[--Steve-O--]

Meet the Federal FTX-1A "Thor" Assault Fighter. its main purpose in life is to tote around Thor's Hammer, a mid power particle beam cannon also lovingly known as "The Hammer".
this is really my first experiment with animated components on  a fighter, and it gives me a flimsy pretense to use the phrase "its hammer time!" <----- not really though. still have to do some final texturing details then its on to fighting with that code.

[Colonol Dekker]

That is a work of FriKKin art !!

[TrashMan]

Firring great!

With what did you do the texture and the mapping itself?

[--Steve-O--]

to the good Colonol: thank you kindly!
to Trashman: i used good old Gimp Shop to make the textures, Paint to make the simple little decals i didn't borrow, bits and pieces of borred textures from here and there, (Scooby Doo's and stock game maps mostly)
and i use Lithium to Poly map it. i hated that program at first until i sat down and made my self learn it. now its great...kinda tedious though. the model was born in truspace 3.2...i haven't grown out of that program yet...mostly because i love the interface on it and i dont have to convert from one format or another to COB to POF so it saves a few step at the cost of not being as powerful as like MAX. 3.2 is doing fine by me for now...that might change down the line.

here's some updated pics. details make a huge difference.

[Topgun]

OMG!!! you made that in truespace!! *Pays homage*

[lefkos]

WOW
That fighter is FRAKKIN awesome!

[Roanoke]

...mostly because i love the interface...

*splutter* what?what?what?


 

nice fighter BTW

[Alan Bolte]

I loooove it. Can't even find anything to compare it to properly.

[Mustang19]

 

The best fighter I've ever seen. Just one question, poly count?

[--Steve-O--]

Completely triangulated it sits at 7030 faces including all subobjects. total triangulation might not be needed though, i'll have to see.

[Sarafan]

Incredible, amazing work! Do you plan to get it on FS?

[Raven2001]

Your truly getting good on the modelling part, and your artistic feel is cool as well

Try drawing textures from scratch now

[gevatter Lars]

That is truely a very nice fighter. The texturingjob is also greate. I would love to see that thing in action.

[Unknown Target]

Wow, that is kick ass.

[Alikchi]

That is absolutely amazing.

I like the feel of your stuff. It's very jaggedy and aggressive, if that makes me sense. Makes me think of anime.

[Black Wolf]

As much as I like the technical aspects of it - it's well modelled, beautifully textured etc. etc. I'll never, ever like the idea of offset cockpits from a player's perspective. It's just going to be the annoying firing configuration of the Ursa multiplied by a factor of four or five.

Still, it looks cool.

[Colonol Dekker]

to the good Colonol: thank you kindly!

The model was born in truspace 3.2...i haven't grown out of that program yet...mostly because i love the interface on it and i dont have to convert from one format or another to COB to POF

TS5> lets you revert to a TS3 layout you know   I love modelling in TS2.1 then opening it in a lter edition of TS myself

[Water]

Looks like Freespace may get a BFG  after all 

[Flipside]

Very nice neat job there! Whilst I wouldn't exactly describe it as 'Freespacey' it looks good enough that it's a fact I'd probably quite happily ignore if it appeared in-game

For some reason it makes me think 'Taidan Assault Fighter'

[Colonol Dekker]

It reminds me of a WC4 Banshee and something Tachyon.... But its unique still