Spring RTS Engine

my dream is dune spring mod... and i want that mod so much i have even started modelling. i started using SketchUp cause i saw that even a monkey can do good job without learning all the hard interfaces that all other programs have.

eyecandy

(this is a test where i just tested can i model... i know i will improve from here)

Looks decent but the treads are ridiculous.

Do a tesselate > Quads and post your polycount.

Caydr wrote:Looks decent but the treads are ridiculous.

Do a tesselate > Quads and post your polycount.

the treads are under those "armors" and its made for sandy conditions so it needs "huge" tracks... ill shut up now cause i know that the track are damn ugleeh

it has 330 faces

You could save faces using a smaller face count on the round back of the cabin and the gun mounts, also that little projection coming out of the treads on the left and the right is adding 5 faces to each side and it's the kind of detail that could easily be textured on. Lastly make sure you are removing faces you don't need. I have a hunch that you've got some invisable faces within the structure of the tank, and most likely several of the faces on the underside of the tread and tank body can just go away. The only time you see them is if the thing gets thrown flipping into the air, and that is practically never for a tank.

Fist things first, make the devistator HUGE! I mean really flipping big.

oh tank? What tank?

Right! That looks pretty cool, despite teh riddiculus treds. So make sure to fix that. Also the gun needs to be bigger! BIGGER!

just so you know, Masse, I don't think the treads are ugly. It makes the whole design look like an all-climate vehicle.

Shoot for under 100 quads. That's the kind of model it looks like.

didnt someone said 3k polys models where ok for spring?

any update on that model masse?

and where did it come from?

FizWizz wrote:just so you know, Masse, I don't think the treads are ugly. It makes the whole design look like an all-climate vehicle.

Exactly, I like it too. Do not change the treads, or the tread armour!

there's a very old Dune 2 mod for OTA somwhere on the internet, try tadesigners.com

Plo Koon wrote:there's a very old Dune 2 mod for OTA somwhere on the internet, try tadesigners.com

Mutation Clearinghouse, they had a Dune TC there.

DAMN I BEEN AWAY FOR AWHILE CAUSE I ORDERED NEW COMP IT HAD BROKEN MOTHERBOERD AND SUDDENLY MY OLD PC's HARD DRIVE JUST ZIP !!!... im back again

and that's no Devastator ill model that when ill get all my pc stuff work again

bah...
wheres the sandworm ??
without sandworm there is no spice
and ur mods are no longer authentic, and no longer 'Dune'

Masse, your tank is looking good.

I don't care what others think, as a matter of fact there has been a lot of bashing of people's model's lately, and it needs to stop. It dosen't matter if it's a smoth body super high tech advanced vehicle, plane, ship, hovercraft, robot, infinitry, building, ect... It can be whatever they want.

One thing I will sugest is that the CAD programs out there have a comletely different way of producing 3D models. For example, programs like Inventer, Solidworks, Keycreator, make spline surface, nurbs surface, or some other form of geometry creation. Even Autocad is the same way. The only one that is semi compatible is Inventer, and thats with 3DS MAX. My sugestion is to avoid them for game model making, because they are a pain to convert to usable geometry. Just a little tip you might want to remember.

goodie u like it... heres the new one... i hope some of u know what it is

Masse wrote:... i hope some of u know what it is ...

Is that the Harkonen's big tank from Dune 2?

it is (Harkonnen Devastator) the model still need some fixing... and i hope we get animated textures someday... and a good tutorial spring model/uv mapping

heres "better" version...

Now THAT is a NICE modle file. Be sure to give it a biwildering array of guns and sutch.

Very nice. What are you modeling/rendering in?