[Nico]

Ah well, long time I didn't do anything for FS2, so I decided to take one of my old favourites, the ezechiel, and bring it up to todays ( HT&L ) level of quality. For the occasion, I've redesigned it a bit, and have given it a name more in adequation with the usual FS2 naming convention. Meet the GTF Orpheus ( WIP ):



It'll have a detailled cockpit if someone explain me how to make transparent maps that actually work, it also needs more detailling on sme areas, and doesn't have missile launchers yet. Current polycount is 1216. Smoothing result is what you'd get with autosmoothing ( autofacet in PCS, right? ) at 45°.

[Sheepy]

Venom you just made me a happy man, this was the best fighter of yours, and now it just got even better

If i was you i would keep the name ezechiel, it added to the coolness for me and i think the glide rails should be longer, but thats just me nit picking, so i'll shut up.

[pyro-manic]

Ooooooh....

That's nice. Can't wait to see it textured...

[Bobboau]

if you want your texture to be transparent, just make sure that -trans is in it somewere
cockpit-trans would be a good one (note there is no texture by the name cockpit)

looks good, but I think it could use more detail

[Nico]

the -trans tag always gave me crappy results...
As for the details, yeah, I know, that's why I said it still needed details But that'll be minor ones, most of them will be done with the textures.
As for the name, well... Dunno, I'll let people decide. Let see if I can add a poll to the first post.
Nope, I can't.

[Knight Templar]

sw33tness.

[Bobboau]

TGAs have an alpha mask, it should work as transparency just about everywere, though I don't think it's actualy ever been tested

[kasperl]

it looks a tadd to atmospheric for me, but that's just taste. I suppose that if you added a tiny manuevering truster one some of those wings, it'd  look quite a lot better.

[Nico]

I can easily deal with that: lets say it's atmospheric capable

[Gloriano]

...Nice

[.::Tin Can::.]

Sw33t. 1337 design dude...

[Jiggyhound]

what modelling prog is that?

[TopAce]

An interceptor fighter? It looks like to be a Medusa-Perseus hybrid.

Excellent quality.

[Janos]

fap                        fap
          fap        fap                                           fap
 fap                               fapfap
            fap

Sweet.

[Raven2001]

Ohhh!! Venom bac to FS modding???

That is always good

BTW make it a bit more resmbled to the old one... it makes it look cooler

[Flaser]

Very unconventional, quite Robotechish, seems air-space capable.

To sum it up as the test pilot would say: "OH My, Sweet Go(o)d(n)ess? Where have you been all my life?!"

[Gank]

Nice design, needs a bit more detail like you say. Maybe add intakes on the engines, most terran fighters seem to have them.

[Nico]

Most FS2 ships don't have intakes actually.

For the record, the old one, second from the left:

It had around 600 polys iirc. Trust me, not all the details need to be modelled.

[Liberator]

Tis truly beautiful.  Though to be truthful, I thought you we're spiffing up the Orion or something.

[Nico]

No, I've decided not to touch old canon ships ( I've done, more or less the mara ), coz adding details to something that already exists, and that you can't modify w/o being insulted, is:
1) boring
2) useless
3) boring
4) something anybody can do
5) boring
6) is basically unoticeable, details are swallowed by the blurry maps, and I don't feel like redrawing those maps, would be long and tedious.
Did I say it was boring, too?
So I don't wanna