vehicle CUSTOM SKEL NPC: AT-ST

[Corto]

Just do a perfect, crisp, crystal clean texture. Then add some dirt, rust and damage layers on top of it playing with the blending options. You can have several variants with little effort.

[AshuraDX]

Mini got me to texture his AT-ST

here are some current WIP shots of the pilot cabin , so far I'm only working at a normal map in Substance Designer & Photoshop

 

[AshuraDX]

Shameless Doubleposting to bring you an update

Finished the top of the cabin and got some AO & curvature in the diffuse channel for now - will tackle the bottom tommorow , or actually today , afternoon.

 

Please note that the AO bake has some errors due to mirroring and such I didn't consider yet , so I got some cleaning up to do here and there

[minilogoguy18]

Lookin rad so far.

[Archangel35757]

Will this model allow the cupola to be open and have the commander be standing up thru it like this?

 

[Tempust85]

Would be cool to see a finished rend2 in SP & MP so we can use such coolness. Would be sweet to see it in JO SP.

 

 

Side note:

 

I think the original one has the 'closed' and 'open' positions as 2 different surfaces which get toggled on/off via code. I seem to remember seeing this, but not 100% sure.

[minilogoguy18]

Right now it's just going to be a direct base replacement, model, textures and animations will be new, nothing more than that.

[AshuraDX]

calling the main cabin done - time to work at the guns

[minilogoguy18]

Nice greeble action.

[AshuraDX]

Got the Blasters & Cannons done

 

I also fixed some wierd noisy areas in my normal map resulting in smoother surfaces in some areas

I love substance designer, did I mention that before ?

[AshuraDX]

 

AT-ST Pilot Cabin by ashuradx on Sketchfab

 

a couple small adjustments , I'll call the cabin done

[Milamber]

looking good

[minilogoguy18]

It's coming out awesome, can't wait to see more.

 

Makes me wonder, do we have an AT-ST pilot character model?

[eezstreet]

I think so - there's one in MBII for sure.

[AshuraDX]

Work will be halted for this weekend, gf coming over

[Barricade24]

Some of the cannons look a little off. I think the chin guns are a bit too big and the right side cannon doesn't look quite right either. It should have more of a blaster look. I don't know if model changes can be made at this point but I think some adjustments are necessary. Here is some reference that might help. If you can still make changes that is.

 

[AshuraDX]

Mesh changes are up to mini - I only take care of the texturing work

[minilogoguy18]

I used an official blueprint as a rotoscope. If you just google AT-ST you'll see there are literally tons of iterations of this thing out there, there really isn't a right or wrong way to make it but I followed the blueprints as close as possible without cramming too much detail in there.

 

 

It's a little far along to be making mesh changes, especially with how complex the UV layout is, I really crammed everything in there tight.

[AshuraDX]

it's a change that could be applied while keeping 99% oft the UV layout the same though , you could even use the existing topology and just by shrinking/moving a few edgeloops get the suggested shape

then just relax the UV chunk for the blaster and voila - i'll only commit those changes if @@minilogoguy18 likes the idea

[AshuraDX]

 

Progress for today

[minilogoguy18]

I think we should just leave it, it matches the blueprint so I'm fine with it and like I said, the AT-ST is different in nearly every image you find on the net, there is no right or wrong. I just followed an official blueprint at least so I'm definitely way closer than a lot of games out there and custom models from what I've googled.

[Tempust85]

It still kicks the ass of the one in JO/JKA.

[AshuraDX]

@@minilogoguy18 , mind if I add a few 4 sided wires to the mesh ?  I'll make sure that weighting them wont be too much work and they'll stay a sepperate object you can just import in your scene

skinning wires like this seriously doesn't look good . they'll total at around 8 wires some might be made as alpha mapped planes

 

Anyway here's the current update

 

EDIT : added the wires/tubes

they currently use a single 128² texture and add 248 vertices to the model , including the 2 extra wires, not seen in this image, that are attached to the pilot cabin

[AshuraDX]

Calling the center piece done , don't see any purpose in adding more detail as this piece is rarely seen anyway

 

if you don't like the wires @@minilogoguy18 let me know and I'll remove them , but I think they add nicely to the model

 

EDIT :

 

Testing Parallax Occlusion

 

 

[minilogoguy18]

It's fine, they can be added.