SMC M#03 ragupasta: All Terrian Armoured Vehicle; Mass Effect Mako

[ragupasta]

Hi guys,

Thought I would join in the fun. I decided to go with the Mass Effect Mako. This is where I am at now, I have 16 minutes left to make any final adjustments (which to be honest there are a lot). There is also the underside of the cannon to finish.
Here are some renders of where it is now...
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c44/ragupasta/mako.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c44/ragupasta/mako_01.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c44/ragupasta/makoWires.jpg

Also I thought I would record it as well. An opertunity to share.

NOTE: All limited broadband users might want to miss the video, its +/-400meg. Hosted at vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/8940373

Cheers!

[ragupasta]

Tweaking complete. All time has been used. now to unwrapping it.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c44/ragupasta/mako02.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c44/ragupasta/mako03.jpg

Cheers

[teknight]

You need to beef up the thickness on that gun's barrel...otherwise, the first time it fires it is going to explode. Nice rifling effect though. How did you make it?

[ragupasta]

You need to beef up the thickness on that gun's barrel...otherwise, the first time it fires it is going to explode. Nice rifling effect though. How did you make it?

Cheers for the crit. Ive run out of time so I cannot tweak the barrel anymore :(

As for the rifeling, I used a cylinder for the barrel, detached as a clone the inside and isolated that selection. Selected a horizontal edge all the way around the diameter of the cylinder and did a loop select. Extruded the selected edges by a small amount in height and width. Selected the newly extruded edge(s) and chamfered those to make a square cross-section. Added a tessalation modifier set to faces, and upped the interation by 1 setting. Added a twist modifier and upped the spinner until I was satisfied.

That was it really, really quick and simple, and because I used already existing geometry (as I do all the time) it was exactly the right size and shape I needed.
Makes for a nice quick workflow. :)

Alll this is shown in the video link in the first post :)

[samurailotus]

can i use it on a map for halo or doesnt it work?
im making a map for a college project and i want to add a ester egg in and i like the idea of the mako being in my map, anyway off topic, i just need a model file, i will take care of the animations and that other stuff

So plz let me have a model