Unit Preview: Ork bike

[The Great Apple]

My next unit is in the pipeline; an Ork bike, again from the 40K universe. It's going fairly well, only animated the run so far - comments please:

EDIT: Download and run for correct speed
EDIT2: Unit complete - attachments removed
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=94290

 

[frenchman]

Looks good !!

 

[The Last Conformist]

Looking good, assuming it's gonna run slower in-game.

 

[The Great Apple]

Errr yes - I thought that was just my browser - download it to your PC for the correct spped...

 

[Dease]

very cool
one little nitpick - a the start of the run there are white splotches on the unit, they gradually dissapear over time but the look kinda wierd.
Other than that good job! what will the attack be like?

 

[The Great Apple]

very cool
one little nitpick - a the start of the run there are white splotches on the unit, they gradually dissapear over time but the look kinda wierd.

I believe that is a problem with the program I use to render the gifs - it won't show in the final unit.

Other than that good job! what will the attack be like?

Hmmm, I was thinking 2 Attacks, attackA with guns alternating, rocking the bike from side to side, then attackB with both at once.

 

[Mr. Will]

Wow. My only complaint is the splotches, but it looks like you have them under control. Good work.

 

[Smoking mirror]

Looks awesome!

 

[Dease]

also, make sure to make the dust trails are semi-transparent in-game they wern't on your (very cool) ork truck

 

[The Great Apple]

also, make sure to make the dust trails are semi-transparent in-game they wern't on your (very cool) ork truck

How do I go about doing that?

 

[muffins]

OMG! That is so cool!

WH40k mod here we come!

 

[The Great Apple]

Does anybody know how to get smoke transparency right? Is it something I can do before rendering, or is it a pallette change?

 

[Dease]

its a palette thing. Just make sure the colours of the smoke are in the last two rows. I'll attach a palette with the essential colours. IIRC I got it from muffins who got it from kinboat.

 

[The Great Apple]

Oh right - I already had that file, just didn't realise what it was, thanks

 

[muffins]

I've been thinking about dust trails Do you think it's better to use the 'haze/smoke' area of the palette or the 'shadow' area?

 

[Ozymandias]

Looks great -- 40K aside, this'll make a fine SF recon unit.

-Oz

 

[Dease]

I've been thinking about dust trails Do you think it's better to use the 'haze/smoke' area of the palette or the 'shadow' area?

I think as long as it's in the last two rows it shouldn't really matter much since all but a few entries have some level of trasparency just make sure the colours in the smoke dont get mixed in with the other colours.

 

[The Great Apple]

Just a quick preview of the death animation (cos it's the one I'm least happy with) any comments?

 

[Goldflash]

ER.. It kinda looks like the Ork had waaay to many bean burritos. Maybe you should have parts fall off and the bike fall over, too?

 

[The Great Apple]

ER.. It kinda looks like the Ork had waaay to many bean burritos.

Maybe you should have parts fall off and the bike fall over, too?

Hmmm, I'm not too good at parts falling off, but I'll try - should be quite easy to make it fall over though.