M1A2 Abrams

[Moderator]

21:07, 30th Sep 2014
MiniMage: The filesize is still pretty large, but efforts were made to cut it down as much as possible, so I got no reason to complain. The animations are smooth and the mesh is well made. The death animation is beautiful. Approved.

 

[Melvic]

Now this is good man!

 

[kakuzu]

Awesome model , good work !

 

[APproject]

Damn this looks realistic.

 

[Hantoo]

The Legend awakes

 

[Avex]

Oh my god it looks so good.

 

[MiniMage]

That's a huge filesize though. ;I

 

[Hantoo]

so he have the low filesize version

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/m1-abrams-battle-tank-48652/

 

[JokeMaster]

Seems legit.

 

[MiniMage]

I'd probably approve this if he could shave off a few kilobytes. At least getting it down to 300-400
I would assume that the textures is what takes the most of the filesize anyhow. So it should probably be a possibility.

Optimizing the model itself might also lower the filesize somewhat.

 

[Heinvers]

This looks gorgeous man. I love the texture.

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

I'd probably approve this if he could shave off a few kilobytes. At least getting it down to 300-400
I would assume that the textures is what takes the most of the filesize anyhow. So it should probably be a possibility.

Optimizing the model itself might also lower the filesize somewhat.

I've shaved off 70KB. I'm not willing to go any lower due to degradation in visual quality.
Also, is high texture quality even a valid reason for rejection?

Seems legit.

Totally.

 

[Edge45]

And the Hive's Legendary Modeller returns,
This is very nice, reallistic and dangerouse, right now, the
filesize is ok for me

 

[Strydhaizer]

So you're starting another mass destruction ? :0

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

I've already made two. If I were to create a third one, it would be built in Unity.

 

[Splub]

Nice tank!

 

[Fingolfin]

AAWWWW YEEAAAHHH!! The legend is BACK!

Your animation skills have really developed since the last tank. I like how you have incorporated a lot of motion into it, looks like a professional job.

About the death anim though, is it physics generated or hand made?

EDIT: On a technical note, you have two instances of the track texture, which is a bit redundant. The reason the exporter does this is because one of them is set to wrap width and height (tiling) while the other is not. This is something you could fix.

 

[microlabbb]

441.79 KB - huge ....
Anyway 5\5

 

[sonofjay]

This is the most well done tank that I've ever seen for Warcraft 3.

Thanks for sharing this to us.

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

About the death anim though, is it physics generated or hand made?

Death animation debris was simulated quick and dirty with PhysX.

 

[Fingolfin]

Cool. By the way, is there any way you could fix your old maps to be compatiable with v2.3b? and over? Would be a shame if they went to waste, and it would only take 5 minutes.

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

Most already do, don't they? There's only a couple that doesn't work to my knowledge.

 

[Fingolfin]

Afaik, all of the red alert maps, modern warfare, and the battlefield map are all broken.

EDIT: Oh, just noticed you fixed the modern warfare map, back in 2009. I must have had some ancient version on my harddrive.

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

Apparently only Red Alert Skirmish Demo and Battlefield is no longer compatible, and I no longer have the source files for either of them.

 

[smoopa]

awesome texture work dude

 

[Zed]

Awesome work.
5/5

 

[Minder]

Even if the filesize is huge this model is awesome. 5/5 +rep

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

After all the past tanks, I think this one is the best! By any chance would there be one with a desert camo skin?

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

I could probably whip up some alternate textures.

Edit:
Desert
Snow

 

[Fingolfin]

Will there be more tanks? A T-90 perhaps?

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

Perhaps. I might make a few more if I feel like it.

 

[Kazeon]

I haven't checked this in-game but looking at your custom skins of this model, you added a shading effect underneath the head, and that is a nice and realistic addition. But you know what? In most of tank-war maps, modders are mostly will rotate tank's head (locking the head's bone to other directions), you know it's to aim for targets. In that case, the shadow will stay at the body part which makes it looks weird.

This is just one possible solution:
Use a plane that is merged with head's bone for the shading, so the shadow will follow where the head's rotated. But now there is another problem, the shadow can floats in the air in some certain cases

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

No. Warcraft 3 does not natively support independently moving turrets and I'm not modifying the texture to comply with some arbitrary system.
The few who uses the model in ways it was not intended to will just have to deal with it or adapt it for their use.

 

[Kazeon]

No. Warcraft 3 does not natively support independently moving turrets and I'm not modifying the texture to comply with some arbitrary system.

It does natively support partial-body facing:

• Animation - Lock (unit)'s (bone part) to face (other unit), offset by (0.00, 0.00, 90.00)

call SetUnitLookAt( unit, @"bone_head"@, other_unit, 0, 0, 90 )

Except if this model does not support that feature, then the shading is totally okay

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

Body part facing, yes. Full on turret functionality, no.

 

[InfernalTater]

I love it, but do you really need a custom destroyed texture? Couldn't you wrap any dark smoky sort of metal texture from in-game for when it's destroyed? Maybe even a black rock texture. Just saying, that could reduce the file size.

Still, I love it. 5/5.

 

[Barade]

Awesome model. Could you add the "bone_head", so it can be used with custom turret systems?

It works with your other model M1 Abrams Battle Tank using "bone_turret".

 

[Orcman]

Beautiful mods