Work in Progress: Panther 2 (Type G)

[Vharzul]

Yes you hered right im am now 3d modeling the Panther 2 (G) or Panther G as its called as well.

Picture here of what im geting the info from:

http://www.onwar.com/tanks/germany/fpantherg.htm

So far i have got the main hull completed, the MG turret in the front, working on the top of hull of the Panther like, the Main Gun, and other details... and the Tank track is the last thing im doing seeing ill find a bit mroe difficult, but I good knowledge of Milkshape 3D now to complete it, hopfuly ill have it ready by Tuesday, beacuse on Wednesday I go on Holiday and I wont come back until the following Wednesday the week aftre this, so, lets cross fingers nothing gets in my way, like animating or skining

Wish me luck...im going to need it

 

[Goatis68]

Good Luck hope it all comes together for you. I'm glad to see everyone getting involved in the spite thing. The entire comunity is sure to benifit from this.

 

[unmerged(16044)]

great progress. you're learning well. I'll be making a tutorial after all... Read on keyframes to make turret rotate. good luck.

 

[unmerged(12730)]

great progress. you're learning well. I'll be making a tutorial after all.

Yes, KM, you are really a fast learner!!

 

[Vharzul]

LOL bet you though it was finished, but now its only 80% completed.. things completed on Panther II are:

Main Hull
Main Turret
Tank Tracks

Ok it might seem completed, but I am puting a few details on thier, and my time today has run out, I got to go to bedy bys lol

So Tomorrow when I come home from work, ill be wokring on the minor detail's on the Tank and then I have to animate it, and then i have to start puting it all together in Photoshop, so that it can be put in the game.

So I hopfuly cna get all this done tomorrow, oh forgot the skinning part lol, ill have to do some of my own

Any way thats all for now! just thought id give an update to were I am up to on my Panther II

 

[unmerged(16044)]

hey, some pics would be nice. I want to see your progress. Do you model the tank tracks individually (ie. wheels, tracks and stuff), or you just plug in a texture? My advice is to go with the texture. Sure it's simpler but at a distance it won't make a different. Also, read on my tutorial to get the turret rotation, recoil animation, and others on Milkshape.

 

[Vharzul]

I could send some pics to you or Nighty ill send some when I get home later, as for your question, I did the Tank wheels indevidualy, well more or less, I maid one basic design wheel and duplicated it 7 times, then I did two otehr individual wheels one for front of Tank if you look at Panther 2 img on www.onwar.com youll see and one smaller wheel at the back!

Then I got it all together lined it all up in condjuntion to the main Tank hull, and I grouped the Wheels patern all 10 of them and duplicated it and sent that duplicate to thr right side of the Tank hull, wolla perfect match, ive used the duplicating button several; times in Milkshape which ment I didnt have to do seprate wheels for other side of Tank... hehe arnt I clever, but youve done that too as far as I can tell.

Any way screenies on the way to Nighty and you when I get home from the Gym later on this evening!

 

[unmerged(12730)]

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Ok, KM !!

Maybe you can use that:

http://csshaun.ict.ru.ac.za/BlenderTutorials/TankTracks/

 

[Vharzul]

Hmmm intresting link, given me a few ideas of doing my own Tank tracks, but I dont think its nesacery for HoI, but well see what I can do

Good link though

 

[Vharzul]

Hmm not feeling to well atm ill definatly have the model finished, whether I will get around to animating it today is another thing, and resising for HOI, if i cant get the resising done in time for HOI etc, maybe you can do the photoshop edeting for HOI, thats only if i cant do it in time though so well see!

 

[unmerged(16044)]

Can you drop me some pics of your Panther to my email, or post it here? My email is sekinoss@yahoo.com . I'd like to see how your models progressing .

A note of warning though: Milkshape can only handle so many vertices. Don't overdo it or you'll get some errors due to overflow. It is after all a low polygon modeler. If you're really ambitious get GMAX. It's literally a toned down 3Dmax, but still a beast nonetheless.

 

[Vharzul]

Thats no problem, ill be sending you pics some time this evening my time hehehe

This is for my refrence but if you other 3d spirit makers want to amke a few of these its a good source!

http://3dcenter.ru/blueprints/tanks/tanks.shtml

Oh forgot to mention im also geting 3Ds Max, or well not geting more like downloading it seeing how expensive it is, one jsut has to love KaZaA

 

[Vharzul]

Sekinoss i need you help tomorrow ill send you my Tank again wiht its skinns etc, but I cant do the resizing of the Tank beacuse I dont have photoshop nore any good imagening alteration software, so your gone have to do that, hope you dont mind, ive just have to animate it tmomorrow, with the turret moving side to side, the frames will be thier any way but your gonna have to do the rest, ill do the scyrpting while your doing the rest, that should get things going, if you can help me that is, other wise this Panther will nto get finished!

 

[unmerged(16044)]

? I thought I have to do the anim and tex. (BTW your Panther is very detailed and HighPolygon!) Anyway Ok then you go ahead. I'll make a good learning experience. As for Image editing, why don't you grab Paint Shop Pro from the www.jasc.com . It's what I use and it's really good. It comes with Animation Shop to decompile AVIs too. Give it a whirl.

Sekinoss

 

[Deserteur]

anyways you will have to change the topic of this thread

because the tank you are working is a "Panther (Type G)" not a "Panther 2 (Type G)".

 

[Vharzul]

Uhhhoooo I totaly forgot about that site, sorry got a lot on my mind, my life tends to get complicated at times, and at this time it is I get these times were I just cant do things, were you think that you loss youself in youself, dont know if any one ells got that fealing, but again ill try my best, but when I have a turn like I am now its very difficult to do things, but im happy you like my Panther sekinoss and your comment!

one ting with the Pallet I wanted to ask, is it the pallet for the pink background only? or is it for textures too? or do textures not count for that?, hows that kind of thing work

 

[unmerged(12730)]

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Better get that explained by sekinoss if it related to modelling.
As far as sprites are concerned the first colour should be pink in the palette

 

[unmerged(16044)]

Just finish texturing with Milkshape and take the AVIs needed (with correct angle etc). Worry about the paletting and pink backgrounds later. Once you've decompiled the AVI and arrange them in the proper setting horizontally you can decrease color depth and edit to have the first color PINK. but that's in you image editing software and not in Milkshape. Don't worry.

Sekinoss

 

[Exel]

Just as a sidenote, Panther G is not the same as Panther II. The Panther II project was intented to create a new tank that would combine the best characteristics of Panther and Tiger II, but the project was cancelled. Instead they applied some of the new inventions into Panther G, but it still is Panther I.

 

[Vharzul]

Just an update, havent worked on the Tank for about 2 days now seeing im in one of my depresive moods but, i am going to change the Panther skin of at leats one part any way.

I hope to have this darn Tank done soon seeing its just lingering, and I am working on Bismarck or attempt to do it, though I dont garuanty to have it done any time soon hehehe hope I can get every thing on the ship that I want to lol....

I really wish to make the Bismarck class wanted to do so for ages and ill be able to do so soon then comes the Deutschland Class and then Pocket BB which I could do first,oh who knows what one of those projects ill do next, ill just supprise you lot