Star Wars: The Mod - Unit requests

[odintheking]

Man, I salute every unit maker. I can't do ANYTHING when it comes to units. I just spent my afternoon trying to animate a pre-made model, I ended up freezing my computer,

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

Here is a preview with it resized.

 

[odintheking]

Great,

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

What were you using/ trying to animate?

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

So, it isn't too small?

 

[odintheking]

Ok, it's a good size. I'm using OpenFx, and it stopped freezing, but I can't animate anything.

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

What is your model of?

 

[odintheking]

A very detailed X-wing,

 

[Bjornlo]

Varlin, love the new size. It did not hurt the look of the unit, so my fears were groundless. In fact it looks sharper in the new size.

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

I downloaded an extremely detailed Headhunter, and I gave up on it, for loading times. Animating them should be pretty easy, though, especially the headhunter. The X-Wing will need to have a skeleton, though.

@Bjornlo: Glad you like it. I am about to export a preview of one with a civ-colored cockpit ball.

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

Civ colored ball: (North Preview)

 

[Bjornlo]

I think the civ colored ball will be easier to pick up from the N & S facings. Another thing to play with would color only part it, perhaps a nice fat racing, either horizontal or vertical.

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

Where would you suggest I put it?

i will try that, and let yall decide which is better.

 

[odintheking]

You could make the front cockpit window and the end of the wings civ-colored.

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

Oooh...good idea...

 

[Bjornlo]

I think a horizontal one would look cooler... wrapping from the outrigger posts around the port hole in the front.

sort of like --(--o--)--
where the -- and the 0 are blue. Sorry for the crude ascii art, my paint programs are on the HD raid that died.
Maybe 3 pixels wide would look good, with a 1-2 pixels wide as it goes around port hole

By making the line go around, rather then through, the port hole, it would serve to emphize it, and add a nice artistic touch.
But just some thoughts to play around with. I think the blue globe could stay all blue too... Alternately, make the globe a lighter shade of blue, as this would still leave the unit civ colored.
If you look at a CIV palette you will see there is a range of possible colors.
Using these different shades gives you parts of a unit with lighter and darker civ colors.

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

Yeah I am going to do a lighter civ color on the ball, but I don't think I am going to do the stripe. Sorry! I am making the top wing's tip colored, and the viewport is going to be Colored as well, since it is transparent anyway and won't really matter.

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

Here we go:

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

How are you guys doing Star Fighters and spaceships? are they air or naval units. The reason I'm asking is that doing nothing but FF stuff 24/7 gets kind of boring and I happen to be a long-time Star Wars fan (I also happen to own X-Wing collectors CD, TIE Fighter Collectors CD and SWGB) and might slip a Star fighter or two in between FF mod units and other projects. The first I'd do would be the Z-95 Headhunter (if you need it, that is). It would only take a couple of days to model, animate and render them in Bryce.

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

Hikaro, even if they don't want the Headhunter, I sure do!