Hello guys, I'm in the middle of making a scifi set for Game-Guru and finished my 3rd model for it being sold in the store soon. I plan to make a good amount of variants with different colors later. Let me know what you guys think!




And more:

http://imgur.com/a/UWot7

Really cool! I like your clean style.

Is it a hover car?



-Wolf

looking really good..

harry

This fits my project, so I'm down.
Looks great, btw, nice texturing/modelling.

Hey guys thanks for the comments! I was looking for a flying car design (there's thrusters on the sides, bottom, top and front for this reason).

Hi, looks great. Will it animated the windscreen to get in?

@gd sorry I don't know how to animate at the moment . The door and car are separate meshes and I plan to make an open version some day.

This is a basic concept on how it will open:

Nice one AngelTheKiller!

3com

Thanks 3com!

Nice hover car!

If all you need is a simple open and close animation I wouldn't mind helping out if you want.Just send me a PM

Thanks for the offer mguy1122 I really appreciate it but since I'm selling the model and don't want to make sales off of someone too I should just try to learn how to do it myself and learn how to put it in game guru. Thanks for the offer though.

I didn't mind helping you on something you're selling(it only take about 5 minutes if your model is grouped correctly) but it is good to learn yourself. A door animation is pretty straightforward. You throw a bone running along the inside of your door and then assign it to your door. In the program I use (milkshape) you have to attach a joint or bone to the main part of the model too to keep it from rotating with the door. Then you set the first frame point of animation with the door closed, the second frame point with the door open, and the third frame point closed again. You can just copy the first animation and paste it so it closes exactly how it opens. The open animation would be about 30 frames and so would the close. Watch a few youtube videos and you should be able to pull it off.Once you get it down its easy

You don't need bones for a non-character entity to animate, you can just use standard key frame recording. In fact if I remember right, using boned in an entity that isn't using the character fx shader can cause scaling and lightmapping issues.

I don't know about blender but with milkshape you can't get anything to animate at all without at least attaching it to a joint and I've never run into any of those issues . I guess it just depends on the program you're using

If i remember right (i do mix up multiple topic into one from time to time lol) it was a quite a big topic issue a while back, someone had issues where when he scaled an object in the editor it scaled fine until he lightmapped, then it would revert to a different size or something like that, Lee investigated and found it was because the entity had bones and was using the basic entity fx and recommended not adding bones to non character entities. Not sure if it was something that was fixed, or if it was still an issue though.

I don't know how Milkshape works, never tried it. But in Blender you can do animations without bones, you set the part that moves as a separate object in the same model, then on the timeline you create a keyframe that records the position of the objects, move to the point where you want the animation to end on the timeline, then move the objects to where they should end up at the end of the animation, and save a keyframe, then blender works out what happens between the keyframes, and you can fine tine it via changing markers on a graph.

I remember that problem back when this was still fps reloaded although it wasn't limited to animated models. Anything you upscaled in fpe would revert back to the normal size it was in the modeling program Even if you just saved the level and then opened it again. That was about the time I started messing with importing game models. That was fixed many updates ago but the static models had nothing to do with bones(they didn't have any) as far as the animated models I slightly remember lee's post but I'm assuming it's fixed because it doesn't seem to be an issue anymore. I will have to go back and dig through the forums to find it.
Anyway I don't want to hijack AngelTheKiller's model page so I will quit yapping

That was a different issue, this one was a lot more recent, i was never here while it was FPSC:R, it couldn't have been before this time last year.

That is a really nice clean model, it definitely looks great as a flying vehicle as well as a road vehicle. One thing you might think about, when I first saw it I thought that it might be something that went through a tube. Well Done.

First version if finally up in the store. I've also made multiple colors but I cannot upload it until the new store takes affect. Thanks for all the nice words and help guys, I really appreciate it! Will be hard making new versions now since I started college