[Raptor]

How's this then?





I've done away with the 'baby blue', and added burns, darker plates, and other defects.  I didn't do too much, for fear of going overboard.
Now all the plates and lights are done!

The lines were done first, then in PSP I used the 'soften', 'dodge' and 'burn' tools with a custom plate effect texture effect to generate the effect.

I know the texturing is not 100%, but this is the best I can do.  I'm quite open to offers from people who are willing to try their hand at texturing this beast!

And here she is wading right into the heart of a Shivan fleet:

[Dark Hunter]

The only flaw I see left is the textures on the engine cross. They're practically invisible against an empty background, and furthermore, they look a little too... plain compared with the more complex textures on the rest of the ship.

Other than that: excellent work!

[spartan_0214]

yep, great job, when will you be done????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[Raptor]

yep, great job, when will you be done????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Fully, 100% percent done?  At this rate... 2100


BUT you are fortunate in that you don't have to wait till then:
http://rapidshare.com/files/1198073/Hera.rar.html

(Hades Combine refused to upload it.  Kept spiting an error message at me that makes no sense...  Hopefully you will all be able to use this one...)

Please, read the release notes that are contained within the .RAR file.  It contains vital information that you need to know!

Now go forth and kick some Shivan ass! (just don't try and take on a Sathanas head on.  That is just stupid)

[Snail]

I saw this thing and read the poly count 20,000k!!! WTF?!! Wow. That's scary. In a good way....

Anyway, the girder maps look terrible right now (you said that only the tiles and lights are finished). Try making the girders themselves bigger and adding some electronics inbetween them or something. As for the lights, in between the rows, there are some grey regions. Try add something there to make it look better.

As for that, 8)

[Dark Hunter]

(Hades Combine refused to upload it.  Kept spiting an error message at me that makes no sense...  Hopefully you will all be able to use this one...)

It's because its larger than 2 megabytes. The upload form only works for <2Mb files. Otherwise you have to request special upload permission on the forums.

[Colonol Dekker]

Wooty mcWoot-woot.............

And honourary SQUEEE!!

Very nice work, You dont mind if i play with the textures do ya?

My text verification code was ORLY   

[Raptor]

I saw this thing and read the poly count 20,000k!!! WTF?!! Wow. That's scary. In a good way....

You should have seen the earlier poly counts.  It's mainly the turrets that boost the count (What can I say?  When the turret is bigger than any fighter/bomber, you can't really afford to skimp on polys...)

The girders, originally, were actually modelled into the main mesh itself.  That alone ate up a couple k of polys.  I've been kind of stuck on what to do on those really...

THe grey bands between ther rows of lights are the decks.  I envisage the whole ship is built like a hyper dense brick, with the deck space cramed between the deck plates, with massive bulkheads that section off the ship (those big column like things in the side trenches (maybe I should whip together a TS scene...).  There's not much I can do to alter the look of those though.  On the original maps (2560x2560) they are only two pixels wide.

Wooty mcWoot-woot.............

And honourary SQUEEE!!

Very nice work, You dont mind if i play with the textures do ya?

My text verification code was ORLY  

Not at all   Indeed, I was hoping that a real texturer (which I do not consider myself to be) would come along to help me out.  I can model, but I'm not good at texturing (at least, not big stuff...)

Just tell me the address you would like to get the raw texture maps.  You want the textured bmp's, the black/white line ones produced by Lilith, or both?  The important of those maps is that (in theroy) every pixel on them is a half meter square on the model... what?

I admit, the UVmapping could be done better too, but this is the best I can do.

[Raptor]

Well people... who has tried the download?  Anyone (aside Snail & Colonol Dekker)?

I want to see more responses!  I want to see peoples comments!

[Scooby_Doo]

20,000 isn't too bad... my Enterprise is about that and the Essex is about 25,000. And yes turrets do add up for a huge chunk.

[bizzybody]

On the girders, I'd do something like this. (I have Photoshop, dunno the equivalents in PSP.)

Use the Magic Wand to select all the girder lines then rightclick and hit Layer via cut. Next, apply an outer glow to the layer and change the color to a dark grey and reduce the falloff distance. Then I'd make the space between the girder lines pure black. (Magic wand one then shift+click the reast to do them all at once.)

Flatten layers and it'll have a bit of a 3D-ish look. Might also try a little inner glow with the color and transparency set to look like shading. Or possibly bevel and emboss.

Whatever PSP has to add some texture to the girder parts should help them look less flat.