The Team Black Tank

Team Black · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:05 am Post subject: The Team Black Tank

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Hello again, this is my 4th voxel. It has been kept on the shelf for a while because there was a barrel problem on it that I couldn't fix.
Now I fixed it, and I thought I'd give a preview

The inspiration is the sig I made a while ago, and the vehicle is also seen in my MS Paint Base sig...

I'm going to rework it: make it bigger, and a little brighter so that you can tell what it is #Tongue

It looked alot better in the voxel editor than it does in the game
Here's an ingame screenie:

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RLY_BiG_Tank · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:28 am Post subject:

wOW

Whole Team were making this voxel Very Happy

Good work

Clarkson · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject:

Ew...its hideous imo. The model itself is fine but the colouring is just godawful. on the Bottom left, bottom, and bottom right facings I can hardly see the barrel and turret on the bloody thing. And the headlights are pink for some reason. The remap is too much, too obvious, too.

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Team Black · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject:

I changed the headlights after I posted the screenshot, they should be OK now; for some reason the color I used originally switched between pink, green, and white..
yeah, I'll have to rework it sometime; make it a little bigger, and make some parts a little lighter so the shape is esier to see.
That's what's difficult is because the voxel always seems to look better in the voxel editor than in the actual game.

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Muldrake · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject:

You'll probably find the reason for the colour errors were because you used either the first 16 colours in the palette, or the last 16 colours in the palette.

The design seems interesting, however you really can't see it ingame.

The voxel is a little small, the detail (namely the red on the sides) is a little too much compared to everything else.
The problem with black units, is its damn hard to get the shape to be properly shown ingame. Try using a slightly lighter shade of grey/black, with dark highlights for details and on the edges, or vice-versa.

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-tr8er8- · Rocket Cyborg **Joined**: 16 Sep 2006 **Location**: USA

That is one, small, wrong colored, voxel! I think the concept it pretty cool, but somehow, it either messed up the voxel in game, only 16 color, or, you just suck at voxels (you seem actually pretty good but this one turned out not so good).

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Team Black · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject:

Yeah now that you mention it I agree. I'm going to have to work on this a bit...

>>Could I get a mod to put this in 'media hut' instead, as this voxel isn't 'finished'.
I'll have to rework this one: make it lighter and bigger, esier to see.

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Muldrake · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject:

Moved.

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Team Black · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject:

Hey thanks dude

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bonzy_buddy · Shrapnel Sniper **Joined**: 31 Oct 2006

It's ok but I think you could improve the normal and I'm not sure about the green stuff in the front.

Team Black · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject:

Here's newer version, though it's still too hard to tell apart the turret & barrel from the rest of the tank :hmm:

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Muldrake · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject:

Give a bright colour to the underside of the turret, and give the barrel a brighter colour grey if you want them to be definable ingame.

Getting things to show up nicely is about detail, but also about contrast, if there is a lot of detail, but the colours are too closely together in the spectrum, you really won't be able to see them ingame.

So just a little bit of a more contrasting colour can help you define details.

But I can see a bit of an improvement, you're doing well.

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Team Black · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject:

Hey thanks for the help Muldrake, Her's try # 4
Is it good enough for release or does it still need some more editing?

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bonzy_buddy · Shrapnel Sniper **Joined**: 31 Oct 2006

the writings on the side of the hull doesn't look very good. Appart from that I like it.

Muldrake · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject:

Yeah, definitely an improvement!

I have to agree with Bonzy.. the writing/stuff on the side of the tracks doesn't look overly great.

Could we also get a scale shot of it next to another unit, like the Tick Tank, as I'm worried its still a little on the small size.

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Raptor8 · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject:

Good tank but the colors are horrible.

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OmegaBolt · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject:

I like all three to be honest. The first one I liked simply because its refreshing to have real dark coloured units instead of grey.

Very nice work all together. Smile

IVI · Commander **Joined**: 25 Jun 2006 **Location**: Feilubin

that's nice concept Team Black but it's too small! Confused

work on larger models so you could put in all the nice details Smile

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tanks should be at least around 45 voxels long, 25 voxels wide and around 12-15 voxels tall so that they'd look decently sized.

I'll bet if you make your Team Black tank larger it'll look tons better Idea

Team Black · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject:

OK thanks for the feedback...

Here's the latest, do you think it's good enough for release now?

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IVI · Commander **Joined**: 25 Jun 2006 **Location**: Feilubin

looks like a futuristic bad-ass tank... nice work! Very Happy

Team Black · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject:

Thanks dude B)

OK it's now up for official download
http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=160931#160931

(This thread can be closed now if you want)

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