VG Remix - War Thunder

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I have chosen to do a scene from War Thunder for my entry. Currently this would be my favorite game, because planes are cool, right?

The scene will be two planes engaged in a dogfight, with one clearly winning. I have chosen to do a Focke-Wulf 190 D-9 and a Mig 15. Essentially a jet vs a prop driven plane. This unlikely pairing might seem unrealistic, but that is the nature of the arcade mode in War Thunder

Reference!


The Block out! (all placeholder at the moment)
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Also Started modeling the Focke-Wulf!
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Update! MIG modelled and textured, crits welcome, Still WIP.
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Texture:

JurassicPerk

Solid start man! The dynamic poser you've chose can work very well! I know it's still early for this, but If I can give a suggestion, I would not make the "bullets" in 3D but instead with a flat plate with a alpha texture on it, so you can fake some nice motion blur and make the scene less static

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JurassicPerk wrote: »

Solid start man! The dynamic poser you've chose can work very well! I know it's still early for this, but If I can give a suggestion, I would not make the "bullets" in 3D but instead with a flat plate with a alpha texture on it, so you can fake some nice motion blur and make the scene less static

Thanks! About the bullets, in the block out I used geo as it was quick to add and I was anticipating alphas wouldn't be allowed, but now that they are I can totally do what you suggested , in fact I have some early ideas for the bullets here:

JurassicPerk

Exactly what I was talking about

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Update!
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jeebs

the planes look awesome, I like everything very much, but if the planes are flying then there should be motion blur for the propeller, I would add a few more tris with alphas to look more like this:

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Thanks for the comment!!! Yes I have been considering adding the motion blurred lines, I tired to do it today but I wasn't happy enough with the result to post, but I can show you now that you mention it. Due to the one bit alpha constraint I'm not liking the result I'm open to any comments or suggestions

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update!
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Another idea on the propellers, uses 1 bit alphas, and bi linear filtering to fake a gradient between two pixels. The UV's of the propellers sit in between this gradient thus achieving a gradient on the alpha. Is this cheating?

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AlanSMitchell

Fantastic Work I'm actually DLing the beta now

adam

Haha! Cheating? Eh, I wouldn't say so. You're working within the limitations of the tool (Sketchfab) to produce the effect while still keeping with the specs. This is creative problem solving, IMO.

Though, if Sketchfab supported true 1bit alpha this wouldn't be possible (I don't think).

jeebs

looks much metter now great work
don't know how you did this but I should also try it

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Thanks for the comments!! Woooo not cheating!! Thanks adam!

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Update! Needed a ground target, like in the game. So I made a tank, not quite a Hero prop but not a small prop I aimed in the middle of 500 and 100 and came up with 213. As it will be placed on the ground ignore the missing underside faces.
Texture is 128:

Model!
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M4rt3

woo! looks great!

the environment is brilliant!

minorthreat

I love the skybox and the painted shadows.

Vailias

nice work. I kinda prefer the dithered transparency look myself, in part because it keeps the feel of the old-school art style.

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Final Scene:
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minorthreat

one of my favorites