Ion Cannon

[Nurb]

I've posted the wip of this in the wip section before, but now that I've added a huge set of balls (!) I consider it finished. The colors illuminating from the cannonballs can be both a lightsource and an indication of which base the player is in (if used in a teambased mod like UT3 CTF)

[-HP-]

One word, stunning!

[Nurb]

Thanks!

Wasnt completely happy with the first render, so I made a new one for the portfolio, but it's similiar:

[Ginger Lord]

Still needs some stoppers imo. Could even get away with curving the rails up a bit at the end like such \______/ but not as steep and more curvey. Would save adding new texture bits and could reuse existing stuff.

[-HP-]

I prefer the first render, the blue light let us see more details in the canon

[Nurb]

Bent the rail at the end (thanks for the tip, really didnt feel like going into the texture again ) and readded some of the blue light in the render. I obviously want the portfoliorender to be as good as possible so really appreciate the feedback.

[-HP-]

Much better and clean, damn i gotta pratisse modeling one of those! full modeling, texturing and normal mapping!

but I don't know the workpipe to that yet

[Sentura]

hugely fine piece of work right there. the theme, the concept and of course the model; everything screams 5 stars. good job.

[D3ads]

Fantastic stuff.

[Steppenwolf]

Looks great! I don't get the rails tho. the canon could easily roll over. Maybe add some stop pieces to the ends.

[Sindwiller]

Olé!

[Nurb]

Thanks for the response all I might add real stoppers to the rail later, but for now I'll settle with the "bent up rail ends" suggested by ginger_lord. Atm I'm modelling and texturing the rest of the scene but will prolly revisit the cannon once the level reaches the "final touch" stage.

[Hourences]

I think it is great, and I like the idea and would love to see it in UT3 as it would fit very well.

I also don't like the rail, it needs stoppers at the least, but I just find the rails a bit weird in general...

And I think that it is too monotome, the whole thing has the same color. A few colored elements might live it up.

[satan]

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