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Lockdown M1A2

by Taylor Wiebe · 01/31/2010 (8:49 pm) · 7 comments

Hey All, I have nearly completed texturing the M1A2 Abrams tank I have been working on. I decided to re-texture the entire tank, to give it a lighter look and I have also made the edges harder on the tank. Along with that I have added a couple different objects to my city mock up level to see how they will work in game.

Here are the updated images of the tank, in game:
www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/m1a2/m1a2-10.pngwww.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/m1a2/m1a2-11.pngwww.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/m1a2/m1a2-12.pngwww.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/m1a2/m1a2-13.pngwww.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/m1a2/m1a2-14.pngHere is the tank's wire frame:
www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/m1a2/m1a2-15.pngwww.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/m1a2/m1a2-16.png
There are a couple things which I need to finish texturing, such as the gun mount on the top of the tank. I also have to finish the tracks texture, and fix the lights and texture the antennas.

Here are a couple of images of the things I have been playing with in my test level:
www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/levels/mismock-3.pngwww.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/levels/mismock-4.pngwww.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/levels/mismock-5.png
I plan to start rigging the tank for animation and coding very soon and also modeling the inside of the Black Hawk I had posted in an earlier blog as well as texturing it.

#1
01/31/2010 (11:10 pm)
Nice tank, sharp edges make it look more solid. Hope you LOD it, there's tonnes of stuff that on that, that could be simplified for distance.
#2
02/01/2010 (1:24 am)
Beautiful! Nice work!
#3
02/01/2010 (1:51 am)
awesome! great work!
#4
02/01/2010 (7:05 pm)
cool stuff!
#5
02/01/2010 (7:07 pm)
ok I will bite.. How does the gym set and slide fit into a battle game? A training mission? :)
#6
02/01/2010 (9:03 pm)
Thanks for the comments!

@Randy No its not for training, I am planning on having a city which was attacked and is now crumbling. I am going to make the area around the gym a park, so I was just adding little details into it. When I begin to focus more on level design it will all come together, I just wanted to get my ideas out :)
#7
02/02/2010 (12:03 am)
:)

Call of Duty 4 has a map level with a demolished playground... Fits in good..