3D & Animation Brief 3d diversion

[UncleDrax]

Just a brief exercise to keep my (very limited) 3d skills from atrophying to far..
It'll probably turn into an exercise in vechicle implemention...

Still need the step-rails.. and for scale purposes, from reference images, this thing comes up to people's shoulders.

Still very WIP.. but since i showed a couple people, I thought i'd show a few more..

 

[DingBat]

Looks good so far, Drax. I take it your aiming for a usable, low-poly end product?

 

[UncleDrax]

Looks good so far, Drax. I take it your aiming for a usable, low-poly end product?

Yeah.. I might even stick it on a KV-1s hull and publish the packages..
(and maybe even make a demo map for it... but we'll see...)

 

[Capt.Marion]

not bad. post it as a vehicle after you get it skinned and anim'ed on maporchestra and see if ppl put it in maps... I mean, I would! (A CA map with this a a StuG, or perhaps a Wespe if somebody makes one....)

 

[Chernuk]

Yeah.. I might even stick it on a KV-1s hull and publish the packages..
(and maybe even make a demo map for it... but we'll see...)

Yes please! I'd love to see what that monster could do. Though I doubt we'll ever find a turret-down position for it.

 

[tankman24]

wow m8t awsome, I hope this will be in one of the upcoming updates i love the KV2

 

[UncleDrax]

wow m8t awsome, I hope this will be in one of the upcoming updates i love the KV2

when/if I finish, it won't be anything 'offical'.. I believe the KV2 saw really limited service.. plus there is no way in heck I'm going to model the interior of that sucker..


Once I get the time to finish up the modeled details, I'll probably pass it to someone with better Maya exp (cough.. you..) to have a look at it and offer suggestions..

One thing I do want to do is add on the rear-MG to it. I think it'd be fun :]

 

[FatPartizan]

1. It not the tank, is a self-propelled gun.
2. Them it has been made only 334. Practically all of them have been lost in 1941. Some mashine later have been altered in usual KV.
At KV in the beginning of war there were big problems with a gear-box . For KV-2 it was aggravated with greater weight and heavy recoil .
For KV-2 was only HE! Other shells simply had not time to develop. KV-2 could fire on the move and turn a tower. But only if was on an equal surface, or under a small inclination, in other cases it worked as the self-propelled gun with motionless cabin.
3. The idea has arisen on results of winter war when became clearly that tanks not can struggle with strengthened fire points.
Tactical niche for this : they should move in the second echelon after tanks, destroy fire points direct fire, destroy artillery the opponent and infantry of the opponent. In defense they should fire from the closed positions as usual howitzers.
It has not been intended for struggle against tanks.
4.The majority of them has been lost because of breakages or thrown because of lack of fuel.
It has liked Germans. Any amount has been used. But long to support main their worker a condition it was not possible because of problems with transmission.
The majority of photos which can be found in the Internet, these are trophy German KV-2. KV-2 Germans used last at defense of Kenigsberg , it there was a machine from proving ground.
5.The best that with them could be made it in the beginning of war to load on rail-road platforms and to send for Urals Mountains. There to remove problems, to train crews. Then at 42-43 to roll out, then they were really necessary.

 

[Bezukhov]

if its not a Tank then why is it classified as a Heavy Tank

also one thing about the KV-2 is that you had to fire it on flat ground becuase of the turret's Weight if you fired it on a slope it would simply most likely flip do the weight and recoil

 

[FatPartizan]

if its not a Tank then why is it classified as a Heavy Tank

also one thing about the KV-2 is that you had to fire it on flat ground becuase of the turret's Weight if you fired it on a slope it would simply most likely flip do the weight and recoil

First it have made. Then began to think.
During this moment in red army of the term a self-propelled gun still was not.
It has been made very quickly, all for two months, changes has been brought very little, the mechanism of turn of a tower simply did not have effort.

 

[Vietnow]

First it have made, only have then understood that have made. During this moment in red army of the term a self-propelled gun still was not.
It has been made very quickly, all for two months, changes has been brought very little, the mechanism of turn of a tower simply did not have effort.

Online Translator?

 

[FatPartizan]

Online Translator?

All so is bad? Suffer. I study.

 

[Moz]

Engrish?

 

[Vietnow]

All so is bad? Suffer. I study.

Keep trying, English is one of the hardest languages to learn I hear. Grammer in English is a nightmare compared to other languages its like learning how to see in black-n-white.

 

[tankman24]

IGht yeah Np when u ready handed over Ill make the interior for it, Well make it work it will be fun to have thisa in russian Lineup.

 

[UncleDrax]

Yeah.. when/if I do finish up the KV-2 turret, and stick it in a map, it won't be for the purposes of tank-to-tank field battles like already in RO.

Trust me.. I've studied up alittle bit on the KV-2.. I am well aware it's an unpractical behemoth and it's limited deployment :]

Putting it in game would be mostly an academic exercise for me.. it wouldn't be an offical TWI release or anything :]

 

[FatPartizan]

In defense they should fire from the closed positions as usual howitzers.

Error . An incorrect source. Purpose of support of tanks only. A small angle of rise of a barrel .

 

[UncleDrax]

Not to be outdone by Dingbat (my secret arch-enemy! so secret not even he knows it ).. ok just kidding.. he's actually worked through alot more 3d stuff then I have, I'm a 'bodge it because I need it' kinda guy..

Anyhow..

Started playing with the Texture (just mapping it out really), and boning

Most recent work inside Ye-Olde-3d app:

Note my w3@K UV skillz..

.. .and cooked up some working code (but not to well.. the shell fires 5 ft.. lol..):

Next to a KV1s for comparison purposes..


Just using placeholder sights and no animations now.. so it doesn't work all that well.. plus the model doesn't have any interior..

 

[FatPartizan]

Good work

 

[tankman24]

dude thats awsome Looking like ill be seeign this in game soon YAY! i had a question drax, I made an ISU-152 Now im almost done with the unwrap so someone can jump on it for the skin. i will model interios for it, a lil later dough but i was wondering Can u maybe give some coding help to get it into game i mean not now when we have more free time from BS ? just thought id ask you ight drax Godd work so far Keep it up . .