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Offline Stormy

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« on: June 04, 2006, 08:42:22 PM »
Hello everyone!

I've just created a revised version of the laser lynx (I'm trying to get it looking right and having the polygon count as LOW as possible)
A top view of the laser lynx.

A closer view of the top.

A perspective view.

A lower perspective view showing the contours of the mesh.



A friendly note: The wheels are kinda blocky looking, I know. This is because I need to keep the polygon count down. Besides, you aren't going to be seeing them much anyway...


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Offline Sl0vi

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« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2006, 09:59:18 PM »
it looks very flat...
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Offline Betaray

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« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2006, 11:10:49 PM »
thats what skinning is for, once he puts the decals in and the coloring and textureing, Im sure it will look 400% better
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Offline TH300

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« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2006, 02:09:25 AM »
The turret could be bigger and more in the middle.
Looks promising though.
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Offline Sl0vi

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« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2006, 09:32:30 AM »
I'm not sure texturing is going to fix the flatness. I don't know, it's just something about the wheels and the body of the lynx that seem a bit off. It definetly needs bigger wheels, and the body needs to be a bit taller, and the wheels placed a little lower on it.
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« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2006, 02:24:00 PM »
I agree, the body needs to be taller.

Also, is the body really rounded or is the gouraud shading just playing tricks on my eyes?
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« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2006, 04:18:12 PM »
You beat me to it.
I was working on a new Lynx myself...
Well, here you go, maybe I can touch it up a bit and it can be made high-poly or whatever.



Yeah, that's supposed to be a Rail Gun. It was my first thing, so it doesn't look so great. But I still like it.
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« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2006, 05:10:01 PM »
I noticed that stormy put plenty of detail in his model.  I am guessing that he used subdivision, but isn't that against the goal of faster framerates?
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« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2006, 06:15:17 PM »
Nope, I didn't use any subdivision. I modeled that model all by hand, placing and moving vertices.

Sirbomber, I already have a high polygon model made... Sorry
 
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« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2006, 06:17:32 PM »
I'm sorry, but I am starting to imagine a high polygon lynx army.  You know, when a player is going to rush by sending an army of lynxes to an enemy base so early in the game.  Wouldn't that impact the framerates?
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Offline Sirbomber

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« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2006, 07:44:56 PM »
Movies only Iso.
And it's okay Stormy. It only took about 30 minutes.
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Offline Stormy

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« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2006, 07:55:00 PM »
I was going to add this to my previous post, but since there have been more posts, I will put it in a new post.


here are my modifications:


Let me know what you think...

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Offline Sl0vi

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« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2006, 08:16:06 PM »
I still think the wheels are too small :/
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« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2006, 11:02:43 PM »
they are as thick as the chassis is  thick...... that's really the biggest they need to be...
I'll post a side view later.

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« Reply #14 on: June 06, 2006, 06:47:18 AM »
well... the chassis doesn't really remind me much of a lynx either. It's the wrong shape, and should be twice the height of the wheels.

I think Sirbomber's design is the closest, but it's not quite right either.

Try looking at the MEUL.avi and MPUL.avi, you can get a pretty good picture of what a lynx is suppose to look like from that.
 
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« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2006, 07:52:51 AM »
Here's a piece of artwork Sierra/Dynamix released long ago, before the game was even out, of a lynx battle:



That would be what it should look like (after all, it IS what they designed)

I might have another picture of a lynx that they made as well.
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Offline Sl0vi

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« Reply #16 on: June 06, 2006, 12:02:57 PM »
that artwork is from one of the avi's I mentioned. Altho they seem to have combined 2 different frames, so there are 2 lynxes :D
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