[WIP] Sd.Kfz.182/Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf B. Tiger II

[rossmum]

Yeah, it's in my gallery thread; but as this is my major project at the moment and probably my best model to date, it's getting its own thread so you poor bastards don't have to wait for everything else to load on the other one whenever I post updates.

http://xs226.xs.to/xs226/08170/ktprogress390.jpg
http://xs226.xs.to/xs226/08170/ktprogress2515.jpg

Currently lingering somewhere in the 15-17,000 triangle range.

On the to-do list:


Add more detail to driver and idler wheels, redoing them
Redo lifting loops on the top of the turret to make them smoother
Possibly redo the side skirts
Mudflaps
Interior
General tweaking where it's neededNot sure how I'm doing for scale, but the scale drawings I had seemed to vary a little so I aimed somewhere between the two. Glacis plate angle is accurate to within 3 degrees.

[Patrickssj6]

I know you live down in a basement and your eyes might have adapted to the darkness, but ours don't. Pictures are a tad to dark. :v:

But looks really good from what I can see :awesome:

[rossmum]

I know the second one's dark, first is fine for me though

[Sel]

Rossmum, its when people post shit like this, that I get an urge to

Anally penetrate

them :awesome:

[Llama Juice]

That's sexual harassment selentic, we don't tolerate that around here.

Does look damn smexy though.

[Bad Waffle]

Stop it with the gay shit.


Ross, your renders are pretty...those are the same colors and lighting setup i use for most of my renders. hf o/

[Bad Waffle]

Btw, i noticed how you did your tank treads. WASTE!

do em like dis (http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8971/wireframess7.png), noob

[rossmum]

i must admit i am a wasteful person

I dunno if I can be bothered redoing all the wheels. I might, but I really don't know.

Blame Reaper for trying to teach me to make everything one continuous mesh because he thought that was what the 'professionals' did. :rolleyes:

[Bad Waffle]

idiot, just delete the face and then go into border selection, and cap

[rossmum]

I don't like the cap tool anymore, it never caps what I want it to

e:

remind me to try it tomorrow, I was probably doing it wrong before

[SnaFuBAR]

definitely doing it wrong

[Hunter]

That looks awesome.

[Reaper Man]

i must admit i am a wasteful person

I dunno if I can be bothered redoing all the wheels. I might, but I really don't know.

Blame Reaper for trying to teach me to make everything one continuous mesh because he thought that was what the 'professionals' did. :rolleyes:
Wut. That was years ago D:

[PenGuin1362]

Silly rossmum. Doing it wrong.

But, nice giant metal cat.

[rossmum]

Alright WoL, tried what you said, and it buggered the smoothing up with the raised part of the wheel (not the rim). Same smoothing group, same object... anyway, unless there's a way around it, it looks like the wheels will stay as they are (except the drivers and idlers, which need serious detailing).

[Limited]

Amazing model, great work, you plane model right?

[Masterz1337]

Model looks great. Not a fan of the tank's design though. Keep it up though.

[rossmum]

Amazing model, great work, you plane model right?
mixture of plane and box, whichever suits


Model looks great. Not a fan of the tank's design though. Keep it up though.
get out

[Masterz1337]

But it's boring........

[Botolf]

I heart Tiger tanks, I heart this model :awesome:


But it's boring........
German tanks boring? Boring?!

FETCH THE LUGERS

[rossmum]

AW DICKS

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/king.jpg

[Bastinka]

Very nice.

[Boba]

DICKS, EVERYWHERE.

Looks really nice, rossmum! What do you plan to do with the model? :3

[Bad Waffle]

shit, theres like dicks everywhere, i cant seeeeee

great work, now show wireframes and tricount, noob

[rossmum]

DICKS, EVERYWHERE.

Looks really nice, rossmum! What do you plan to do with the model? :3
RO, Source


shit, theres like dicks everywhere, i cant seeeeee

great work, now show wireframes and tricount, noob
Wires later, current count is 30,335

[nick3d]

Great stuff keep it up ;)

[PenGuin1362]

RO, Source


Wires later, current count is 30,335

entirely unnecessary tri count >_> But looks pretty damn cool. wire noaw

also where's that mosin eh?

[rossmum]

In the "fuck you you're being a bitch I'll deal with you later" basket

wires coming

[Con]

It looks awesome ross, nice attention to detail.

[DaneO'Roo]

looks awesome man :)

[PenGuin1362]

In the "fuck you you're being a bitch I'll deal with you later" basket

wires coming

get it the fuck out of that basket. Your (what appears to be, judging by the lack of wires) improved skill makes me curious to see what else you can accomplish. I have an M44 if you want some good ref images >_>

[rossmum]

The pic lies.

Receiver is giving me no end of headaches and the stock isn't being very cooperative either, plus I've still got the sight globe hole to do and that's going to be a pain to get right.

Wires can come later because rendering this thing takes forever :downs:

[rossmum]

Right, wires, and I am going to have to be vicious as hell with LODs given stock RO tanks are 5-8K each (that said, the balance police will likely murder anyone who puts more than 2-4 of these in a map):

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/kingwire.jpg

Once it gets further than about fifty feet from the player I'll probably cut the minor stuff like bolts, bordering on mudflaps, rough up the tow cables a little, etc.

e: Just realised I can polychop the shit out of a lot of parts now without losing detail, will do ASAP. As for the messy wires, no idea what their game is, but I know I have some minor nonplanars in places

[TeeKup]

So is that tank going ingame?

[rossmum]

hopefully

[rossmum]

Fixed hull MG34 mount, loader's periscope, towing hooks, indentation in glacis plate for radioman/hull gunner's periscope, etc. Minor fixes, basically. Still need to redo driver wheels, add some details to the engine deck and tracks, and then redo the side skirts. Gun mantlet and possibly barrel could use some more rounding, too.

Render coming sometime this century

[rossmum]

Circuit breaker tripped and I lost the render, have a quick and nasty:

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/kingtiger.jpg

[rossmum]

Shit was wrong so I fixed it - drive sprockets, gun mantlet (actually think it may be a bit too lopsided now), cupola and periscopes, and hinges on the loader's hatch. Also rescaled the road wheels to their proper size.

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/kingtiger6.jpg
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/kingtiger5.jpg

Still a fair way to go, as I realise things are off and go back and tweak or redo them

[Con]

Those wheels look like they eat up a lot of polys, are you sure at least some of it can't be textured on?

[legionaire45]

Well, he could probably get away with normal mapping it on when he wants to get it in game (assuming he puts it into Source). He'll need the high poly for that anyway.

I don't know if RO supports normal maps, but if it does he could do this for that too.

[rossmum]

It doesn't, unfortunately.

I think I'll just deal with the wheels through LODing. When you're right next to the tank, they're modelled. When you're in it with your head out the hatch, or when you're more than a few tens of yards from it, the textures take over.

[nick3d]

Whats the tricount for that???

[rossmum]

Something slightly over 30k, I haven't optimised it properly yet

[PopeAK49]

Very nice tank. But i do agree that the wheels look like a whole bunch of wasted polys.

[rossmum]

The problem is that thanks to the King Tiger's size, a simple skin won't cover it. If RO supported normals, I'd use those; however it doesn't and as those wheels are actually quite massive, flat cylinders are going to look like absolute shit to anyone standing near the tank.

[rossmum]

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/kingtiger7a.jpg
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/kingtiger9.jpg
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/kingtiger8.jpg