W.I.P Armored Cav

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Premise

Wanna make a video of Clanners (from the Battletech storyline) finding Earth in 50yrs time. This is then a half modern/scifi video. Gonna use it as a self training project to improve my skills:
*Low-poly modelling
*Texturing
*Animation
*Lighting
*Story telling

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Strategies

Terran
Air
1. Allow re-entry and engage once dropships reach 10,000ft
2. F-22s of Wolves 1 through 5 will mix it up close with enemy aircraft while, FA-24s of (Attack flight designation) 1 through 3 will streak in and strike at the dropships.
Land
1. MLRS of Artillery Battery 12 will strike at dropships and surrounding areas.
2. RAH-66 Comanches of Flight 228 will harass enemy forces and gauge their strength ahead of Armored Company D. They should report their findings directly to Armored Company D.
3. Armored Company D will destroy any and all hostile forces in the area with Flight 228 providing Close Air Support.

Clan Wolverine
Report
1) Once our great Kahn sent his Batchall, they first respond by telling us to leave their airspace.
2) Then they launch a missile that almost immediately after launch began to fall apart. Whatever the case, a large chunk remained and continued towards to the Warship. It has been dealt with.
3) The people of this planet Terra are surprisingly un-understanding of the situation they face. It's strange in any case. Alongside this transmissions from the planet indicate the date to be 25th July, 2050. If this true, our historical data on Terra from this period vary greatly from this. The facility that launched the missile isn't listed on any database. It does seem from orbital reconnaissance, that it has a considerable garrison on guard there.
Phase 1
Since there's no reply to our Batchall, the site of the coming battle will be at the missile facility, but it must be captured intact. Judging from what we can see of the level of security surrounding it, it's an extremely important facility that might be able to yield considerable information on this planet.
1. Deploy all dropships with all garrisons and land them 75kms from the facility.
2. After the Aerotech divisions escort the dropships down, they'll begin a bombardment of the facility against any and all threats.
3. All mech garrisons will support the Elementals as they storm and secure the facility.

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Terran Vehicles

F-22 Raptor.



F/A-24 Diamondback.
What the JSF should've been, complete with swing wings and thrust vectoring.



Anti Orbital Nuclear Missile.



RAH-66 Comanche helicopter complete with stealth pods.



Darkstar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) - Not totally sure that it'll make an appearance.



E3 AWACS.



Nazgul RCV.
Armament
Arm weapons
Rail gun digitally loaded with Kinetic Energy Penetrator rounds
Anti Vehicular laser
20mm three-barrel gun
Shoulder weapons
Active Denial System (Anti missile/personell Phalanx based defense system)
Body weapons
Advanced Precision Kill System (Next step of the Hydra rocket family)



HUMVEE Mark II armed with Ground To Air - Ground (G-TAG) Missile rack and DREAD weapon system. Based on Marine RST-V.



Multiple Rocket Launch Artillery system. Designed this one as a mixed breed with the mobility of HIMARS with the firepower of the original MLRS.

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Clanner Vehicles

Seydelitz IIC Aerospace fighter.



Overlord D dropship.



SKWS Talon Soyuz MkII warship.

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I'm not satisfied with my original UAV, so I'm shelving it and creating a UCAV instead.


It's basically a combination concept of the Northrop Grumman X-47 Pegasus, Boeing X-45, and Bird Of Prey UCAVs.


I think I'll call it the "Blu 2". Just finished modelling, about to unwrap & texture. I can hear the groans already.

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Fully completed UCAV.

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Ooops my mistake. Placed in the wargames topic.

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WEll, I've been back at it again. Pretty much finished UVing what I feel's necessary. So now that U cee it, what else do u think I should UV?



I any case, jumping the gun a bit, I've got some pointers to consider while I texture this thing and for this I really want input on how exactly to do it because I'm a klutz!

Pointers:
- Nazgul RCV has been in service for 2.5 years.
- This particulary machine has been issued in a desert environment for all those years.
- It hasn't seen any conflict only excercises (live fire or otherwise)
- It is however kept at a constant high state of readiness.
- Generally, I expect it to have about the same wear and tear as today's deployed F-22 Raptors.

Now that, that's said, I'm gonna go make a mess of the textures. But, I'll still be checkin for replies. Later.

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Well I didn't get any replies, but I wasn't checking anyway so it's all good. Anyway, here are the results of my labour. I think it shows where I've textured and where I haven't and I'm honestly surprised by the result. At least TS had a shader I am currently using for the top hip to leg joint, but the renderer I used doesn't support it. Ah well.


All's left now is the torso. Then my bane... rigging.

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Well, I'm done:


Also did a quick hash together of the arms and legs.


Obviously it needs more work but that's a story for another night. This night it's sleep.