I know nobody has said anything about spotlighting

normals and/or textures are messy

The Front Hull looks a bit flat.

Textures comprise of one or two super-bright colours and remap, and the normals riddle the surface with black bright and black dots.

it has a good shape, but it's bland. Lacks details.

if /ppm/ is supposed to be a community there should be a general consensus. Not one dictator's decision making.

As it has been said, this is NOT spotlight quality. I'm sorry, but no one voted for this and if /ppm/ is supposed to be a community there should be a general consensus. Not one dictator's decision making.

You are distorting some important ideas about this place in this sentence. PPM, as any other entity in the universe, has something or someone responsible for its decisions. As the leader of this place, I do prefer to take a decision based on the community's opinion, in order to motivate everyone's participation. But I'm not obligated to do that.

That's nice!

It looks very detailed, good job, I hope I can match those skills someday...

Very nice !

Slick.

Amazing coloring/normals!

Not enough oscillating turret designs put forward in this community. It really represents the wacky end of realistic designs.

Great work, and it really tops off the design. The first design looks too much like a T-series medium; the bulky oscillating turret really gives a meaner and heavier look.

Yeah, there's definitely something imposingly odd about it. I like!

Nice voxel! You can make a double barreled version of first tank?

Really a good looking tank, the double barreled version could come in handy, thank you.

Spotlighting a voxel without consensus? Have you read the replies above my first post?



















As you can see, all comments approved it and some of them liked it a lot. Nobody complained about anything until... I've spotlighted it. Then, suddenly, everyone attacks it like a freak!

Now, I know what you may be thinking... "Oh, but nobody said spotlight!". People don't need to say it. Spotlighted voxels forum is a way to catch the good and well done voxels from the community and separate them from the awful/mediocre ones.

And the voxel is damn good. But then people say... oh it's bland! It has one or two colours. Use the google images to look at real soviet tanks. They are coloured in a very similar way as this tank. The black dot issue someone has complained is probably because of the smaller barrel at the top of the tank, which is really small (1 pixel wide wall) because of the resolution of the tank. But using a higher resolution may slow down the game. The shape itself has a lot of details. The only valid complaint I've seen so far is that the front hull looks flat. But I still think it deserves spotlight regardless of that.

(does every tank for RA2 *need* to look like a real tank? Seriously -_-)

The ones that never get spotlighted usually get some kind of complaint that this one didn't get before it gets spotlighted.



No, but in this case, the source of inspiration from the author is certainly a real tank and his execution was well done.

Spotlighting a voxel without consensus? Have you read the replies above my first post?

*long list of quotes*

And the voxel is damn good. But then people say... oh it's bland! It has one or two colours. Use the google images to look at real soviet tanks. They are coloured in a very similar way as this tank. Perhaps they have a soviet symbol or a text that this one does not have. The black dot issue someone has complained is probably because of the smaller barrel at the top of the tank, which is really small (1 pixel wide wall) because of the resolution of the tank. But using a higher resolution may slow down the game. The shape itself has a lot of details. The only valid complaint I've seen so far is that the front hull looks flat. But I still think it deserves spotlight regardless of that.

Yeah, Banshee the voxel is good at first look. But only at first look. As soon as you check it out in the Voxel Viewer or take a closer shot, you realize it's off.

There are many other voxels in the non-spotlighted topic where your logic would apply. Like most (if not all) of shin.peter.pans work. Yet you never spotlighted those all of a sudden.

I did thought about using it. I downloaded and checked out because I thought I just update the texture and it'll be fine for a unit I struggle with, but one closer look made me realize that this voxel isn't that valuable as you try to prove it, and not even close to spotlight material.

As I said in my prevous post, it looks good and might be useful for the ordinary throwing in units modder. But for the community in whole, this quality have already got surpassed. I have to say it out that recently I haven't seen a spotlightable direct 3ds voxel and doesn't really think there is possible to create one. It has too many quirks to work with... and it really looks off compared to an Azri_Apoc, Bu7loos or Orac voxel.

The spotlight voxel section itself is a nice idea, and I did agreed with the reasons to checkout all the voxels there. Of course who disliked the voxel didn't say a single word because he had no reason to... it's kinda OK, and I have nothing to add. But then you just tried to prove it spotlighty material, while it isn't and since we proved the opposite you feel affronted and started this proofhunting.

But hey we are all people and we all do mistakes. And if we can simply acknowledge we did a mistake, that'll make us better.

An PPM once again blows things completely out of proportion. Bravo.

Что ж, действительно годные воксели для Носорога. Обязательно возьму на замену стандартной модельки.