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a long time ago before i even became an r-con i was working on a proposal of making the PLA Navy Marines.
my contribution to that at the time was inspired by this picture


it is not much to work from, but in cooperation with jonny and a few other guys i began working on getting it into a decent state.
this went pretty good and we got the base design settle.
at the time though i didn't have any uvw skills and so one of the other modellers did that for me.

jump half a year to a year into the future and i was ready to work on my texturing skills. i could already at the time see that the uvw wasn't really what i wanted, i couldn't bake AO onto it, it had huge black spots and was unoptimized as hell (not something i wanted to put into the mod) nevertheless i already had a base texture for it and decided to just work a bit more on it for the practice.
this is what i got (with horrible generated normal maps hehe)


due to comments on other forums and me wanting to increase my skill level, i decided to now make a high poly model of the boat




as you can see it has turned out pretty decent and i just finished making a new game model for it so that it is optimized for the game. now i need to uvw this baby and work on my texturing skills and hopefully, by the next patch that brings new vehicles into the game, this thing will be done and the chinese (or other factions) will not have to use those universal RIBS that dice made for all factions in bf2.

Looking good! It will be nice finally having something else then those old RIBs to sail the seas

Very nice!

looking good, but the prop down the rudder seems very detailed, perhaps you could cut down some tri's there as it won't be seen that much

less tri's = win:p

Storm the beaches!!!

Dunno why but I always like going on the boats, maybe just feels safer than anything else.

Wicked .

Wakain;bt3739 wrote:looking good, but the prop down the rudder seems very detailed, perhaps you could cut down some tri's there as it won't be seen that much

less tri's = win:p

well this is high poly and has around 300k tris

the low poly is much less detailed than this and is this model is only used for baking details with and getting a better AO.

the real boat that is going ingame only has around 4k tris which is still a bit for a vehicle like this, but we are ramping up details on most models and the details resulting in a good bake should be worth it.

Finally. Nice job

the PLAN are back? Sweet.

Nice work mate.

Awesome!

Excellent. Now the Chinese can land on American soil.

can you use that without motor?
i mean silently?
with oars?(is it correct word?)


hmm,maybe no.

dont forget the 1 and 8 in the red star.

You should totally give that boat to the chechens *cough* i mean militia too.

What places will they assault?

Nice Boat. LOL

I like this, if a PLA Navy force was added, it will be EPIC.

I have the camouflage and gears in the picture, including the helmet cover and everything.

Great work motherdear.

Looks nice, good work.