Spring RTS Engine

Also like impossible to make nicely in spring.

@ Mav

Yes, but I'm referring to mainstream. Of course every SF concept has been beaten to death by much better authors decades ago... I'm referring to stylistically.

The opening cryo-awakening scene lifted from his own movie, Aliens. The neon black-light forest that reminded me of the terrible Batman Forever. The plot that seemed like it should have been a Kevin Costner movie. The freaking Papayrus font... even for subtitles. The New Age religion stuff of the Na'vi. The black-and-white "humans are the bad guys" environmentalist concept that reminds us all of Fern Gully.

Everything about the movie seemed to be a re-tread of main pop-culture of the late '80s and early '90s. Obviously there are no ideas left under the sun, of course... I just didn't expect a movie where all the material was so specifically dated to the same period.

there is a helo in the gear commander material i posted and for Blood and Steel all of my stuff is cc nc and there are a couple of non helicopter jet VTOLs you can use.

visuality is what counts.
at least in CA.
the idea of the model counts,not the detail.
i mean the shape, style and feel of it.
that model gets me learning modelling.
although i wont start with that superheli.
if someone wants it, please someone model it.
it looks like MidKnight is willing to add the model.

woa.

is that some strange poetic form attempt?

Mav wrote:I like the look of the helicopters from Avatar. They are visually interesting, would be fun to animate (the blades rotate to change the direction) and they LOOK like gunships.

avatar_helicopter-580x326.jpg

the animation is very much like the banshee, and even the light gunship of arm in ca i believe. just that they are rotors instead of jet/rockets/magic

actually i already made a model that is the similar kind of helicopter, but looks a bit more planelike. has short wings with the rotors in them, but it can go into jet mode by closing the rotors and popping out the jets (just fancy eye-catching anim not actually practical). Just more food for thought.

Fuck helicopters we need modern zeppelins.


That shit and scale in Spring Could be so boss.

+1 the Sumos of the sky.

Problem is you dont see such stuff from below/side and from top its boring flying turtle.

d_b wrote:

Mav wrote:I like the look of the helicopters from Avatar. They are visually interesting, would be fun to animate (the blades rotate to change the direction) and they LOOK like gunships.

avatar_helicopter-580x326.jpg

the animation is very much like the banshee, and even the light gunship of arm in ca i believe. just that they are rotors instead of jet/rockets/magic

actually i already made a model that is the similar kind of helicopter, but looks a bit more planelike. has short wings with the rotors in them, but it can go into jet mode by closing the rotors and popping out the jets (just fancy eye-catching anim not actually practical). Just more food for thought.

would you mind posting a lil eyecandy?
it might be what we are looking for?

Licho wrote:Problem is you dont see such stuff from below/side and from top its boring flying turtle.

that is right,but it might look good with the shadows.
also usually zeppelins are impressing by the noise they make.

It can do flips in the air once in a while XD
The idle animation.

we now have potential gunship and a potential transport.

Gota wrote:It can do flips in the air once in a while XD
The idle animation.

poor passengers...

the zeppelin is THE transport.
as MidKnight said,transports are made out of paper...
the zeppelin is indeed.
it also feels really intuitive.but imagine a transport zeppelin as small as dragonfly or vindicator...too small.
if you size it up => vulnerable.
only way seems to be giving it good health.

Licho wrote:Problem is you dont see such stuff from below/side and from top its boring flying turtle.

not even that cool

lol.

(they're carrier drones in case you couldn't tell)

Maybe giving them aquatic camo wasn't such a good idea...

Meh. PL's is better and uses things like a solid/transparent spinning rotor.

GJ trying to replace model with IP free variant ofc.

smoth wrote:

Licho wrote:Problem is you dont see such stuff from below/side and from top its boring flying turtle.

not even that cool

And you didn't even mention Gamera? I'm disappointed.