Skaven rats: Giant rat & Bilge rat (March 25th, 2006)

aaglo · Mar 25, 2006

Hi!
Here are two different skaven rats. A giant rat and a bilge rat. Enjoy

Here are the files for the giant rat:
Giant rat (~578 kb)

Here is a giant rat run animation preview:

Here are the files for the bilge rat:
Bilge rat (~1,0 Mb)

Here are some bilge rat animation previews (run, attack & death):

Attached is an image of these two unit's civilopedia images

The Last Conformist · Mar 25, 2006

Kawaiiiiii! :love:

aaglo · Mar 25, 2006

TLC, sometimes your comment baffle me :lol:

DJ Bonebraker · Mar 25, 2006

Aaglo: Kawaii is Japanese for "cute", which these guys aren't......

They are well animated though.

Kyriakos · Mar 25, 2006

They are great, however the first one gets its right hand below the ground while running. Since it isnt digging the earth up- or was that the intention? it cannot be seen if the same thing is happening with the left hand) this looks a bit strange, and in game could look like an error in the animation

Vuldacon · Mar 25, 2006

Oh, aren't they "Cute" Rats! :mischief:

Seriously, Great additions aaglo...having the Bilge Rat with a transport strapped on its back makes for a Fun novelty. :goodjob:

Spacer One · Mar 25, 2006

sweet units aaglo...do you mind if the giant rat finds its way to Narnia?...

aaglo · Mar 25, 2006

@space one,
no, I don't mind at all

@varwnos,
yep, I know there are flaws in all my run animations (in those units that can run, i.e. they have legs of some sort) - but with current knowledge and capabilities, I cannnot fix them

. But it's a run-animation, and it goes by so quickly those flaws are barely noticeable (especially since the unit is moving during the animation).

Goldflash · Mar 25, 2006

Arrrr! Now Datz a Bildge Rat!

Iron Beagle · Mar 25, 2006

These fantasy units are strange, well-made, and very clever ... but mostly strange.

Mithadan · Mar 25, 2006

The Bilge Rat is the coolest. A living boat! Bwa ha ha!

odintheking · Mar 25, 2006

These are awesome, aaglo, :goodjob:

Orthanc · Mar 25, 2006

Oops, I think I was requested to do the Bilge Rat a long ways back, thanks for doing it for me aaglo, it looks good.

@varwnos
you'd probably notice a bit of that 'error' in all POV Ray units with legs, walking is achieved by applying a math function to the leg shapes, having a shape not go through the floor would require VERY precise adjustments of this fairly complicated formula (and a HECK of a lot of re-rendering to watch for mistakes). There's no code to by default prevent things from going through the floor (otherwise my boats would have some serious issues with so much of the hull sitting below the floor/water :eek:

), so we'd love to make this perfect, but I'm not sure that's even possible while maintaining an organic looking walk.

Anyways, hey aaglo, how'd you make those tails?

aaglo · Mar 25, 2006

they're sphere-sweeps

Stormrage · Mar 25, 2006

Oooh, they look so pretty

Great job, aaglo!

Snorken · Mar 25, 2006

Your definition of "pretty" sure is weird, Stormrage.

Nice job, aaglo.

LMR · Mar 25, 2006

Once again, great job aaglo :thumbsup:

Orthanc · Mar 26, 2006

Thought so, blob wouldn't quite work for that, throw a whole heck-load of those onto a blob and you could make a pretty crazy squid or something.

Hm, you could do a Kraken (not really a request, I don't need it, but it sure would be cool)

mrtn · Mar 27, 2006

Thanks mate!

Halidon55 · Mar 28, 2006

The Bilge Rat is one of kind. Nice work.

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