Topic: Klingon Carrier (Read 7530 times)

Starforce2 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 04, 2009, 11:19:45 pm »

have you thought about adding a couple fighters or shuttles to each bay? They wouldn't be any good for armada but they'd be great for SFC and BC.

wrathofachilles · « **Reply #21 on:** February 05, 2009, 08:20:11 am »

yeah maybe, I did mesh out a very low poly fighter to go with it.

same texture style, I'll send them out together... as for how it's arranged, I always give free license for my models, you know that

Raven Night · « **Reply #22 on:** February 05, 2009, 09:47:53 am »

If you havent released this beauty yet, I have one suggestion that may add more depth...its one of my little secrets hehe.

Depending on what program you are using (I use PSP) take the lightness down tool, set it at 100 percent density, 22 opacity and a step of 25...go for size of the tool to be about 50 percent larger than the gaps between each panel...the dark lines you have running between them. I found 64 is a good size, sometimes it needs to be smaller or larger.

Then very carefully use the tool, dabbing a bit at a time along the line to darken that area..it will overlap on the panels slightly.

This will REALLY add to the overall look of the panels, giving them much more depth and weathering without bumpmapping.

pepperman · « **Reply #23 on:** February 05, 2009, 03:06:07 pm »

Achilles, fantastic work on those textures mate. The fighter is looking good too. I suspose for Armada your could set this up as a moble ship yard and it could lauch the fighters in that manner using a 0.0 for the build time.

Raven, thanks for shaing one of your little secrets...runs off to write it done in the how to texture book. I enjoy leraning from you masters.

wrathofachilles · « **Reply #24 on:** February 06, 2009, 08:01:29 pm »

I tried that Raven, thanks for the suggestion... I'm not sure it looks more weathered (all of my ships looks like they just rolled off of the production line) however I do like the darker contrast it gives.

Raven Night · « **Reply #25 on:** February 06, 2009, 10:18:34 pm »

I think it looks great!

Here is a pic to show what I meant. If you wanted to match what I have here I can give more pointers. But you get the idea.

I love the line details you put into the panel. Excellent work.

Bernard Guignard · « **Reply #26 on:** February 07, 2009, 06:20:29 am »

Very nicely done.

wrathofachilles · « **Reply #27 on:** February 07, 2009, 07:38:13 am »

yeah I see, nice touch, I'll take a stab at it when I get back later.

wrathofachilles · « **Reply #28 on:** February 09, 2009, 03:39:20 pm »

unfortunately I can't, my comp started dying about 2 weeks ago preventing me from accessing the net, 4 days ago it stopped loading, I'm just getting some hardware before I re-install the big biatch.

Raven Night · « **Reply #29 on:** February 10, 2009, 05:44:44 am »

...what also help, you might want to try, one of my other little secrets is too add lighter lines as well.

Look closely at the E-7 textures and you will see what I mean. From a distance it creates slight contrasts which fool the eye into seeing imperfections/depth in the panel. The color should be VERY close to the panel color inside (the part not darkened) and move out to the dark part.

Just a few here and there makes a huge difference, especially close up.

wrathofachilles · « **Reply #30 on:** February 16, 2009, 10:00:40 am »

well, real bad news. My motherboard finally popped and took my HD with it, I'd have my back up but that died about a month ago so this model is lost... along with a massive amount of WIP stuff. on the plus side I learnt a lot and will be looking to hit some higher poly/detail designs soon as my new motherboard/HD arrives.

Additionally I can't find my 3ds max 5 install so I can't export to armada (I refuse to use milkshape) so that's a bit of a bummer.

pepperman · « **Reply #31 on:** February 16, 2009, 12:00:30 pm »

Not good news at all my friend.

Starforce2 · « **Reply #32 on:** February 19, 2009, 05:55:54 pm »

try putting the drive in the freezer before you chuck it.

wrathofachilles · « **Reply #33 on:** February 20, 2009, 07:38:10 am »

I reformatted it as a second HD, I'm not really fussed about the data. that last klinker was good practice but I think I should start aiming a little higher.

Rod ONeal · « **Reply #34 on:** March 15, 2009, 03:41:01 am »

Make the next one a TOS Klingon carrier and I won't miss the last one too badly. lol Seriously though, I thought it was pretty good. I look forward to seeing your next project.

Smiley · « **Reply #35 on:** March 15, 2009, 08:48:57 am »

Quote from: wrathofachilles on December 21, 2008, 06:10:33 pm

So we have this Christmas contest at a2files and I starting making this, I am making a carrier becuase I was inspire by Smiley's Britain class, the reason it's Klingon and the textures look like that is because I fell in love with the textures from Raven's E7. It's only 2000+ polies so I dont expect rave reviews here but I'm quite happy so far. I am naming it Notqa'jev which according to a site I found means big, black bird storm... a bit of poetic license and it's storm of crows class.

Wow some old model I made years, literally about 5+ years ago inspired you to make this? It's a real shame that you lost it though

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