I'm workin' on a little bit of a MechWarrior mod and I need some help with things like skinning and getting the models into game. I would love to be able to add weapon functions also. This is my Madcat model so far:




I'm also throwing this model out here to maybe get some reactions . . . see what people think.

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[This message has been edited by Styles2304 (edited September 02, 2004).]

[This message has been edited by Styles2304 (edited September 02, 2004).]

for JK?

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Your Mech is to rounded. You have to much detail in some areas and to little detail in others. Mechs are usually pretty blocky, thats what makes them rawk.

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Ok well I don't really know what you're talking about. I followed a couple pics as best I couldd while keeping it from being extremely high poly. But uh . . . the areas that don't have enough detail? If I didn't model the detail then it will be there with the skin.

Anyways, I actually need people to help me skin or least skinMAP this thing for me so I can work on it myself.



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Haha, I remember my first ambtion, to port Mechwarrior to JK as a mod. Needless to say, I did nothing and never even got a single person helping. I gave up starting mods then.

Hahaha I feel ya Zell. And this is for JA . . . forgot to post that.

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What did you model that in? It looks like some version of 3DSM.

Cinema 4D.

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The feet -- particularly the toes -- seem a bit too small to support the mech realistically.

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Is there any way you could render it with a faceted texture, or turn off smoothing somehow?

Probably and about the feet. The rendering does something weird. Probably the smooth but it like cuts alot of them off.

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Ok actually I made the feet a little bit bigger but uh I can't get the rendering to do a good job. Either way, I just wanna try to get this thing in game . . . I can fix it from there.

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Well a bit of critique--

The smoothing looks like crap, at least for this kind of thing. Smoothing on a mech is not good. The only things that should be smooth and rounded are the body, legs, and maybe the arms (if they're using PPCs or lasers).

Also--Mad Cat==Timberwolf?

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post a flat shade, get rid of that ugly smothing...save it for the texture

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[This message has been edited by JEDI-Salvation (edited September 02, 2004).]

Yes thankyou . . .no need to say the same thing twice. But I doubt there will be a skin . . . I can't make one and I can't seem to get any help.

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http://www.psionic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tutorials/lowpoly/guv1.html

Yay google, 1st found for: Cinema 4d UV mapping

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Allright! Go JA!!!

...And that mech is a vehicle... right? You know. you press use and the vehicle stats bar comes up.

I Mother Kaking love you, i've been wanting a Battletech type mod for ages upon ages I'd have tried to make one myself by now if i could edit

looking good!

Now do a shadowcat and I'll be happy.

That vent on the back should be modeled, no need for it to be flat like that.





The feet are a tad bit wrong, according to MW4 standards.

Also, the arms are just a smidget longer.

The cockpit is a little more flat on the bottom, and has a larger nub than that.

Good start though. I like it alteast.

<3

Anyway, it looks too high-poly. Then again, C4D's default shading is pretty lousy. :\ Another thing I'm not so sure about is the nose of the cockpit. It looks odd, detached, and flat. The real mech seems to have a rounder, more unified nose.

Anyway, nice to see another C4D user around here.