely void of colors, and those 2 places are caution areas where the shell moves around them, I know I gotta quit thinking in terms of the "human element" but they just seemed like sensible places to put some colors.

MR.D wrote:In my defense of the Bumble stripes on those 2 sections, the model is almost completely void of colors, and those 2 places are caution areas where the shell moves around them, I know I gotta quit thinking in terms of the "human element" but they just seemed like sensible places to put some colors.

As I said, it was my first thought about these stripes. But they're fine and I like them indeed.

Nothing to be bothered about :)

its a cylon raider with tracks and a gatlin cannon

Mr. D wrote:The raw PSD's are 40 meg tho, and most of those kind of things I build right into the main layer, as the bevel tool I use for edges and highlights operates on shading the surrounding colors instead of making their own overlay for it via transparent fill (dunno why).

Well you of course don't have to but I'm curious. Some techniques on the one hand and some approaches on the other like do you paint the "background textures" yourself or do you use photo references you work upon. Would be interesting to see as you rarely see someone showing off the source of a good texture (I think I never saw someone offering his raw psd file of a texture more complex than a simple tileable brickwall or something)...

Concerning the bumple stripes:
What about making the stripes black/teamcolor instead of black/yellow? In the current state I see only few and very tiny spots for teamcolor anyway so it might help...

What about those red stripes you put on some of the other models?

you mean on the cockpit/head areas?

The warning stripes seem a little inconsistent. Perhaps using another colours instead of the yellow would improve this. The teamcolour suggestion makes sense.

i like the stripes, and considering you can only see them while you're firing, I don't think it'll get mistaken for a con

+ 1 to only constructors should have hazard stripes.

It is a constructor in a sense..
It constructs chaos, destruction, and panic in the opposition.