Orthanc's Creation Thread

[Orthanc]

Yeah my computer's caught a bit of a bug which has been causing various issues with my internetz, the image cut out for me too, but I've re-uploaded it, hopefully it works for everyone now.

Just realized my original plan was for the fidget to be the submerge/emerge animation, so what I'll do is just rename Fidget to Victory.

Here's hoping I can animate the attacks quickly!

 

[Stormrage]

I saw it, ts amazing..

 

[Orthanc]

Boat, looks like this won't be finished for the May competitions.

Oh well, it'll certainly be finished soon, I wouldn't be surprised if I could have it out by tomorrow night.
But in the meantime, while my computer renders as-if-its-going-out-of-style, prepare to broadside:

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Nice.....can't wait for the triple cannons!

 

[Stormrage]

I like it alot!

 

[BadKharma]

The attack looks awesome. The original fidget that you posted that will now be the victory looks really good. Cannot wait to see the new fidget with the submerge.

 

[Orthanc]

Thanks again everyone, really appreciate you guys stickin around this thread!

*sigh* Okay looks like it won't be done today either, I'm going to just say it'll be done when it's done, cause obviously I can't predict when I'll finish things, lol.

The fidget is rendering now and I'm quite happy with how it looks, but I'll save the preview for the release so that you have something to look forward too. Just have Attacks C and D (E too, but it's nearly identical to C so it hardly counts) and the Death to deal with.

In other news, remember that Arsenal Gear is next line, but I also hope to do return to working on my nigh-abandoned POV-Ray tutorial while I work on Arsenal. Good times!

 

[HunterAnubis]

YES ARSENAL!!! I hope I wount by on vacation before its finished
btw Have you thought of making all Metal Gears + other related stuf?

 

[Orthanc]

Well HunterAnubis I've already made Rex and Ray if that's what you mean. While we lack a Solid Snake, I need not mention once more the current to-do list length.

And while I'm going link happy, guess what's done! Something! A boat! How unlike me to make a boat!

Sail the Dutchman here.

 

[Balthasar]

I've been keeping an eye on this thread too...Great work on this one Orthanc. It's perfect.

 

[HunterAnubis]

Ive been here when you made them remember? But Ive ment making Gekko, Metal Gear D,Metal Gear RAXA,Shagohod,Metal Gear GANDER....and that ry could use better walk and colours by my opinion

That dutcham is superb
(btw no one cares but I upgraded my ship to lvl 8 in one online game he he he)

 

[BadKharma]

Amazing job on the Dutchman, I cannot wait to see what you do next.

 

[Orthanc]

Just gonna throw together a striped-sail version of my old Pirate Ship, then Arsenal work shall commence.

EDIT: The new version's done, I've also linked yet another version of the Pirae Ship I put together not long after finishing the original, so if you count the Ghost Ship (not the Flying Dutchman, but the one which uses the same model as my Pirate SHip) I've made 4 different versions of the same boat. Anwho, since the Pirate Ship thread is quite old I'll just be mentioning that update here.

 

[BadKharma]

That is a small ship I realize it is for Zelda but what would that size ship represent in something other than zelda?

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Maybe a fancy pirate ship?

 

[Orthanc]

I think in a normal Civ game it would fit as either a smaller Pirate/Privateer, or a small medieval attack vessel (since it has catapult and arrow attacks).

Might be getting a new computer soon, I'm backing up all my stuff on this one, so the shipyard is on hold very briefly.

 

[BadKharma]

OK, that is a very generic answer I was hoping for something more specific. The only single masted ships I could find are a Sloop and a Cog. Everything else has 2 or more masts. I suppose I could make it something like a War Sloop.
I hope the shipyard see alot of action with the new computer!

 

[Orthanc]

Oks, POV Ray runs perfectly well on the new machine, but my Photoshop 7hasn't transfered that well, was kinda hoping I could just copy and paste all of its program files over to the new machine, that doesn't work, and that was when I discovered the CD is missing

So I can still make the units in POV Ray, but lacking photoshop I can't make the storyboards for the animations or the civilopedia pics.

Being an artist, not having Photoshop is quite painful, so I'll be working to fix this.

Though some certain games from Stardock are kinda distracting...

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Well, if you need a decent program to fill in, just download the GIMP.... It's almost as powerful as PhotoShop (and at least as powerful as PsP), and the best part is that it's 100% free.

 

[TopGun]

but lacking photoshop I can't make the storyboards for the animations or the civilopedia pics.

Why don't you use SBB for the storyboards? It's so quick and easy to use...