A mech with six legs.

Titan10 · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 8:51 am Post subject: A mech with six legs.

Is it possible to have six legs on a mech, three on each side. I've never seen it before, and i was thinking of trying to make a mech with six legs.

FireStorm · Stealth Laser Trooper **Joined**: 30 Dec 2002

should be possible, if you're really good/experienced at animating .HVAs, but i could be wrong, never seen mechs with Six legs #Tongue

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Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

Yes you can, and you have two ways of doing it. As an SHP vehicle like the titan in TS, or as a voxel vehicle like the Mammoth MkII. For the voxel you need to make the legs with animated HVA's which is very difficult but there are people out there who can do it, Napalm being one of them. However, with six legs to co-ordinate this would be incredibly difficult.

For the SHP version all you have to do is have walking frames and you can (i think) give the unit a voxel turret.

hellfire · Commander **Joined**: 09 Jan 2003 **Location**: Canada

That I beleive is how the titan works.

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Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

Yeah, but that has a SHP body as well, not just legs.

Mike · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 4:50 pm Post subject:

nope, only the legs the body is the turret #Tongue

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hellfire · Commander **Joined**: 09 Jan 2003 **Location**: Canada

Thats what I thought Since I did go through all this when I was trying to convert the goliath from Starcraft.

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Mike · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 8:49 pm Post subject:

For ts? man the goliath wasn't made for the ts engine you can better remake it

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Titan10 · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject:

Does anyone have a RA2 formated Titan that i can use to help me?

Banshee · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 10:52 pm Post subject:

hmmm... check the graphics hut... the PPM graphics competition #1... it has a great explanation I posted there...

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Techno · Soldier **Joined**: 25 May 2003 **Location**: Houston, TX

anything in need of six legs is better off having treds,wheels, or hoverpads.

Tratos: Double post merged, lpease try to avoid double posting in the future, the edit button is ALWAYS available in your messages.

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Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

Why? Insects seem to manage fine. Legs are possibly the most maneurverable form of transport as they can cross almost any surface where treads, wheels and hover types cannot.

Techno · Soldier **Joined**: 25 May 2003 **Location**: Houston, TX

i mean mechwise lol. also i dont think anything can beat hover power. [MOO] Oh wait or maybe its just i dont like that kinda stuff. BOOO I HATE STARCRAFT! i was holding that in...

hellfire · Commander **Joined**: 09 Jan 2003 **Location**: Canada

I have a convert goliath for Ts it's all SHP I beleive though, and doesn't have rotating turret sadly. But if you wanna check out theat they did with it I can get it for ya.

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Titan10 · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 6:27 am Post subject:

Thanx for the offer hellfire but I think I've got that file somewhere. I'm pretty sure I have figured out how to get it to work.