[X3N0-Life-Form]

And have basilisks jump in hornet range + insta-lock to blast them .

... but I think we are getting off topic here.

[Black Wolf]

Initial WIP of the direction I'm going with texs.

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[ssmit132]

Looking good, but I can't help thinking that those spikes look like they're made of bone, or indeed, elephant tusks or something.

[Snail]

You could texture the tusks in a similar way to the Typhon's bridge/sensor thingie.

[Black Wolf]

Looking good, but I can't help thinking that those spikes look like they're made of bone, or indeed, elephant tusks or something.

That was deliberate. I found an ivory texture to give just that impression. After all, scales are pseudo organic looking.

[SypheDMar]

I always thought those plates were Vasudan brick structures rather than scales based on life. I like the ivory structures, though. Whatever makes them appear mystical and religious to us. :]

[ssmit132]

That was deliberate. I found an ivory texture to give just that impression. After all, scales are pseudo organic looking.

Fair enough.

[Charismatic]

Whatever it's a video game.

FU. FS is More than a video game. Its real.

Anyways, lets not forget the FS1 Vasudan homeworld terestial building cannon.... the cutscene where lucy nukes Vasuda Prime... with escape pods and transports fleeing the city.

[Droid803]

That cutscene is made by Icey...
You mean the CBAni?

[Charismatic]

It was a FS1 extra cutscene maby, or acutal cannon. The one where you see the Lucy beam take out a vasudan city... it should have been a cannon cutscene.

And i also remembered, in discussion about the Vasudan main hall pod chambers..., their not barracks. Their either small command centeres or .. remote command modules for turrets.. or training simluators.

[General Battuta]

It was a FS1 extra cutscene maby, or acutal cannon. The one where you see the Lucy beam take out a vasudan city... it should have been a cannon cutscene.

It's spelled 'canon' and that cutscene was by IceyJones.

[Klaustrophobia]

there IS a CBanim with a vasudan city, but iirc there's not much more detail than a skyline.

[Galemp]

Yeah, the only thing we can intuit from that animation is that Vasudans build skyscrapers.

[NGTM-1R]

I dunno BW, I think you're channeling too much Protoss. Vasudans have a mouth, remember?

[Droid803]

Naw, the only thing remotely protoss about it is the blue gem on top.
Its not smothered with gold plating for one

[Mobius]

Wow, looking forward to these models. Your model's very nice, Black Wolf.

[Black Wolf]

Finished the textures on this, will post the pof tomorrow, though it still might need some work (LoDs, mainly). I would do it now. but FS computer and internet computer are not the same, and I can't find my USB stick to copy it over.

[Mobius]

Wow, that was unexpected. Looking forward to it, BW!

[Black Wolf]

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ptfzsz4pkghopa2



Get it while it's hot, i.e. before the mediafire DL expires. Not putting it up on FSMods or SG because it's only a part of a greater modset, not a final product in and of itself, but if someone can find a use for it on its own, more power to them. No LoDs yet, and no debris either, because it's not supposed to be destroyable. If you use it, remember to turn on that flag or whatever that gets rid of those particle emmissions at impact sites, as they look odd.

[Black Wolf]

Oh, a few additional points. I know that the Shine map is dodgy, but it works fairly well ingame. I also know that PCX is a horrid format, but the glowmap is so small it felt wrong to TGA it. I know I should start using DDS, but the plugin annoys me. It'll be DDSed for the final release. And I know the UV is inefficient. No excuses there, it's just my bad.

[EDIT]One or two other things. It's enormous, I know, like, half a kilometer on the long axis. Don't have an answer for that, except to say that it looks right in FS, and scales OK with the ships it'll be interacting with, which is, to me, more important than neccesarily getting eerything to a realistic scale. Also, the underside isn't UVed, since you're never actually ever supposed to see it. Sorry about that, it's a relatively easy fix, but I honestly can't see the point of it.