Star Wars: The Mod - Unit requests

[Chris85]

Yeah, there are still a lot of units that need some fixing, but most of the problems are relatively minor. The stormtrooper is fairly good as is, but I think it may have problems with the death.flc and the unit off center, which the centering can easily be fixed in Civ3FlcEdit.

I'm in the same boat as Olorin, we should concentrate on the units that haven't been made yet.

 

[Olorin0222]

So get back to work, slaves!

 

[odintheking]

Hey, good news: I requested the Techno Union Hardcell Transport in Orthanc's thread a while ago, and he's going to make it after his pirate! Also, I'll take a bit of time of from Lord of Ragnarok to try to learn OpenFX and redo some of my crappier units (TIE Advanced, Y-wing, Droid Lander and K-wing), and take my hand at creating some new ones, if all goes well. I could really use some pointers from Chris, Olorin or BlackHand about OpenFX. (Where is BlackHand, anyway?). Also, I have given up all hope on completing my tauntaun since FLICster has been such a royal pain-in-the-ass in making this unit. Chris did make the pcx storyboards, though, so I can email them to someone who's good with making flics from pcx's.

Oh, BTW, I got Gaias (the dude who made the Spanish Skirmisher) to make an Imperial Guard Unit, .

 

[Olorin0222]

Well, I wouldn't know where to start, as there is so much I learned the hard way while making the V-19...Just ask me any questions, and I'll answer to the best of my limited ability.

 

[Chris85]

I still got those tauntaun storyboards, I could finish it when I have some free time.

 

[BlackHand]

Heh, funny you should mention me, Odin I just got back from a rather nasty harddrive crash, ended up having to just scrap the old computer and get a new one. With school and everything winding down, I'll be a lot more available for modding coming up, so hopefully I'll crank another unit out soon.

Great to see everyone finally back up and out of the woodwork Let's finish this sucker, eh?

 

[odintheking]

12 days later.....

So, anyone want to help me with OpenFX? Morpheus' tutorial is very complex, and I don't get it. I got the basics of polyphemus' tutorial, but animating is still unbelievely hard (It just doesn't make sense!!!!!!).

On another note, Orthanc has begun the Hardcell, you can check that out in his creation thread, . Gaias will (probably) get to the Imperial Guard after his Jack Sparrow unit, and for the rest of the public, I honestly have no idea how Chris85 or Olorin 0222 are doing with their units, .

@ Chris85 - can you go ahead and post the tauntaun? I gave up, and I don't care if you take all the credit or anything, but I just want that damn unit done!!!!

PLEASE, SOMEONE POST SOMETHING, ANYTHING, ANYONE!!!

 

[Olorin0222]

First off...it took me over a year to figure out OpenFX enough to finish my V-19...don't feel alone in your frustrations.

Second...What specific parts of unit making are you having problems with?

 

[odintheking]

Animating. From step 1, .

 

[polyphemus]

for animating, i uaually make the model in openfx or i downlad it, then i import it into poser which makes it a hell of a lot easier to animated. You rarely have to imput #s, you just drag, tilt, or whatever. All u have to do in click the maodel itself and move it any way youd like. There's a free poser trial if ur interseted at the poser website. Its SO EASY

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

Can any model be imported into Poser? If not, which ones can?

 

[odintheking]

3DS can be, I think. Oh, and I have created better stuff than you, . See my units, cities or recent techs.

 

[polyphemus]

odin, is wally a modeling prog, a 2d editor, or an animation prog

 

[polyphemus]

@varlin-pretty much any of the major modeling formats can be imported into poser. If your using openfx to model, u cannot import directly. u have to export as 3ds then import into poser as 3ds

 

[polyphemus]

@odin-do u get your models from the extraction of units from SW-GB

sorry for all these posts

 

[Stormrage]

Dude! Next time just use the edit button

 

[odintheking]

Wally is a 2d program, and most of my units are from GB. I tried a weird method for some of my units, but they look ugly.

 

[Varlin Saliptor]

@ Odin: Oh yeah!? Well, I have got tons of stuff sitting on my hard drive that is WAY better...*waits impatiently for GIMP to load and then mixes two city images together really quick*

Sorry for the OT.

@Anakin: Thanks

 

[odintheking]

Ok, thegreats has (I assume) converted the tauntaun to flc's, but uploaded wrong, so we'll have to wait on that. He also posted an Advanced Battle Droid, but there are a couple of bugs that maybe someone with unit talent (cough*Chris*cough ) can fix. Also, Orthanc finished his Hardcell, and it is kickass! One less unit. Considering how well the Hardcell came out, I think I'll pester a few more unit makers. Aaglo did mention he was a fan of X-Wing Alliance,

 

[odintheking]

Wooooooooo!!!! The tauntaun is finally done!!!!!!! thegreats converted Chris's('s?) pcx's, and that evil unit is behind me!!!!!!