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Offline Axem

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Hi Poly Elysium
on: May 20, 2006, 02:18:48 pm
Just a WIP right now. The general shape is done and I've begun adding finer detail to it. I've been using the texture map as a guide for this, with a few small artistic liberties. ;)





People who are too lazy to go through the whole thread can find the released model here:
http://www.game-warden.com/narfin/models/hp_gtt_elysium.rar
« Last Edit: May 24, 2006, 03:14:40 pm by Axem »
 

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #1 on: May 20, 2006, 02:24:24 pm
Good :yes:

You'll need a talented texturer to UVMap all that, though.
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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #2 on: May 20, 2006, 04:30:36 pm
That's the best looking shoe-box with engines and a turret I've seen in... forever.

Keep it up, and don't forget the bridge- looking windows. (maybe it's just for the pilot and gunner)
 

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #3 on: May 20, 2006, 04:40:08 pm
Well thank you. Except it doesn't have a turret (yet). I added windows, but they eat up on the poly budget quite a bit. I don't know if I'll keep them or not.

 

Offline Mars

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #4 on: May 20, 2006, 05:23:47 pm
Okay, it's still the best looking shoebox with engines and without a turret I've ever seen.
 

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #5 on: May 20, 2006, 10:57:32 pm
Looks good. :yes:
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #6 on: May 20, 2006, 11:31:50 pm


Can't wait to see it look even better.  :yes: :yes:
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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #7 on: May 20, 2006, 11:34:06 pm
Didn't know you could fit so much detail on that small thing. Awesome!
 

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #8 on: May 20, 2006, 11:37:11 pm
Quote from: Ferret on May 20, 2006, 11:34:06 pm
Didn't know you could fit so much detail on that small thing. Awesome!
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Offline Trivial Psychic

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #9 on: May 21, 2006, 11:50:04 am
Quote from: WMCoolmon on May 20, 2006, 11:31:50 pm


Can't wait to see it look even better.  :yes: :yes:
I guess the HTL one isn't gonna include those thruster cones.
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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #10 on: May 21, 2006, 03:19:16 pm
Quote from: Trivial Psychic on May 21, 2006, 11:50:04 am
Quote from: WMCoolmon on May 20, 2006, 11:31:50 pm


Can't wait to see it look even better.  :yes: :yes:
I guess the HTL one isn't gonna include those thruster cones.
Oh yeah, I hope not. They're the epitome of retarded.
 

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #11 on: May 21, 2006, 03:29:45 pm
I always thought that the Elysium was probably the nicest-looking vanilla model of the bunch.  With this upgrade, it'll be the nicest-looking model, period. :)
 

Offline Axem

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #12 on: May 22, 2006, 10:08:25 am
Well I don't plan on including the thruster cones. If there's an overwhelming response for them, I can add them.

Anyway, model's nearly done. The turret and poly clean up is pretty much the only things left to do.


 

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #13 on: May 22, 2006, 12:07:37 pm
sweet jesus, that looks even better than the Orion!
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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #14 on: May 22, 2006, 12:45:16 pm
Now THAT's how to hi-polify a ship! :)
 

Offline Mars

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #15 on: May 22, 2006, 05:36:04 pm
Sexy.

As to the turret, how exactly do you plan to do it? It always looked rather silly to me.
 

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #16 on: May 22, 2006, 05:58:50 pm
Show the mdel with the texture map applied, and use the shine map as a specular map and render it with a bright shadowed light off to the far back...
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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #17 on: May 22, 2006, 06:03:03 pm
Quote from: Mars on May 22, 2006, 05:36:04 pm
As to the turret, how exactly do you plan to do it?

you said turret and i was thinking something completely different. :lol:

...i really need to stop reading bash.org...

anyways, i was thinking keep it the same?
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #18 on: May 22, 2006, 09:19:34 pm
Wow, I think that is sweeter then your AWACS. :D
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Offline Axem

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Re: Hi Poly Elysium
Reply #19 on: May 22, 2006, 10:02:16 pm
Ships that have a UV map are so easier to remodel. Your work is all laid out on the map. Stuff like the Orion, and a lesser exent the Charybdis (it just had a small UV map), have much more guess work that reimage the ship rather than remodel.

Anyway, sorry Raa, but my expert rendering skillz are limited to making untextured renders in 3D Exploration. Wings has a sucky included renderer, and the raytracing plugins are difficult to use. So this is the best I can give you folks right now.


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