2nd attempt; space armarda
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vbraun
Raytracing
vbraun
Raytracing
Smoking mirror
Ships Captain
looks realy cool. 
Didn't get much done today, had a go at making a shuttle base, but had problems with certain ideas (opening top cargo bay doors for laser/manipulation arm for worker shuttle) so I ended up playing game of the month. 
Won't get anything done this weekend, cos I'm in another county seeing my girlfriend but next weekend I'm going to be at home so I should be able to get a couple of units done or finish off the terrain.
I think the camera angles are slightly off, Neomega should be able to give you some pointers there when he checks your camera setup in the blender thread.
For the run animation try having the flames jet out from the back a little, I find it looks good if the ship slides foward slightly and then returns to its original position.
I think your civ colours need to be a little lighter, don't worry about the cockpit being civ coloured, it'll look fine in game. If you add vents and things make sure you have quite a few little details so they don't look too lonely.
Didn't get much done today, had a go at making a shuttle base, but had problems with certain ideas (opening top cargo bay doors for laser/manipulation arm for worker shuttle) so I ended up playing game of the month. Won't get anything done this weekend, cos I'm in another county seeing my girlfriend but next weekend I'm going to be at home so I should be able to get a couple of units done or finish off the terrain.
I think the camera angles are slightly off, Neomega should be able to give you some pointers there when he checks your camera setup in the blender thread.
For the run animation try having the flames jet out from the back a little, I find it looks good if the ship slides foward slightly and then returns to its original position.
I think your civ colours need to be a little lighter, don't worry about the cockpit being civ coloured, it'll look fine in game. If you add vents and things make sure you have quite a few little details so they don't look too lonely.
I took a look at the camera view, but can't add much ATM because I am still going through the tutorials very slowly during my lunch breaks. However, I think you will want to render in Orthographic view, and not perspective, because the game map is not in perspective view, so unitsw may look out of place
vbraun
Raytracing
Sword_Of_Geddon
Arbiter of the Sword
Each time I see that unit it gets better. I can't wait to see what the final project will look like!
vbraun
Raytracing
Oh you'll just love the explosian then. 
Does it look like its at the right angle for civ?
Does it look like its at the right angle for civ?
Sword_Of_Geddon
Arbiter of the Sword
Not sure. But you'll want the angle so that people can see most of the unit. Looks alright now in my opinion.
vbraun
Raytracing
vbraun
Raytracing
A Viking Yeti
Carnal Leviathan
Camera angle looks alright, IMO. I could be wrong though. The death looks cool, but maybe the model should move or break or something 
. Not trying to be picky, just looks like it's emitting a gas or something. Still cool though...
. Not trying to be picky, just looks like it's emitting a gas or something. Still cool though...
Smoking mirror
Ships Captain
That looks prety cool, do you think you could make the ship lurch or spin with the explosion? Also is it possible to make the blast effect fade slightly towards the end of the animation?
Viking_Yeti; Did you manage to solve the Flickster export problem? Usualy its one of three problems;
#1 wrong pallette. If your pallette has more or less than 256 colours it'll crash flickster.
#2 wrong size. If the cells of your .PCX storyboard are smaller or bigger than the size you specified for the flic, it'll crash flickster.
#3 wrong length. If the .PCX storyboard has too many or too few cells compared to the flic you're loading it as, it'll crash flickster.
If you're still having problems post the .PCX story board and I'll try to fix it.
Viking_Yeti; Did you manage to solve the Flickster export problem? Usualy its one of three problems;
#1 wrong pallette. If your pallette has more or less than 256 colours it'll crash flickster.
#2 wrong size. If the cells of your .PCX storyboard are smaller or bigger than the size you specified for the flic, it'll crash flickster.
#3 wrong length. If the .PCX storyboard has too many or too few cells compared to the flic you're loading it as, it'll crash flickster.
If you're still having problems post the .PCX story board and I'll try to fix it.
A Viking Yeti
Carnal Leviathan
It might have been the size, though I'm pretty sure it wasn't the palette... I converted it to 256, so if there's something I'm missing... One way or another, it'll get fixed ...
EDIT: I re-exprot the .fxm 3 times, and it still didn't work... I'm out of ideas, maybe you can help. The palette hasn't been edited, and the borders are black rather than a darker magenta, but I don't think it considers the borders (if that's the problem, I'm going to have to slap myself)... Also, the "transparent" background is many different shades of magenta (was going to fix that with palette editing). Not sure why, some odd thing with OpenFX...
I had to compress it because it was a whopping 3.72 mb's... I render all the animations at 240x240, and was going to shrink it, but I can't even make a .flc out of it, much less shrink...
The attachment doesn't seem to want to work either...
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...EDIT: I re-exprot the .fxm 3 times, and it still didn't work... I'm out of ideas, maybe you can help. The palette hasn't been edited, and the borders are black rather than a darker magenta, but I don't think it considers the borders (if that's the problem, I'm going to have to slap myself)... Also, the "transparent" background is many different shades of magenta (was going to fix that with palette editing). Not sure why, some odd thing with OpenFX...
I had to compress it because it was a whopping 3.72 mb's... I render all the animations at 240x240, and was going to shrink it, but I can't even make a .flc out of it, much less shrink...
The attachment doesn't seem to want to work either...
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A Viking Yeti
Carnal Leviathan
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vbraun
Raytracing
Maybe I could make it kind of flip then shrink? (to represent incineration) Casue the model is where i cant have it break 
I could have the turrets and fins come off though.
I could have the turrets and fins come off though.
A Viking Yeti
Carnal Leviathan
That would look good, a little spin, then the turrets and fins fly off in different directions... Just it sitting still though doesn't get the impact of your explosion accross...
vbraun
Raytracing
I have to completly redo the Death anim casue of an error and lack of saving. Ill fix it this afternoon.
A Viking Yeti
Carnal Leviathan
That sucks, good luck with that then...Similar threads
