TRON - VEHICLE - Conor
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I'm going to do an update on the original Encom chopper. The plan is to make a game-grid version and to modernize it to match the aircraft in TRON Legacy.
References below - concept coming soon!
References below - concept coming soon!
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At the moment I'm favoring the 3rd tail design and the bottom nose design. The rotors won't be like blades, they're just a big TRON disc floating on top of the chopper. I'm trying to incorporate some of the new costume design themes (angular chins and thin light-lines leading to circles) as well as the typical hollow-cylinder elements seen in the bikes.
Like thin and thick lines, or red ones and more bright orange yellow ones. Your design has a constant line thickness which makes it a bit bold to me. Like in comic art different types of line thickness can make patterns and graphics more appealing.
Version C is the latest one. I think I'll work with that basic layout and do a little more experimentation before I finalize the design.
I'm quite happy with the design now. Still got 254 triangles to play with - I'll probably use most of those for effects like a blurred rotor-pattern and shooting effects. I'm going to try to do the tail-rotor hole with alpha texture rather than polygons as I think the 1024 poly budget is more restrictive than the 2x512 texture budget.
Here's the final model and UV layout.
The main body of the vehicle will use 1 512 map, and the second map will be for the rotors, muzzle-flash, bullets and explosion effects. I'm hoping to animate it shooting at something.
Still have to add some texture detail, specular map, and various effects.
Texture's finished. Now to work on the in-game shot and beauty shot. Expect explosions!
On another note I dig the chopper. Any plans to animate it?
Duncan - Yeah I know Arthur, he was on my iPhone games course last year!
Latest update - ingame shot...
Sammuelsama - thanks, that's the in-game shot though. Beauty shot still to come.
Im especially intrieged by your pipeline. I'll try to do it myself. I have a great engine model that needs a home. (http://plaza.ufl.edu/rooster/img/rocket_engine.jpg).
If you have any advice for me, plz tell.
ps: is this your own engine or is it just a photoshopped hud? seeing that you got some experience with making your own games at your site I would guess its actually coded but I'm not sure.:poly121:
Daniel.C - This image is a combination of render and photoshop, not realtime. However I am currently experimenting with a flight-sim/combat game in Unity, so this HUD mockup was actually an exercise in practical HUD design with a real game in mind, albeit with a Tron flavor.
MattQ86 - yeah that would be fun. I'd like to do a sci-fi chopper game sometime.
Can't wait to see the beauty shot.
Here are some constructive crits
Maybe you should add some color variation in your texture, it looks cool so far, but I'm sure that with the different tone and hues variation (on the metal plates etc...), it'll look more even more badass ! I know that you've take the Recognizer as reference but I find it really monochromatic...
I see that you have already achieved your mock-up and editor views, so if you just must retake those shots cause of the texture just ignore me and my comment
Anyway, I like the rotor treatment on your copter, really Tron style
Great work
Here's a picture of what i'm talking about :poly141:
Any input on this issue would be greatly appreciated!
Here's some test renders from an animation I'm working on...
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It's a still from the animation - hopefully I'll get it finished in the next couple of days and put it in my submission.
Could you possibly write up something about how you did the light ribbon again? I've tried doing stuff with the general idea you talked about but have gotten less than stellar results.
looks great, you have to teach that stuff next year. have you listened to the Legacy OST?
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Snex - are you at RMIT? We're planning to include a low-polygon option in the 3D character Maya class this year. I really enjoyed the Daft Punk Tron soundtrack. The music in my video is a dubstep combination of the main Tron theme from "The Grid" with the strings from "Recognizer".
Nah I wont be at RMIT, the low poly option would be great, you should use the Pre Dom War rules as a base, just change the theme. All I have been listening to recently has been the Legacy OST.