Metal Mayhem is coming

**Bwian** · 10-29-2006, 16:16

The screenshot fest continues!

Furst off, not the promised new units ...but rather the work in progress on the interface. I have given it a very 'metallic' look, which I like...but it is perhaps a little dark. I might lighten it up to make the unit stas clearer.

Unit screenshots will come just as soon as I finish the annoying trial and error needed to get the top and bottom halves to mate neatly.

**Bwian** · 10-29-2006, 16:45

Light scout unit - mechanised.

and also mounted on a light tracked chassis

The other unit to reach completion today is the light combat unit. Also cshown on it's primary wheeled chassis, but also available for fitment to walker and tracked chassis. I like this unit a lot, and might use it as a 'light' general unit too with some extra adornments.

This last unit will also be available in clawed and disc weaponed versions

**wlesmana** · 10-30-2006, 04:51

You might have thought of this already, but here's a little trick to make an ON/OFF light-bulb if you're willing to sacrifice primary/secondary weapons. For instance, in a joke model I made, I put an OFF light-bulb (all black) on his antennae. A tiny bit bigger than this black light-bulb is an ON version, red colored, right on top of it, wrapping the OFF light-bulb, and set as "primary weapon". During death, primary weapon object is taken out of the game. So my unit would walk around with the ON light-bulb but once he dies, his light-bulb would appear OFF (dark colored) because the ON light-bulb is removed.

**Bwian** · 10-30-2006, 18:54

Interesting thought.

I can see a variety of uses for this, but I don't know for sure how I am going to implement this. It could work for lights.... for, say, a screen display on the droid, or some form of holographic 'banner' for the officer units to distinguish them that goes out when they die .... many possibles.

Thanks for the suggestion!

**wlesmana** · 10-31-2006, 09:16

You can see it in this pic:

I made a Prince (from the game Katamari Damacy). The primary weapon is the red bulb on his antennae and his "happy" face linked to the head bone. When he dies, the primary weapon is removed and you'd get the black bulb and "unhappy" face. It works as long as the primary weapon model is only linked to one bone.