@Kooijpolloi ah alright thanks.

Differences between the Oryx and the early war Pumas

Oryx body is also longer than a Puma but shorter than a Super Puma.

https://youtu.be/Uhkfy40ae3o?t=163

Hybrid helicopter at time stamp 2:43

Cheers Dana.

Hi guys first news update since I've been gone!

Installed Blender 2.80 and jumped into it to try and get used it. It's a major change from 2.79 though I'm picking it up quick. I'll follow the Blender youtube channel 2.80 tutorials to get to know the new user interface better.

I have exported the FN FAL from the SDK to use as a tracer for the R1. As I can't use Squad's FN FAL for the SADF faction as it's not historically accurate (different front handguard) and probably some other minor differences.

I've also exported the Stryker, Ural and US Utility truck so I can more or less decipher the way the final low poly models of my vehicles should look, such as matching the same level of poly count more or less etc.

So no modeling progress today but will hopefully begin sharing modeling progress on here within the next few days.

Niceeeeeee... Cant wait

I'll also be following Warmaster's SDK tutorials in the next few days to bring myself up to speed with the SDK.

Oh forgot to mention I also exported some afghan houses to see how OWI modeled their buildings so I can match their methods for the Angolan and South West African buildings that I'll be modeling in the near future.

Also will be purchasing Zbrush and a tablet to sculpt very soon. Zbrush is pretty much a requirement in order to sculpt the character models of the various factions.

Can i reccomend a huion tablet ? Its the best bang for buck tablets on the market now

@Bartender Sure I'll consider it.

Busy following tutorials on the new blender 2.8

Loving it already! 😱

Viewport shaders are better too.

oooh that looks sexy

Ja can't wait til I eventually get it into SQUAD

Going to be amazing ripping through SWAPO and FAPLA troops with the dual .50's

I'd also like hostile drive damage activated so you can drive over enemy troops and kill them that way. Of course as for friendlies its best just like it is now otherwise I can imagine tonnes of griefing going on.

I also photoshopped this kill of mine. Would be lekker if SQUAD had the same blood decals as Post Scriptum. I know they don't want to introduce dismemberment but some blood decals wouldn't hurt 😉

agreed mate

Sorry guys just spamming with multi-color pics. I've always wanted this feature to come to Blender since seeing it in 3Ds Max.

It helps you visualize what parts are separate meshes

They've removed layers and replaced it with collections which I'll have to get used to... As the Ratel 90 turret was in a different layer. Now it's in a different collection. I assume I'll get used to it fairly quickly I hope!

So the Ratel 90 turret is in one of the greyed out collections but I have no idea how to get it to show.

Two things. Here is the fix for the collection.

And here is the fix for any object inside the collection that still is not showing up.

Hope it helps

Thanks @PetraCephas it worked.

It'll take some getting used to though.

Worth it

are youi planning on adding the antennas to the top of the turret

Yep

okay cool

i havent asked but are you planning on adding the olifant MBT ?

well the mk1 and 2

Yep Olifant will be modeled at some point both the Mk I and Mk II

Ratels will also have their respective Mk's right now I'm modeling the Mk I

ahh i cant wait

So I'll be able to add the MK I to the earlier operations while the Mk II to later operations