Geodav's WIP Thread Thread - UT40K: The Chosen mod for Unreal Tournament 3

here a pic of what i've been building of and on for a while

it will be in the next build, the door stays open but has a simple lift system to get to the top
no turret weapons atm

looks good to me

Not bad. Of course the material needs a lot of work, but it's still wip. Is this in UT3 or UDK?

the material is just my basic material for all building meshes, atm it's just UDK, promise to upload some stuff for the mappers in the next few days

Nice work, can i ask: What planet/setting/theme is this bastion from? Coz as a mapper, id like to have everything organized into sections so i dont end up using say civilian houses from one planet on a completely different themed map.

the Bastion is a Standard Template Construct of the Imperium so it can be found on all Imperial worlds also on ex-imperial worlds
eg, with a few extra meshes it can be ork or chaos

Yes but if it was say found on a frozen planet, would it not have ice and snow on it? In which case you'd have to change the texture wouldnt you? Or could you use decals for things like that?

won't know untill someone trys

Ahahaha does the UDK support decals? I hope so coz im pretty sure thats what use do if you needed to do what i said above.

sorry i can research a lot but not everything, need a bit of help here on the map content side

Yeah im a little confused too, probably because i have never played the tabletop game. So if this bastion is a Standard Template Construct, how come the designers of DoW2 used a different style of structure for some of the imperial worlds they designed?

problely due to the time it take to do a game and how it's done for the tabletop game, don't forget computer games take over 2 years to due at some point you have to lock the design, on the table top if it doesn't look right then GW changes it, if not straight away then with the next release, you should see some of my models/building from the early/mid 90's

Hmm ok, i also guess that a civilian planet which has not seen the Imperial Guard, only the space marines might have a different style of structures too.

The buildings you're talking about in DoW2 are just plain civilian buildings with no intended military purpose. Geo's STC Bastion is a military building constructed and used by any imperial forces (Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Sisters of Battle, etc.).

Civilian buildings can and will vary greatly from planet to planet. STC buildings will all look pretty much the same no matter which planet they are on.

Ahhhh ok that makes much more sense now. So i guess if you had a civilian planet like calderis facing a large scale battle, you'd expect to see some of these STC buildings erected as defensive/military buildings?

That's right. So this kind of decoration would fit into almost any kind of map theme you could want; jungle, city, desert, swamp, moon, whatever!

ok here the latest wip

been doing this in my spare time at work, which is why its took so long , still need to texture it and try and do some normal maps

rolls it at ca 4500 polys

hmm what is that? ive never seen it before lol, but nice work

That's an awesome wartrack(?) I'm not real savvy on ork related stuff. That's looking real good. Only problem I can see is that the seat for the driver looks kinda cramped. You might need to give the driver a little more room there (and make sure he's not getting shot through the head!)

yep thats one of the old wartrax models, i first did it in gmax a long time ago before i knew about game modeling, it's now all re-modeled and i started doing a few normal map areas (wheels) for it the rest should work fine with textures, i'll check the position soon as the models on my laptop not here, i hope to get time at work this week to do a texture for it but we'll see how it goes,
btw it will be RED

Nice work, btw can someone plz look at my thread "More unwrap questions" below this one.

here's another one

its all uvw'd but i still need to re-arrange the uv's for the whole vehicle, still waht to change the wheels a little which should take it up to 6k
i'll do the texture later as i want to start another vehicle soon

Edited by: Geodav

It just doesnt look that orky to me for some reason. I dont know there isnt enough scrap metal and wood and all that on it, it all looks too perfect and clean if you get what i mean. Not enough grunge.

A lot of that "orky" look can be done in the material. Plus having a bunch of orks hanging out of it doesn't hurt either

don't forget these are old-ish GW models which i did years ago and have now 'ported' to game models, can't say wont the next one will be (not Orkz) but after that i'll make a start on the newer Ork stuff

yep it needz a red paint job