Spitfire project

[Fox One]

This is a concept that's been floating around in the heads of the KoRx dev team for awhile, and originated with akane, who is unfortunately no longer with our group. The purpose was to give the alien team a means of directly attacking humans with jetpacks. Akane's design concept looked like this:

but when she left the project was largely forgotten, even though Aaron5367 (our clan leader and coder) had already finished all of the backend work. So, since the completion of the xael update I've been working on it and came up with this:

and then learned some basic animation to produce 320 frames, which you can watch here at half speed. This has been successfully exported to .md3.

A proper texture is in the works, and like I said, the code is already complete, so barring any unforeseen problems you all should be able to play with this very soon on the KoRx servers. Please drop by, and give us your thoughts.

More files related to the project can be found here, and if you'd like a more complete version of the development process you can read the project thread on our forums.

[mooseberry]

It would be nice to get to see some flying alien, if just to dick around with. Don't forget to show textures (if/when) you make them.

[Redsky]

It would be nice to get to see some flying alien, if just to dick around with. Don't forget to show textures (if/when) you make them.

I dare to disagree but whatever.

Nice model, fantastic animations - it would be cool to see it in solid mode to check out geometry
(no, wireframe isn't good for it).
Good Luck with it

[Minimum]

Oh thats cool. I was going to have a flying alien in my mod (Which I never got round to making) and its Adv form could shoot barbs. Thinking about that, maybe not such a good idea, but just throwing it out there.

[Hendrich]

I agree with Redsky, the animations is excellent.

[Lonly]

Guys he updated this project on KoR. Register at KoR and you can view his awesome updates. It looks awesome guys! www.knightsofreason.net/

[your face]

If he wants us to see it, he will post updates here.

[CreatureofHell]

If he wants us to see it, he will post updates here.

qft 

[Repatition]

[Hendrich]

The texture design on the wings looks great and stands out very well.

[Repatition]

yes it does look good it hast to stand out or ya wont see it

[Fox One]

Someone's been poking around my file storage, I see. The texture is progressing a bit differently from that, although we will probably use those wings. Unfortunately Blender doesn't seem to handle .tga transparency very well - the white areas on the wings should be mostly clear. The texture there is actually an edited photo of a dragonfly wing.

Right now we're experiencing a technical problem in getting the game to play different animations depending on walk/flight mode; the flight animations aren't working at all. Anyone who knows anything about setting up a state check or w/e that would tell the game whether the player is walking or flying would be a great help. Alternatively, we may just have it fly all the time...

[Repatition]

yes the transparency would be nice and??is that the final body texture?
edit: well i guess it not that bad,it could do for a 1.1 game

[Plague Bringer]

yes the transparency would be nice and??is that the final body texture?
edit: well i guess it not that bad,it could do for a 1.1 game

As far as anyone knows, aliens in 1.2 are going to look the exact same as they do in 1.1.

[Taiyo.uk]

<3

Looks like a "bitediver" - I can see that thing nosediving down, taking a bite then flying away with bits of my scalp hanging from it's mouth. Like this I do.

[Repatition]

yes the transparency would be nice and??is that the final body texture?
edit: well i guess it not that bad,it could do for a 1.1 game

As far as anyone knows, aliens in 1.2 are going to look the exact same as they do in 1.1.

not true they made new choppers so ther must be new models!

[Plague Bringer]

As far as anyone knows, aliens in 1.2 are going to look the exact same as they do in 1.1.

not true they made new choppers so ther must be new models!

Logic fail.
There aren't old chompers to compare the new ones to, and they look like the old alien models. It took the devs three years to do some weapon models and a few arbitrary code changes. They obviously can't be arsed with making new alien models. And I'm not complaining about it, either. I like 1.1 aliens. I'd hate for them to fuck everything up.

[Repatition]

this is going off topic but the new choppers dont look like the ones on the old models!

[Plague Bringer]

I'm afraid they do.

[Repatition]

really?

[Plague Bringer]

That's the basi and the rant. They look roughly the same.

[Repatition]

much more detail now look at old models !

[Taiyo.uk]

Indeed, they retain the form of the current alien models, but include the higher level of detail required for hudmodels.

[Winnie the Pooh]

You'll notice that he bothered making goon legs even though the goon chomps with its mouth.

[Plague Bringer]

I know. A bit of an animation change, I'm thinking. Either that or they're saving some serious fps draining modelsex for us.

[Repatition]

mabye it still does but you can see legs when pouncing and such?

[Stannum]

mabye it still does but you can see legs when pouncing and such?

I think you're the first person to even think of that \o/

[Taiyo.uk]

mabye it still does but you can see legs when pouncing and such?

I think you're the first person to even think of that \o/

Pouncing just got real.

[Repatition]

mabye it still does but you can see legs when pouncing and such?

I think you're the first person to even think of that \o/

if you could see all the other aliens choppers it would make sense to see the goons too?

[mooseberry]

mabye it still does but you can see legs when pouncing and such?

I think you're the first person to even think of that \o/

if you could see all the other legs it would make sense to see the goons too?

Oh, oh GOD. Please, please OH GOD.