Arm solar remodel

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 17 May 2007, 13:55

I've took the liberty to take MR.D's latest solar model and make a working s3o model of it.

Noe that there still must be made a new wreckage for it.
It people like the old model (the one I and aGorm made) enough, I will port them as well.

link to package: http://lassie.student.utwente.nl/vliet/ ... 0Solar.rar

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 17 May 2007, 16:42

I like it, the texture could use some tweaking but I love that model!

quantum · Post by **quantum** » 20 May 2007, 01:24

It's included in Complete Annihilation now.

MOAR MODELZ
MOAR MODELZ
MOAR MODELZ

:D

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 20 May 2007, 01:55

Since i have always wondered why they dont use the empty space for getting more energy from sun, here is my suggestion:

What you think?

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 20 May 2007, 02:12

Cool.

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 21 May 2007, 15:01

quantum wrote:It's included in Complete Annihilation now.

MOAR MODELZ
MOAR MODELZ
MOAR MODELZ

:D

yaarr more apriciated :). I think MR.D will be gratefull.
I'm thinking for rebooting the arm tech1 kbot lab remake. Might take some time though.

Abou the improved solar space usage, err, well, the reason is becouse OTA didn't had it :) and nobody bother to make it.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 21 May 2007, 20:48

Zenka wrote:
looks OK! I've adjusted the 2nd texture to fit yours. It might be a little to reflecting though.

That looks good but you need a better reflect map. It would look positively awesome if you just had the darker areas less reflective.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 21 May 2007, 22:16

I'd rather say non-distorted UV map.

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 22 May 2007, 12:39

rattle wrote:I'd rather say non-distorted UV map.

explain?

I've adjust the texture and packed the model with aGorm's texture:

download here: http://lassie.student.utwente.nl/vliet/ ... r_v1.1.rar

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 22 May 2007, 14:22

Look at the shot Caydr quoted. The white zic-zac is reflection I assume and it wouldn't be a zic-zac if the UVs weren't distorted. Tell me if I'm wrong, it just looks like that.

MR.D · Post by **MR.D** » 22 May 2007, 14:36

Well, if sombody wants to script it, I'll model it.

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 22 May 2007, 16:33

rattle wrote:Look at the shot Caydr quoted. The white zic-zac is reflection I assume and it wouldn't be a zic-zac if the UVs weren't distorted. Tell me if I'm wrong, it just looks like that.

I've no idea what coused thew zig-zag reflaction. I can, however assure you the UV map is good.

@MR.D: I ususaly remodel a unit on a way that the original script works on the remake. Much like the original script was used on your solar model :)

MR.D · Post by **MR.D** » 22 May 2007, 16:42

ah-ha, figured it was just blind luck that my solar worked with the old script.. :D

If only there was a keyframe translator, so that animations could be developed in realtime using other means.

Oh and btw, that goofy reflection map is because of the smooth groups in the model.

Post by **jcnossen** » 23 May 2007, 01:22

the zig-zac is caused by how the normals are generated, and because of the polygons being converted to triangles by opengl. You probably just have to accept it.

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 23 May 2007, 09:06

MR.D wrote:ah-ha, figured it was just blind luck that my solar worked with the old script.. :D

If only there was a keyframe translator, so that animations could be developed in realtime using other means.

Oh and btw, that goofy reflection map is because of the smooth groups in the model.

Well, when you make a new model. just open the old and see how it's put together. the solar is very simple. a base with dish1 to 4 :)

Zerzera · Post by **Zerzera** » 24 May 2007, 12:35

TradeMark wrote:Since i have always wondered why they dont use the empty space for getting more energy from sun, here is my suggestion:

What you think?

Love that

bwansy · Post by **bwansy** » 24 May 2007, 14:04

TradeMark wrote:Since i have always wondered why they dont use the empty space for getting more energy from sun, here is my suggestion:

pic

What you think?

This would be a nice adv solar. Right now the triangular one used in most mods is obviously much smaller than a lvl 1 solar, and it doesn't make sense that they actually produce more energy.

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 24 May 2007, 18:04

bwansy wrote:
TradeMark wrote:Since i have always wondered why they dont use the empty space for getting more energy from sun, here is my suggestion:

pic

What you think?
This would be a nice adv solar. Right now the triangular one used in most mods is obviously much smaller than a lvl 1 solar, and it doesn't make sense that they actually produce more energy.

uh-huh. it would.
well MR.D we call of your services. you make the model and texture it. I'll be more then happy to make it work in s3o. (I cold make it myself as well, but I've enough other things to do)

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 24 May 2007, 18:54

bwansy wrote:This would be a nice adv solar. Right now the triangular one used in most mods is obviously much smaller than a lvl 1 solar, and it doesn't make sense that they actually produce more energy.

Good idea, i also wondered why adv solar was smaller o_O
That would make much more sense, but with core we cant make bigger solars :S maybe smaller solar for core, so we can make bigger for adv solar? :D

Erom · Post by **Erom** » 24 May 2007, 19:15

Or make some sort of solar furnace, those generally have higher efficiency than pv panels.

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