Unit Preview: Futuristic Tank (Scorpion from Halo)

[CurtSibling]

Looking saucy!

We really need a final, super tank unit for Civ3!

 

[one_man_assault]

Oh this units gona kick more than a$$

 

[Wyrmshadow]

It really is just a light tank. It has a 90mm HV gun with a 7.62mm coax secondary. I have played HALO extensively and I kick a lot of online butt as "P-Factor" but the Scorpion really is just a light, air transportable tank. They use the same sort of dropship as the ALIENS movie series. In the game it is a very massive and TALL tank, but how much damage do you expect to do with a 90mm gun? The quad tracks give it excelent manueverability so you may want to factor that in when giving this tank its stats. I've crawled over boulders with those tracks, it's great.

 

[Grey Fox]

Wyrmshadow is correct, this unit is a "Future"-light tank, created to be able to get through wherever, no matter the terrain.

It's Pro's should probably be it's speed/manueverability (maybe 2 + treats all terrain as roads, or 1 + roads). And I should guess it should be pretty accurate because of good aiming system etc... (How should that be represented in the game?)

It's Cons should be it's armor, and attack strenght. But a high attack could be explained with High Penetration "bullets" (or whatever Tanks shoot )

 

[Wyrmshadow]

What would really be a nice future tank is the Covenant Plasma Tank, now that looks futuristic and it takes 2 rockets to destroy it. Another good unit would be the Wolverine with 3 men inside blazing away. It would make a good upgrade for the Humvee.

Lanzia--->US Army Jeep----->Humvee---->Wolverine?

 

[Grey Fox]

Wolverine? Do you mean the Halo Warthog?

Actually, I might make all the Halo Vehicles. (And then a Scenario aswell).

So if you have good screenshots, please post URLs to them (don't post urls from the Halo Official page though...)

I would need screens from atleast 1 side (straight). Frontal, and top is also nice. And a 45 Degree shot.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

I have no idea why I called it a wolverine when yes it is a Warthog, it even has 2 tusks under the front grill.

 

[Grey Fox]

Here is a preview of how the unit look now:

Is it ready to be animated?

Or do you want more changes, remove anything, etc?

Feel free to comment.

 

[Neomega]

Looks great! I was thinking youshould simply cut texture from the game picture you posted.... looks like thats what you did. I think it's ready to go, unless you wanted to do a quick texturing of the blue, like give it a less bright, and more plate armor type look.

 

[zulu9812]

I think the botom part of the tank (the tracks? engine?) is a bit under-developed.

 

[Grey Fox]

Originally posted by zulu9812
I think the botom part of the tank (the tracks? engine?) is a bit under-developed.

Yes, I know... The Tracks are the only part so far that aint textured...

Should I make them as detailed as the tracks on other tanks on this forum? For me it doesn't seem necessary. I think I'm gonna make the wheels inside the Tracks though, (how many I don't know...)

And what part do you mean with engine? The middle(main) part of the tank?

And what do you think of the Texture color? I think it feel to light, to brown... I might change it to more Darkish-Green. Should I? What the hell, I might just make a preview of what I mean aswell, and then we can compare.

 

[zulu9812]

Originally posted by Grey Fox
And what part do you mean with engine? The middle(main) part of the tank?

And what do you think of the Texture color? I think it feel to light, to brown... I might change it to more Darkish-Green. Should I? What the hell, I might just make a preview of what I mean aswell, and then we can compare.

Nah, I meant the tracks. I've never played Halo, so I wasn't sure if it was a grav-tank or not. And about the textures, watch you don't make it too dark. Someone recoloured Modern Armour once and called it Rocket Armour - that was really dark, in fact it was annoying...

 

[zulu9812]

oh, and I still think the turret needs some recon gear

 

[OmniMower]

Hi Grey Fox,
I think its ready for animation, to much details wont make it better.
Can you give me a prewiev in Civ3 size??? Then we know for sure if we are missing some details, and for the tracks, looks good.

/OmniMower

 

[Wyrmshadow]

Grey Foxes' Scorpion is very accurate to the ingame model, doesn't need anything extra to clutter it up. After many thousands of hours playing the game I should know what a Scorpion tanks looks like when it runs me over in multiplayer.

 

[Grey Fox]

Here is the darker version:

Don't worry about the shadow, it will be there...
I've been thinking about the recon system, and I don't know how they look like

So I will go looking for some images, and if you have any already please post them here.

After I add a Recon system I will start animate.

 

[Civanator]

nice, all yah need is the shadow.

 

[gunning1]

Looks good. I am like Wyrmshadow and have played it numerous times. It is fun to run over and blow up people. And it is fun to get blown up. Up close you can really see it well.

 

[Grey Fox]

I have shadow,... forgot to UnHide the plane which received the shadow before I rendered. So just think of it as if there was shadow there

 

[Neomega]

I wouldn't worry about the wheels, I think this baby is ready to start rolling along the assembly line . Of course you are going to cut it to about a third of it's size.