My Left Foot

[(TLL) Heretic]

Ok, been spending my free time since sunday messing about on Truespace, and heres my first ever model (actually about MkVII of the same model as I learned new tricks through the week) for constructive comments and crits! Please remember I'm very new to 3D modeling so pretend your talking to a simple idiot.



Anyone who recognises that foot, please don't complain at the departure from the TRO, I tried that but it was mechanically insane!

[(TLL)Nick]

Looks pretty nice. Do you think Blender 3D is better or worse than TrueSpace? Or maybe, a better way to put it, did you adapt to Blender 3D or TrueSpace better? And which one do you like more?

 

[(TLL) Heretic]

Dunno Nick, Truespace is the first 3D prog I've used, maybe Blender is better I couldn't say.  One thing I'll say for Truespace is that its pretty intuitive and already has a chicken-walker 'mech skeleton'd, so I can see animation being adaptable from that

If anyones know how to transform (group two objects rather than merge them) in Truespace I'd love to know as its slowing me down, I've seen it hinted at in the tutorials, and I'm running the manual from the C: drive as it doesn't like the links in Mozilla, so I can't search the manual (un-doing the transform would also be welcome advice!).

And if anyone knows how to add objects to the library, that'd be great to know too.

[(TLL)KitLightning]

grouping objects in trueSpace. Use of layers may also help in the beginning, that you place the items wanted in a specific layer (as it were a group)?.

and you cannot undo a merge of objects, as far as I know it becomes a new object (a boolean).

It´s been a long time since I fiddled around in the ware thou.

[(TLL) Heretic]

Many thanks Kit, that's not just a link its a resource base thanks 

[(TLL) Heretic]

More progress on this tricky foot (with a roughed-out leg added for the render), been doing the tutorials and I think I'm improving, but I've no idea what to do with the armoiur baffles/stabilisers that cover the left and right toes, personally I think they look ugly and so would be in favour of leaving them out altogether





EDIT, here's the TRO pic I've been working off...

[TheANIMAL]

Looks like you've gone for a different style over the drawing. The drawing didn't go for such rounded features.


Keep it up though. 

[(TLL)KitLightning]

looks nice Heretic, fun to be making 3D ey thou i think you should make an armored version too

[Thanatos_23]

yo Heretic......i think you should get your foot checked out..its all metallic...probably infected

[Ravir]

LOCUST GO!

[(TLL) Heretic]

@ Animal, I know, I took the decision to make the foot more rounded as it fits the rest of the 'mech, which is very rounded and flowing in the torso, the actual TRO foot I have no idea how to get it to work mechanically, so I'm going to do up the rest of the 'mech and come back to that problem later.....

@ Kitlightning, I've stuck some armour on the foot, just out of personal preference, to make it my own design, and cause its a 35ton 'mech and the TRO foot looks like its from a 20ton'er.  Thinking about doing up a Maticore after I've got 'mechs out of my system though

@ Thanatos_23  Yeah I know, but the ability to turn my left foot into brass and back is my only mutant power, pity I can't mutate both, but its a fun trick at parties.........

@ Ravir, very close, but its the Locusts bigger cousin, the Stiletto that I'm attempting, it's a build based on captured clan Fire Falcon Omnimechs from Coventry, but it looks and feels very similar, just a bit slower and more weapons and more electronics.

@Nick, thanks for that, am into my 2nd week of working in Truespace (the tutorials and PDF files that come with it are excellent and theres a lot of stuff online that I got off Kitlightning and others that really helped).

Have included the TRO pic for the Stiletto STO-4A and the Fire Falcon that its a rip off of, as you can see the foot on the Firefalcon would work (a much better design IMHO).  Apart from the Foot the Hip to torso area is also all wrong in the Stiletto TRO (if any of you see the cast model you'll note how they got past the gyro-torso problem in a really bad way...).  So I figured as it was such a badly drawn TRO in so many ways that I could take liberties as a learner without anyone getting too upset!

Got to say thanks to all for the support and kind words from everyone 

<img src=”http://photoshack.com/albums/userpics/20041/712px-Stiletto.jpg” alt=”*" border="0" />



P.S. does anyone have any screenies of the Stiletto from Mechassault? (no its wrong to even look at it, but would be good to see how they modeled it).  IRC the Stiletto was also in MC Desperate Measures, so maybe some of the Mechcommanders out there have some more pics.   

EDIT: Link should now work. Ok I don't know why that Stiletto link won't work on this page, and it's too late to figure it out tonight, but if you want to see it just copy the link into your browser address bar...sorry.

[(TLL)Nick]

Wow, Heretic, that looks great! How long have you been doing 3D modeling?


Important EDIT! : Mate, check out www.TurboSquid.com. I've been using that site for a few days now, and there are SO many textures there that I can use. It's truly awesome.

[(TLL)KitLightning]

[(TLL) Heretic]

*Kow tows*
I am not worthy of this Honour, thank you once again Kitlightning!

So mechassault got round the unworkable 5-toe 2-stabilisers "Octagonal" foot by cutting off two toes, droping the stabilisers and...wait I've seen that before thats the Locusts foot!!!!

The Mechassault body looks like an attempt at the Raven, perfer the TRO body TBH, but it solves the Torso/gyro placement problem of the TRO.  So now I can confidently put the TRO Body, arms and legs with the mechassault Locust feet and gyro and have a working 'mech with some precedence.

100 thanks for solving my design problems! 

[(TLL)KitLightning]

Oh I forgot, was in conv in msn while posting. The right top image is a Raptor var. The left is your Mech, thou both are similar in design. Btw you deserve it, its the least you should be getting in return for diving into trueSpace´s  wonderful milieu.