TF2 - Polypack - Texy!
scrapped due to my fail at reading rules properly, =P still going to enter but something different =p
expect to hear from me again in coming hours/days/weeks
much love :poly002:
- Texy.
expect to hear from me again in coming hours/days/weeks
much love :poly002:
- Texy.
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it is a little more appealing to me than my original design but still doesn't feel right. Anyway enough talk lets see some models.
here is what i began with ( inspired by an old tv antenna supprisingly enough.. or maybe not. )
next i thought about how i could add the tesla coil element to it.. resulting in...
the addition of the "car battery" was a spur of the moment thing..
and heres what im up to:
mighty long post.. anyway suggestions critiques and constructive criticism welcomed
-tex.
I'd go with a mad scientist design aesthetic to really make it stand out. Tubes/beakers/chemistry set stuff sticking out of the contraption looking real neat! :cool:
Some refs for ya:
Heck, you could even have the Tesla fold out of an old repurposed 1950s Chemistry Set box (instead of the tool box).
But yea, if you can work around that this will be a great pack!
hmm well i thought since sentries kill things.. and tesla coils also have the potential to kill things.. this might be acceptable =P
will see how i go, ill knock up a few other variations as im only in a very conceptual phase of modelling
below is a very quick build animation i whipped up in 2 mins :
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also thank you so much EvilShadow777 and Khthon, inspiration has found me once more! back to the drawing board for some additional concepts
Are you going to have more bits coming off of it, because otherwise I think you could make your animation a lot slower, so you really see the tower part coming out.
lol
oh how you can impress people by making something simply move.
It's very obvious that the graph editor was never even looked at. I can see many parts of it popping speeds as it's moving. Which means that there are waves in the animation curves.
Obviously it was done as a blockout animation. But wasn't done properly.
Do your blockout animations in Stepped mode only, that will give you a much better end result and will keep you from having unnecessary key frames ruining your animation. Hit the key poses first, then do the in-between animation
on to the animation, I think its a bit to short. You should have the same building time as a normal sentrygun and it should propably look just as interesting.
anyway, a testla coil is a cool idea and it would be nice for it to have some cool lighting effects on it (but make sure that when its sapped it won't be to similar - confusion)
IMO, shooting lightning bolts would be a rather disrupting action (an incredibly large effect) With a lot of them going on at once it would clutter the screen incredibly quickly. Which would make players turn into sad epileptic pandas
well i've currently got some other concepts going, with a bit more similarity to original sentry gun, as for screen clutter i had imagined a slow refire rate.. lighting bolts that jumped between two targets or something.. possibly with some side effect (debuff? ) to compensate the slow refire.. anyway none of that is up to me anyway.
well, hopefully ill post something of my other concepts tomorrow.. untill then -
Tex.
p.s. animation was more so i could figure out how that thing could unfold :poly142:
lol might pick this up again soon, at the moment im thinking about doing a heavy pack tho so maybe after that
Also, I'm sorry for stealing you're avatar, I was testing the option, which was REALLY hard to locate