[Turambar]

a-wing, cockpit, and WIP dude



a few hours later....


progress!

[minilogoguy18]

pilots seem kinda unnecessary because of this question...

will you ACTUALLY see the pilots in their ships as your dogfighting tons of them?

id just not include it and just paint the windows with a gradient.

[Turambar]

play fs2 with the new models, then come by and tell me cockpits and pilots are a bad idea.

[chief1983]

Yeah, I've definitely seen a lot of Herc 2 pilots right before they get blown to smithereens.

[archangel35757]

 

These models are about 2400 polys each and they are in 3dsMax format.  They could be rigged (currently not weighted) into a sitting cockpit position and exported out.

My opinion is that pilots should only be visible in the most detailed model level... when the ship gets far enough away that the engine begins to use LODs, then the pilots should be turned off.  What do you think?  How was SWC planning on using pilot models?

[Turambar]

in exactly that way

those pilots will be good for references, but im currently making my own version that will be much fewer polygons (due to the lack of detail needed from the waist down).


in low LOD's the pilot will be visible, at higher ones, the cockpit will be removed entirely and replaced with the standard shiny black glass.

dont worry though, by the time its that far away, nobody will notice.

[archangel35757]

The ISD is looking really good Brandx0.     What modeling program are you using?

Also, Turambar what is the polycount you're shooting for in your pilot models?  If you're talking really crude... then maybe you could save time by just using the original XWA pilot models (you can convert them from .OPT to .3ds using the OPT23DS utility.   Here's a pic of the XWA pilot model I brought into Max8 (it's about 325 polys):

[brandx0]

I'm using max 8 myself.  No new progress yet, been busy today.  I'll post some more shots tomorrow or the day after

[chief1983]

In any sort of release, it's going to be a big no-no to have original Lucasarts material in the game.  So XWA pilots would be a bad idea.

[Cobra]

 

YOU made those? That's incredible!

Brandx0, you're doing an excellent job with that ISD.

It looks like things are really starting to pick up around here.

[archangel35757]

Cobra... I did not make those pilot models-- they're from Jedi Academy, and I simply imported them into max and re-applied the textures (I'm part of mod project for Jedi Academy too...) and according to Chief's post... it would be Taboo to use them.

[brandx0]

Why thank you.  I haven't had much time in the last couple days to work on it, been moving, but the majority of my source material is from the actual model used in the movies, so I hope to create about the most realistic ISD that star wars games have seen yet.

Thanks for the encouragement, should be more progress in the next couple days.

And yes, this mod is suddenly moving along.

[Turambar]

progress continues.  its in the texturing phase now.  do not be fooled by the opaque glass, it's temporary

the black area is where i de-mirrored the texture.

[archangel35757]

Nice A-wing... 

[Turambar]

the a-wing is in-game

screens when i feel it looks good enough.

[jr2]

@Turambar, is it just me, or does the A-Wing look a little too wide?  Maybe the image is just stretched...  I'll have to look for a comparison.

[Scourge of Ages]

Looks fine to me.
BTW excellent work everybody.

[Turambar]

new model, looks better with fewer polies, due to me actually knowing what i'm doing.

[chief1983]

Huzzah!  (I'm in a Ren Fest mood, it's that time of year for me)

edited glaring grammatical error that I hadn't noticed until now

[Turambar]

got some nasty cannons on this biyatch