Spring RTS Engine

Nice but the sheer difference between the tracks and the tops makes it look like the armour is made of brown paper ^_^

I was going to say that too. It looks like an excellent paper model.

As others have noted, the sheer difference between the wheels and armor is very large.

Unlike the others, if this was being used for a game, that would be a bad choice because the wheels are some of the least seen objects in a game, depending on vehicle type.

Looks pretty good, though

The treads ate up alot of your time limit

4 hours??? thats what im talking about lynx! jeez!

Wanted to see what I could get within the time limit, so yeah, not enough time to add more detailing and polishing. Only after doing the tracks that I sat back and noticed the imbalanced contrast in the tracks and body...

Thanks for the constructive crits, i'll fix this one up and maybe add spec/bump maps after finishing textures for some other models.

PS @ self: Need to werk fastarrrrrr!

Guessmyname wrote:

This was going to be a remodel of the AK for the CA project, but I got a bit carried away. I think I overdid it.

l o l!
give it to carrepairer and i and we will put into dr. quantum's factory. It would be cool if you could texture it because both of use fail at that (so far.... its the mapping that is killing us)

Very sexy.

My suggestions:

- Break up the reflection map with areas of light and dark, and noise. this gives a more rough reflection that is more typical of metals, as opposed to the 'plastic' reflection feeling of that texture.

- Add some 'residual glow' / fake bloom around your light sources. Best way to do this is, on both texture 1 and in your red channel, grab a soft edged brush at 15% opacity, and about double the size of the light, then click once, then reduce the size of your brush, click again, reduce size, click again, etc, etc. It gets a pretty cool effect.
Another way to add realism to glows is to light the area where the light is shining onto, such as some of the surfaces underneath the windows that you have there.

- imo you should break up the glow of the bridge somehow. A bit of noise, some beams, it just feels a bit 'cylon' (or I guess 'cyclops' from X-men).

Still though, very sexy. I really hope aircraft will actually animate flying into and out of it...

Looks fabulous!

- Break up the reflection map with areas of light and dark, and noise. this gives a more rough reflection that is more typical of metals, as opposed to the 'plastic' reflection feeling of that texture

*specularity

Yeah, it can make a huge difference and is one of the few options we have to describe a material a bit better.

azaremoth wrote:

wow thats cool, what is it for?!

Warlord Zsinj wrote:Very sexy.

My suggestions:

- Break up the reflection map with areas of light and dark, and noise. this gives a more rough reflection that is more typical of metals, as opposed to the 'plastic' reflection feeling of that texture.

- Add some 'residual glow' / fake bloom around your light sources. Best way to do this is, on both texture 1 and in your red channel, grab a soft edged brush at 15% opacity, and about double the size of the light, then click once, then reduce the size of your brush, click again, reduce size, click again, etc, etc. It gets a pretty cool effect.
Another way to add realism to glows is to light the area where the light is shining onto, such as some of the surfaces underneath the windows that you have there.

- imo you should break up the glow of the bridge somehow. A bit of noise, some beams, it just feels a bit 'cylon' (or I guess 'cyclops' from X-men).

Still though, very sexy. I really hope aircraft will actually animate flying into and out of it...

Thanks - I took your tips by heart. I strengthened the bloom (actually it was already there) and added some noise and random light and dark zones to the light map. It isn't that good visible on the screens but you are completely right - it looks more metalish now.

Scripting the fighters' starts is actually not my business - I rather do some more models - there are only 21 (~25%) done yet.

I'd love to see some screenshots :)

Looks good.


1160 for everything.

Imaginary ammo ftw. Or better: ANGER POWERED MINIGUNS. Saves a feeder belt.

Are those Harkonnen troopers? An ammo belt would rock and I would consider it almost required on such a gun, but if your cheap you could just go with an ammo box mounted on the underside of the gun, maybe with a small 20cm belt coming out of it into the gun? LIke this:

Dune 2 Heavy Troopers, all three sides used them (you get a squad in the last mission for the Atreides as well ).

The problem with the ammo belt is vertical aiming, though I might skip that entirely because I have to prepose it by script. There's still some space left on the UV so I can add one later.

will this mod feature little boys by any chance?

With heart plugs?

No I'm not going by the book.



Man I hate hands... not too bad considering the generous amount of seams.