Description

Here is a futuristic combat jet i have designed, modeled, textured, rigged and animated for our game-project.

I inserted control bones for the easy control of the moving parts of the plane,

as you can see in this gif animation.

All animations are controlled by only one action, its the same method as i used for the hand model rig.

__Armature control:__

Select the special shaped bone, hit the S-Key and then move the mouse, to roll the animation.

Here is a small tutorial about how to setup custom Bone Shapes.

I made this tutorial, because i was asked where to find the arrows with the ball inside :)

here is a short demo video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXC7pTo69w8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXC7pTo69w8)

[__My Blog__

](http://3dartdh.wordpress.com/)

Time lapse video of the creation:

[Aircraft work in process __part.1__](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMEBVRod5HM)

[Aircraft work in process __part.2__](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kMkroWKhfY)

[Aircraft work in process __part.3__](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyy3Uv2zdHI)

[Aircraft work in process __part.4__](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgoLI2_xc3k)

[Aircraft work in process __part.5__](Aircraft%20work%20in%20process%20part.5)

[Aircraft work in process __part.6__](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6-jawzAfyc)

[Aircraft work in process __part.7__](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTb5fzhCsC8)

[Aircraft work in process __part.8__](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acX_PdzIMJ8)

[Aircraft work in process __part.9__](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiMVzotc7Yo)

[Aircraft work in process __part.10__](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bauWGq-lJkc)

[Aircraft work in process __part.11__](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xCffzfxp8o)

[Looking for a basic color](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0dTyHwntP8)

__[In game test](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=82uZetPMwQY#t=163s)__

Comments (31)

JoshuaS about 13 years ago

Wow, cool model and rigging !!

Roachman911 about 13 years ago

Wow! This what should be posted on blendswap. High quality blends like this. Great job. must have taken a while.

mofx about 13 years ago

Beautiful model Dennis, really top notch stuff, I think you and @KuhnIndustries should start collaborating. Anywho thanks for sharing with us.

ChrisKuhn about 13 years ago

Agreed :) Good stuff, right here!

oldtimer about 13 years ago

I guess it took a lot of hours and a creative patient to do this wonderful blend. Congrats a lot.

RealTimeBrush about 13 years ago

Fantastic piece of work top quality model and the rig is spot on.

3DHaupt about 13 years ago

Many thanks for these nice comments, nice to see you like this :)

mofx about 13 years ago

Please use the message feature for messages like this.

3DHaupt about 13 years ago

Okay, sounds interesting, can you write me a description about your plans and for what I'm used as message like mofx means.

Boop4000 about 13 years ago

how do you use the bones to control the animations is there a special mode or tool?

3DHaupt about 13 years ago

There is no special mode or tool just one action, some TrackTo and a lot of Action constraints for the Bones, all possible animations are saved in one action (Aircraft_roll) and the animations are driven by constraints. When you scaling one of those control-bones, the animation will be played for all bones with the action constraints which have been assigned to the control-bone. Check all green bones, i take a while to understand how it works but it is an awesome way to animate.

ikbenjegame about 13 years ago

how do you move the amature bones ??

ikbenjegame about 13 years ago

how do you move the amature bones ???????????

3DHaupt about 13 years ago

I move the amature bones with bone-constraints and an action where the animations are saved in (Aircraft_roll).

goodvsevil1314 about 13 years ago

I really like how professional your blends look. Great work.

3DHaupt about 13 years ago

THX :)

dotrobot about 13 years ago

is there a way to chainge the background colour from that bluey colour, im chainging the colour in the world settings but it dosent do anything when i render it

3DHaupt about 13 years ago

In this scene is a sun-light with [sky] enabled, select the sun-light and deactivate [sky], the background color you want to use will be rendered correctly.

dotrobot about 13 years ago

thanks thats great

Nemesis about 13 years ago

Really good model.

deiby_ybied almost 13 years ago

One of the best 3D models and seen on this site... :)

TweetTweetPewPew almost 13 years ago

Hey, look at what Agusta Westland (a British-Italian helicopter company) announced: http://imgur.com/a/pjpHo

adelk over 12 years ago

thanks , Beautiful model

technikFish over 12 years ago

How to move for example the wings or the engines like in the video?

3DHaupt over 12 years ago

Select the special shaped bone, hit S-Key and then move the mouse. Would be better i write this in the description.

NarrowEdge almost 12 years ago

Nice! One question though, is there a way to move the whole model at once?

3DHaupt over 11 years ago

Hi Narrow Edge, I never moved the whole model. I tried to move it and have seen what happens, some parts of the jet were not parented. Now I have fixed it, I added two empty objects to move the whole model at once.

Boss429 over 11 years ago

Nice job, man!!!

Diomedes246 about 10 years ago

This is Awesome Man I love it Keep up the good work

Arsenal19 almost 7 years ago

Great work! love it!

TheBlenderBender almost 7 years ago

I saw this on hum3d.com but was disapointed because it was not allowed for commericial use. But here I go scrolling through the vehicles and here it is in a CC license! Thank you so much Mr. Haupt!!! I'm going to download this!