Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:26 pm Post subject:
[RA2] Some non-standard base defences
Subject description: Made for a boss AI but could be useful for other stuff
Lately I've been working on making a "boss AI" mod which is meant to be fought by 3 or more people at once. (As posted about due to issues in the Ares subforum...)
To add a bit more challenge to assaulting their base and to fix some of their vulnerabilities (looking at you, floating disk), I've come up with some new base defences. Also they have a custom HQ which is based on a kind of satellite uplink. Each one of the three defences are themed after one of the sides, and the HQ is a mix of all three styles.
The graphics aren't finished, so I won't be posting them in the shp forums for a while, but I figured I might as well post them here for critique and stuff.
Only one is in a showable state right now - and it doesn't have any damage or snow frames yet - but I'll update the topic as I get more done.
[Edit: Snow and damage frames for the Chrono Sentinel are now done!]
P.S. this is my first attempt at making any graphics for RA2
sentinel_anim_v2.gif
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Chrono Sentinel: Long range tower which has a high power but low ROF legionnaire-type weapon which can only hit aircraft. Keeps working when the power's off thanks to the attached power plant. Meant for getting rid of those pesky UFOs and Kirovs.
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Last edited by TTFTCUTS on Sat Oct 10, 2015 11:29 pm; edited 2 times in total QUICK_EDIT
Yup, the AI has access to all three sides, so it's all a bit mixed up for the special structures. Still, when they're done they might be handy for other projects. QUICK_EDIT
I assume the boss side is AI only.
Does it you the default buildings from all sides, or does it have units from all sides being built from speacial structures. QUICK_EDIT
Yeah, though I don't know if it's possible to make it unselectable for anyone but AI. If a human player does choose it, nothing will be buildable (it is now though, for ease of testing).
Copies of the default structures because of AIBasePlanningSide only taking one value.
It has a good portion of all three sides' AI triggers too, plus some extra combos that wouldn't normally be possible, like terrorist and virus IFVs. QUICK_EDIT
Wow nice. I haven't seen this before.
Too bad TTFTCUTS seems to be inactive for over a year. This is some excellent and very nice work there. Sad to see such great potential for new SHPs going inactive. _________________ SHP Artist of Twisted Insurrection: Nod buildings
Wow, the guy is either very talented or a former WW employe undercover The textures look VERY RA2-is, I wonder if they have normal maps to make the flat surfaces don't look flat, or this is simply a good bitmap texture. QUICK_EDIT
Wow nice. I haven't seen this before.
Too bad TTFTCUTS seems to be inactive for over a year. This is some excellent and very nice work there. Sad to see such great potential for new SHPs going inactive.
I was sad that nobody saw it at the time, but a private message notification email made me come take another look.
Damfoos wrote:
Wow, the guy is either very talented or a former WW employe undercover The textures look VERY RA2-is, I wonder if they have normal maps to make the flat surfaces don't look flat, or this is simply a good bitmap texture.
Yup, full suite of materials. Where appropriate they have normal maps. Almost all of them are procedural too, using the 3dsmax generative texture maps. My games art degree might not have gotten me a job but hey, at least I can make pretty pictures... I've attached a couple.
I also made a render effect plugin for max which converts rendered images into the right palette immediately after render so that you can see whether you got the colours right. That helped immensely in testing stuff out.
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Shiny domes...
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Yuri concrete from procedural maps.
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Various materials that I made for the project.
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sentinel_shps.zip
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8 shp files covering normal and snow sprites with animation.
hey, nice to see you back.
Can you please create a topic in the finished SHP forum with the attached zip (and an ingame preview image if possible)?
It would be a shame if this is lost in the depths of the media hut after a while.
Hope to see you more often and several more of your creations.
TTFTCUTS wrote:
I was sad that nobody saw it at the time, but a private message notification email made me come take another look.
yeah, things can be easily overlooked in media hut. (might be also at a time when ppm had a few forum/server problems)
TTFTCUTS wrote:
Yup, full suite of materials. Where appropriate they have normal maps. Almost all of them are procedural too, using the 3dsmax generative texture maps. My games art degree might not have gotten me a job but hey, at least I can make pretty pictures... I've attached a couple.
I also made a render effect plugin for max which converts rendered images into the right palette immediately after render so that you can see whether you got the colours right. That helped immensely in testing stuff out.
i love using procedural maps too. They are so nice adjustable and easy to apply without much UVW mapping fine tuning trouble.
Can you release the plugin? I'm sure this will help many other too (me being one of them ). _________________ SHP Artist of Twisted Insurrection: Nod buildings
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 8:43 pm Post subject:
Can we have those materials, please? _________________
DarkVen9109 wrote:
What in the name of insanity is this? I FRICKING LOVE THIS LOGICCCC!!!!!!!!!!!!OOOOOOOOHEEAWWWWWWWWWWWYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW PEW PEW PEW PEW BOOM BOOM BOOM!! Nice I love this!!!! Ferriswheel bomb, Dive bomb. New Logic discovered thanks to Kenosis
Damn, these materials + these tomsons26's models (lost after HDD failure IIRC) would make a grand RA2 remake!
Are you sure he lost them? Where did you hear that?
TTFTCUTS wrote:
Yup, full suite of materials. Where appropriate they have normal maps. Almost all of them are procedural too, using the 3dsmax generative texture maps. My games art degree might not have gotten me a job but hey, at least I can make pretty pictures...
Haha, I hear you on that one; Same degree and still don't have a job in 3D myself. Jealous of that perfect looking chrome though, could never get mine to look like WW's. _________________ "Don't beg for things; Do it yourself or you'll never get anything." QUICK_EDIT
Those materials are quite amazing, tbh on first glance some of the accuracy as well as the textures in the thumbnails makes me suspicious that he might have gotten some of the textures from a WW artist...
Anyhow, he's using blender tho, my models can't be really ported to blender without headaches. _________________ Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun ,Red Alert 2,Renegade, Command & Conquer 3,Tiberium and Tiberium Wars and Westwood related image & video archive
https://picasaweb.google.com/113361105083292812413?noredirect=1
Skype live:tomsons26
Don't forget to state who are you otherwise i'll ignore the invite QUICK_EDIT
I'm pretty sure I read something like that here on PPM, in some thread where this pic was shown as well. But it's really good to hear I was wrong. QUICK_EDIT
derp, indeed, had just woke up when i made that post
i don't use the nodes so that didn't ring any bells lol
Drat, my devious scheme has been spoiled ,now i need to make up some other reason why i don't want to release the models _________________ Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun ,Red Alert 2,Renegade, Command & Conquer 3,Tiberium and Tiberium Wars and Westwood related image & video archive
https://picasaweb.google.com/113361105083292812413?noredirect=1
Skype live:tomsons26
Don't forget to state who are you otherwise i'll ignore the invite QUICK_EDIT
Yup, full suite of materials. Where appropriate they have normal maps. Almost all of them are procedural too, using the 3dsmax generative texture maps. My games art degree might not have gotten me a job but hey, at least I can make pretty pictures... I've attached a couple.
Wow TTFTCUTS, you are definitely an expert in textures & materials. I am speechless.
TTFTCUTS wrote:
I also made a render effect plugin for max which converts rendered images into the right palette immediately after render so that you can see whether you got the colours right. That helped immensely in testing stuff out.
I second LKO, this plugin would be quite helpful for many 3D artists/modders of this C&C community.
@tomsons26lv : aren't you teased to the point of wanting to resume your work on your models and finish their textures ? QUICK_EDIT
@tomsons26lv : aren't you teased to the point of wanting to resume your work on your models and finish their textures ?
if it only would be that easy. Those models are like 30%, max 40% of the complete job.
Adding textures, ActiveAnims (not only a single pixel drawn in SHP Builder), BuildUp anim and damage frames are still a huge amount of work left, especially the damage frames.
Compared to SHP units, buildings are the most unthankful job ever, because the damage frames almost double the amount of work, while in the end you only get 1 additional frame out of this work (a few more for damaged activeanims).
From a finished unit model, you get like 100 or more frames out of it, without any additional work. _________________ SHP Artist of Twisted Insurrection: Nod buildings
I also made a render effect plugin for max which converts rendered images into the right palette immediately after render so that you can see whether you got the colours right. That helped immensely in testing stuff out.
I second LKO, this plugin would be quite helpful for many 3D artists/modders of this C&C community.
So... No one but me colors their textures to fit the games color palette?
@LKO - Honestly the fact that these are models of pre-existing buildings, it's alot easier to make damage frames IMO, because you just have to copy what was already modeled before. I myself just wouldn't bother with damage frames for a Total Conversion because no matter what, the damage isn't realistic whatsoever. E.G.: Hit by a laser, nothing is seared, but some metal beams were bent. Oh yeah, and did I mention the building still functions perfectly fine? _________________ "Don't beg for things; Do it yourself or you'll never get anything." QUICK_EDIT
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