I made a Firestorm replica! Isn't he looking pretty hot? Firestorm is one of my favourite flipper bots from the old series, alongside everybodys favourites Chaos2! I scratched not only the modelling for bots, but also threw together a simple concrete themed arena to warmup. It may or may not get used in the game, but hey ho, nothing wrong with abit of practice.
Firestorm was quite enjoyable to model, looking through the pictures of him, a basic wedge with a front flipper, it wasn't until shaping the body I noticed that my current shape was a little flat. I then realised Firestorm has some slight bevels on its edges, to prevent it being beached on its side no doubt, and once I added those, the shape looks much better. I quickly mocked up a texture in Photoshop and it fit almost perfectly right off the bat! I feel like it does hide the bevels a little though, oh well, that can be easily fixed.
I also completed a gray box of the Gauntlet arena run! Like the real life version, there are 3 different paths a robot can proceed down after driving out of the turntable. Each path is different and features different hazards to avoid and score points with! I will also be doing the Pinball Warrior arena, as well as a Sumo Basho arena too in the future (hopefully) and with them I can release a playable demo of what I have worked on so far!
Of course everything is still VERY MUCH A WORK IN PROGRESS! There are untextured things, unfinished models and mechanics because I am doing it to further my skills as a developer, and to try my hand at making a robot combat game since we don't really have any of those! I feel its a great project to practice all my skills as a developer, programming as well as design and art, and it seems I have caught the attention of a friend on Twitter, much to my delight.
Today was a good day of development on this project, nice to be able to work on something other than my uni projects (which are eating up ALL of my time lately, deadlines, yay) which I will post on when I have a bit more on them to talk about! Firestorm came out great, and its flipper is successfully emulating physics, something I was worried about my game using, Firestorm tossed those thoughts out of my head, literally!
Life can be dark, wandering without a cause.
But theres lots of fun to be had, on Robot Wars!
Goodnight.
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