New MCV

Palkia323 · Pyro Sniper **Joined**: 10 May 2008

I am very happy right now! The first voxel that I've made that I actually like. It's a replacement for the MCV.

Please credit me if used.

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gufu · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:20 am Post subject:

It's overly flat, blocky, and underdetailed. But a useful base for a design.

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Player1 · Soldier **Joined**: 05 Jan 2010

Might wanna look at it some more bud, SouthWest is overly bright.

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Orac · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:31 am Post subject:

Use normals.

Palkia323 · Pyro Sniper **Joined**: 10 May 2008

Idk how to use normals tbh.

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Harv · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:00 am Post subject:

its a square with rectangles on it.... more work needed

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

It kinda looks like a board with hand straps. and where's the wheels and stuff?

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Atari2600 · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:40 am Post subject:

Good start.

I suggest defining the treads a little more...

As for normals, somebody will have the link handy shorty, Im sure. Pretty much, its a series of commands to enter in your VXL editor, and it calculates them for you. But (this is very important) before you use the autonormals calculator, be sure to make the outside of your creations are more than 1 pixel/voxel deep... otherwise, they become partially transparent once normals are applied. So, basically, paint a layer underneath your top layer of pixels/voxels that's a duplicate.

I'll leave the autonormals instruction link to someone else.

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Cantdrawbutmod · Rocket Cyborg **Joined**: 19 Oct 2009

Something different between a MCV and other units,is the deploying animation.
If it's well made and/or realistic,it may make up for the design of the unit (like C&C1 mcv,mostly a big rectangle,but good deploying animation,and there's even a movie showing more about how it work Razz

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Palkia323 wrote:

Idk how to use normals tbh.

Use autonormals for now (Tools). Look at some of the spotlighted voxels (with proper normals) to see which normal to use where (you can switch between normal/colour mode from View).

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Palkia323 · Pyro Sniper **Joined**: 10 May 2008

Okay thanks. Is there a way to undo a normal setting incase i use the wrong one?

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

I'm not sure if it's possible to completely clear the normal map. However, let me give you a tip. In TS and RA2, most voxels are normalized so that when they face west, the front is brighter than the rest of the voxel. This way you can imagine that the sun light comes from west. This is also how the engine draws the shadows for your voxels.

In the VSEIII 3D window (bottom right corner), this light source is in fact in the bottom-left corner of the window. Normals tell how each voxel cube is lighted. This way all the voxel cube sides that point towards this corner should be the brightest. If they are not, then you have wrong normals. Of course, this doesn't apply in all cases. Just remember that the light source is in this corner. Then your voxel should look fine ingame.

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Dubzac · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 1:34 am Post subject:

No normals? c'mon bro !, you need shapes as well as shading dude and a little taller. I strongly suggest you add more types of grey's and some other colours to break up up just plan ol' grey

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