New Mod/Conversion: GEAR COMMANDER

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 31 Jul 2006, 16:35

Yeah, press print (or alt+print if windowed), alt+tab back to windows and paste the screen in your favourite image editing program. You can set the JPEG compression rate in photoshop during the saving progress by the way, so it looks less blurry. 8 or 10 is a good setting. You could go for pngs too, they'll be larger but crispy clean.

Oh and the Jaguar is fine, remember it from HG2.

Egarwaen · Post by **Egarwaen** » 31 Jul 2006, 16:58

Looks cool.

Though a quick note: how are you modelling these? If you're going off the "old new" miniatures or the technical drawings, they're going to look a bit odd. We've recently discovered that the proportions there are a bit off. The arms, for example, are actually too small.

Oh, and one more suggestion: for the Gears, make one of the shoulders (pref. the one not covered by the rocket pod) a team colour "patch".

centurion-1 · Post by **centurion-1** » 01 Aug 2006, 12:03

Hi!

I model the gears after what i can find, and yes the arms are too short to properly grip a weapon two-handed. Well its easily fixed in a 3d program

I am currently adding more teamcolour to the gears, the jaguar currently has one stripe on its head, one symbol on the torso and a stripe on one of the armor plates. Perhaps a shoulder symbol would be good as well.

Just had an interesting game vs. AI, the ai actually built all kinds of things and expanded rapidly, but didnt do much anything with its stuff, except porc. Still, proper arty isnt in yet so i had to assault his base over and over and it proved quite difficult. Also, i've implemented cloaking for infantry now (no-energy cost) to simulate hiding and it really is necessary now to have infantry of your own to scout out areas or you could get into a nasty AT infantry ambush. Also autocannons and rockets are vastly overpowered weapons compared to infantry so they usually overkill single soldiers pretty badly but large groups are unaffected.

Here are some screenies, also updated jaguar with improved head model. The old was pixly.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 01 Aug 2006, 12:07

Lookin' good :) I'd take off the reflectivity channel on the armored sections of the Gears, though, so that they look more like dull armor, and less like plastic. Other than that, looks really nice.

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 01 Aug 2006, 13:29

Argh is right. The armour may be metal, but the paint isn't, and paint isn't reflective

mualjtaulur · Post by **mualjtaulur** » 01 Aug 2006, 15:01

This looks like pure awesomeness

Egarwaen · Post by **Egarwaen** » 01 Aug 2006, 17:01

centurion-1 wrote:I model the gears after what i can find, and yes the arms are too short to properly grip a weapon two-handed. Well its easily fixed in a 3d program

Check out Phil's new miniatures. They've got much better proportions. Not sure if it's good enough to model off of, but it should at least give you some idea of what changes could be made.

I am currently adding more teamcolour to the gears, the jaguar currently has one stripe on its head, one symbol on the torso and a stripe on one of the armor plates. Perhaps a shoulder symbol would be good as well.

See the current header image on the Dream Pod 9 site. The red on the Northern Gears and the yellow on the Southern models is what I'm talking about. Turn those areas into Team Colour and it will officially be awesome.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 01 Aug 2006, 17:16

I like reflectiveness, but it does look odd on paint, rather then on metal.

centurion-1 · Post by **centurion-1** » 01 Aug 2006, 21:15

Well i've tweaked the reflectivity back and forth quite some while now and ended up with this. Its most of the time much more subtle than it ended up on these screenies. I've thought about it too that paint is not that reflective but ive come to the conclusion that paints used to paint metal surfaces are somewhat reflective when exposed to direct light and not matte like say wooden paint that absorbs light. If you still think its too bright when you see it in motion ill change it tho.

bobthedinosaur · Post by **bobthedinosaur** » 02 Aug 2006, 06:08

lets see some helos

centurion-1 · Post by **centurion-1** » 02 Aug 2006, 09:18

Coming right up

centurion-1 · Post by **centurion-1** » 02 Aug 2006, 12:07

Not quite finished yet and not ingame, I'm sorry to say, but nevertheless, a preview for you all:

The Titan assault helicopter!

Model: Bobthedinosaur
Texture&Uvmap: Centurion1

centurion-1 · Post by **centurion-1** » 02 Aug 2006, 12:27

I should say that Im not quite done and satisfied with the texture but the model is quite nice IMO. It will look great ingame, methinks

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 02 Aug 2006, 12:37

I think the cockpit needs work - the blobs make it look like a sort of bug

raikitsune · Post by **raikitsune** » 02 Aug 2006, 12:58

i'm so badly looking forawrd to this mod.

Egarwaen · Post by **Egarwaen** » 02 Aug 2006, 18:35

Guessmyname wrote:I think the cockpit needs work - the blobs make it look like a sort of bug

That's what it looks like.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 02 Aug 2006, 20:13

Looks like a Hind to me. But looking good never the less.

Egarwaen · Post by **Egarwaen** » 02 Aug 2006, 20:17

rattle wrote:Looks like a Hind to me. But looking good never the less.

It's very much inspired by the Hind. The Northern attack copter is much more original.

j5mello · Post by **j5mello** » 03 Aug 2006, 02:04

Nothing wrong with looking like a Hind. In fact i would say the Hind looks pretty good (though, when it has those side mounted 30mms, it throws off the look IMO

). I assume lots of rockets on this and that the turret works as it should?

bobthedinosaur · Post by **bobthedinosaur** » 03 Aug 2006, 03:03

/me crys

so beautiful!

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New Mod/Conversion: GEAR COMMANDER