Guardian : work in progress

[zuzuf]

I am working on a texture for the Arm guardian:


It's still work in progress as I am still adding details. I used 3DMEditor2's ambient occlusion algorithm to get a lightmap I tweaked a bit with gimp.

I also made a few textures I used as patterns to make the guardian texture:
ftp://downloads.ta3d.org/misc/textures/

[zuzuf]

We now have a new guardian model :

[Balthazar]

Hurray One less to go

[xpoy]

/:^]!

unbeliable. UP zuzuf!

[DOT]

They look like a Porcupine Flak Cannon

[Balthazar]

Textures are strange (green and not too informative) it was one the the first Zuzuf models

[zuzuf]

Actually it's not my model, I only made the texture. The model is from Cremuss.

[MattyWS]

Please don't use that texture. Ya know if you have any UV mapped, untextured models I could probably do a half decent job, just show me to them. I say they need to be UV mapped because that part takes time for me.

[zuzuf]

hehe, you'll find all the models there:
http://fodb.darkstars.co.uk/files/spring/

[Balthazar]

Please don't use that texture. Ya know if you have any UV mapped, untextured models I could probably do a half decent job, just show me to them. I say they need to be UV mapped because that part takes time for me.

Well, looks like now you are the only descent Artist here If you`ll look this thread - you`ll find some links to the nice texture depositories that are free to use.

[MattyWS]

No where near done yet but I think I'm making some progress.

Working on perfecting flares and also remaking the menu GUI too.

[zuzuf]

It's already better than mine

[Balthazar]

Looks really descent already I guess you know, that 3DMeditor2 allows auto rendering occlusion maps for objects to help you ?

[MattyWS]

Where can I get 3DMeditor2?

[zuzuf]

here:
ftp://downloads.ta3d.org/binaries/windows/dev/0.6/

[MattyWS]

I tried that one, get a *send/dont send* error

[zuzuf]

what did you do to get this error ?

[MattyWS]

Dowloaded it, tried to open the .exe, error, then put it in the TA3D folder with the game and still got the error.

[zuzuf]

That's strange, it's not supposed to send anything, it's not a network tool. I've just tested a fresh install (downloaded from the FTP) on both windows XP and 7 (in a virtual machine), I got it working in both cases out of the box. It seems to be nothing wrong with the package itself.

Which windows version are you running ?

[MattyWS]

Just windows xp professional

[Balthazar]

Tried 3DMEditor beta8 on Windows XP Prof. SP2. No problems noticed.

A small suggestion for 3DMeditor - add the "Undo" button

[zuzuf]

I computed the ambient occlusion map for you, you'll find it here:
ftp://downloads.ta3d.org/misc/armguard_lightmap.png

[DOT]

Matman , your Guardian looks cool!