[Rott3]

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 Bob II

(For some strange and compelling reason the skull looks like Spider-Mans face. )

[Anaz]

Cool. The legs seem a tad bit skinny though.

[WMCoolmon]

A dwarf 'mech!!

[NGTM-1R]

The legs do look skinny, and also kinda short, even for a Dreadnaught.

[mikhael]

Bob's cute!

Kickass.

[Singh]

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!)?

[Rott3]

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 Bob IV
Yay or nay?

[Anaz]

Thicker!

And Nico, go play dawn of war, they walk kind of duck-ish.

[Nico]

Nico knows well how dreadnaught walk (and how they don't like railguns ). 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

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

[Rott3]

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 Bob VI
Bob VII

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.

[WMCoolmon]

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 )

Oh well, I guess I can tell you to use Bobb's animation system to make it walk.

[Nico]

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

[Grug]

Awsome! ^_^

Too bad we don't have a FS2 40k mod.

[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?

[Martinus]

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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[Anaz]

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

I can't wait.

[Grug]

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!

Too true!

Everyone who buys something from the store just gets done up the arse by GW everytime the cash register goes "cha-ching!".

[Rott3]

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?  I need a step-by-step guide to everything.

[Roanoke]

See of these at 3dpalace.com as 0one of the admins did a Max video tut for the very same model.

[Rott3]

Discard my CURSES!! post.

Check this - OMG WTF LOL RTFM STFU ROLFMAO

For some reason the texturing is all screwy. In MAX it was a pretty tiled crap, but here it is a blurry piece of ****.