Yuri Psychic Sensor

Droke · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 5:11 am Post subject: Yuri Psychic Sensor

Felt the need for a smaller psychic sensor, so I made one.

Its fully animated, includes buildups and cameo. My use of AA when rendering creates a somewhat softer visual then RA2's normal style, but otherwise I think it matches pretty well.

Comments of all sorts are appreciated. Beyond that, enjoy!

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Scorched Earth · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 6:03 am Post subject:

That's actually really good. Could be used for quite a lot of different things too, like a stealth generator.

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Starkku · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 8:09 am Post subject:

Heh just what I was looking for the other day. Thanks for this, it's rare to see such a high quality building assets with all the required elements (such as buildup) be released these days. Altough it does not entirely match the Westwood Yuri structure visual style, it does not stick out too much.

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OmegaBolt · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 11:42 am Post subject:

Very cool, excellent work.

Hogo · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 2:31 pm Post subject:

Looks very nice (Y)

Speeder · Commander **Joined**: 03 Sep 2004 **Location**: Czechia

Nice work!

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Hogo · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 3:45 pm Post subject:

For anyone interested this is what the cameo looks like, I like it Smile

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Speeder · Commander **Joined**: 03 Sep 2004 **Location**: Czechia

Another cameo.

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comando · Cyborg Soldier **Joined**: 21 Apr 2008

Cloudy one is better. Anyway that little thing is exactly what I need.

Droke · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 8:37 pm Post subject:

Yes, the cameo is very good. Smile

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Hogo · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 10:58 pm Post subject:

Nice work speeder Smile

Remus · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 11:57 pm Post subject:

Looks great! I definitely have a use for this, and Speeder's textless cameo for it is much appreciated as well.

OmegaBolt · Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 10:20 am Post subject:

I'd like to see Speeder's cameo alongside other Yuri cameos. The original Yuri set use a very bright sky and all cameos have a more painted background. I'd suggest applying some kind of Photoshop filter to the sky to make it blend a little better.

Speeder · Commander **Joined**: 03 Sep 2004 **Location**: Czechia

Or replace unfitting bright background on Yuri's cameos with a darker one. #Tongue

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Allied General · Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 9:39 pm Post subject:

This should be spotlighted?

Great work Droke.

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freedom fighter · General **Joined**: 14 May 2009

Why is this not spotlighted yet? Its one of very very few buildings made from scratch. And its looks MARVOLUES! Definitely using this. Great job, Droke! Smile

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Great work Droke. This would have been a very good candidate for the SHP contest. Wink

The only thing i would complain about is the damage stage. There the rotating part could have some parts of the antennae missing or broken instead of only rotate by some degree to the side.

But none the less
Spotlighted!

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Team Black · Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:40 pm Post subject:

excellent work!

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Droke · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 7:46 am Post subject:

Missed the spotlighting. Sweet. Smile

I had consitered damaging it like that. Also adding icecicles for the snow version. However, both had the same issue. I used a 1/3 rotation animation. I'd either have had to make it a full rotation to avoid a looping snap.

As for the obvious 'why not do that?', the image was rendered with AA on, meaning it had to manually clean it before use. SHP Builder's color replacer really helps, but still requires some manual work. Quite boring after the second or third ingame tweak. Extending the animation length 3x the norm wasn't appealing.

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

I know what you mean. I was facing the same issue when i did the TI radar.
To get around this, i rendered the turret with AA on, the background color green and "don't anti-aliase against background" set on in 3dsmax.
Then i rendered it again with AA off, the background again green and the whole non moving building changed to a green material which looks exactly like the background.
In the third step i used gimp to copy the green part of the non-AA rendered frames over to the AA-rendered frames. This way only the anti-aliased turret was left with a smooth AA render and sharp non-blurring borders.

The fourth step was a simple png to shp conversion, without any further time-consuming postprocessing in shp-builder.

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Deformat · Defense Minister **Joined**: 17 Sep 2007

LKO, he's using Cinema4D.

And that makes it even more spectacular.

Volgin · Commander **Joined**: 07 Mar 2009

i'd really, really, love to see an impaled GI on the center staff. Not that it's going to happen or has a purpose. Aside from that, it's awesome.

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Droke · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 2:45 am Post subject:

I have tried rendering an object with AA on, then rendering a second version with everything but the background and remap set to a pure black, with AA disabled. However, the AA sinks into the frame just a bit. Making the entire thing kinda pointless as you still get penty of blue peaking through.

What I do is simply render the image frames with AA on, then switch the model into the background's material and render the shadows, AA off. From there I use SHP Builder's color switching tool to clean up certain colors. Anything near blue get set to index 0, then stuff like blueish greys become set to grey. Ect. Remap is the hardest, but about the same. Then I just loop the animation looking for spots that didn't cut to background right, or snap in odd ways. Those are delt with manually. Its actually fairly quick.

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Guest · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:07 am Post subject:

does it move?

Graion Dilach · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:34 am Post subject:

Not at all. #Tongue

It just spins.

Awesome work.

Yuri Legends · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:09 am Post subject:

Something wrong with makeup building in snow ingame: When I placed a building somewhere, the buildup animation won't appear. What gives?

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:06 am Post subject:

It's in wrong size, use ygmpsimk instead.

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