[killakanz]

Only took 4 years. During which she's been lost, found, corrupted, recovered, lost again, rediscovered and put on hold for a tour of Iraq.









Special thanks to the staff at Bovington Tank Museum for letting me climb up on the back of their crusader and covenanter tanks for turret roof and engine deck photos.

[Logan Hartke]

Superlative work, Killa! Really exceptional!

Logan Hartke

[Count von Phoib]

Now THAT is a good excuse.

[Mehman]

awsome. now unwrap it and make some sweet textures and normal maps. I found nice 3ds max parallax plugin which works with normal maps, it's really exceptional and works really well.

[Goose]

Very very nice. If that got textured and rendered to the same standard it's been modelled, it wouldn't look out of place in a war movie.

[Mehman]

don't forget to post it on military meshes

This post has been edited by MMMMMEEEEEEMan: 09 January 2009 - 10:16 PM

[weston]

=*)

[killakanz]

Mucking about with mental ray.

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[killakanz]

Running lights and lens effects test.
I compressed it, then Youtube compressed it further, mucking up the quality a bit. Uncompressed it's 84.3mb.
Rendering time took around 15 hours.

[killakanz]

I've been having a little play with the old Tiger.
Back when I first thought it be finished back in Feb 2005, it was riddled with inaccuracies, bad modeling and weighed a meager 125,659 polygons. In comparison the Crusader as it stands is 445,567 polygons, three and a half times the Tiger.

So, as you noticed earlier in this thread, I've been doing some tinkering now and again. The treads and all the wheels have been completely re-built from scratch, and even partly textured. The hull front is a re-make still being worked on apart from the drivers viewport and the MG-ball, those will be worked on later.
The gun is brand spanking new, and the mantlet has been totally re-worked, trying to get that cast look to it.
All this tinkering has already bumped the poly count upto 304,749, closing rapidly on the Crusader. I wouldn't be surprised if it's over half a million when I'm done tinkering

So, before and afters!! What a difference 5 years make.

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[Korona]

Wow it looks so much crisper. Always a pleasure to see this stuff. Someone's been to Bovington

[killakanz]

An evening's tinkering.

Re-built the flaps over the front of the treads. Yes, those are working hinges and latches.

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[killakanz]

Ok, all new tracks. Cos they were WRONG and screwing up my wheelbase. New hull MG casing and driver's viewport. Texturing the drive sprocket.

This is roughly the colour it's going to end up as, basing it off the Bovington Tiger scheme. Imagine it with highlights and dirtied up a bit.
Big pic...

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[killakanz]

Back when I first thought it be finished back in Feb 2005, it was riddled with inaccuracies, bad modeling and weighed a meager 125,659 polygons. In comparison the Crusader as it stands is 445,567 polygons, three and a half times the Tiger.

The Tiger has just hit 456,000 polys. It's now more than the Crusader. The treads themselves weigh more than the old Tiger's total, at 128,856 each side.

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[Count von Phoib]

How hard would it be to make a Sturmtiger from this?

[killakanz]

How hard would it be to make a Sturmtiger from this?

Sturmtiger was built on late production Tigers, so it would need new, re-arranged roadwheels and drive sprocket, other than that it's just the removal of the 'plumbing' at the back and the building of the superstructure.

Not too hard, but to this detail level it will take some time.

[killakanz]

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Just playing with it. Not quite happy with the effects yet, in particular the shield splash.
(Bird of Prey by William Birningham, courtesy of trekmeshes)

[killakanz]

Final version

'Imma firin' mah lazor!'

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[killakanz]

Final? My arse it is...
Probably going to be tweaking this for a while to come...

[killakanz]

Been making the previous image into an animated sequence. For this I have been creating various effects;

Blinker light system:


Warp jump (not quite final yet, need to make the last flash a bit brighter, slightly slower and smaller);


Aaand a complete weapon set;


All these effects are done in 3DS Max, no outside programs used. This was specifically so I could use effects at any time in the animation sequences. The phasers, for example, can be fired from any strip at any time.