This is a general update on the efforts to make a system that I can easily create visual material to promote the Total War Setting with. For anyone who has missed the past few weeks, I’ve always wanted to bring as much of the world as I can into a 3D game engine. If it’s only ever good for screenshots, that’s fine, but obviously I have fever dreams of a game one day when I grow up.
The autotrucks are the EUAF’s do it all cargo movers. Five axles, hub motors, four steered, hydro-pneumatics suspension, emdrives and pressure sealed crew comparments for shelter though they’re mainly intended to be remote driven or slaved to something like a utility vehicle.
A landing barge can carry up to 12,000 tonnes at a pinch. It takes forever to climb to orbit with that load, but fortunately, the plan is that it’s the way down where you’re taking fire. Just hope you never have to evacuate a planet.
All sorts of things happen at training fields. Not sure if this Droopy pilot ever got his wings.
These are the first baby steps into the 3D world, but I’m already very happy with it as a means to give a sense of the feel I want. Proper fidelity might be nice, but even with Claude Code’s help I don’t think I have the time budget to bring it where I’d want it. But I will keep developing it and see how far I can get. In any case, this one page has more imagery than I’ve had in total until two weeks ago.
I’ve also made a few animations, including a 20 second announcement video for Dropship Down. Coming soon ™.