Commando

[7.[WD]Ragor]

Wow. Respect that you managed to get the Commando into the CE2!!

[Romeox]

Great work, but am i the only one who thinks that the legs are a little bit too fat ?

[=CJW= Rad Hanzo]

Legs are fine for a small scout mech. Any thinner and theyŽd look like straws IŽd say(and think Žbout this too: where to put all the internals if legs were any thinner than this?)^^

Looks really nice in the comparison screenshot, very ready to race alongside some owens^^

[SquareSphere }12thVR{]

Still gotta say how impressive all the work Alex has put into this model

[CGB [CoffiNail]]

Legs are fine for a small scout mech. Any thinner and theyŽd look like straws IŽd say(and think Žbout this too: where to put all the internals if legs were any thinner than this?)^^

Looks really nice in the comparison screenshot, very ready to race alongside some owens^^

Explain this one then

[Stahlseele]

Legs are fine for a small scout mech. Any thinner and theyŽd look like straws IŽd say(and think Žbout this too: where to put all the internals if legs were any thinner than this?)^^

Looks really nice in the comparison screenshot, very ready to race alongside some owens^^

Explain this one then

A work of pure art!

[(TLL)KitLightning]

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doh thats an easy one ... chickens will rule the world in the 3^rd millennia. That we presently are shown bipedals to accompany such metallic beasts is a pure diversion and they use invisible armor plates too *shrugs*though they never have gotten over the temptation to cross the roads

[7.[WD]Ragor]

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Explain this one then

Just one of the dozens of examples where the fluff (art) does not match the fluff (technical descriptions*).

*Mechs are supposed to have skeletons covered with myomer muscles. More or less the same like living creatures.
Example. The famous MadCat picture. No muscles at all. Servos and hydraulics are used in this 'blueprint' to get the mech to work.
-> I like artists. 

[Spooky]

Just one of the dozens of examples where the fluff (art) does not match the fluff (technical descriptions*).

*Mechs are supposed to have skeletons covered with myomer muscles. More or less the same like living creatures.
Example. The famous MadCat picture. No muscles at all. Servos and hydraulics are used in this 'blueprint' to get the mech to work.
-> I like artists. 

Yeah, I always wondered about that. In no blue print drawing, be it artist or fan based, are there ever any myomer muscles.

[7.[WD]Ragor]

Just one of the dozens of examples where the fluff (art) does not match the fluff (technical descriptions*).

*Mechs are supposed to have skeletons covered with myomer muscles. More or less the same like living creatures.
Example. The famous MadCat picture. No muscles at all. Servos and hydraulics are used in this 'blueprint' to get the mech to work.
-> I like artists. 

Yeah, I always wondered about that. In no blue print drawing, be it artist or fan based, are there ever any myomer muscles.

Indeed.
If you read the dozens of pages of descriptions how mechs are supposed to work. Then check any (often attached to the text you had been just reading) blueprint, pic, whatever. It's obvious, the artists draw classic robots, they didn't read and/or understood the text at all. For example they draw the myomer activators as a servo. But the activator is supposed to be only some kind of stimulator to activate (contract) the according myomer*. The diameter of a warhammer myomer for its leg is supposed to be ~1m, activated (=contracted) ~1.3m.
And you need always two of them since you need one for each phase of the movement of a joint (antagonistic work cycle).

But... wth...

*the activator only electrifies the according muscle to let it contract. (thats the only thing (myomer) muscles can do: contracting. And nothing else.)

[Deathbane]

I want to see this commando in the actual mod, so keep up with it best you can.

Its a massive lot of work, but if you actually pull this off, you ll make some of us VERY happy around here!

[Alex2603]

Sorry,
I'll definitely need help on my legs, can't get the ragdoll to work properly even in the other program. I'm losing my time with this.
I'll need the help of someone who has 3s max and who knows how to export .chr files, I can't do this myself.

[MekBeth]

He ya Alex,
Congrats so far. Looks pretty awesome to me. Any updates on your progress?

[Alex2603]

Any updates on your progress?

Not yet, soon maybe

[noisefloor]

Hey Alex!
Very nice model of the commando. I love the "old fashioned" Mechs like commando, Warhammer, etc so great to see another model.
Keep up your work.