Spring RTS Engine

Well, the textures are all done, and Rattle is compiling the script and package for it now.

Shouldn't be long guys.

Once more, awesome work Mr.D.

I really want to see you model and texture an arm unit to see what eye-sex you come up with. Hope you continue to remake these OTA units, and at the same rate.

Also props to rattle for the scripting/animation work. Tidy little duo.

Done, get it from here. Small video showing the unfold animation from the TA view here.

The wobbling turret can be disabled in the script, simply comment out the line mentioned near the top, and remember [] = 65536!

I think it looks very good when opened up, with the closed appearance still awesome of course, but could use some differentiation in the "head" - body - hatches coloring. Something like this before/after:



From a long distance this would bring out the shape a bit more:


Also, taking inspiration from what real construction vehicles actually look like, why not:

I think it'd look better if you colour all those except the sides, and colour the core symbol as well. maybe the little wheel strut too.

Well, those are teamcolor, also withouth the color distracting green:

the yellow is an interesting touch, I have always supported coloring the con units yellow or orange. Could you perhaps drab that out a bit though? it looks like a sort of gold.

New constructor nickname: "The GoldBrick"

Ok, less bling bling:



It should be noted I'm just screwing around with MR:Ds screenshots in photoshop not the actual texture.

chip the paint at the edges

BTW, if someone doesn't know were I'm coming from with this:




I wonder what it would look like with a bulldozer blade on the front...

much better zpock

I've coloured some of my units all yellow; but I'm not sure if it really suits the Core aesthetic, or Mr.D's general aesthetic, which are generally more grey and gunmetal. That being said, I have typically coloured rebel construction units yellow (you can see one here, at the bottom of the screen, with the long arm).

As an aside, here's a better example of one of my 'dirtier' warning stripes: http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/6/ ... een041.jpg which, imo, looks more realistic and is still visible from afar.

Gold brick indeed, I dunno it just doesn't look right with all that color..

I was just trying to stick close to the OTA model pallete, which IMO I did pretty well.

The Bumble bee stripes are what signify the construction vehicles in TA, not coating the whole body with Caterpillar orange, or bright yellow.

BTW this Star Wars mod looks really great!

If the yellow is diluted and dirtied it could look quite nice, but that just might be my preference for dirtier textures.

And, as TRO says, chipped and roughened up around the edges.

http://images1.comstock.com/Imagewareho ... 007143.jpg
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbv ... yellow.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erroba/2228036918/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chinasixty4/212331984/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80651083@N00/521655856/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aarondirective/470118960/

(love flickr for textures)

That's a fair argument too, Mr.D. You'd be perfectly justified sticking to your guns on that as well.

The problem with that is the OTA colour scheme is a rainbow with the brightest non yellow colours snipped out.

I think there's no problem with a constructor colour scheme like the yellow but we needn't limit it to the colour yellow. Yellow is a cultural convention and for all we know the arm and core use black for their construction machinery or even pink. They may not even use it at all, at which point it may be that the stripes would suffice.

I disagree, AF.

By argument, the game itself is a part of our cultural convention. The representations we make in the game are only relevant to us because of their correlation with real-world objects. For all we know thousands of years into the future, caterpillar tracks would be a thing of the past. Hell, physical matter might be a thing of the past. And yet we still make futuristic tanks with tracks, shaped vaguely like real-world objects. I mean, theoretically that truck is powered by a pattern of a human mind, and yet it still has an area that can clearly be seen as a 'cockpit' (or cab), and clearly has elements that can be considered as a 'front' and 'back' despite none of those concepts having relevance for a vehicle that is powered by a computerised image of a mind.

Colouring it yellow makes an immediate connotation for the player with a construction vehicle, because typically our construction vehicles are coloured yellow.

You may notice that as a civilization nears the brink fo total and utter destruction you start to see lesser forms of technology mixed in with higher forms, simply because its more efficient to build rifles and uber lasers than it is to build just uber lasers when you've nearly exhausted the resources to build uber lasers at max capacity.

A good example would be the Dr. Who episode Genesis of the daleks where a thousand years of war have lead to a mix of crossbows, rifles, machine guns, and plasma weaponry. It may simply be cheaper and quicker to build tracks than artificial gravity technology in a galaxy exhausted of resources.