Ride's Rocket!

yea, it's crappy but i spent this afternoon on it and i guess i'll psot it. i'll have a rendered animation tomorrow.

before:


after:


preview animation(gonna do some tweaking):
http://www.zippyvideos.com/87257391591425.html

An Interesting take on it.

The timing is a tad inconsistant and the weighting seems a bit off but it's a nice concept. (It might need a conish nose to make it more aerodynamic)

Am just wondering how it goes up first? does it have thrusters pointing downwards?

i dont have any time to work on it today, but i'm gonna add some thrusters to the bottom. here's a rendered version, i cut the time in half and it looks alot better.

http://www.zippyvideos.com/160800288593795.html

Nice, same comments as before...

Definately needs some kind of firey + smokey trail...

It just doesnt make sense that it goes backwards first in this rendition.

Would be cool to see where you end up with this.

mm yea i'm not done obviously, the smoke and flame still needs to be added, and the end part of animation needs re-doing

Heh, very nice

What is it with all these transforming rockets suddenly appearing on the site Have I missed something?

The actual shape doesn't look very aerodynamic as Cam says, but I think it's an interesting take on it and works well. I like the way it transforms, particularly the cylinder circling around it. Crits wise, it's not sitting on it's supports from the start. I also think the camera could do with some more work. I like the idea and it really livens up the anim... but a little too jerky at the mo, almost like the transforms are linear.

after getting some inspiration from cam's and tyson's, i'm gonna go back and redo the animatin for mine. gonna add rocket, etc to it. and actually put it in the sky this time. just need to find either A) make a good cloud map for the environment or B) contact cam or tyson and have them give me their cloud maps

oh, and about the shape. i didnt want to copy cam or tyson so i just thought of something non cylindrical, and not a teapot. i was really thinking about making a teapot rocket

Looking cool...although it just seems to be floating on its "stand"....Also...some of the mechanical elements just disappear as its folding and expanding.

fraid not tyson. all the stuff stays there. nothing has any tricks. the collapsing cylinder on the engine folds up right before the engine pops out. might just be the material that is eceiving though. ps: i completely redid the animation and camera, as well as lots of modelling overhaul so expect a completely different thing next time. *rendering now about 12 hours to go*

Well I guess I'll have to see your second render then

SUCCESS!

http://www.zippyvideos.com/26339723616185.html

ps: this was my first time using afterburn, it's just the demo also, dont pay too much attention to the backghround, its just a sky texture that loops

pss: the shake is a little off but its better than nothing. and watching it now i've realized that it doesnt really look like it's falling but oh well.

Looking much better mate

I think the problem with the camera shake is that you've gone for a target camera so the main or focussed object shakes less than everything else in the frame (read my tut again ) Also looks like the noise frequency is up too high (so it's shaking very rapidly) but the ampltude is a little low (so it's more of a vibration than a shake)

Certainly getting there though - as for afterburn... well, I'll let Cam take over from here

Hehe, I agree with global..

The initial takeoff when the afterburn kicks in is a tad slow. Doesn't look like much of a Zzooom!

The start seems a bit slow to get into and it looks like the rocket is just sitting in mid air. not falling, or moving or anything. Some vertical Motionblur would be nice, to give it a nice falling feel.

The thing on top, which forms the cone-nose... can that start out underneath, and stick out from below or inside and come out of a hole? having it on top doesnt quite suit it, makes it look out of place.


The afterburn... I have never seen any explosive device start out black and then go light. Until now that is. It seriously is off there. Swap the colours over and have a nice fade from the golden yellow (perhaps make a tad more orangey, just a tad) have it go to an orangey-red and then fade off to a smokey black, brown colour. I would reccomend the Explode Daemon if you know how to use it. If not, what you have there is fine IF... you tone down the density and have it fade to 0 through particle age. Your rocket exhaust DEFINATELY should get bigger as it dies off. I would also give it a Linear or Cubic Falloff if you haven't already, to blend the edges a bit so it doesn't look like lots of solid particles, but one steady stream and also if you have clamp on... take it off for this exercise.

And read my tutorial in the max section of these forums.

I also suggest some variation to the movement of the rocket after takeoff... not just in a straight line. it will then add some variance to the trail, and give it a more pleasant experience.