Spring RTS Engine

I've been putting off making a spybot model for CA for some reason, IDK why.

I decided to try something I never did before, i'll post here about every 15 min with a pic of the model WIP until i finish it, UVW map and all.
(Of course, I can't script or animate yet so I'll leave that up to Saktoth or someone, lol)


To start out, thinking of planning...

The idea in my head is a Squarish spider with beveled edges that looks sperated into two parts with cameras in the middle, and the sides go out.

the legs are skinny and creepy looking, but still mechanical.

the low RoF EMP gun will be on the top of this thing, and look rather beefy by comparison. (a few of these can knock a bantha out of commission i seen in one battle)

So, starting with preliminary modeling (base shapes)...

meh ill be made fun of at this point, i'll wait till it looks presentable.

Yea, I scrapped the idea of my original base, it was crappy lol.

made another one i like =D




is the current base.

let's see if i can make it work lol.

Edits to base, Redid Eyes.

Hard to see what's going on in the latest screenshot, but I do like your eyes or cameras or whatever you want to call the stuff going on in the middle.

meh im trying to figure it out, i'm not very good at lant units that aren't tanks so :/

and idea where to go from here?

If you're asking for input, I'll say this.

It is my opinion that the legs are a little thin and spidery. Personally I'd fatten them up, give them some bulk. But that is just me.

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee17 ... 1270006405
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skinned it.

still open to suggestions for the mesh.

Suggestions on the msh AND the skin lol.

I used some random skin in found in my ca.sdd/unittextures folder lol

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee17 ... 1270007730
Full Image


Fattened Legs by quite a bit. (i agree, they were too skinny)

Adjusted Skin Appropriately.

Yeah man, that looks pretty awesome now. Good job.

I still dont like the way it looks.

(tweeked a few polies for consistancy)

looks cool, but i dont like that baby-blue :) how tris does it ahve and the size of the texture`?

thats actually really cool. [insert seal here]

Reminds me of my hexapods

/unittextues/ametalextractorlvl21.dds

Just one that was in CA's unittextues directory.

the blue was in the texture already, i can't change it.

(unless CA wouldn't mind adding a solid color 1 pixel dot at a far corner to the skin lol)

1802 polygons...

A Little high, most of it is in the Surveillance equipment (eyes)

OH! how Could i have forgotten the low ROF emp gun?!

ill add that...

(it takes 35 seconds to reload.... it's used to stun banthas for 45 secs... in large numbers... otherwise these aren't for spamming!)