Voxel Prototype

Garrick · Medic **Joined**: 08 Jul 2011

I'm nearing the completition of this voxel, but i still feel there is something amiss, maybe some external eye can help.

before anyone asks, I'm trying to replicate Mig Eater's shading tecnique

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

The texture looks good, but the shape is too 2-dimensional imo, which gives it an overall boxy shape. Some angular and round parts would surely make it look better.
You should also avoid fine one voxel big lines as they tend to become pixelated ingame. You should manually add some anti-aliasing to them.

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Garrick · Medic **Joined**: 08 Jul 2011

the boxy shape is fine, as the source material dictates that it should be like that http://www.1999.co.jp/itbig17/10171720a2.jpg,

[sorry if i edited out the question, i realized i already knew how to do it]

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

left no AA, right AA.

Just give the 1 voxel big lines a border with a color between the line and the surrounding surface color.

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Garrick · Medic **Joined**: 08 Jul 2011

made a couple of adjustments

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iamn00b · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:08 pm Post subject:

give the tail more volume IMO

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Inspiration or extremely strange coincidence?

Looks really nice, in my opinion. Good job.

Mig Eater · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:13 pm Post subject:

lol been meaning to make a vxl of the Nerv VTOL for ages, I probably couldn't do much better then that tho.

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

That actually looks pretty good. Though shouldnt the darker colors be toward the top and lighter colors toward the bottom because of RA2 lighting? It may end up way to bright ingame this way?

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Garrick · Medic **Joined**: 08 Jul 2011

Aro wrote:

Inspiration or extremely strange coincidence?

Looks really nice, in my opinion. Good job.

It's actually a mix between the TV Design and the Rebuild one, with a custom weapon loadout (Hellfire missiles and twin gunpods).

No coincidence at all, it's the YAGR-3B (A-77 in the TV Series)

As for the tail, i have no idea if it should have more volume or not, from certain angles it looks very thin but the overal craft suggest bulkiness (After all it flies by sheer brute force)

EDIT: Indeed, got brightness problems, will fix them tomorrow

Garrick · Medic **Joined**: 08 Jul 2011

ran into another problem ingame. At certain angles the body section is rendered before the engine, leading to this. I guess this is a frequent problem with multi-section voxels, any suggestion on how to fix it?

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

Are both engines in the same section, or do you have a section for the left engine and another section for the right one?
I think with separate sections for each engine, the game might be able to better render the order.
Though i'm not sure as i haven't created voxel by hand and only via 3ds2vxl.

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Garrick · Medic **Joined**: 08 Jul 2011

I tried to have both engines in the same section and a separate section for each engine to no avail, i think it has something to do with the voxel header but i have no clue.

Altough i'm thinking of making this a SHP so the engines can have a resemblance of movement

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

just as I suspected. It is really bright ingame. I would change the upper colors to more darker shades.

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

...The shape on the other hand is fantastic, so great job on that.

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

Yes, I agree. The overall vxl itself is awsome. Smile

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Garrick · Medic **Joined**: 08 Jul 2011

On the other hand, has anybody any suggestion on how to solve the rendering problem?

(Will darken it and release as soon as i solve that)

Graion Dilach · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:07 am Post subject:

What about merging the sections?

I don't get the reason why it is a multisectioned voxel, tbh.

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Garrick · Medic **Joined**: 08 Jul 2011

That would be made as a last resort solution,
to me it was easier to make the engines upright and then rotate them in the HVA editor

Mig Eater · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 11:32 am Post subject:

I really need to write a tutorial on hva editing...

You can either make the engine sections bigger, thus they will cover the body & render on top. Or you can use the header to set the offset values for each section so the game knows what order to render them in.

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Garrick · Medic **Joined**: 08 Jul 2011

i suppose you are talking about the transformation matrix, how do i set that? i have absolutely no clue and i couldn't find any tutorial on that.

Mig Eater · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 5:49 pm Post subject:

The easiest way would be to use the OS HVA Editor's offset tool. Make a new hva & position the engines by offset & it will then automatically edit the header for you.

Of course it might not work depending on how you have the vxl set up, you can always PM me the vxl & I'll fix it for you.

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Garrick · Medic **Joined**: 08 Jul 2011

i posted a fixed version in the Voxel forum, enjoy!