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Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 16 Jun 2007, 04:31

KDR_11k wrote:Wouldn't such a long ship be hard to move anywhere? The core thing is pretty much square so its footprint should match its shape but that long thing would need a huge footprint to avoid clipping.

hush. i came to the same realisation myself. im going to go with my original idea of making the arm one a catamaran.

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 19 Jun 2007, 02:08

some more random wips (even though they are more or less finished now)

and

i like the second one a lot, has a very cool counter-rotating blade effect

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 19 Jun 2007, 02:10

and a little something im working on for S:1944

AF · Post by AF » 19 Jun 2007, 02:17

the parts on the wheels in the track could be done vi texture, those tiyn little faces on the sides are unnecesary.

The same with the little long strip faces at the top between the larger panels.

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 19 Jun 2007, 10:17

AF wrote:the parts on the wheels in the track could be done vi texture, those tiyn little faces on the sides are unnecesary.

The same with the little long strip faces at the top between the larger panels.

i know. i never said it was finished did i?

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 19 Jun 2007, 10:36

Like the bevel option much?

The base of the brrel on that tank has way too many polies.

yuritch · Post by **yuritch** » 19 Jun 2007, 10:54

Is that some kind of M5 Stuart light tank (looks very much like it)? If so, then the gun is quite strange (it's way to large), unless it's some kind of close support modification? Of course, this may just be the "work in progress" part that makes it look so big...

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 19 Jun 2007, 12:06

yuritch wrote:Is that some kind of M5 Stuart light tank (looks very much like it)? If so, then the gun is quite strange (it's way to large), unless it's some kind of close support modification? Of course, this may just be the "work in progress" part that makes it look so big...

ding ding ding! we have a winner!

it is infact the hull of an M5 Stuart, with a 75mm howitzer in the turret

Post by **jcnossen** » 19 Jun 2007, 12:46

Why are you modelling a tank that is actually really ugly in real life?

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 19 Jun 2007, 13:02

jcnossen wrote:Why are you modelling a tank that is actually really ugly in real life?

M-M-M-MONSTERKILL!

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 19 Jun 2007, 14:56

Why did you bevel the turret edges when the real thing has no bevel there?

yuritch · Post by **yuritch** » 19 Jun 2007, 15:48

I thought M8 had an open-top turret? Yours seems like it has a roof...

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 19 Jun 2007, 15:55

Yeah, you should stop using bevel so much in general, it's of no use in low polygon modeling IMO.

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 20 Jun 2007, 01:45

rattle wrote:Yeah, you should stop using bevel so much in general, it's of no use in low polygon modeling IMO.

it actually works very well in the conversion work im doing for my other project, its a quick and easy way to add polygons along sharp edges where i want to add either contrast colour or team colour.

yuritch wrote:I thought M8 had an open-top turret? Yours seems like it has a roof...

its still WIP, i basically havent touched the turret since i did the original shaping.

The way i model is a quickly whip up the basic shape of whatever im trying to make, in this case the M8 HMC, so i can view the model in its entirity, then go over the model again.

If you dont know what whis is... well lol @ u :)

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 20 Jun 2007, 01:53

Just thought id mention that i installed Wings at the start of June. Before that i had NO 3d modelling experience. At all. So im learning as i go along, the same as i am with scripting, texturing and balancing.

Zpock · Post by **Zpock** » 20 Jun 2007, 01:56

Learn to UV-map/s3o.

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 20 Jun 2007, 01:57

Zpock wrote:Learn to UV-map/s3o.

I'll be learning how to do that in the next week or so :)

AF · Post by AF » 20 Jun 2007, 05:05

imo new modellers should skip 3do entirely and go straight to s3o

Pressure Line · Post by **Pressure Line** » 20 Jun 2007, 06:05

AF wrote:imo new modellers should skip 3do entirely and go straight to s3o

imo we should pretend that (in my case especially) people dont automatically have hundreds of hours of experience with image editing software other than mspaint, or any sort of 3d modelling or coding as soon as they start modding Spring stuff. We could also pretend that last month if you'd asked me to do what i can do now id have gone 'lolwhat?'

even better. DONT PRETEND. EVERYTHING ive learned about modding spring i have done in the past 4 weeks. In that time ive pretty much managed to get the hang of Wings, 3dobuilder, Upspring, the various tools for unpacking and repacking modfiles, editing fbi and tdf files as well as coding bos scripts.

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 20 Jun 2007, 06:08

Heh, I could s3o with my eyes closed but I still have no texturing experience past mspaint (and making trippy crap with a raytracer <_<)
Anyway, I do agree with AF on this one. 3do simply isn't really a stepping-stone in the path of learning to create content for spring, it's just a 10 year old modelling format with many problems in the spring engine.

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