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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Rott3 on July 13, 2005, 03:56:41 pm

Title: Even in death i still serve
Post by: Rott3 on July 13, 2005, 03:56:41 pm: I present thee - Bob The Dreadnaught (No offence, Bob). It's my first model of these proportions. By that i mean it has more than 500 polys. It has about 15000 and it hasn't seen optimisation since 259 BC. It is my take on the Dreadnaught, so if you are a fan of the original one, tough luck. I know it could be tuned and scaled and other crap done to it, but it is nearly midnight, and im going to sleep.

So check these - Bob I (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob_01.jpg) Bob II (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob_02.jpg)

(For some strange and compelling reason the skull looks like Spider-Mans face. :wtf: )
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Post by: Anaz on July 13, 2005, 04:43:54 pm: Cool. The legs seem a tad bit skinny though.
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Post by: WMCoolmon on July 13, 2005, 05:06:27 pm: :lol:

A dwarf 'mech!! :D
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Post by: NGTM-1R on July 13, 2005, 05:11:39 pm: The legs do look skinny, and also kinda short, even for a Dreadnaught.
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Post by: mikhael on July 13, 2005, 09:55:05 pm: Bob's cute! :D

Kickass.
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Post by: Singh on July 13, 2005, 11:35:05 pm: Now, THAT is the very essence if kick-assedness.

However, I have to ask - how does it walk? Doesnt seem to have many knees, suggesting that it goes around like what? A duck or a booby (first person to laugh DIES!)?
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Post by: Rott3 on July 14, 2005, 02:46:41 am: Good morning HLP family!!!!

Yes i know the legs are skinny, but i'm already fixing it.
As for walking, i guess you would say 'duckystyle'

New legs - Bob III (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob_03.jpg) Bob IV (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob_04.jpg)
Yay or nay?
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Post by: Anaz on July 14, 2005, 12:12:52 pm: Thicker!

And Nico, go play dawn of war, they walk kind of duck-ish.
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Post by: Nico on July 14, 2005, 01:10:18 pm: Nico knows well how dreadnaught walk (and how they don't like railguns :p). Singh's the one who asked ;)
They walk like that:
http://www.exile-films.com/media/dread_720_sorenson.mov
Well, that's an ork dread, but imperial ones walk the same way, just less rock&roll :p

about the mesh, the legs/body joint is too short and the legs too thin, and the coffin is too wide:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/spacemarines/Dreads/siege8.jpg
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Post by: Rott3 on July 14, 2005, 03:49:36 pm: Killa Kans own. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHH!!!!

Damn you Google Image Search! Damn you to hell! I can never-ever find reference pics that are worth more than a used piece of toilet paper. Blah.

But now i present thee the third (and hopefully final) batch of renders -
Bob V (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob_05.jpg) Bob VI (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob_06.jpg)
Bob VII (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob_07.jpg)

And now, ass i did yesterday, i'm going to sleep. But stay tuned, for tomorrow we shall try something so dumb, that even An0n wouldn't dare to do it - let Bob loose in the FS2 universe (that is if i can get it to convert). So join us again, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel.
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Post by: WMCoolmon on July 14, 2005, 04:02:53 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rott3
And now, ass i did yesterday, i'm going to sleep. But stay tuned, for tomorrow we shall try something so dumb, that even An0n wouldn't dare to do it - let Bob loose in the FS2 universe (that is if i can get it to convert). So join us again, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel.

Dammit. I thought I would get to be the one to suggest that (seeing as how I'm the first one to reply :p)

Oh well, I guess I can tell you to use Bobb's animation system to make it walk. :p
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Post by: Nico on July 14, 2005, 05:12:41 pm: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/acatalog/SPACE_MARINE_DREADNOUGHTS.html

There, you shall find many references on dreadnaughts there. They'll have new arms or stuff, but they're still basicaly dreadnaughts, check, maily, the alternative weapons and the "more pictures are available here" links, you'll have lots of shots at different angles. Alternatively, you can use the real model as a refernce ;)
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Post by: Grug on July 14, 2005, 07:36:07 pm: Awsome! ^_^

Too bad we don't have a FS2 40k mod. :p
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Post by: Rott3 on July 15, 2005, 03:06:05 am: Now, if i had those pics before, i could of made it better, but i am lazy as hell so i probably won't change it much.

Now for animations, how do i use Bobb's animation code?
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Post by: Martinus on July 15, 2005, 03:10:36 am: Quote
Originally posted by Rott3
Now, if i had those pics before, i could of made it better, but i am lazy as hell so i probably won't change it much.

Now for animations, how do i use Bobb's animation code?

[color=66ff00]You could buy one of those laser-cutty-3D fabrication units and crank out your own RL™ models.

They cost a couple of grand but that's the same price as what? 6 games workshop space marines and some paint.
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Post by: Anaz on July 15, 2005, 03:32:40 am: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]You could buy one of those laser-cutty-3D fabrication units and crank out your own RL™ models.

They cost a couple of grand but that's the same price as what? 6 games workshop space marines and some paint.
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on a gleeful sidenote, the uni I'm going to in the fall has one of those :nervous:

I can't wait.
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Post by: Grug on July 15, 2005, 04:23:58 am: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor

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They cost a couple of grand but that's the same price as what? 6 games workshop space marines and some paint.
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LMAO! :lol:

Too true!

Everyone who buys something from the store just gets done up the arse by GW everytime the cash register goes "cha-ching!".
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Post by: Rott3 on July 15, 2005, 07:53:43 am: CURSES!! I can't get it to convert. That could be because i have never converted a thing to FS2 before (don't hit me) so i'm probably doing something wrong. I'm using Max7+POF export plugin. Do i need to do everything told in the readme? Once i managed to export it without crashes, but then Modelview said - Too huge submodel, too many points defined. Is: 16048, Should be <=8000 What do i have to do? :confused: I need a step-by-step guide to everything.
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Post by: Roanoke on July 15, 2005, 11:12:17 am: See alot of these at 3dpalace.com as 0one of the admins did a Max video tut for the very same model.
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Post by: Rott3 on July 15, 2005, 11:55:49 am: Discard my CURSES!! post.

Check this - OMG (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob/screen0000.jpg) WTF (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob/screen0001.jpg) LOL (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob/screen0002.jpg) RTFM (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob/screen0003.jpg) STFU (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob/screen0004.jpg) ROLFMAO (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/bob/screen0006.jpg)

For some reason the texturing is all screwy. In MAX it was a pretty tiled crap, but here it is a blurry piece of ****.
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Post by: NGTM-1R on July 15, 2005, 12:26:46 pm: The NTD Repulse is a Dreadnaught. Heh...
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Post by: Grug on July 16, 2005, 04:45:34 am: LoL.

Awsome job dude! :D

Tiles eh? Maybe try UV UnWrapping it?

Funny to see in FS2 though :p ^_^
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Post by: Singh on July 16, 2005, 04:48:26 am: I want to see Vasuda-Man or Duke shiva go up against that thing! :D
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Post by: Rott3 on July 16, 2005, 07:55:24 am: Quote
Originally posted by Grug
LoL.

Awsome job dude! :D

Tiles eh? Maybe try UV UnWrapping it?

Funny to see in FS2 though :p ^_^

Well, thats the problem - it is unwrapped. It uses the tiled capital07 texture, which is in the material editor tiled 40 times. Sure, it looks ugly, but doesn't come close to the uglyness in FS2.

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Originally posted by Singh
I want to see Vasuda-Man or Duke shiva go up against that thing!

Bob would win. Although it needs to be scaled bigger to meet the other dudes sizes, Bob would still Assaultcannon their strangely constructed asses off. I guess. Maybe it wouldn't. Hell, it doesn't even fire anything now.
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Post by: Nico on July 16, 2005, 08:23:13 am: Pah, dreadnaughts are clumsy, slow, crappy things :p
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Post by: Rott3 on July 16, 2005, 09:52:08 am: :eek2: LIES!!!!
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Post by: Nico on July 16, 2005, 09:58:09 am: My Crisis and Broadsides (especially my Broadsides :p) exoarmors assure you they suck :p

btw, now that 80% is plastic, GW stuff is way cheaper than it used to be, and to be honest, I have a few armies, but still I've spent much less in them than in my PC or videogames, and they last much more, so make me gay, since I like being done up the ass by GW, at least more than by "generic editor" :p
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Post by: Rott3 on July 16, 2005, 11:57:57 am: You son of a Michael Jackson *shiver* Curse you and other people who can buy 40k stuff from the store. I can't buy any GW stuff from any other places than The Net. Although i haven't looked very much. Actually i haven't looked at all.

Damn you and your Crisis and Broadsides exoarmors to the toilet.
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Post by: Carl on July 16, 2005, 12:08:58 pm: Killa KHAAAAAAN's?
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Post by: NGTM-1R on July 16, 2005, 03:41:15 pm: Tau uber alles!

I still want that FPS game...
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Post by: Nico on July 16, 2005, 06:07:51 pm: Firewarrior? It's not bad, but it's not good either. I never managed to complete the last level ~~

That being said, tau ubber all save for space marines (it's pretty tough, 50/50, unless they're stupid enough to waste points on dreadnaugts -:p-, predators and land raiders, instead of bringing more space marines -damn I hate these 3+ saves ~~) and necrons (necrons totally own the tau ~~).
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Post by: NGTM-1R on July 16, 2005, 07:29:53 pm: Necrons own almost everything, in my experience, so the Tau are in good company.
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Post by: Rott3 on July 17, 2005, 04:37:44 am: Bah. You people and your 40k discussion in which i can't participate. :ick:

Alas!! Bob has escaped from my computer and is coming to invade yours (that is, if you decide to download him. If you don't, Bob will be very pissed) :nervous: (http://www.zone.ee/solk666/Bob.rar) Run for your LIVES!!

I don't care what you do to him (don't rape him to death, though) but gimme some respect, homies :thepimp: Credit me