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I am currently creating a document/manual for a 8bit Atari game called Space Fortress Omega.
I've the sketches and would like to create a digital of the "Black Mamba" space ship below. Even though it's in forest camo and no black.
What would be a good program to create a 3D model of the craft for rendering and them taking the output in a typical vector illustration package ?
Or just a balls ache, and stick to A2 paper and brushes 🙂
I don't know what you have tried so far but anything commercial is going to be expensive.
You could one of the trials of Rhino or 3DS Max.
Blender is the open source option.
I've only really used Rhino for sketches and diagrams at work and I do know that if you want to improve on the basic rendering it gets very expensive.
Thanks Gobuchul
3DS Max....Ouch on the price.
🙁
Looks like I'm sticking with the crayons and paper 🙂
Whilst searching I came across TinkerCad, wondering if that might work.
Blender is free and pretty powerful. You could also try sketchup but its probably not the best for complicated shapes like that; plus you'd need a 3rd party renderer, such as V-Ray.
I'd give Blender a go first.
don't you have access to the game art ? seems odd that you wouldn't
Just looked at Blender.
Downloading now 🙂
Thanks all.
This might be video for me:
Lets hope Blender is quickish to master than a knife and foam 😉
Here is my advanced 3D foam model made the other day from ethafoam 🙂
Lets hope Blender is quickish to master than a knife and foam
probably schedule a month to model and texture that to a reasonable renderable poly count fpr an experienced game artist.
reasonable renderable poly count fpr an experienced game artist.
Klunk - I think you missed this bit of the OP. 🙂
8bit Atari game
so it's an 8 bit manual too then ?
Typical 8bit manual and artwork.... so nothing like the game 🙂
Check out Space Invaders for example...
The Cover
The Actual Game
I used Xara in the end... old faithful never fails.
http://jomcallister.co.uk/wetpaint/index.php/2018/12/11/space-fortress-omega-black-mamba/
so it’s an 8 bit manual too then ?
No. But it's not going to be a professional standard manual, so it can go on the shelves to compete with Battlefield V this Christmas.
@gobucul
Not professional ;( How dare you Sir!! 😉
This is a labour of love 🙂
and the game would compete with Battlefield V.... it would.
I'll start playing that modern stuff soon, you know the Atari ST games.
and
Thanks for all your suggestions above
people.
Waste your life here:
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/285856-hsc15-round-21-chopper-hunt/
and the game would compete with Battlefield V…. it would.
I’ll start playing that modern stuff soon, you know the Atari ST games.
I'm sure it would. I still play 8 bit stuff, got my Raspberry Pi with Retropie, loving Crazy Climber at the moment.
I also just paid for the Zork 1 to 3, so I fully understand that gameplay is not about fancy graphics.
It still amazes me what can be crammed into an 8bit Z80 based machine. As for the Atari 2600....
Hope your project goes well!