Finally a new voxel

gistop

So I finally got around to making a voxel that's got a fair bit of work behind it, and here you go, I have it. I present to you:
THE SOVIET SPEED KIROV

(Yeah... It's for a silly faction... kinda like cnc crazy mod... if you don't know what that is, why did you check this out?)

Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

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I take it you hand recolored those "Afterburners" to the unlit ones later?

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Zero18 · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 5:08 am Post subject:

Nice.

The front of voxel is too dark. Use normal to make it smoothed out and brighter.

Also, the body is a bit too thin, fatten it up more.

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Exley · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 2:20 pm Post subject:

looks weird

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gistop · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:37 pm Post subject:

Zero18 wrote:

Also, the body is a bit too thin, fatten it up more.

It's meant to be a more aerodynamic kind of blimp.... so I'm gonna say no, also, I brightened the normals a bit, how do you like it?

Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

I think you mixed up the colors.

All the Colors on the bottom right corner are not affected by lighting.

If you wanna use non-team color red use any of those not on the bottom left. Those are for team colors.

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Zero18 · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:44 pm Post subject:

gistop wrote:

I brightened the normals a bit, how do you like it?

Looks better.

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gistop · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:56 pm Post subject:

Atomic_Noodles wrote:

I think you mixed up the colors.

All the Colors on the bottom right corner are not affected by lighting.

If you wanna use non-team color red use any of those not on the bottom left. Those are for team colors.

Yeah, but I want it too have some remap, but I did change the remap to a different place, I'll post it when I get home...

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

it suffers from black hole syndrom
-add a second layer of voxel to remove the black holes (see the dark spots on the white front area)

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gistop · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:13 pm Post subject:

ummm.... second layer? wat

Mig Eater · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:18 pm Post subject:

This...

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No gaps, fixed.

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gistop · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:20 pm Post subject:

ahhhh, I see.... okay. Now I see why you told me to do that on my other voxel

ViPr · Gauss Rifle Trooper **Joined**: 30 Dec 2004

It's only because of a flaw in the cheap voxel rendering of these games; a proper voxel renderer would not require closing gaps like this. Alternatively you could make the bounds of the voxel smaller but then detail gets lost.

I would say the voxel renderer in OpenRA could be made to not have the gaps problem. I don't know how their renderer is now though.

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

I find it actually quite accurate that the renderer causes the gaps. At least for Bounds >= 0.75
It's also quite logical since a ray going diagonal on such a point where only 2 edges meet, any normal ray trace calculation would result in a thickness of less than 0.5 and thus mean, there is no solid object.
Assuming the renderer only renders solids with a thickness of 0.5 or higher, with a single voxel being a thickness of 1.

You would have to change the renderer to see any ray trace test above 0 as a solid object and thus render the pixel. But then you would surely end up with clunky images of the voxel and you would lose even more the ability to create fine details (voxel are already quite clunky when it comes to detailing in pixel size).

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ViPr · Gauss Rifle Trooper **Joined**: 30 Dec 2004

There are gaps in the game renderer only because it draws each voxel as a single rastered pixel. If it rendered them as cubes, then there would be no gaps.