[Alan Bolte]

I rather liked the previous version, but this works too. What prompted the change?

[Hades]

I was looking the model over and did not like the old armor chunk, the detail on it looked weird, it was flat, and the intake things in the front were were and out of place. The detail I changedo n the places I did simply had three lazy-looking strips on them and I wasn't satisfied with that, either.

[Aardwolf]

I was looking the model over and did not like the old armor chunk, the detail on it looked weird, it was flat, and the intake things in the front were were and out of place. The detail I changedo n the places I did simply had three lazy-looking strips on them and I wasn't satisfied with that, either.

This post looks like it got mangled by too many edits, and no final proofreading

[BritishShivans]

Personally I'm not seeing the change.

[Hades]

For reference, I'll re-upload a slightly older version of the mesh.

old:

new:

[BritishShivans]

Ah, I see now. Thank you.

[Rodo]

I liked the intakes, too bad they are gone

[Skarab]

My god no intakes?  How's that thing going to breathe in space now?   

[Aardwolf]

Yay for not just using the same p3d url every time. Is there some total filesize quota you're worried about, or... why do people do that?

[Hades]

Yay for not just using the same p3d url every time. Is there some total filesize quota you're worried about, or... why do people do that?

Filesize. I'm limited to 100 MBs, and the Orion itself uses around 15mb or so I think.

[Alan Bolte]

Do you think the new greebling at the nose can be applied in three dimensions around the ventral turret, or does that require a different approach?

[Alan Bolte]

Goodbye turbofan.
Hello truss depth.

[StarSlayer]

Looking good, only thing I might adjust is upping the size of the radar dishes.  Top hull looks a little lonely with the current ones, I think bigger dishes would really nail that classic silhouette.   



Big clunky dishes add a bit of that CV in space flavor.

[Hades]

Yeah, I made them larger. P3D updated.

[Piemanlives]

Question, I remember seeing three turrets mounted on the top side of the hull, however I only see an obvious position for 2 of them, the one on the front of the nose (Shown) and one near the radar dishes (turret not visible). Was that changed or is that a rendering thing?

[The E]

The duplicate turrets have been removed for uv-mapping purposes. They will be back in the final version.

[DahBlount]

So who's the poor bastard that got the job of UV mapping AND texturing this (beautiful) monstrosity?



That would be me. So far I've got a basic metal texture and the main hull will be UV mapped within 2-3 weeks. It would normally be done sooner but I'm back in school so I have less time to put towards it. There are going to be two diffuse maps, one for the hull and one for the turrets, radar dishes, and greebles.

In the mean time, what do you all think of this color scheme for the Orion?

[BritishShivans]

Needs to be a bit blue-r to be more in line with the original, but it looks nice.

[Hades]

no, the original texture is kind of a washed out purple/blue sort of color, it's the mvp texture that brightens all of the orion textures up by 200% and makes that texture into light blue

p.s. dahblout poor basterd

[Ulala]

I think the color looks right to me, but would probably need to see her wearing it to know for sure.