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Posted: 19th May 2007 02:45 Edited at: 19th May 2007 16:26
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I have since moved to a new hosting service and lost most of my image files. Because of this I asked Indie to delete the old thread so that a new thread could be started. My hats off to Indi for hooking me up, Cheers mate!

On to the reason for the thread......

Remember a while back when I started working on the "heavy transport" model? well I haven't forgotten about it and in fact have cleaned the mesh up a bit and included the three different variant accessories (gun turret, vehicle/personnel and cargo) to one .blend file. this way one UVmap can be used to generate all three variations without having to retexture each one. I have asked a member of the forums to texture this model for me and he accepted there will be more updates to follow the texturing process as I get them. So here is an image of the re-worked meshes and more pictures will follow when the image links start working again.

*Pay no attention the the logo on the images, I am still gathering all of my resources before I broadcast my website. It's online but not open..if that makes sense..*


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Sweet!!!
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*edit*
I can post the WIP screens for the texture. I can't wait till Jon is finished with the texture, now the trick is to get every other model to look inline with this one

* attatched is the wip screenshot *

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As promised here are screenshots for the Landing pad/area. There are * screenshots showcasing two variations. The two showcased are the gun and the cargo variants. and then there is a screenshot of the scene layout.

* This is the general layout, I have a couple of different .blend files that I use for size reference.


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* Notice the energy refueling columns and flat hose, I plan on adding either independant mechanical arms or a solid fixed arm for each refueling pump.


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* There's nothing special about this screenshot....


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* this is the rear of the pad. If you notice the back is a flow through so personnel and equipment can be rapidly loaded on to the aircraft.


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* This is the right side ofthe aircraft, I wanted to show you the ammo reloading stuff, they are the same as the refueling hoses. They have been scaled and manipulated to fit the scene better.


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* This is a birdseye view of the scene, I took this just to show the scale of the landing pad/area.


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* This is the cargo config from the Left side


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* This is the cargo config from the right side


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Posted: 19th May 2007 17:59 Edited at: 19th May 2007 18:02
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Jon Fletcher? Oh man if thats him this is gonna look amazing! Pictures look amazing like you said I am also excited to see Jon's texture for this.
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Yeah jon's abilities are amazing. One day when I grow up I want to be just like him

I am nearly finished witht he landing pad...more screenies soon to follow..


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Very nice. If you look at the stuff on his site it's amazing, thumbs up to him and you.
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Here are three more updates to the landing pad... I added the mechanical arms and com towers. I have to add a few terminals and some air vents and then it will be ready for a texture and animation..


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and another one...


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The landing pad and it's little ornaments is roughly 2033 triangles at the moment. I expect to add a few more (500-600 more) before it's complete.

* I managed to get it below 2000 triangles, once I edit the cylinders it should fall well blow 1700 tria's.. *


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Here is a cleaned up version..I still have to reduce the cylinders...


Any feedback you all have is welcomed..

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I think I have beat a record for the most posts in a row... can someone say "Rampage!" in a cheezy video game voice?

Here is a texture update...This ship is looking sweet!


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WOW, these look amazing
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yeah, Jon is a definently talented...My hats off to him...


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cool.

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I have here three moc renders. I hope you an see more of the detail in these renders..


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number two..


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and render three...Oh yeah good news..I found one of my tank /blend files...Never thought about looking under the autosave folder.

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That looks awsome Reality Forgotten.
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Thanks man, I wish more people would post about it.

I have started animating the landing pad it's turning out very nice! I will post a video when I get the scene done..


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Here is the animation that I promised to show you...I think I'm going to speed some of it up. The arm is kinda jerky at one point but that's not a big deal I can fix that tomorrow.

*file attatched*

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awesome

it was until the shot with the tanks (and a little bit from the platform) that i realised how much bigger this thing is than i expected, I'll have to re-visit some areas of the texture

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looking good guys, good collaboration between two talented artists.

cant wait to see a final scene in action. are you going to use your previous terrain? or did you loose that?

anyway, let's see this become a great game

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Jon- What can I say I like 'em big...'er that is my aircraft anyway..

Moondog- I still have my terrain. I may create something just for this scene but not sure. I think I am going to take your advice and lose the tank tracks and create a plain with a scrolling texture on it..


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Quote: "Thanks man, I wish more people would post about it. "


Hey I just noticed that I am the second one to post the most in this thread, other than Reality Forgotten.

[EDIT] Nice animations looks awsome.
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The 'tail - I do not know the technical terminology, of the Aircraft looks strange to me. Is it two separated pieces for a special reason, or is it just the design?

You guys are doing a nice job on this. The aircraft's texture looks great so far. I want to see the whole render3 textured

Quote: "anyway, let's see this become a great game "


Will this be a game?

[edited because I had spelled "whore" instead of "whole" ]
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@mastercheif 193- Thanks man, The animation is still a little slow at the moment. I think I am going to wipe the animation data and redo it. something about the arm and the engine re-fuelers movement doesn't look right to me...any suggestions?

The story of "The tail"

When I first started designing this model it was going to be alot thinner and have only one verticle stab and no bottom verticle stab. Turns out that when I was inspecting all of my normals over half of them were flipped. I tried to fix this using the only method that I knew at the time, Which was to remove the face and re-create the face. Now that I know the errors of my way that will never happen again , so I deleted half of the first aircraft. So I created a mirror image of it and joind them. Turns out that I liked how the split tail looked and then I added the bottom verticle stabs. I think the back end looks close to a lamborghini in a way. Any way taht is the tale of the tail... so it is really due to my mess up but the design turned out very nice in the end..


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Quote: "Thanks man, The animation is still a little slow at the moment. I think I am going to wipe the animation data and redo it. something about the arm and the engine re-fuelers movement doesn't look right to me"


No problem, yeah the animations seemed slow to me too.

Quote: "any suggestions?"


Sorry I can't help you there I'm still in the learning to model phase and gonna be in that for a long time because I don't actually have time to practice in Blender because of school.
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Wow RF I'm totally digging those screens with the tanks and loading platform. Very cool looking and will be great with the texture.

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Quote: "No problem, yeah the animations seemed slow to me too."


Now that I look at the size of this ship the animations do seem to be the right speed. I think it's the arm movement that look a tad bit off. I will fix that today but no promises..

Thanks crazy, There area few more buildings that I need to complete for that scene. Then I make them DBPro ready and insert them in to my game...well that is the plan anyways

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I have started on some of the support ships.

This is a screenshot of the "close bomber" (side view)

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Here is screenshot fothe "close bomber" (front view)




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Thats looking very nice RF.
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thanks man, now if i can just figure out how to unwrap these models.... I have to spend more time reading tutorials..I know enough of blenders UVmap section to be dangerious but not enough to be proficient....


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Wow! Love this model. Btw are you going to make a escape pod???

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Thanks man, I am not sure if I'm going to create an escape pod for any of the airship models.

I Started practicing my mech modeling last night. I decided to model a sentinel (Imperial guard, Warhammer 40K) The pic is attatched.

*right now it is just a leg...
Crit wanted and welcomed. Enjoy!

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Nice leg ;-P, but the part of it (see image) looks like the "fingers" couldn't move. But it's easy to add somecylinders connecting the "fingers" to "foot".

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I think I'll add a few loops to the toe joint area, that should allow for the small movements required for walking.

Here is the latest texture update from Jon.


Enjoy!

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well guys, I am going to be away from my computer till the end of the month. My job has me on the move..see ya all on the flip side..


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well here are town images that I hope will sit with you all well. C and C requested...



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can't wait to see some texturing!
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Everything is looking amazing. I have one question though I can't figure out how to render like your gun turrent picture? Can you help me?
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Awesome, I hope these make it into a game.

That lift off sequence could be the intro movie.........
*starts working on flight sim code*
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