http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/index.php Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:54:00 +0000 720 http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/204-lockdown-blog-m1a2-abrams-tank/ over the past little while I have been working on an M1A2 Abrams tank for Lockdown, as well as working on some level mock ups. I have nearly completed texturing the tank, however there are a couple of things which I still need to work on. The tracks need a better texture, the antenna's need to have a different texture, and the front...

View the full article]]> Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:54:00 +0000 http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/204-lockdown-blog-m1a2-abrams-tank/ http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/201-lockdown-blog-lockdown-graphics-upgrade/ Over my holidays I plan to try and get a few things accomplished:

• Destructible Objects/Environment - I am going to play with the physics and try and implement nearly 100% destructible objects.
• Simple Weapon(s) for testing destruction and doing bullet tests.
• Character Model - Finish the main character model and rig it.
• Finish the first level's mapping

Well that is basically it for now. Here are a few screen shots of the new engine in action:
http://www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/Training Map/training6.png
http://www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/Training Map/training7.png
http://www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/Training Map/training9.png
http://www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/Training Map/training10.png

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Here are are a couple pictures of the first attempt at the helicopter:
http://www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/blackhawk/blackhawko1.png

http://www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/blackhawk/blackhawko2.png

I was happy with the overall shape, but some parts of it still did not look right. So I went back and decided to change some things on it.

http://www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/blackhawk/blackhawkn1.png

http://www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/blackhawk/blackhawkn2.png

http://www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/blackhawk/blackhawkn3.png

http://www.faintmedia.com/i/images/junk/blackhawk/blackhawkn4.png

I still have to texture it and add more detail (such as the landing gear), but so far I am quite happy with the look of it

View the full article]]> Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:33:00 +0000 http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/202-lockdown-blog-black-hawk/ http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/181-lockdown-development-blog/ Lockdown Development Blog will be where most of the updates will be found now. We will now use our news forums for the major announcements and the blogs for all of the work in progress posts. So go and check it out here: http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/blog/5-lockdown-development-blog/

Hoot]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:13:58 +0000 http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/181-lockdown-development-blog/ http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/207-lockdown-blog-lockdown-development-progress/

• Vehicles around air strip
• Weapons Tables
• Targets
• ...

View the full article]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:26:00 +0000 http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/207-lockdown-blog-lockdown-development-progress/ http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/173-lockdown-soldier-head/
Here is the original:


New:


The original mesh:


New:


The entire new mesh contains about 250 polys, compared to the old mesh which contained about 700 in HALF of the model. I also decided to do a better job textured this one, instead of having each half of the head the same texture I made everything one texture.

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Wow, it has been quite some time since I have posted any updates. Over the past few days I have been thinking about what the soldiers should look like in Lockdown. So I made a little sketch and decided to fire up Blender and see what happens. At the moment I only have the base model done for the body of the soldier, so it doesn't look like much. However I have my first concept soldier head done. I still need to play with the texture to get it looking right in some spots (the texture is stretched in areas), but overall I am fairly happy with the outcome of the model.
Here are some pictures of the head:







I really hope to get the body looking good, attach the head then rig the body and get the character into the game engine and see how it all goes. That's all for now.

Taylor]]> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:48:50 +0000 http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/172-lockdown-soldier-concept/ http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/143-torque-3d-videos-from-gdc/ Videos Here

Hoot]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:47:59 +0000 http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/143-torque-3d-videos-from-gdc/ http://www.faintmedia.com/forums/topic/134-torque-3d-awesome/ Advanced Lighting
Depth of Field
Screen Space Ambiet Occlusion
Wetness & Precipatation
If you want to check on more of the updates and read the blog posts about it, head on over to garagegames.com

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