Nice very nice banshee soi nice job

So, I have changed the weapons angle and finished the collisions. The Banshee is officially finished, except for the back wings steering animation, that for some strange reason doesn't play. It was already in the stock vehicle animations, and the wings are properly rigged, so I think that's just a vehicle problem, but I don't know how to solve it. If someone has a solution, his suggestions are welcome.

Meanwhile, I need to do just the Spectre, and then I'm done with the Covenant vehicles, but I'm more excited for the human Machine Gun, so I'm gonna make that first

Copy steering screen settings from warthog animations tag if you are using animation as "steering". If that doesn't work try using it as "acc left-right" animation.
Edited by altis94 on Dec 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM

The second method worked. Thanks a lot, Altis!

*enthusiasm intensifies*

wow this thread moves fast.

Gr8 works.

uh aren't acc animations a biped thing?

It is a unit thing. Vehicles are also units.

Wow... you really impress me with you stupidity man, bravo "round of applause".

its a h3 banshee with custom anims highly modifiés model son on etc

Learn how to read, or get away from my topic.

Back on topic: I have finally finished the human Machine Gun turret:







I have started from CMT's old human Turret, making it an hybrid between the stock H2 version, the H4 SAW, Destiny's Thunderlord and the LMG from the MA series. It uses the H3 firing sound plus custom ones for the reload and the ready animations, and I managed to get a simple method in order to make it detachable without using grenades: when you press the grenade button, it starts a detonation sequence of about 5 seconds (signaled by sparks and flares) and then it explodes, spawning the portable turret. If you don't get out of the vehicle before the explosion it will kill you, but it is small enough to let you run away in time:







Ignore the HUD, obviously. I'll make a custom interface for this turret, and put something in order to help the player with the detaching thing.

Opinions?
Edited by SOI_7 on Dec 29, 2014 at 10:13 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6rSsRuZ-rE

I like the look and design except for this...



Maybe add some pieces like the back leg has for stability?

I think you should get rid of the green tint on the base. Move primary trigger marker a bit forward and make shell casings use primary ejection marker (HEK+ seems to change it to primary trigger). Also FP model could use some work.

FP model seems to be a little lowpoly. Spruce it up a lil' bit.
And with the origin I'd move it down and a little bit.

honestly I'd move it a bit up and to the right. Make it look shouldered. Otherwise it looks really nice as is.

I guess I'm more used to seeing weapons from the hip. >.<

Are you working on the spectre?

Good to see another take on the M247 GPMG, and it looks like you're taking it in the right direction, but there are a few aspects that could use a little more work.

Right now you've got a front sight like an AA gun. I'd bring that down a bit. Your rear sight looks a little bulky and overbuilt, but it was a nice inclusion. Your gas tube seems to be outside the main body of the weapon, so I'd probably move that up. You may also want to add an ejection port to the left side, since it's feeding from the right.

Another thing you might want to consider is moving the charging handle onto the reciprocating section here, since it's too far forward for an ejection port.


This sheet has a good concept that might be a helpful source of inspiration.
Edited by Echo77 on Dec 31, 2014 at 01:11 PM
Edited by Echo77 on Dec 31, 2014 at 01:49 PM

Not sure about the gas tube, but the ejection port is already in the model, it's the block next to the red square you drew (it's animated, btw):



Fixed all the stuff you pointed: moved the markers, changed the base from green to black, add supports to the front feet, improved and shrinked the rear sight, changed the orgins, brought down the front sight:







Better?

Looks a lot better. The gas tube is the protruding bit below the barrel that you have the front sight attached to. The animated "ejection port" seems too far forward to actually be one, though.

I'll push it up a bit and move the ejection port backwards. Other than that, the Machine Gun is officially finished, so I'll move on with the Spectre

*excitement intensifies*

Are you going to release some sort of tag pack...? So many finished tags on a tag dump thred never getting realeased . anyway love the machine gun ya

Will you ever add a Rocket Warthog to this stuff? Rocket hogs see less use in certain singleplayer projects you know.

If he does, I hope he revises the launcher. I like the rocket Warthog as a concept, but the launcher on the CE variant was a bit wonky.

True, I've been spending nearly the whole day going through this thread again to see SOI's content, it's really impressive. Although some of the UNSC vehicles should have little twists on them, Mongoose perhaps?

I think he mentioned that he'd eventually get around to modifying the UNSC vehicles.

its for a campaign mod soi is making

you are tjevcampaihn mod.

What? Also bump.

Update time!

During these days, I went back to some of my previous works, and added new things:

1) First of all, I made a flee stand animation for the Grunts. Pretty simple but still funny:





2) I revised the SMG and the Covenant Carbine. The former now has a UNSC decal and the H2A origins, the latter has also been revamped:









Guess what? I hate the H3 origins. These ones are much better IMO.

3) Now, the best part: I have finally finished the Spectre! I admit that I'm really proud of it, it's by far my favorite vehicle between the ones I did so far:







I started from the H2 model, removing the front cover and replacing it with the Revenant muzzle (I used the model that Altis uploaded on Halomaps). Then I've replaced the side seats with a sort of Prowler-esque wings (custom), and replaced the turret with the H3 Plasma cannon:







(smoothing groups have already been fixed)

I need to clarify that the Plasma Cannon model isn't a rip: I found it in this models pack (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=3453) but it was ridiculously high-poly, so I had to heavily optimize it via multires and manual edits (Unwrap included *sigh*). It has been a pain to make, but I'm quite happy with the result. This vehicle doesn't have boost, though, because it makes the passengers ping (and it's quite annoying), and can't be boarded because my script doesn't work when there are other passengers (and boarding an empty Spectre it's pointless).

I had the idea of making the Plasma turret deployable once the Spectre is destroyed, turning it into a portable version, but since the tagspace limit scares me, I have planned to put it in the final mod only if there's enough free tagspace left.

With this model, I have officially finished all the Covenant vehicles. If you think it's fine, I'll step on and I'll start working on the Warthog
Edited by SOI_7 on Jan 16, 2015 at 12:04 PM

That spectre has caught my eye. I'll wait to see how the warthog's come out, great job SOI :)

Kinda reminds me of a snowmobile for some reason.

I like your work a lot!

Here are a few suggestions:
Maybe make the barrel a bit longer

Make the turret a bit bulkier, seems a bit whimpy to be mounted on such a nice vehicle.
Maybe have the fin things from the spectre on it still?