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[Cabal LV426]

Awesome art with peoples. I like it. More pictures with render and shadows expected.

[50 50]

I would think that for some of these mechs, particularly the lights, that the cockpit entry may not be a hatch.
The spider for example. The head section might tilt forward like a truck cabin.
It's also possible that some of the cockpits should have different arrangements with the chairs being more,or less, upright than the existing ones.
Great work.

[Danghen Woolf]

50 50, on 30 October 2014 - 10:20 PM, said:

I would think that for some of these mechs, particularly the lights, that the cockpit entry may not be a hatch.
The spider for example. The head section might tilt forward like a truck cabin.
It's also possible that some of the cockpits should have different arrangements with the chairs being more,or less, upright than the existing ones.
Great work.

This could be possible since the fluff for the Spider indicated that it does not have an ejection system.

[IraqiWalker]

Danghen Woolf, on 12 November 2014 - 12:46 PM, said:

This could be possible since the fluff for the Spider indicated that it does not have an ejection system.

You sure? I thought that whole head section was one giant ejection system. Pretty sure all mechs had ejection systems. It was only ones with weird quirky ones that got that highlighted. Like the catapult. With it's sideways ejection system.

[Sparks Murphey]

IraqiWalker, on 12 November 2014 - 07:48 PM, said:

You sure? I thought that whole head section was one giant ejection system. Pretty sure all mechs had ejection systems. It was only ones with weird quirky ones that got that highlighted. Like the catapult. With it's sideways ejection system.

From Sarna on the Spider:

Sarna.net said:

It also has a serious drawback, in that the system combined with the head's armor layout leaves no space for a proper ejection system: the pilot must manually reach the lower hatch on their own in order to exit the 'Mech. Many Spider pilots therefore practice quickly exiting the 'Mech during their downtime, especially those variants which carry vulnerable ammunition liable to cook-off.

[Mech42Ace]

Sparks Murphey, on 12 November 2014 - 08:01 PM, said:

From Sarna on the Spider:

So the 7K variant was the first to include an ejection system.

[IraqiWalker]

Sparks Murphey, on 12 November 2014 - 08:01 PM, said:

From Sarna on the Spider:

I stand corrected.

Mech42Ace, on 12 November 2014 - 08:07 PM, said:

So the 7K variant was the first to include an ejection system.

Guess that's where I made the mistake of assuming they all had it.

[White Bear 84]

Can I make a request? Can you compare the Myst Lynx to the Phract?

If you see them side by side (leaked images.. (?)) the cockpit for the ML is tiny, a fraction of the phract.. ..so either the phract CP is too big or the ML is way too small - probably more smaller than the commando lol..

For the sake of my OCD...

Koniving, on 17 September 2014 - 10:49 PM, said:

But back on topic: Apparently this case of LRM...

Was from the missile being obscenely close to my face and not "zomg it's a tactical nuclear missile!"

Holy Gargantuan Batman! This is hilarious... ..did this seriously happen??

Edited by White Bear 84, 12 November 2014 - 08:35 PM.

[Mech42Ace]

And on further investigation, Ford still exists a thousand years from now! XD
http://www.sarna.net...ilitary_Limited

In fact, so does Boeing.

[Keira RAVEN McKenna]

Amazing and clever work! I love the hangers and crew!!!

[Rina Fujimoto]

Hey guys, with the release of the Lynx and Ferret I decided to do some stuff with them since I've been playing them for the past week.

The Lynx is hilariously tiny, I can't imagine anyone being able to see out the cockpit effectively, it would make a great proto-mech though:


The pilot does fit though, the cockpit hatch is straight above the seat too:



I've been enjoying my Ice Ferret but the in-game cockpit really REALLY bothers me, it takes me out of the game, in the game if you look down at your feet you'll see that you're sitting above the "lip" of the Ferrets CT armor, like in this image marked in red:


It makes no sense unless you are a tiny little person! The lip part should be raised to be around waist level to the pilot like this:


I really like the little tank hatch it has on the top though:


This was just a quick update, so that's all for now:

[Jin Ma]

haruko, on 19 November 2014 - 04:20 PM, said:

Hey guys, with the release of the Lynx and Ferret I decided to do some stuff with them since I've been playing them for the past week.

The Lynx is hilariously tiny, I can't imagine anyone being able to see out the cockpit effectively, it would make a great proto-mech though:


The pilot does fit though, the cockpit hatch is straight above the seat too:



I've been enjoying my Ice Ferret but the in-game cockpit really REALLY bothers me, it takes me out of the game, in the game if you look down at your feet you'll see that you're sitting above the "lip" of the Ferrets CT armor, like in this image marked in red:


It makes no sense unless you are a tiny little person! The lip part should be raised to be around waist level to the pilot like this:


I really like the little tank hatch it has on the top though:


This was just a quick update, so that's all for now:

it could have been a tiny bit bigger..

Would have been cool if they took cockpit scale to mind when making the concept. If they did the cockpit would be bigger giving the mech a bigger "face" but enough room to acutlally fit a mech

Would they still be a tight fit if you used 5'10 pilots instead of 6'2 ones

Edited by Jin Ma, 19 November 2014 - 04:35 PM.

[Rina Fujimoto]

Jin Ma, on 19 November 2014 - 04:33 PM, said:

it could have been a tiny bit bigger..

Would have been cool if they took cockpit scale to mind when making the concept. If they did the cockpit would be bigger giving the mech a bigger "face" but enough room to acutlally fit a mech

Well I don't really blame FD, guy's an artist not a 3D modeler or game developer. I mean in lore the neurohelm gives them a visual feed of the outside anyway so it's not like the cockpit viewport actually needs to be perfectly usable, but obviously it isn't like that in-game so thus we get the huge oversized cockpits on tiny mechs.

[Jin Ma]

haruko, on 19 November 2014 - 04:37 PM, said:

Well I don't really blame FD, guy's an artist not a 3D modeler or game developer. I mean in lore the neurohelm gives them a visual feed of the outside anyway so it's not like the cockpit viewport actually needs to be perfectly usable, but obviously it isn't like that in-game so thus we get the huge oversized cockpits on tiny mechs.

i dont really blame him. Even if he did scale correctly the mwo modeling team wouldn't be able to get the scale down right anyway. Given the track record

[Johnny Z]

haruko, on 19 November 2014 - 04:20 PM, said:

Hey guys, with the release of the Lynx and Ferret I decided to do some stuff with them since I've been playing them for the past week.

The Lynx is hilariously tiny, I can't imagine anyone being able to see out the cockpit effectively, it would make a great proto-mech though:


The pilot does fit though, the cockpit hatch is straight above the seat too:



I've been enjoying my Ice Ferret but the in-game cockpit really REALLY bothers me, it takes me out of the game, in the game if you look down at your feet you'll see that you're sitting above the "lip" of the Ferrets CT armor, like in this image marked in red:


It makes no sense unless you are a tiny little person! The lip part should be raised to be around waist level to the pilot like this:


I really like the little tank hatch it has on the top though:


This was just a quick update, so that's all for now:

I would like to see some of this in game somehow. Cheers. Hope to see more.

[HlynkaCG]

haruko, on 19 November 2014 - 04:20 PM, said:

Hey guys, with the release of the Lynx and Ferret I decided to do some stuff with them since I've been playing them for the past week.

The Lynx is hilariously tiny, I can't imagine anyone being able to see out the cockpit effectively, it would make a great proto-mech though:



...

Awesome as always but would you mind explaining how you were able to get the Wave II models out of the game and into your render program with the UVs / Materials intact? We've been having a rough time of it over in the other thread.

Thank you, and keep up the good work.

[Rina Fujimoto]

HlynkaCG, on 12 December 2014 - 08:14 AM, said:

Awesome as always but would you mind explaining how you were able to get the Wave II models out of the game and into your render program with the UVs / Materials intact? We've been having a rough time of it over in the other thread.

Thank you, and keep up the good work.

I don't know how to use scripts or anything, I extract them and assemble them manually.

[Rina Fujimoto]

Hey everyone.

Now that I've gotten a lot more proficient at 3D work I think I'm going to go ahead and redo every single piece I've done since my early pieces are so awful looking now haha. So expect all that to be updated.

In the mean time here is some stuff I made for my corp:

[Nakamura Takeshi]

Redo! Awesome, would love to see your new skillz in action.

[Rina Fujimoto]

Hello everyone, with the release of the Panther, of course, I had to import the model and eyeball it completely.
Here's the entry hatch as usual:



Size comparison:



And fun fact, the Panther has a camel pack on a rack in the cockpit (on the right):



Thats all for now.