[WIP] Compact Rocketry v0.1.1

[Naten]

Hey guys, I made another engine, couldn't resist detailing it...

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wow. just, wow. just, so wow that i don't care about capital letters because it's so, just, so wow.

[Mr.Desmond Tiny]

Thanks for the compliment

I think for the next few parts we might want to move into fuel tanks and the like.

[Naten]

Thanks for the compliment

I think for the next few parts we might want to move into fuel tanks and the like.

Yes. I am working on a surprise...

[BlazingAngel665]

Uh-ohh, not really sure what I did here but the first three hours of sleep I have seen in three days (it might just be two, not sure yet) can definitely fix whatever stupid thing I did wrong. I am suspecting that I unwrapped it to the wrong UV image then imported in the wrong place. That is for tomorrow though. Tomorrow I also want to do some good high quality Unity importation stuff. I haven't done this in a month or two (gees, I'm out of shape) so it might have some interesting results. . .

For those interested in my sleep deprivedness, I participate in a high school activity called Debate. This week we had camp, so I did that, then I watched the new Percy Jackson movie. If you want to see it, don't. The books are far better. Finally I did some good old fashioned modelling for the DCSS which I continue to procrastinate. I have promised the folks over in that thread an update but my deadline always seems to slip by a week or three or five. Then I tried to work on this. or well never mind. Good night.

[Mr.Desmond Tiny]

Forgot to post the download link for the cluster engine

Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lya5sehav84mn0k/cr7clusterEngineReskined.blend

(EDIT) Didn't know you were sleep deprived Blazing.Think it'd be in your best interests to take a day off and catch up on some sleep

Also, interesting texturing you have going on there as well

One last thing that might help you out; in blender, in edit mode, you can select vertices in a certain area with the b key, and if you need

to multi-select vertices, shift-b helps as well. Just in case you didn't know

Edited August 9, 2013 by Mr.Desmond Tiny

[Stevincent]

Uh-ohh, not really sure what I did here but the first three hours of sleep I have seen in three days (it might just be two, not sure yet) can definitely fix whatever stupid thing I did wrong. I am suspecting that I unwrapped it to the wrong UV image then imported in the wrong place. That is for tomorrow though. Tomorrow I also want to do some good high quality Unity importation stuff. I haven't done this in a month or two (gees, I'm out of shape) so it might have some interesting results. . .

For those interested in my sleep deprivedness, I participate in a high school activity called Debate. This week we had camp, so I did that, then I watched the new Percy Jackson movie. If you want to see it, don't. The books are far better. Finally I did some good old fashioned modelling for the DCSS which I continue to procrastinate. I have promised the folks over in that thread an update but my deadline always seems to slip by a week or three or five. Then I tried to work on this. or well never mind. Good night.

are your normals flipped? or do you have a texture in your transparency channel?

[BlazingAngel665]

Forgot to post the download link for the cluster engine

(EDIT) Didn't know you were sleep deprived Blazing.Think it'd be in your best interests to take a day off and catch up on some sleep

Also, interesting texturing you have going on there as well

One last thing that might help you out; in blender, in edit mode, you can select vertices in a certain area with the b key, and if you need

to multi-select vertices, shift-b helps as well. Just in case you didn't know

Yep can C is circle select. That is my favorite selection method.

are your normals flipped? or do you have a texture in your transparency channel?

Nope and nope but thanks. I accidentally made my image as a 1028 image. It was supposed to be 4156x4156 That is my problem.

[Naten]

Here's the "surprise" I was working on.

It's still a work in progress.

I present to you the SB-X1 Hermes solid booster. It's one of those 45cm-diameter parts I was rambling about, and how I was rambling about how I was going to make the models soon. Here.

Tell me what you think

It's not yet in the model package, I may ask Tiny to tweak it first.

[Mr.Desmond Tiny]

Nice model Naten, if you want to tweak it just send me a PM

[Mr.Desmond Tiny]

Alright, tweaked the SB-X1, tell me what you guys think :

(EDIT) Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qhjvd80eizvcg4i/sbx1modeltweaked.blend

Edited August 10, 2013 by Mr.Desmond Tiny

[Naten]

Alright, tweaked the SB-X1, tell me what you guys think :

(EDIT) Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qhjvd80eizvcg4i/sbx1modeltweaked.blend

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wow. that is all I can say.

bye, now, I need to pick up my jaw off of the floor.

[Naten]

Here, new model I made. It's crude as it will be tiny, and tiny things are harder to see, so details matter less. I just reduced polygons tenfold, to increase performance.

It's a pyrotechnical sprayer thing.

I organized the folders like this, as it may get complicated...

Pyrotechnicals -- Main folder. Holds all of these parts, as many will come.

common -- Holds common models and textures, so I don't have to remake the model.

textureTemplates -- Holds blank textures without special things on them.

models -- Holds the untextured common model for all of the pyrotechnical "sprayers"

emissives -- Will hold the colored smoke emissives designed for each color sprayer.

parts -- Will hold a folder for each pyrotechnical part in the series.

pyrotechnicalBlue -- holds the blue sprayer's part stuffs.

pyrotechnicalGreen -- holds the green sprayer's part stuffs.

pyrotechnicalRed -- holds the red sprayer's part stuffs.

pyrotechnicalSmoke -- holds the plain, stock exhaust smoke sprayer's part stuffs.

pyrotechnicalYellow -- holds the yellow sprayer's part stuffs.

textures -- Will hold the textures for each part.

Tell me what you think

Also, the emissives, well, I think Tiny or BlazingAngel may know how to set these up... to them.

[BlazingAngel665]

As of right now custom fxs require a plugin. But if you can write the cigs for it then it will have a texture and an emissive map

[Naten]

As of right now custom fxs require a plugin.

What's the code for it? I think we can create an emissive map, but we need a plugin, as you said. Is the code simple? I hope it is.

Something like this?

load(fxPyrotechnicalRed)
load(vesselPart)
 part = pyrotechnicalRed
  partEmissive = fxPyrotechnicalRed
  vectorType = [EmissivesVector]
   EmissivesVector 0,0,0,1,0 = (x)

 part = pyrotechnicalRed
  partEmissive = fxPyrotechnicalRed
  vector = x

This is all based off of my coding experience. Although, I haven't used Csharp often, only Lua much. So, it's more based off of Lua.

Hope you understand what I am getting at

[Stevincent]

Here, new model I made. It's crude as it will be tiny, and tiny things are harder to see, so details matter less. I just reduced polygons tenfold, to increase performance.

Its too crude, your cube shape should encompass the tip of the pyro sprayer thing instead of being separate geometry, als as a recommendation you should bevel or chamfer the edges just to give it a lil bit of life.

[Naten]

Its too crude, your cube shape should encompass the tip of the pyro sprayer thing instead of being separate geometry, als as a recommendation you should bevel or chamfer the edges just to give it a lil bit of life.

The textures will fix all of this, it's seriously less than 10 centimeters wide.

I don't think that something so tiny would need to be beautifully triangulated, as that only adds mo' polys and verts, and you know what that means.

I will use a triangle-like shape to bevel the edges, to give it some life, though. That is, if I figure out how.

-Naten

[Naten]

Here's what I made, it will probably be the last (liquid) engine we'll make before we make the other 2 boosters I plan for, fuel tanks and some other things that will be included with the mod kind of like "party favors," they will just be there as little goodies and treats.

It's the Cr-5 Vacuum. Mr Tony's unused tweak for the Cr-5 that would have represented the Cr-5 will find a home, probably as a 45cm engine. If it does, we'll make booster-shaped liquid fuel tanks to fuel it, and some little 45cm vertical tanks to make longer side (liquid) cores.

Tell me what you think, worked pretty hard on it. I think it's my best model so far, do you?

Cheers, Naten.

[Mr.Desmond Tiny]

It's the Cr-5 Vacuum. Mr Tony's unused tweak for the Cr-5 that would have represented the Cr-5 will find a home, probably as a 45cm engine. If it does, we'll make booster-shaped liquid fuel tanks to fuel it, and some little 45cm vertical tanks to make longer side (liquid) cores.

Tell me what you think, worked pretty hard on it. I think it's my best model so far, do you?

Great model! You are definitely improving

As for my unused model, if you aren't going to use it as the Cr-5 Vacuum, that's completely fine. Making it into another engine type is just as good.

As for fuel tanks, I think those should be made next; making rockets is great, but whats the point if they they have no fuel, plus it'll give probes something else to carry around

One last thing, Blazing, we haven't really seen a texture from you in a little while, mind showing us what you've done so far

[BlazingAngel665]

Alright executive order happening right now. ENOUGH FREAKING BOOSTERS!!!!! Make fuel tanks, or square things that are easy to unwrap please. Thank you. Honestly. We are at like ten engines.\rant

The lack of textures is due to two things.

#1 is my modular texture initiative. I am creating a bunch of png assets that go to every imaginable thing. This way Naten or you Mr. Tiny can just unwrap it onto a texture with the faces lining up however you want them to look. That save me a lot of time in the long run.

#2 is I imported the first engine into unity and got it working with *almost* no flaws. The nodes are off by a hair but that is a cfg thing that I am sure Naten can sort out. A video showcase and download will be up shortly.

Edited August 12, 2013 by BlazingAngel665

[BlazingAngel665]

It works!!!!!

[Naten]

It works!!!!!

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

HE MAED VIDYO OV IT! :D:D:D:D

Thanks.

I'll make a playlist with all of the videos we make on this mod. I do make some crud-grade videos, so, yeah.

[Naten]

Did somebody say "fuel tanks"?

Tell me what you think

[Mr.Desmond Tiny]

Great job on the texturing and getting the model into the game Blazing,

and nice fuel tank Naten, not very hard to create, I assume?

[Naten]

Great job on the texturing and getting the model into the game Blazing,

and nice fuel tank Naten, not very hard to create, I assume?

Not hard at all. Fuel tanks, I don't know what to put on 'em! I did shove those two pipes on the side, I guess coolant lines, or cryo tubes to keep the totally-not-just-kerosene liquid hydrogen fuel cold? I don't even know...

Really, not hard. Quite easy, it was, just two 0.625m short cylinders on the top/bottom, two cylinders for those "unknown pipes," and a cylinder for the actual tank.

I did not yet add a shading modifier to it, I will soon.

[Naten]

Uh-oh, is Sketchfab ded?

My model is getting an error 500, internal server error. Anyone know what's up?