Saw this picture and thought...


That's not a blimp.
This is a blimp!





So... Questions, Suggestions, Polycount? Sorry, doesn't pop... Will it? Maybe... I KNOW! End the level in faliure if you pop it. It will be filled with... Eh... Nitro? Not to bright with chemestry...

/Edward

[This message has been edited by Edward (edited April 28, 2004).]

Amazing! Does the ladder work?

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Could look good, but the textures look way too unaligned (or whatever the modern word is).

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Well, they are climbable, only you'll have to jump for each step.

The textures... Yes... They are unaligned, and yet, I used ForceRemap. I WAS RIPPED OFF!!!

/Edward

I've seen bigger.

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Yay! Blimp of wood!

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Haha, very clever.


I probably should have said this before, but it needs texture work and some lighting.

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Will it blow up like the real ones did?

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I dunno... the first one looks a bit cleaner.

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The texturing is hideous, there isn't much to the model... I'd say take a look at some pictures of real blimps and start over.

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I just thought I'd point out that you were correct. That's not a blimp, it's a zeppelin.

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Anyway the Hindenberg disaster was probably a result of sabatoge.

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You were probably a result of sabotage. Ohhh dis

Anyway, that texturing needs help badly.

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Quit interfering with my trying to go off topic!

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Well, don't blame me! Blame ForceRemap! I thought it would make the textures tilable all around the balloon. But I guess you need something more advanced if your going to make a 256x256 mat with lots of little squares wrap around 23 layers. I don't suppose there is any program that can set a mat to be the same size as two triangles? I made the balloon in 3DSmax.

/Edward

Why are there 23 layers for the sphere?

Look at how simple what I did was: Here's the render of the object using orthographic prespective.

[IMG]
Resized to 256 x 256 and palleted
[img]http://www3.telus.net/public/blimke/images/jed/blimp.jpg[/img]

Then using forceremap I selected auto remapping top. I only needed to use one layer for the 3do which has a total of 392 polygons. Even for just an inefficient test like this the results are more pleasing. Later when I split the mesh into several layers and use multiple textures I'll post to explain how that is done.

[This message has been edited by Simblimke (edited May 02, 2004).]

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Early zepplins like the Hindenberg were filled with EXPLOSIVE hydrogen, the lightest element. After the disaster, zepplins were filled with the much-safer helium, the second lightest element.

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The blimp skin was also made from, included or was covered with (I cannot remember which) a compound very similar to rocket fuel...

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