I've just got started again doing this stuff, after buying my domain a year ago and then having my webhost lose everything 

Number One:



Number Four




The first one, the city scape is just something I started out of boredom.
The second one is the rough chassis idea for another fire truck.

EDIT: Moved the fire apparatus to a new thread.





Edited by FireMedic - 08 November 2006 at 11:23am

I see a png, two bmp's, and a jpg... oddness

The vehicles all seem very squished, like someone stepped on them

The cabs were based off a "Short" cab that was built by the Oshkosh truck manufacturing company. They were intentionally shorter to great clearance into older firehouses, places where low bridges were, to reduce the top-heavy handling characteristics, etc. In the case of the Aerialscope the shorter cab allows you to operate the aerial over the cab at a lower angle before you start to tear the roof off. I'll try to find a picture of the cabs they were based off.

As I'm lookking at the top two cabs, they might look a bit short even compared to what I based them off of. Changing their height will take me all of five minutes to do (since I might modify the rescue cab and then overlay it onto the 'Scope :D ) What would you suggest in added height? If I raised it by say, 4 or 6 pixels, would that be enough?

The blank chassis is something I'm trying out. The game I'm designing them fore uses isometric tiles that are 32x32 pixels. The top two that are mostly finished are roughly 3 tiles wide. The blank chassis is about 2.5.

A finished city scape that I can use as my desktop background is my goal. I leave my resolution at 1280x1024, so I've got ALOT of work to do. I'm contemplating adding vehicles once I decide on the final width of the road. Definately going to have do so some animations within the final product. It's all black outline now, but that will be gone once I have the "blueprint" done, and start adding color and shading. Seeing some of the "Pixel Cities" like the stuff feature at PixelDam (?) have inspired me to really push forward with this.

I got kind of sloppy with the file formats that I uploaded. I've got them all in PNG, BMP, and Jpeg. I try to stay working in PNG, but if I'm not careful and don't change the save settings it'll go to BMP. BMPs can be huge as we know, so if I'm showing it to someone who doesn't appreciate the work, a JPG does fine. I just wasn't paying attention to which version I uploaded...It was late, I was tired. I'll keep it in mind for next time.

I appreciate the feedback that I've gotten so far. I've shown these to a few other people and all I get is "AWESOME!" or "Looks good so far". The constructive feedback helps me alot more then just an "Awesome" or "Looks good".

EDIT: The PNG versions have been uploaded onto my webserver. I can't find a PNG of the empty chassis, but I found a Pumper-Tanker that I had made on it. No where near complete once again, but I like to slowly tinker on everything. I'll fix the images in the first post.

EDIT 2: Forgot to add in the updated image of the chassis.



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Edited by FireMedic - 07 November 2006 at 11:05am