Contest: Defensive Structure

[rattle]

Down to 800 polys, 1300 in total (with that small drone thing). Tell me if you don't like flying rocks at all so I'll work on something else. Or give me some ideas how to do the bottom better instead of a deformed cube and a cut up sphere and a couple of 4 poly stalagnites. Also this is not supposed to be some fantasy crap.

WIP Obj/wings

Dash: That looks like it could fit in the battletech mod... you sure this isn't a autocannon turret?

[Das Bruce]

1. The tower has some very bad welding problems, which you can see clearly in my render. I could probably clean the verts up, but other parts need a rework.

Its a first draft.

2. The gear design looks like it should work at first glance, but it cannot. To flip that gear over would require a physically impossible movement. The easiest solution is to place the gun on top of the top-most gear, and then have the gun slip down into a hole when not firing, preferably with a sturdy-looking door on top. The whole thing would be a bit tricky on script timing, but not as bad you'd think- there are all sorts of good ways to cheat. But, given that you're showing gears for that upwards motion, why not go for broke, and have the entire tower driven by a large sun-gear driven by smaller ones?

I actualy seperated the top gear into three so it could turn. but that sun gear gave me some ideas, will repost soon.

[Argh]

@Rattle:

Yeah, I'd vote to cut the flying rock part, and instead replace it with techno-greebles suggesting some sort of anti-gravity device... maybe (er, obviously vaguely, I'm screwing around here) like this mockup? Things like the windows would have to be suggested by the skin, of course

[rattle]

Um okay... apparently I was too carried away by the good memories I had of that game I mentioned (Stratosphere).

Hmm the top most thing looks like that advanced radar thing from AA...
*delete*

[Argh]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with taking a good memory and putting it into your designs. <looks for Stratosphere shots>



... interesting. Not very well-realised, but the tech of the day (1998) wasn't really up to much.

Here's another random concept using the "uber beam collector" idea... sort've a Bespin Cloud City thing...

[imbaczek]

Dash's gun looks like it could easily replace the guardian model in AA/XTA (if only people weren't so used to it :>)

[Das Bruce]

http://fileuniverse.com/?p=show&a=it&id=4047

It only gets worse I'm affraid folks, and I'm too lazy to get the gear ratios right.

[Argh]

Well, eh... on the one hand, that's gosh-darn clever. On the other hand, it looks like a clockwork gun design from a 19th-Century Boy's Home Mechanic design book... it doesn't exactly say, "this is teh FuTuRe" to me

[rattle]

That's 4500 tris, also the lower gears will block each other.

[Das Bruce]

Eh, take it or leave it, it was still fun to model.

@ Rattle
Eh, just move the end bits relative to their normal a tenth of a unit and it should be fine.

[Argh]

And there is no engine that could drive them. And no way for the gun to traverse in the Y direction. And when I look at it, I can see it painted in dingy, dented and pitted lead paint colors, sitting in a museum with tin trains and lead soldiers bearing Civil War-era weapons

Absolutely a very fun model. No doubt- if I were making a steampunk game, it might even work. NanoBlobs is mainly referencing 1930's sci-fi illustrations, with a few more modern references from artists, mainly in Japan, from the mid-1970's to the modern day. It just doesn't fit.

If you're wondering where strange stuff like the SpireRook came from, check this stuff out...

Here's an interesting collection of images to reference..

And yet another collection of classic reference shots.

And yet more...

[Das Bruce]

Ok, needs an engine and a turret. I have always wanted to make a steampunk rts, just never really realised thats what you call it. :idea:

Ironically enough the cannon bit was ripped directly from an earlier quick model I did for a old school cannon.

[PicassoCT]

Doese somebody here remember the Incredible Machine... would be cool if the Projectile would be loaded in such a Way before the Gun is fired..

My Projectile Suggestion... would go for Miles, for a Big Boom. Mr. Pogobomb

[espylaub]

If this were my contest, Keithius would have won it :D

[rattle]

Doese somebody here remember the Incredible Machine... would be cool if the Projectile would be loaded in such a Way before the Gun is fired..

And I assume you are going to make the script for that?

[PicassoCT]

Doese somebody here remember the Incredible Machine... would be cool if the Projectile would be loaded in such a Way before the Gun is fired..

And I assume you are going to make the script for that?

I could make a Animation in Max... if i had time and interest...

[Maelstrom]

Kinda the same theme as Das Bruces (I like steam punk), so probably not appropriate, but meh, Im posting it anyways. The two cogs on the side rotate opposite to each other to turn the gun, and then it shoots stuff. Kinda UV mapped, but I edited it after I UV mapped, so its kinda bad now.
1756 tris.




.wings / .obj

[rattle]

Now that's cool and it looks like it might work. The UV map seems broken in some places and you should orientate it to the z-axis instead of x-axis. To do that without breaking anything simply add a vertex in the center edge of the firepoint on the gun barrel and alt rotate it around that vertex after grouping it all together by 90°. Or is it supposed to point in the wrong direction?

[Maelstrom]

My bad, its not ment to point that way. I always model stuff wrong

Ill fix that and try and repair the UV map.

[manored]

How about something like this?



I know its hard (impossible) to tell if it is 2 cones or 2 pyramids, but its suposed to be 2 cones :) . The tower would stay spining all the time and would open herself to attack the enemy, with the arm coming out of the tower carring the disk and them releasing it on the right time to hit him.