Ratha (Indian Chariot) Project

[Takhisis]

OK, check your email inbox. It's 3.9 MB monster… (sidenotes attached)

 

[tom2050]

Good luck Blue Monkey with finishing this. Always make sure you read the sidenotes; reading is important to understanding. When can we expect it, in 2011?

 

[Takhisis]

Probably. Both BM and I are very busy IRL, which is why this project has slowed down.

 

[tom2050]

If I can help in any way, let me know. Animations of the horses will probably be toughest if I had to take a guess.

 

[Blue Monkey]

If I can help in any way, let me know. Animations of the horses will probably be toughest if I had to take a guess.

The offer is well appreciated. Even with things like utahjazz7's run cycle available coordinating 2 running horses with wheels, pennant, & whatever the two warriors are doing will be a trick. It will help a lot to have the support of someone with experience at complex animation.

 

[tom2050]

How is it coming along? Animation of the horses would be tough. I am not really knowledgable enough to animate horses on my own. Freeform animation is quite difficult, as Dejah has been taking a long time due to a few problems I have encountered in her animation. But using the partially animated horses from AO (as I am doing with the Stagecoach) could work as an quick and easy alternative. If I added them though, they would be stuck in a .MAX file; unless I am able to export the file as a NIF/KF (correctly) which Blender can use also. I have had problems getting NIF/KF exports to work though, probably something I am doing wrong.

 

[Blue Monkey]

This project is "back-burnered" while I work on the steampunk scenarios. The Indian scenario is the whole reason I started modding, so I will get back to it.

 

[Takhisis]

First poast of the year. Every axle and/or wheel is now a separate object.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Thanks, Takhisis. When you have time please make a version where the axle & two wheels are all one object.

 

[Takhisis]

It's the second file out of three emails I sent you . See explanation in them there electronic mails.

 

[Blue Monkey]

So do you have it that 2 wheels and an axle are one object, or each is a separate object?
Three Objects total (body + two wheel/axle assemblies) or Seven Objects total ( 4 wheels, 2 axles, & body)?

 

[Takhisis]

You have two items each consisting of one axle and two wheels, plus the chariot, three items. Actually, I have already sent you that file once… Well, nevermind. Now you have both

 

[Blue Monkey]

Sorry for the confusion. You're describing just what I was looking for. Now back to Barsoom.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Is there any progress on this? It sure would be nice to get the ratha into my mod .

 

[Takhisis]

This is as much of a response as you're gonna get:

This project is "back-burnered" while I work on the steampunk scenarios. The Indian scenario is the whole reason I started modding, so I will get back to it.

BM has dropped out of the Monthly Announcements gig, he's either working too much or having some personal issue. I wouldn't like to speculate further in public…

 

[Blue Monkey]

Is there any progress on this? It sure would be nice to get the ratha into my mod .

Almost all of my creative time has been involved in the steampunk project & researching 19th c. Indian units for Sandris until recently. ATM moderator duties have had the upper hand. I need to UV map it. Then it will available for someone else to animate. If there is demand for it & an interested animator I can do the mapping sooner rather than later.

This is as much of a response as you're gonna get:
BM has dropped out of the Monthly Announcements gig, he's either working too much or having some personal issue. I wouldn't like to speculate further in public…

Getting a substitute for one month is not the same as dropping out. And a pm is better than idle speculation.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Almost all of my creative time has been involved in the steampunk project & researching 19th c. Indian units for Sandris until recently. ATM moderator duties have had the upper hand. I need to UV map it. Then it will available for someone else to animate. If there is demand for it & an interested animator I can do the mapping sooner rather than later.
Getting a substitute for one month is not the same as dropping out. And a pm is better than idle speculation.

There is interest in it. If it helps, I've done the John Devil leaderhead for the Steampunk mod today instead of spending time on my own mod; hopefully in return, the ratha could be UV mapped and off to someone to animate .

 

[Blue Monkey]

There is interest in it. If it helps, I've done the John Devil leaderhead for the Steampunk mod today instead of spending time on my own mod; hopefully in return, the ratha could be UV mapped and off to someone to animate .

To be honest I've never unwrapped & mapped a model this complex before. Now that the wheel/axle assemblies are separate objects the unwrapping will be a lot simpler. I can probably do some work on it over the next couple of weeks if pressing moderator duties move to a slower pace & nothing crops up in RL. There will probably be some back & forth discussion & revising until the map both looks right & is workable for the animator, whoever that might be.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Any help to get the unit out sooner rather than later would be very much appreciated .

 

[Blue Monkey]

Any help to get the unit out sooner rather than later would be very much appreciated .

I just found out I was indentured to you without getting a head's up. I'll do my best - I want the unit as badly as you do.