…to watch the timeless dance unfold…

Another day, another character completed.  These are the Minstrels, telepathic beings that travel through space without a ship.  Modeling this was quite easy but fun.  This is what they looked like in the original game:

Enjoy the pictures and video!  I’m running out of easy characters to do.  I think the next one up, the Mysterion, is the last easy character to model.  After that, the rest of the characters will definitely push me to my breaking point as an I’m-a-programmer-not-an-artist.  Pray for me.

The Velox probe has been built.  It’s basically two tapered cylinders glued together.  The first picture below is how it looks in the original game.  ‘Nuff said.

Well.  That was quick.

After finishing up the Spemin earlier today, I decided to tackle one of the easiest “race” to do in the game… the Nomad probe.  Actually, the Veloxi probe is even easier, but I didn’t think of that until later.  Below is an image of the Nomad probe in the original game.

Basically, this is what I did to build the Nomad probe:

1. Find a satellite dish model and download it.
2. Find a satellite body model and download it.
3. Whip out my Sawzall and hack those model up and glue them together.
4. Brought the thing into Unity.
5. Created solar panel texture maps and colorized the model.
6. Added lights at the tips of the solar panels.
7. Wrote scripts to animate the lights and spin the whole thing.
8. Yay!

Enjoy the pictures and the video of the probe in action!