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oh! ok, the second is not for the same army. first: UNICON army second : united letavian army i'm from Brittany.

which old? thx mates, for your comments and support

no, i like the actual shape.

no, the two methods are great, because each can be use use for different things. example: the high polys method is excellent to create a character, but if you need only bolts on a hull, the bump map method is the easy way.

@Jackal why do use a color map? you just need a normal map and a greyscale specular map (to make the lights on your object). no and no, you can't use a simple greyscale texture to make a normal map. you need to draw with grey, black, white colors the details of your textures (bolts etc). then you can use the filter. a normal map must no have colors. quick example: pic1-- greyscale bump texture pic2-- normal map (i use the nvidia filter)

do you have a specular texture? (greyscale specular texture)

2 wip: an individual house and a fast flying troop carrier of the army of Letavia. the vehicle still need a landing gear and some other parts. the house need windows and details.

in fact, the story take place in a fictive world, so they have a fictive energy. you can imagine an other planet. maybe, it can have no fossil energy, but some others. (gaz, etc) now the troop carrier has 4 little landing gears. btw: the army of the cities state will have 2 parts: btw: the army of the cities state will have 2 parts: - fast attack troops (Anath fast tank, Anath fast apc, Eshmun medical vehicle etc) - heavy attack troops (Baal heavy tank, Baal heavy apc, etc) the UNICON consortium will have its own troops: robotics soldiers, UNI-troops, legion-troops. and now the name of the planet is Letavia (this name is an ancient name of my "country")

yeah, this is also my idea. i try to find a good idea, but for the moment, not good results. i would try with as reference the citroen concept car c-buggy. http://www.carbodydesign.com/archive....-lg.jpg

to have your reply take a look at the Quake Wars models

how to avoid, that one of the crew of a tank dies at the first shot? i try a some thing in the cpp but it's always the same thing, the gunner dies at the first shot; really boring

try wings 3d, the uvmapper is really easy. i use it to make my uvmapping. and you can import the model with the mapping in 3dsmax. and to have a good uvmapping. you must do the uvmapping for 1 part and 1 part etc of the model; i mean for example a tank, you need to map the hull, the turret etc. but for the little parts, you can merge the object and make just 1 mapping. 1 thing is important: if you have a lot of parts on 1 texture. the texture will be poor, because each part of the model will have a little size. you need to scale + in the uvmapper the most important parts of the model, to have a better resolution. (sorry for my english) an example: the hull of a tank + the lightingmap

you have your reply

yeah of course. if the arma engine can open 2 doors at the same time; that would be excellent. but if the engine can't do that, only the big door will be openable

the textures of the boots are from the landser pack?

yeah, maybe

and you will do the uvmapping of the wheel, with all the spuds in fact it's too long to make the uvmapping of the wheel, now it is done; i just don't want to make that, one time again for the next wheel (a jeep) i would do like you

thx, but this is just imaginative, so if this isn't like the reality, it's not really a problem UNICON (east side) hoovered transport:

thx yeah i don't like high tech, and strange futuristic textures. i think, that the armies don't have money to spend on useless things. because, they need to paint often their vehicles or repair them, too much stuff on them would be a lot of work. and for me that would be also a lot of work And to avoid to create a lot of details, the barrels are retained, by magnetic supports btw, i changed also the name of the project; now its "UNICON warfare" (UNIversal CONsortium). (it's maybe not the final name )

the new refuel truck; the textures are provisionals

take a look here: http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=59576

and the panthers? they are essential for the ardennes.

excellent idea, keep it up

same reply: you need a kfdata selection in the 3ds file to make it work with oxygen; you can use anim8tor to create this selection. http://www.anim8or.com/main/index.html

it should work, but i think you will have some problems to read the 3ds file with oxygen and the new tool