My FaF unit modeling start: Mantis Tank

[Morax]

With 3-D printers becoming more and more economical I've been starting some projects to make some cool prints, including a 3-D FaF unit database.

My native modeling talent comes with SolidWorks and on version 2016 the surfacing is getting really nifty...

I'm working based off of this image:

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After about thirty minutes I got the first portion of the leg fairly well done. Stay tuned for the full thing in the next few weeks : )

IMGUR ALBUM OF CAD STEPS

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[yeager]

FREAKIN AWESOME

[nine2]

That's sweet that your doing that. You probably already know but just in case - you can pull in the actual models & textures from the game files

[Morax]

That's sweet that your doing that. You probably already know but just in case - you can pull in the actual models & textures from the game files

Into SolidWorks? I'll have to look up the extraction process later and use it as a base for the rest as time marches on.

For this one I want to do it from scratch as I'll be "spiffying up the detail" a bit and making it look cooler in some aspects.

My hopes is that we as a community can build a new game from the ground up and since I don't know how to code perhaps I could do some modeling for units and give art direction.

[nine2]

The import I meant was for blender / 3dsmax - but I assumed there would be some converter for SolidWorks.

New game sounds nice but I can't see it happening. Look at Nomads and thats with the hard bit (game engine) already done.

[Crotalus]

Would be very cool with some remodelling of our current units, with the evolution in GPUs since the release we should be able to increase polygon counts a bit.

I guess it would especially be worthwhile with the ACUs, experimentals and other big units - ones that are often in a players view.

[nine2]

Would be nice but such a huge amount of time and we just use strat view anyway...

[Hexacosichoron]

This reminds me that I need to get back to animating. My enthusiasm has faded somewhat though. Though if we build an FA HD remake or even a SupCom 3, I could probably commit more heavily to animating for it.

[nine2]

Well once again we just use strat view anyway so even though updated animations would be terrific ... its hard to justify the time

[Krapougnak]

Well not all of us use strat view all the time... if someone is ready to invest the time why discourage him ? RKS explosions was a nice mod and it translated into some graphics evolution in the core FAF game. A graphics and models overhaul would be really nice, SCFA is a pretty game for its age and is worthy of some evolution in the beauty department if it wants to keep all its appeal to players, old and new.