[lostllama]

Well, for the small tubes, maybe you could make little access ports or control panels on the side, or maybe locking mechanism things.

Yeah, and maybe widen some sections of those tubes a little perhaps? You could give the impression of further 'reinforcement' or extra rooms/airlocks.

I like the progress so far.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Don't forget the polycount; normal maps can do a lot of greebling as well, no?

[Colonol Dekker]

Good point.

[BrotherBryon]

Since so many of you didn't like the main neck being cylindrical, I now present a more squared off design. If more people like it this way
I will detail it further.

Thoughts?


By brotherbryon at 2008-11-19

[blowfish]

I like it that way

[Col. Fishguts]

Yup, looks better this way

[Rodo]

It looks better 

[Hellstryker]

Why did you add that odd looking panel back on to it? Either make it fragile or not, it just doesn't look good that way.

[Galemp]

hm! I like it better the old way.

[Droid803]

I'm neutral. This looks slightly worse than the cylinder, but if it satisfies more people...whatever.

[IceFire]

Since so many of you didn't like the main neck being cylindrical, I now present a more squared off design. If more people like it this way
I will detail it further.

Thoughts?


By brotherbryon at 2008-11-19

Looks brilliant!  I think the squared off look is more appropriate given the rest of the design of the ship which is very squared off everywhere.  Having the cylindrical part looked a bit off from my eye...not a big deal either way but that looks better in my opinion.

Between watching this thread and am very impressed with the love that this ship is getting.  Its not the most important vessel in combat terms but it gets allot of use.

[BrotherBryon]

I never removed the panel earlier I just hid it. I removed it now and started detailing the new neck. I was having a devil of a time trying to make the struts for the cylindrical one and figured now would be a good time to try a more rectangular shape. What should be the poly budget for this thing? I'm approaching 12,000 as it sits now. I'm going to reduce the number of sides on some of the tubes to try to cut that down.


By brotherbryon at 2008-11-20

[Droid803]

it looks a lot better from this side

[Cobra]

Damn, son, if that ain't gorgeous.

[phreak]

I think the little tubes on the side should stay, but whoever converts them needs to put them in a detail box.

[blowfish]

Make sure the tubes don't have more than six sides, or eight at most.  They look like they would eat up a lot of polies.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Keep it coming, brother!

[BrotherBryon]

Make sure the tubes don't have more than six sides, or eight at most.  They look like they would eat up a lot of polies.

The ones on the sides are 8 sided and to reduce that much more will make them look less like tubes and more like girders. The ones on the top and bottom are 10 sided and I plan on reducing them to 8 as well. I'm thinking of reducing the small neck to 12 sides from the 16 it is now. Same thing with the large tubes in the brace. I was actually thinking of blocking those sections in and getting rid of the vertical tubes them maybe adding some smaller tubes in the upper strut work. I can probably reduce the sides in the thruster as well. They are 16 sided and would most likely still look good 12 or even 10 sided. 

[Raven2001]

The new neck looks much better

[Galemp]

The neck reminds me of the Hades...