Cannons

[Moderator]

07:53, 4th Feb 2009
General Frank: Hmm, reduce the polygon amount of the wheels and fix the wrapping on the middle chassis.

5th Feb 2009
Pyritie: Looks decent and works ingame.

It achieves a sort of, simplicit quality. It functions well, and is quite usefull. The wheels may be a bit overdone, but the poly count is still substantially low. All together, I'd give it a 4/5

_{By the way my rating is 3/5 but Mr. Bob's is 4/5.}

 

[Mechanical Man]

I like it. Even with those well modeled wheels it doesn't have a huge polycount. This site needs more cannons (people forced using my crappy one I made when I was a noob xd). Only thing I dislike is the actual cannon, too similar to mortar team one, using that crappy texture and form.

 

[Artins the Great]

I love it. Very useful in any maps.

 

[D a w n]

It is really nice but I think that you should make the wheels a bit smaller and you should search another texture for the cannon

 

[Khazmo]

I tried smaller wheels, however, the model did not look right when used ingame. It looked too slender and brittle, in my mind. I'll attempt to find another texture, but it is doubtful I could find one suitable.

Edit: Wrapped an alternate version to the Battleship Texture. Its available in a moment as a portrait for the cannon. Giving people a choice of whichever they prefer.
Edit2: Unfortunately the new picture did not appear on the update.

 

[RoleplayingKing]

Looks like a mortar.

 

[Goldendemon]

that is nice!!

 

[Jack_Sparrow93]

Looks useful! Good job!

 

[MasterHaosis]

Awesome!

 

[thegreatsmite]

i can use this!

 

[Larry_Camonta]

the wheels are a little big, don't you think?
but the rest is cool
4/5

 

[whitecrusader13]

the wheels are a bit to big but still... really simple and usefull model, good job!!! 5/5
~White

 

[TaKky]

I think the wheels are fine

 

[redragex]

nice, it fits the warcraft theme

 

[TheBlooddancer]

BOOM! HEADSHOT!

Awesome.

 

[Falconeye]

Well the hive already has a cannon, but I like the way you made it have a "cartoony" feel to it and not 100% historical. It adds a bit of character I say. 4/5

 

[Mechanical Man]

paulH, is this model for your project War of the races?

 

[Khazmo]

Nopes, that mod died years ago I'm afraid. This is for something else.

 

[Fummy]

nice! these could be very usefull!

 

[Magyar]

Nicely made and quite usefull, especielly for a early modern era war map.

 

[Spyda Man]

on behalf of battleship mapmakers i thank you for a great model, its better than the straight cannon. Mainly due to the reason that its arced, making its firing anim look better

 

[khangaroo]

wheel size is fine but the wheels have too much bits and pieces on them. Take off the metal straps.
Make the cannon barrel one and a half time larger then it is now.
Maybe use a wooden stand that is part of the cart to hold the cannon up.

Overall pretty good i'd give it a 3.99999 out of 5

 

[Elf_Lord]

i think it's pretty good. i especially like the wheels. however, in the death animation, the cannon just disappears. other than that, great! 4/5

 

[Velmarshal]

Don't be too harsh on yourself, the models is just fine.

 

[shamanyouranus]

This is fairly decent and useful model. But here are my qualms:

-The wheels are too complex. Their size is fine, but they have too many polies, and the texture's detail contrasts too much with the cannons simple, cartoony texture.
-How is this thing moving?
-The steam tank death doesn't really fit. A metal cannon on a wooden frame would not die in a fiery implosion like that. I'd think it would just fall apart. What you could do is change the particles to dust and smoke so it looks like it is breaking apart instead of lighting on fire.

This is a pretty good model, it has many uses, and is executed pretty well. 3/5.
This could get a higher rating if it is tweaked and improved a bit, but it is acceptable as is. Good job.

 

[Khazmo]

-The wheels are too complex. Their size is fine, but they have too many polies, and the texture's detail contrasts too much with the cannons simple, cartoony texture.
-How is this thing moving?
-The steam tank death doesn't really fit. A metal cannon on a wooden frame would not die in a fiery implosion like that. I'd think it would just fall apart. What you could do is change the particles to dust and smoke so it looks like it is breaking apart instead of lighting on fire.

- Wheels may be complex, but would look godawful using Wc3's usual standard of wheels, its about time we had some which are more than just cylinders (and plus, the details show nicely ingame).
- How is the Ballista/Glaivethrower/Catapult/Demolisher moving?
- I'll look into the dust when I come to look back over the model, which might be awhile.

 

[shamanyouranus]

Oh ho, touche

 

[Mechanical Man]

The wheels look just fine. The model isn't even 500 polygons, so talking about overpolying it makes no sense.

 

[Gyrosphinx]

"Guns don't kill people. THIS DO!!!" great model, looks like an actual historical early 1800 century mortar. useful as a warcraftish cannon.

Keep it up. 4/5

 

[Khazmo]

Thank you!

I may be making a new cannon sometime soon for my mod, it'll look less like a mortar.

 

[KenshinUesugi]

Looks less like a conventional cannon and more like the longer ranged Howitizer. A good alternative to the other cannon model we have which seems more like for ship combat then actual long range ground combat.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Which other cannon model?

 

[KenshinUesugi]

The one that is like 10kbs or something, I would have to look it up, but it's just a mdx file and pretty small file size.

Edit: It's the one you made

 

[Mechanical Man]

Ah, I hoped that is hidden a better cannon somewhere. But that is just a simple model I created long time. I created also another one (which is lies somewhere in the forum), but is not that good either. But it seems the best one is on xgm by Klarnetist (unless he ripped it from some game again xd)

 

[SerraAvenger]

I love it. Perfect for my Mortar Cannon

 

[Eragon12]

Perfect, smooth animations, but makes an orc catapult firing noise! 4/5

 

[Anteep]

Looks less like a conventional cannon and more like the longer ranged Howitizer. A good alternative to the other cannon model we have which seems more like for ship combat then actual long range ground combat.

Looks more like a MORTAR not a howitzer.

And a mortar it is. And very useful it is.

 

[Noob_But_Love_WC3]

Nice

It's a nice cannon and if i may i will use it i am a noob but map creation is nice and i like to play whit it

 

[Necrofulos]

Nice one

This is nice model, wheels are fine. Only thing i found was that for some reason its portait plays death animation if i move. Could you try to fix it, or did i something wrong???

 

[cxswdtd]

very cute

 

[lazerg20555]

awesome

hehe this is so nice very master & commanderish 5/5

 

[Legeon]

Looks like a mortar.

Yup like vintage mortar.