Wait, can you clarify what will be in the patch? Like the F5E model or a campaign or what? Anyway, congrats.

No idea other than fixes. Graviteams patches for sabow are unoffical as the guys that own the rights (publishers) seem to have there heads up their bums. As far as I know they get nothing for the patches......being a little guy in buisness full of short sighted suits. But little guys can come out on top sometimes.

I have nothing to do with Gravi other than really liking what they do. So as far as their plans.......don't know....but my F5E *could* be in patch. But their #1 priority is making stuff that payes the bills.....ie. APOS and expansions. Hopefully did not step in anything by saying that......

In the end all i know is that I am working on a portfolio for myself and future employment with hopefully NOT a brain dead shovelware company. When I was deployed a few years back to a hell on earth place I played Karkov 42 on my laptop between missions. All I knew is that WW2 tank controls where a hell of alot like an m1117 fire controls. Guess I have been hooked ever since......lol.

You know I must have attempted 3 or 4 improved testures on the g3 rifle. Everytime I end up it hating more than this one. Maybe its time to say good enough?

Oh my gawd its been like 5 minutes since I posted anything............now I started working on this.


YA texture is total crap. Have to find my better unfinished ones..........but its in sabow model viewer....with 0 errors...


If this does not crash out first time in game I will be shocked.


WOW.......that was the worst rigging job ever. I think its spawning under the map......lol


Nevermind..........it spins around in circles and goes straight up out of the map until the crew bails....OMG FUNNY POOP. YA no idea on that one......

When more modders start doing stuff for APOS/SABOW we should start a modders blooper thread. Lord knows I have enough screen shots of my screw ups. ANyhow.........here we have my saladin armored car buried up to turret (sized a bit off) and bubba here looking sexy. FYI.......name your hull ------d_hull lol this is just hull.

NM I did........BUT don't put your pivot point somewhere stupid? Hope thats it.

Hmmmm bunker anyone for APOS SABOW? Pretty easy to do.





Its ugly.......the turret is scaled wrong......no detail parts imported in yet.......totally crap texture.......no normal map..........and in game.

So ya.......the vary vary basic mod tools do work. Now that the walls of getting complex crap in sabow I would expect to see more user content in future. Will attempt to put together a guide on Graviteam forum in future on wtf to do AND WHAT NOT TO DO. Near gawd I have spent insane about of time on this the past few days..........I am off to go have a life now.



OKOKOKOK one more..........

Wanted to see if it would shoot anyting........ SO I rigged just vary basics to model. Ya my little ugly boy shot his mg and someone.

Still alot of rigging to do on this thing. and of course real textures. But i think its going to be pretty neat when done.

Found my old uncomplete textures. For some reason does not want to render out normal map right now. But there are ALOT of issues to sort. In the end this is just an test model anyways. Take a bit of work to get it up to sabow/apos level. I may shelf this for awhile and go direct to playabele m113.

Currently just worring about rigging model correct for sabow.....some ODD things have been happening. See what happens when you have to resize a model to correct scale......UGH. Wierd issues keep popping up. Funny however.


OMG its Mr Big HEAD!

For gross cowardice in the face of the enemy......hmmmm OK something broken with gun. But it blows up good.

OMG Mini Me!


Heres some not screwed up ones......still VARY early.






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Model is nearly done on rigging it up for game. However I need to update the mesh on detail...... This model was for fun a while back. Never really thought I would do anything with it. So I will do a quick update to mesh and add in a bit more detail as well as completing textures for it. Now that I know wtf I am doing within sabow game engine a bunch of totally new neato things will be rolling out by me............

Just to toot my own horn........model is now rigged to have bits blown off when hit.....fire.....weapons work correct......sights for ai work correct and when complete will have a new weapon and ammo config based on its British 76mm gun. AS well as correct armor map dipicting its armor and damage locations. I really think this will be done quite fast........ Hopefully new SABOW patch is not far off.

Current state of model......had to rework turret quite a bit to get the thing to conform to reality.



This thing has one of the oddest shaped turrets ever................

Models LOD1 is starting to get to point where it can sit next to a default SABOW vehicle and not want your face to melt off. Couple more small detail things on the turret roof and finish up the hull detail. Then update the texture cords and texture LOD 1. Lod 2/3 should be fast to complete as the basic shapes of this thing are all simple. Then rig the model back up......and blow stuff up......or get blown up. This has turned into a bigger job than I first thought.


Oh ya, this thing as gone from just a test model to more the real deal now.