Spring RTS Engine

I made this guy for a creativity project for school. It was fun. It doesn't have all the things I want. I ran out of time, but this is what I did get. Here's the video I turned in with the project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BnxnPsBoJ4

It might be fun to finish him with walking animations, corpses, and sounds. Then add some barbarians with axes and throwing axes.

i like it

settlers ! :D

very cool, like the soldier <3

gah! import 3ds into upspring so that you only have to do one import instead of a whole bunch!

Nicely done

<yet another discussion about normals>

I'll will be sure to do 3ds next time.

I don't know the normals discussion.

Thanks for liking it everyone.

The project got 190/200 and it was a third of my grade.

I am going to say it again and keep saying it until you knuckle draggers get this.

3ds is a bad choice for import format.

3ds cannot have more than 1 uvmap coord per vert

so

3ds models unwield geometry at these vertices

this fucks up your normals.

+1 to obj

Epic fail discussion about this here

tl;dr: obj import for piece per group never was added. It's still better than relying on imprecise 'recalc normals 3do style'.