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Got bored, opened 3sdm
2004-08-12, 5:50 PM #1
Voila.

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/14710.jpg]

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/14711.jpg]

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/14712.jpg]

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/14713.jpg]

Build time, around two hours.
849 faces, but I need to delete some hidden ones behind the cockpit.

Thinking about giving it some animations and throwing it into a DarkBasic game.

Comments/critiques?
2004-08-12, 7:02 PM #2
Looks like solid progress. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2004-08-12, 7:08 PM #3
It that robot made of titanium?

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2004-08-13, 3:51 AM #4
Bleh, not textured yet. Also, I just realized I'm going to have to add a joint to each leg if I want it to walk smoothly. I'll update when I get that done.
2004-08-13, 4:28 AM #5
[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/14714.jpg]

After a couple optimizations, face count stands at 552.
2004-08-13, 5:04 AM #6
It could do with some more roundings at the 'shoulders' and at the base of the cockpit.

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2004-08-13, 6:50 AM #7
I chamfered the corners of the shoulders and moved some of the body vertices around.

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/14715.jpg]
2004-08-13, 7:20 AM #8
Hehe, that robot looks silly.

Nice work. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2004-08-13, 7:37 AM #9
Thanks for the comments. Got bones working, so... action poses!

Some standing:
[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/14721.jpg]

A bit of jumping:
[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/14722.jpg]

And a shot from the running anim.:
[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/14723.jpg]

642 polys (polies? bah). As this is one of my first times importing a model into a game, is that a good poly count to have for something of its detail level?
2004-08-13, 8:06 AM #10
i think yes.

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2004-08-13, 6:56 PM #11
Teach me how to model. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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2004-08-13, 9:02 PM #12
It's kinda cute. Reminds me of a frog for some reason. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2004-08-13, 9:24 PM #13
Animation shots + Model remind me from those robots Tails and Dr.Egghead used in Sonic Adventure 2 [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

Nice work!

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2004-08-13, 9:37 PM #14
Oooh, sexy.

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2004-08-14, 4:20 AM #15
Thanks everyone [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

Any more suggestions for the walker itself before I start trying to texture the thing?
2004-08-14, 5:51 AM #16
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SAJN_Master:
Animation shots + Model remind me from those robots Tails and Dr.Egghead used in Sonic Adventure 2 [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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Is it sad if I still love that game [http://forums.massassi.net/html/redface.gif]


Anywho, I really like it. You should make a movie from its animations.



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2004-08-14, 6:02 AM #17
YAY LEGOS! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-08-14, 8:42 AM #18
Will this be a JA or UT2k4 vehicle? [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2004-08-14, 12:48 PM #19
Your modeling is a little 2D. Perhaps round out the cockpit a bit more, meaning the big bay area, etc. The design is generally lacking, but with the animations, it looks a lot better. It does look a bit mroe ratchet and clank than mechwarrior, though. Don't know which you were going for.

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2004-08-14, 2:46 PM #20
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SAJN_Master:
Animation shots + Model remind me from those robots Tails and Dr.Egghead used in Sonic Adventure 2 [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

Nice work!</font>
You win, by the way. I had those bots and the ones the first few bosses used in mind when I was making this.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Oberfeldwebell:
Will this be a JA or UT2k4 vehicle? [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]</font>
Um, neither unless someone else wants to import it. I'm using IK chains and 3dsmax doesn't export to .x format, so the animations don't show up in-game.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jEDIkIRBY:
Your modeling is a little 2D. Perhaps round out the cockpit a bit more, meaning the big bay area, etc. The design is generally lacking, but with the animations, it looks a lot better. It does look a bit mroe ratchet and clank than mechwarrior, though. Don't know which you were going for.

JediKirby</font>
I'm out of town at the moment, but when I get back tomorrow I'm going to run a MeshSmooth modifier on it, which should make it a bit more organic and cool looking. (while tripling the polycount...ugh). I do see what you mean, though. I'll round it out a bit more before meshsmoothing it. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]
2004-08-14, 4:34 PM #21
No! Meshsmooth! *groans* The rest of the model looks FINE! A meshmooth only makes it look sloppy, and some people over use it, thus no skill is involved in their creations, and they just use subdivision until the model looks all round and fluidy. That's BAD.

JediKirby

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2004-08-14, 5:28 PM #22
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Is it sad if I still love that game </font>


No, it's my favorite Sonic Game of them all >.<

/dodges rocks

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2004-08-15, 4:18 PM #23
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jEDIkIRBY:
No! Meshsmooth! *groans* The rest of the model looks FINE! A meshmooth only makes it look sloppy, and some people over use it, thus no skill is involved in their creations, and they just use subdivision until the model looks all round and fluidy. That's BAD.

JediKirby</font>
But it looks so cooool [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/14739.jpg]

Bah, fine. No meshsmooth.

[This message has been edited by Omicron88 (edited August 15, 2004).]
2004-08-15, 4:28 PM #24
Step one. Delete 3d Studio Max.
Step two. Get Lightwave.
Step three. Dominate.

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2004-08-15, 4:33 PM #25
It looks like crap smoother >.<

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2004-08-15, 5:44 PM #26
See?

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2004-08-15, 7:46 PM #27
Step 1: Don't listen to Bill.
Step 2: Don't you MeshSmooth
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Prof- No, its used to much, forget it. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2004-08-15, 8:24 PM #28
Ok, it's not like I know anything about realistic looking models....

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>>untie shoes
2004-08-15, 9:17 PM #29
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bill:
Ok, it's not like I know anything about realistic looking models....

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Well said. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

Still, the modeling program being used really isn't the deciding factor in these things.

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2004-08-15, 9:29 PM #30
Well.. It does when we're talking about lightwave. I make my models using what I call point by point modeling, but that's another discussion for another thread. That being said, no other modeling programs that I have seen offer a similar option. Therefore, as far as I am concerned, Lightwave is the best thing out there. For modeling anyway. Animating and Rendering may be a different story all together.

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>>untie shoes
2004-08-15, 10:03 PM #31
Haha, cool. I wish Wildfire would post his robot models as well.

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2004-08-16, 5:22 AM #32
I do all my modeling in MS3D with point by point modeling now. Lightwave isn't the only one ;-)

Bill, I'd like to learn lightwave so I can do point by point, but use that in combination with the booleans. Would you be willing to teach me, or direct me to tutorials? I'm using LW8.

JediKirby

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2004-08-16, 6:41 AM #33
I use lightwave 7.5, and to be honest, it's really not that hard to learn. It took me about a week to really get the hang of the tools. I use only point by point modeling, booleaning, and beveling. That's all you really need for guns and such. After you get the hang of modeling, it's time to move on to texturing, and that isn't very hard either. But I advise working on models first. Just import a background image, place those points where they should be and make polys out of them by selecting them in a clockwise fashion and hitting p. It couldn't be more simple.

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>>untie shoes
2004-08-16, 7:24 AM #34
Alright, reworked it a bit.

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/14744.jpg]

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/14743.jpg]

Up to 752 faces now.
2004-08-16, 11:47 AM #35
MUCH more awesome. Really badical man.

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2004-08-16, 2:25 PM #36
Thanks [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

...*not a bump*
2004-08-16, 3:04 PM #37
I like the cockpit a lot more, but a lot of those faces just looks like you used one of those fancy smanshy filtering functions to make them rounded. There's a whole lot of excess polygonage, and a lot of absolutelly useless sections on the rest of the body that really don't make sense.

JediKirby

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2004-08-16, 3:20 PM #38
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jEDIkIRBY:
I like the cockpit a lot more, but a lot of those faces just looks like you used one of those fancy smanshy filtering functions to make them rounded.</font>
Er...are you referring to the area above the cockpit? I extruded that and outlined it a bit to make the top look like a chamferbox. I deleted the meshsmooth modifier, and I haven't added any more to any sections of it. Oh, and the two bars you can see in the cockpit window in the second-to-last pic were hogging polies for no real reason, so I deleted those.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jEDIkIRBY:
There's a whole lot of excess polygonage, and a lot of absolutelly useless sections on the rest of the body that really don't make sense.

JediKirby</font>
I can see a couple that I'll be trimming off, but can you be a bit more specific?

Thanks for all the comments, by the way.

[This message has been edited by Omicron88 (edited August 16, 2004).]

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