3d Tank
Posted by oxaric on November 15, 2008
About a year ago I created a 3d tank as part of a game. It was for a class and I ended up spending more time designing the tank than the game. This was my first attempt at building anything 3d and I think it turned out cool. I designed it against the United States military’s M1A2 Abrams tank. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if it looks close. :)
Originally the tank treads had a much lower triangle count but sometime ago I decided to try splicing every tread triangle into two or three smaller triangles… I can’t remember which… and I saved it that way. So currently the tank has a triangle count of 32,766 but I’d say 90% of that is the tank treads. Oh well.
I used Wings 3d to design the tank. I highly recommend this software. The 3d mesh is in the Wavefront file format so if you use Wings 3d you’ll have to import the .obj file. If you’re interested in downloading the model I have created a link to directly download the model in a zip file.
As always feel free to use it and do whatever you want with it.
Click here to download the tank model in a zip file. It is 567 KB.
Here is the real tank:
Here are various shots of my tank:
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