18:42, 2nd Sep 2009
Pyritie: ...holy shit man, this is amazing! Just a few things you can fix though:
- In the death and decay anims, hide the geosets that are giving the headlights that "beam" of light, if you get what I mean.
- The death anim is OMFG but I think you can lower the particle count a bit. 1000 is a lot.
- A thought: In the attack alternate anim, if it has those things on the ground shouldn't the recoil be much less?
- During the stand 3 anim you can lower the particle count there as well.

7th Oct 2009
Pyritie: Set back to rejected because you didn't fix the 1st and 3rd things.

General Frank: Still not fixed. Set back to rejected.

this is without a doubt the sexiest fucking fatman i have ever seen. probably the only fatman id sex up. awesome job i love it

I have to think about a basilisk of Warhammer 40K. xD
I'm lovin it too, but I can't use it on my map. D=

Just wow!! Im a fan of animations, and thats why i love your tank. So much detail

But it seems, there are no rockets and mortar grenades visible in third and fourth spell anim.
And its somehow strange, that the tank comes back to his old position after firing without moving its wheels, but this is only a little detail.

Edit:
Ok now, that i played the map about your tank, i understand your idea of how the animations are supposed to work, so the critics about the lack of projectiles are useless.

This death animation is so fucking beautiful.
You could try adding more things at the alternate version and doing a morph anim.

This model is worth all the polies and the filesize after all, isn't that big.
Amazing job, 6/5

The wheels rolling to make it come back during attack is a good idea that slipped my mind. I'll have to include that in 1.1 along with some particle differences in the attack alternate. Attack alternate should look more powerful...

What about the scale of the model? Too big? If there's any changes you'd like for V1.1 let me know.

hm yeah maybe it would be better to make one continuous track instead of the choppy ones. But it doesnt make the model, its just a little detail, at least it makes tracks

Overall, the model looks really beautifull in my opinion.

I can see that you put plenty of time and effort into this model, and the result vindicates all of that. Good job

This is a very beautiful high quality model, keep up the great work.

6/5 definitely.

Badass

10/10

Well Pretty F*cking Awesome if u ask me... SUCH A BADASS TANK DESERVES A 11/10!! FATMAN 4 PRESIDENT!!! OH NOES TOO MUCH TANKNESS FOR MY EYES!!! x_x *goes blind*

Ok, Pyritie I'll see what I can do about them fixes.

if this a dwarf fat guy then i want more overweight dwarves.

--------------------FATMAN 1.1 Update----------
File Size:
90.9kb in MPQ, (really only takes 90.9kbs of actual map size)
372kb mdx file size

Fixed Footprint tracks so they are continuous
Shaved about 350 tris off Stand-3 particles
Shaved about 1150! tris off death explode without much quality difference (it was really wasteful before)
Scaled the whole model 3% smaller
Unlinearized the animations
Made the wheels roll back during attack, attack alt, and spell fourth
Fixed a priority plane issue with FireR2 and FireL2
Made Lights go off when tank is dead
Made attack alternate particles different
Fixed the AA Missle ability in my test map
Updated test map and all descriptions

I didn't like the low quality that the linearized animations had compared to the unlinearized ones. The cost, of course, is larger
file size, but I think it's worth it. V1.0 was 72kbs in MPQ, now its 90.9kbs

These things LOOK DIFFERENT in game then they do in MAGOS(War3ModelEditor)!!:
The Big Explosion is seen in game, the lights go off when it dies in game, and the exhaust flames work properly in game.
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Why do all the quotations in my description say "&quote;" ?

...Woaaw. That's just epically epic.

omg awesome model!!! 5/5 +rep!!

I kno my tanks, and i know this is an epic one, and as such i MUST have one for my collection )

death animation as everyone knows is pwnage to GF Tanks xD (why must his have a standard death, it makes no sence..)

Simply luv it in every way possible 10/5

I'd like to see ur take on a

notED rocket launcher tank

ultimately awesome =))))
i'd vote for DC =)

Four letters describe this perfectly:
OMFG!

5/5 and adding letters.

Pure awesomeness.

Hahaha Slow motion Deattthhh


EDIT: Also, the control handle tops could be billboarded

me like alot!

This is completely AWESOME!!!! It blows you all the way from Azeroth into Kalimdor!!!
THE ULTIMATE KICKASS TANK!!!

Awsome job 10/10

This must of took awhile, but either way it looks very nice.

Yes, it took quite a while. I didn't stress it and took my time made sure it was quality. I wasn't worried about how soon I finished it.

Daom! 5/5.

Ah Sephiroth i see you fixed the thing with the wheels during the attack animations.
Excellent now!

Awesome model, really... I also love the way you managed to put all the shots in the specific cannons in the test map spells... 5/5

*_* 15/10

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have two things to say.


1.) Great model. Maby best on hive 5/5 +rep

2.) THIS THING FUCKS WITH CHUCK NORIS ZOMGWTFBBQ!??!?!??!?!?!

I just hope it's good enough to be a DC

The dwarf is pretty small if you compare him to the dwarf in game that is one of the mortar team dwarfs. If you'd like me to upscale him I can do that later on.

personally the barracks and barrels textures kinda throw it off for me

other than that its definently ATLEAST a 4

oh and i would compleetly remove the kickback, or maybe just make it a little bit of vibration, since when in turret mode, it always kicks backwards, even when its attacking a target to the right, that or maybe put the kickback on the gun, and not on the body, that would be cool to

Hey, i just came to think of this:
It would look alot cooler if the cannon wouldn't get narrower and narrower at the end.

Yea this is good once I mention DC the real critiques start coming. lolz.
Be honest, anything you dislike about it TELL ME so I can change/fix it!!1

The barrel/castle textures I understand throw it it off. Tank should be all metal. Yea I was trying to spice it up a bit instead of have all siege tank texture. I'll try and find a better fitting texture in the mpq. Any suggestions would be great.

Finally a super tank model which ..... What? .... NO it has LARGE FILESIZE!

Also 100kb increase in my map size is heavy, also squisher doesn't help much with this model. Maybe I'm going to use it...

TKF said:

Finally a super tank model which ..... What? .... NO it has LARGE FILESIZE!

Also 100kb increase in my map size is heavy, also squisher doesn't help much with this model. Maybe I'm going to use it...

Click to expand...

Isn't the new b.net size like 4mb or somthing? Why then is this a problem? I can't just magically make the size go down to 50kb. It has lots of geosets, particles, lots of everything.

4mb are you insane! I need maps which I can upload quickly with my 56k!!!

Another excellent model.
Good on you, Seph.

amazing 5/5 very nice Model

umm did you forget the morph anims?
anyways, the death animation is godlike

I really see no need for a morph animation, all that happens is the support legs come out/go back in. It works fine the way it is. Yea the death anim looks good, but if you focus on any piece and watch as it explodes you will see that its VERY far from a perfect animation.

It should be good to go now. Sorry for the delay, I know it's been to long, but I finally got around to it!

Here is the test map for any of you who just missed the bright green link, and all caps letters in the description clearly pointing it out, or just skipped the description all together: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/modeling-and-animation-276/dwarven-fatman-141023/#post1274213


----------------------------------FATMAN 1.2 Update------------------------------
File Size:
95.9kb in MPQ,
373kb mdx file size

Got rid of the recoil kickback on attack alt and spell fourth
Made opacity of lights change during animations, flicker or dim
Made main cannon 5% wider on the end

Once again I remind you the lights going on and off, flickering, dim, ect. DOES work in game test it and you will see.
Also other things are better seen in game like exhaust flames and big explosion glow.

This is just really awesome. I hope it gets a DC.

quite nice 5/5

Pending? WHAT! Models like this shouldn't pend for more than a few minutes....

5/5

Wow very good!!!!God work 100/10