Maybe not, but its still an awesome helicopter

i really want to see that chopper ingame it would be so awesome.

im making a flyable h3 phantom. so far its at 50 percent complete. things left to do is:
-replace physics with either pelican or spirit physics, which one would be better?
- side turrets, hopefully retail h3 ones. im tagging them the same way cmt tagged the pelican's rear gunner and the extra shade turrets on the spirit
-new collision model. im using the old one from the h2 phantom. i cant model too well and i would really appreciate it if someone will take the existing model i have and make a good collision for it.

and after that, thats pretty much it, except for a little shader touch up if possible.

here are plenty of pics to keep you guys updated:










Edited by shadowslayer123 on Mar 23, 2010 at 10:52 PM

Mongoose seat of switch xD.
Hit me up on xfire for the turrets, "MeleeLite"

Ugh. That phantom color looks really bad...

It's like you just used color change to make it purple...bleck

I would show mine but unfortunately with my directx killing me I cant get a screenshot of it.

your shader are poop.
make custom physics.

Fuggly

I have the raw stuff for the h3r plasma turrets if u want it, PM if u do.
The bluestreak JMS exporter freezes every time i try to export so i cant tag anything....

its a work in progress guys, if you want to help me make the shaders better, that would be great. xfire me if so, its my halomaps name except with 195 instead of 123

i also notice how you made the shaders double sided. not cool.

its alot better than flipping all those faces

it adds more polys that it needs to be

using a phantom I got from Dee I had somewhere around ~5500 polys

with you using double sided i think its now somewhere at ~10000 polys

:(

i know, it took for ever to export, my model ripper gives me flipped faces and all sorts of other crap. i didnt want to spend hours flipping all those faces

lazy
thats why i gave codebrain the phantom with uniform faces.

since there is no way you would be nice enough to give me the model, ill take my chances with what i have. it will look better before its done, i just need to find out how to improve the shader

k, i like how you don't ask. :P

Dude just flip the faces, it's not hard at all and requires very little effort.

Easy fix, don't rip...

I'm with hunter on that.

If you have rips, you'd better perfect them, being the fact its not your work.

Rips with a bad quality port, is horrible for your rep.

I know why the faces are flipped, and I also know an easy way to fix them.

Well friggin do it!...

Extractor. Select the faces and flip em.

err, its not my model, unless u mean flip them for him


lol, of course flipping them is how you flip them... I dont think its the extractor, both the ones i have do the flipped faces thing

What are you guys talking about?
Just open the .max file and flip the faces, then re export.

Orionflame is a set of tools for 3ds max, it comes as a max script.
http://www.orionflame.com/
It has a function called "unify normals" (i wouldnt be surprised if max also has a tool for this)
It will give great results in flipping the correct faces for you.

Kinda correct, though I could have worded it (much) better than I had.


The detail map could use some work. I mean, it looks too blurry and splotchy, probably because it's low-res.
Maybe you or, in the case you can't texture well, someone else can make a higher res, not-so-blurry version?
Maybe there is already one out?
In any case that phantom would look at least 100% better with a higher res detail map.

Modifiers>Normal

When you import the extracted model into max, the faces are all flipped round the wrong ways, and unifying them doesnt always fix it well enough. Also, some people are too lazy to flip them manually, because it takes ages.

more retail phantom updates, added a small bit of the lift's plasma, i dont like it plain, and comparing the normal cabin to the cinematic hi res cabin:

http://www.xfire.com/video/26c656/

dude, that cabin is epic in the most beastly way possible, I love it!

The helicopter looks like you got it off of turbosquid's site for free and it looked nice and then you added a huge block in the back with a plane coming off it and attached a gun to it which looks ugly but the smaller turret and and heli looks pretty nice

Penguin didn't download the model, if that's what you're implying.

I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say >_>

basically saying he didnt make it.

I dont know if he was saying that he never made it, i think he was just saying that it looked good.
Either way, I agree with the comments about the horrible boxy part though.