WotW Tripod test Options

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

no long description, just watch

btw, green is later transparent.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Mar 9 2008, 09:51 AM

[KingByng]

2 words: Holy Sh!t

Amazing job. Get rid of the red, and it'd be perfect!

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

Get rid of the red, and it'd be perfect!

this is the remap color. So it can be used as a buildable unit.

Will there be a War of the Worlds theme coming?

not from me. I just saw the movie and thought this would be good unit to place randomly on maps or for those who have a Cabal/Scrin side in their mods.

Just an idea: the building could be immune and invisible. It has LightningRod=yes and after an Ion storm hits these buildings with some lightings, they undeploy and rise from the ground.

Another amazing thing from the graphics god... But personally, I think its too simple. I think it needs to have more of those little tentacles waving around randomly under it, and the "head" part doesn't really convey the dimensions properly, if you get what I mean.

It has 5 tentacles at the engine section. In the movie they only expanded to capture humans. (and when they were out of control they waved around)
The rest of the time they were quite short, like in the shp.

What do you mean with the head part? I think the proportions are ok, and the size is in TS dimensions so it doesn't sticks out too much. It has the size to fit with the civilian buildings.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Mar 9 2008, 10:05 AM

[Scorch]

Just an idea: the building could be immune and invisible. It has LightningRod=yes and after an Ion storm hits these buildings with some lightings, they undeploy and rise from the ground.

Just wondering why I had never thought of that.

Anyway, this looks really cool. But it would be even cooler if it looked like it had electricity shooting out randomly as it's trying to stand, like the lightning passes through it when it gets hit and it shoots out? Plus, in the old book about War Of The Worlds, those walkers had lasers, orange I think they were. Be nice if you could make a version with that laser? Again though, one of the coolest and most creative things I've seen!

Err, what weapon does it have? Does it have a firing anim?

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

there is no way to have a standing anim. so only while walking it could have some lighting bolts shooting out randomly and this would look odd imo.

I did some research while trying to find a highres pic of the movie tripod and found some pictures of the old 1953 movie and of the earlier book version. Both looked kinda weird if you compare them with the modern style of the new movie version. In the old movie they also had a scorpion tail with the laser at the end (yeah Kane was there ).
Book:
1953 Movie:
So the concepts are too different to combine imo, but if i'm wrong you can also show a picture of what you mean.

Err, what weapon does it have? Does it have a firing anim?

I thought about a simple laser with a blue inner line or a bright blue railgun with some bright blue particles which disappear very fast.
I'm still trying to figure out if it has a turret. With a turret it won't have a firing anim. However without a turret there won't be any spectacular anim too, since in the movie they had none too.
But i tend to do it without a turret, because i can make then much better walk anims where the head is moving too.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Mar 9 2008, 07:14 PM