Topic: Almost ready for release (IMAGE HEAVY) (Read 1217 times)

sandman69247 · « **on:** July 15, 2003, 05:08:25 pm »

Well, spent the last 6 hours working on these two. !st is the Romulan Cabbage Class; 2nd is the USS YORKTOWN, a pre-TOS carrier.

The Cabbage:

The Yorktown:

With the Cabbage, what should I hp her as? A Rom cruiser in SFC has too much firepower to be accurate for this time period.

The Yorktown is coming in at approx. 7800 polies. I'm trying to shave some off without ruining the shape or textures, so any advice is welcome.

Azel · « **Reply #1 on:** July 15, 2003, 07:50:05 pm »

Awesome man!!!
Damned Fine Ships you got there

James Formo · « **Reply #2 on:** July 15, 2003, 09:49:22 pm »

Yea what Azel said. Your building up quite the pre-TOS armada

sandman69247 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 15, 2003, 11:07:33 pm »

Thanx, guys!!
I plan on doing all the ships listed in my little pre-TOS chart I posted. I figured that would be a good way to build texturing and meshing skill...the further you go, the more shapes and details are needed. Next in line is the Klingon D-2...this time I'm leaving her gray.

Well, time to hand my wifes puter back to her...beside, my eyes hurt from all the work I did today. Once I get going, I hate stopping 'til I'm done.

Captain KoraH · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2003, 01:21:44 am »

If your sphere primitives are whole and not booleaned together with the rest of the mesh, that would save you some polys. Especially if they are geospheres.

Marauth · « **Reply #5 on:** July 16, 2003, 06:14:20 am »

The Yorktown looks to be your best work yet, I really like the aztec panelling, it really makes a ship look so much more real, maybe you could try adding that to the Cabbage? I think that's what's missing from it at the mo' oh well, keep up the good work.

Smiley · « **Reply #6 on:** July 16, 2003, 06:17:13 am »

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The Yorktown looks to be your best work yet, I really like the aztec panelling, it really makes a ship look so much more real, maybe you could try adding that to the Cabbage? I think that's what's missing from it at the mo' oh well, keep up the good work.

Yeah I was talking to Starforce yesterday about the CG model and the how the aztecing that you can see in the specularity channel make it look so much cooler!

Smiley · « **Reply #8 on:** July 16, 2003, 08:11:04 am »

I don't think that SFCx supports specularity maps, only umm BC does I think.
To get the effect tho, i suppose you could make another layer in your software and draw the aztec on that layer and then fade it down to like 10% or something like that....Perhaps if you create more than one aztec layer and have them showing at different levels in your layering it would look cool?

sandman69247

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