RTS battle

Thegodzero

My idea is to model up as many units/structures/effects in the same style as supreme comander. With them make a huge battle scene.
This is what i have so far.
Each object uses a 64x difuse, normal, and spec.


Next its a mech like the red one, but with missle racks for weapons. The red one will be the only copy as it was a test. All other units and such will be in that same style but of my design.

cholden

kick ass little buggers, TGZ. Looks great and nice detail at this camera distance. A few effects and a big one will really set this scene off. It already looks like a real game screen. You win!

Thegodzero

Thanks. You can get pretty close to them before they start to look like crap. The other renders are in the "What are you working on" thred, if you want to see what i'm talking about.

Thegodzero

Still adding details as its just 450 polys. Not going to have time for the textures tonight sadly.

Ramucho

even if someone already said it,it really looks like Total annihilation, awesome work dude!

MoP

Nice.

Makkon

I wanna play that! Too bad it's not a real game...............yet. (hint hint)

Mark Dygert

Supreme Commander is a real game made by Gas Powered Games which was started by Chris Taylor the guy that made Total A. I'm sure he had help but when you say Total A, you think Chris Taylor. Supcom is is like TA2 but without the name.

TGZ is getting this stuff to look VERY close to what the screenshots of Supcom that have been posted so far, congrats TGZ!

Thegodzero

felt a need for some trees.

a 64x for the leaves and a 32 for the bark. 178 polys.

Irritant

Find an engine to make this a game. Please.

Looks good

KDR_11k

The red bot was built off a concept from Supreme Commander so he'd need to replace it if he made his own game... I guess he could just add a few of his own contributions to the game, though.

Thegodzero

forest!

KDR_11k

At first it looked like that was still normal terrain and the bots were partially faded out... Really takes some time to make out those trees. Maybe give them a different color than the ground.

Thegodzero

pine!
What should be the last tree? I'm thinking of doing that one tree with the white bark. dont know what its called, anyone know?

Keg

Birch if my bad memory serves me

John Warner

you know, this is an excellent idea! game companies will do a little pre-vis render of what they want their game to look and feel like before they start production (well, that's what i'm finding anyway)

that would be a fun little compitition.. who can make the coolest 'game'

anyway, it looks cool man i think you could use a little more depth to your shaddows, or just contrast in general. right now the renders are looking rather flat..

snemmy

wow nice work. makes me want to rotate around the scenery to see the rest of the battlefield

john_warner: you should drop that idea by one of the Contest/Challenges people

Thegodzero

I think i'm calling the enviro stuff done for now.

Wells

I crave an animation of some sort, I want to see these little guys skittering over the landscape. Killer stuff.

adam

Dude that new enviroment looks killer. Keep going on this stuff, I love it.

Thegodzero

Sorry about the lighting, i just deleted my light setup before this.

Rick Stirling

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Birch if my bad memory serves me

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Don't you know how to recognise a tree?

Number 1, the Larch. The LARCH.

the larch.


That's really nice stuff. The use of silhoette is great.

cholden

The environment really fleshed out adding the shrubs, rocks and pine trees. The pine tree has a good, solid shape. It makes the other trees seem to have no shape or form (blobby). For example, the pine trees have that dark side from the directional lighting, but none of the other trees seem to have this.

Thegodzero

Thanks, its not done yet. I think i might bo back made make them as good as i can. Rite now they are very messy, i can clean them up, i just wanted to get some trees done so i could have somethig to look at for a bit.

Here is that scene with the new mechs.

MoP

Rick: Eh? He's talking about the silver birch.
Unless that's a reference to something I don't understand, I'm fairly sure the tree with the white bark he's thinking of is not a larch.

Rick Stirling

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Unless that's a reference to something I don't understand..

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Shame on you. SHAME!

JKMakowka

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Find an engine to make this a game. Please.

Looks good

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I absolutly agree!

What about this one?

http://taspring.clan-sy.com/

MoP

Ah, right... I had a suspicion it was some sort of quote ... never mind then :P

Thegodzero

Finished.

With ugly GUI

with out
http://tgz3d.com/battle4.jpg

KMan

Am I the only one that thinks those glows are waaaay to much?

Justin Meisse

yeah, the glow should be turned down some, my eyes keep getting drawn to the really bright fence near the top.

ironbearxl

Man, this is superb stuff, the glow might be too blurry but I could see it being used as a split second effect like during shooting.

Thegodzero

yes i know it was way too much glow thats why its so much fun. sadly its stil not half as much glow as in fable... anyway i toned it down some.



In total I used one 512 texture for the gound, nine 64 texture sets for all the units, fences, trees, rocks, and craters, and two 32x textures for the tree bark and the glowing lazer bits.

notman

That's looking great. I think toning the glow down was a good choice. It was blinding out some of the details.

One thing I did notice is the flying vehicles don't seem to have shadows....but I'm guessing that's later to come

Thegodzero

No they do. The sun is low on the horizion so the shadows are pretty far off. As the planes are up in the air. You can see the shadow of two of the planes though if you look close...

Slum

Looks very nice. Would be even more kickass with a really nice HUD.

It's the 'style' these days to overload everything with glowiness. Someone recently said "light bloom is the new lens flare".

Sometimes it works, though. I really dig the glow on the fences and things. Gives it some style. The feel of the scene reminds me of something similar to Stargate, in a sense.

Moz

Im just wondering, how do glowing fences have shadows?

Thegodzero

Moz, because sometimes i forget that i can turn off shadows on things...

Dane McCray

how did you do the trees, any chance of showing us how you did them?

Ozymandias

you are very correct Rick_Stirling, shame on MoP for not knowing the Larch. Anyway TGZ, thats looking really good so far, but I do agree with KMan that the glow is a little much. Keep up the good work!

Thegodzero

Anyone with some better ideas for the design of the GUI? Id Rather it not look like ass so much... I could polish it some more but you know what they say about that.

notman

Hard to say anything without knowing much about the game. What kind of items would you be fitting into the GUI?

I think the map is nice as it is, but should be more translucent so you can see the action better.

Thegodzero

having fun with planes... made that with 25 planes and two 64x textures.

notman

That's cool