[Axem]

I'm pretty sure no one has done this yet. I remember someone doing a Alastor, but not the other (more pathetic) sentry guns.

Anyhow, the model is pretty simple (which also means mapping will be simple ). Its just above 1100 polys, but I can reduce that to just under 1000 if people don't like that.

Now I was thinking of maybe making separate models of the Watchdog and Cerberus. Nothing too unbalancing or radical. But something that'll let you tell them apart right away. A change in textures might do like the Fenris/Levi and Cain/Lilith. Anyway, comment away.




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[neoterran]

fantastic... now for the interminable wait while someone (anyone ?) textures and uvmaps it.... right ? 

[Mongoose]

Looks a hell of a lot better than the 20-poly retail version.

[Mehrpack]

hi,
looks really nice.
maybe a little to nice, nobody will shoot at it J/K .

Mehrpack

[Pnakotus]

Woo!  If there's one thing that says 'most of the Terran ships are done or in progress', it's people making sexy sentries. 

[neoterran]

I don't know why the shivan ships are left alone so much, why doesn't anyone want to work on HTLing some of the low poly count dogs we got on the red side ?

[Axem]

I'll be doing the mapping and I think I'll just use its original map. So mapping and texturing shouldn't take that long. In theory anyway.

[starfox]

Looks sexy, keep 'em coming.....

[Col. Fishguts]

Pretty

Maybe spice up the barrels a bit ?

[Ace Pace]

Why? We're already at 1k polys, and this is a sentry, not something you gaze at.

[Col. Fishguts]

Because they're uglyness detracts from the rest of the model ?

[Colonol Dekker]

If anything they highlight the quality parts.
Maybe an outrigger on each or some tapering, nothing to brash........

[Ace Pace]

Just remember it's a single small model thats part of a greater scene, that usually includes of action.

From my own experiance, you never see a single sentry gun, always in groups, they're always part of a rather larger scene. Just remember that while more polys is nice, we gotta remember you mostly see the sentry from far away, in low LODs, while blowing it up.

[Prophet]

If you would put both the new and old watchdogs around for me to shoot, I wouldn't notice the difference between them. They are small. Too weak to be a threat and too annoying to be ingnored. They will be destroyed quickly once targeted. All in all you never see them closely, at least not longer than a second when the thing bumbs on your windshiled and then blows up. Those barrels really are quite high poly enought. And Ace Pace is correct, you only see them in groups. So close those golden eyes of yours if this thing is too meager for them. If you want a performance hog out of it, the I'd prefer flashing ligths and glows over perfectly round barrels.

[Colonol Dekker]

Its nice to have a high poly LODo though isn't it...
 

[Turambar]

I don't know why the shivan ships are left alone so much, why doesn't anyone want to work on HTLing some of the low poly count dogs we got on the red side ?

shivan ships are all toughies because the shapes are difficult, and theyre incredibly easy to get wrong.  and if there's one thing that'll get you roasted around here it's doing shivans wrong.  there's also a lot of disagreement about 'what is shivan'

  youre welcome to try though, i'll give you constructive criticism all the way through

[Prophet]

Its nice to have a high poly LODo though isn't it...

Yeah. If you want to make renders or have close ups in cutscenes. For gameplay, I don't think it's worth the time.

Then again, it's not my time we're talking about here...

[shiv]

Well, very nice model!
It looks good. I've hope, you will end it soon

[Col. Fishguts]

words

Yes, I understand. But I'm not talking about perfectly round barrels, I was more going along the lines of adding some variation to the barrel thickness. The plain cylinder looks to simplistic IMHO, adding a simple box can make a big difference

[Akalamanaia]

Col. Fishguts, Why add something that isn't visible on the original model or texture? Thats not the point of high-poly models imo.