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stonky350
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This will join the AT-AT in it's tour of duty at some point. It's very early, but I thought I'd post it anyway. I quickly applied some flat color for context:
More to come.
More to come.
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Can't wait to see him playing with the AT AT ...
Hopefully a little less stubby looking now:
Should check this out Stonky:
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/showthread.php?78604-First-Strike-(Star-Wars-mod-for-BF2142)-Battle-of-Hoth-WIP
If you ever fancy doing a bit of Star Wars modeling for in game use you should get in touch, First Strike is always on the look out for good artists with a love of all things Star Wars. Loved your Walker.
:thumb:
Great work!
I've been making some tweaks to the snowspeeder while I've been working on the Star Destroyer, etc., and by tweaks, I mean I rebuilt 90% of it from scratch.
redo_1.jpg
redo_2.jpg
redo_3.jpg
More to come shortly.
dont tell me you're gonna use it to knock down that AT????
How could I not?
A few more details, and I've roughed in a couple of pilots for the time being (not 100% sold on their position and scale):
redo_4.jpg
redo_5.jpg
Even though it's a relatively small and nimble craft, there's a beefiness and an industrial functionality to the details that has always appealed to me. More to come.
he uses Houdini as far as I know
Yes, like ChrisGFX said, I spend a lot of my time in houdini, but I do use other things like maya, 123D catch, UV Layout, sketchup, ZBrush, etc. as well depending on what it is that I'm doing. But yeah, the snowspeeder is mostly houdini at the moment (including the renders).
I think you're right, they are a bit big, good catch. I'll adjust. There's a good scale analysis here that I'm inclined to buy into:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Discussing-about-scales-in-star-wars/topic/10969/page/3/
...putting the overall length at 5.3 metres (about 17 feet 3 inches), which is handy for figure size and when working out it's relationship to the AT-AT (whose scale is a whole other kettle of fish obviously).
One of the things that I've always liked about this particular craft are the control surfaces/flaps. I'm looking forward to getting into animation and exploring those, not just in terms of steering, but also in adding subtle vibrations to give it some life and to sell the wind resistance and the rickety nature of the rebellion equipment.
More to come!
BTW, one of the renders made it look like an actual plastic model with the depth of field, but now even the pilots look like hand-painted! o_O Nice touch :thumb:
Yeah, I remember getting the model kit of this way back when, and being so overjoyed that it included the working control surfaces unlike the Star Wars figure toy of that time. It is definitely a cool feature, especially when seen in action in the movies.
Here's a quick scale animation test (attached QuickTime movie) using the measurements for the Snowspeeder and the AT-AT that were discussed on the originaltrilogy.com forum linked above. I think that it works okay, a good point of reference might be when the first speeder flies though the legs of the first AT-AT. I haven't animated the flaps or done anything else fancy, I just quickly flew what I had so far around an old AT-AT walk cycle that I had lying around, so forgive the crappy animation, camera work, etc.
I had the old plastic ERTL/mpc Snowspeeder kit too! The vehcile itself was pretty good I thought, but the pilots were terrible!
haha, i remember having this kit, the tiny 2 AA battery drill they gave you in the kit to do the drilling, with the bit that wasnt sharp enough and also slipped loose on the mount...
and WOW even just as a test anim, that looks great already!!!
(did anyone else actually hear the blasters and speeder engine noises in their head as they watched???)
I've been fiddling around with a terrain generation/procedural flaps animation test:
[video=youtube_share;bEy_EDOieog]
It started with just the terrain, but I couldn't resist working on some flight stuff as well as the flaps.
Like the video description says, the flaps are driven by the vehicle's pitch - I'll work on layering in the left and right steering into the flaps as well.
The snowpeeder itself hasn't changed much since the last update (still no bottom, harpoon gun, etc., etc.