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[Jordan]

China Lead Beam

Devastated by the failure of the Lead Beam at the first Super Unit Expo, the Chinese commanders have had the Lead Beam redesigned to incorporate a more stable body design, as well as upgrading the bullet loading mechanisms to increase the fire rate even more:



These changes have increased the size of the Lead Beam, increased its rate of fire slightly, and allowed me to add lots of little doodads and details, such as the bullets that move when it fires, the two massive dispensers that eject hundreds of spent bullet casings when firing, and the seven hexagonal exhaust ports on the back that spew out smoke.

These changes also increased the polygon count to 2276. Probably because of its 105 barrels at 10 polygons each.
Good thing it has a cost of $3000 and a limit of one!

I'm also reworking the firefx to spew out lots of fire and smoke, so it actually looks cool when firing.

Some parts of the skin are by Bob, otherwise it's entirely EA's skins. I created and skinned the model, and it surprisingly has no butchered parts at all.

-Jordan

Edited by Jordan, 30 July 2009 - 19:22.

[RaiDK]

WINNER.

Looks much better than the old one.

[Rai]

Yeah. I also like it nice Job Jordan and Bob.
But that unit sure have a lot of polys. O_o

[Zeke]

HOLY CRAP!

That adds a new meaning to the phrase ´mow them down´

great work!!

Edited by Zeke, 28 July 2009 - 05:23.

[Stalker]

Very nice and crazy model

Do you have a good muzzleflash texture (and mesh) ? I found out that this is far more important than a fireFX for Gattling weapons. (just look at Shockwave's vulcan cannons)

I could give you one I ripped off crysis.

[Sgt. Nuker]

I'll be honest, I had begun to wonder what the Lead Beam unit looked like. Now I know....and I'm attempting (rather poorly) to retrieve my lower jaw from the floor. It's an absolute monster of a unit.

[Dutchygamer]

I demand a video of it firing ingame This is really 'crazy'

[TheDR]

That is awesome!

It better had a deafening sound effect when its on

[Destiny]

Holy...

...I wanna get this guy and ram it up someone's face and fire D:







...what did the old Lead Beam look like btw?

[NergiZed]

Epic WinRAR!

If only I could see the full render.... (I can see it in your Ava, but not the render)

[Brad]

Very nice model there, looks like quite the accomplishment.
In fact I am finding it hard to stop oogling it :3

[Su8perkillr]

WOW this lead beam OWNS! i want to see it firing

[D.K.]

1. Video
2. Jordan, you crazy nutjob.

EPIC.

[pirate]

this one is so much better than before woot for smoke exhausts

[Pav:3d]

That looks amazing, a huge improvement

[Ion Cannon!]

Thats awesome, large improvement over the old one, and i'm going to jump on the band wagon. Make a video

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

Ah yes, I remember working on the original, this new version looks awesome

[Jordan]

I don't have the tools necessary to make a video, so I don't know what to do about that. I'm not using a muzzle flash because there is a maximum fire rate limit in the game. Instead, there is going to be one massive firefx emitted from the center, mainly because this thing spews out bullets at an immensely high fire rate from the start.

Here's a comparison between the old and new models:



-Jordan

[Pav:3d]

will there be millions of bullet casings coming out of those side parts?

[Jordan]

Not millions, but definitely a lot.

[TheDR]

Il make you a video of the Lead Beam if you want . I have all the tools to make it (Filming, Editing, Lots of spare time ect).

[Jordan]

One picture can say it all:



Check out the massive column of flame emitted from this thing.

Also, all of those tiny little bits are spent shell casings being thrown all over the battlefield. They get in your shoes, in the water, they're everywhere.

-Jordan

[Ion Cannon!]

Add some smoke to the fire FX, will look alot better.

[Pav:3d]

Great pic, but there are no tracers, it just looks like its firing... fire
Those spent casings look great

[Destiny]

Jordan it looks epic and all but...there's something wrong...






...wrong target. It should be that nuke convoy truck