[Trivial Psychic]

How about semi-hexagonal... chop the tips off the triangles, but leave the existing sides longer than the choped ones.

[Raven2001]

The problem with those is that they still don't fit the shivan aesthetics...

Take a look at the rest of the Taurvi: irregular forms, no perfect geometric shapes. Recessions and extrusions usually contour themselves to the surface that contains them.
right now you have a regular repetition of regular triangles, so it looks weird.

Try something along the lines of the attached image (warning: crappy, 2 minutes paint-over ensues )

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[Snail]

Reminds me of the Nephilim. Good idea...

[BrotherBryon]

How about this?


By brotherbryon at 2009-06-16

[Kolgena]

Sexier than before, by a good amount.

Could you try making the triangles bigger though? As it stands, it doesn't look like anything of size could fit through.

[colecampbell666]

I think they're good.

[Rodo]

mmmm yes.... this is taking shape 

[Aardwolf]

WAAAAGH! What the heck happened?

No, I'm not an Ork

[pecenipicek]

i'm going to have to say no. smooth out the bit in front where you're adding the triangles bays.


at the moment, this looks like a subdivided base model pretty much.

[colecampbell666]

That's an idea, look at the smoothing on the Valk as opposed to the base model. Although I think that the Taurvi is meant to be spiky.

[Raven2001]

Now we're talking.

Try chanfering out some of those triangle edges to break regularity even more

[Sarge126]

That looks immediately like what I'd think defines 'Shivan'. Good!

[Rhymes]

Me likey. 

[FreeSpaceFreak]

[Galemp]

The triangular tubes are very cool, but I second the chamfering motion. I'd like to see what it generates.

[azile0]

From what I understand, Shivans derive all of their ordinance from energy. Except for their torpedoes and shivan hornets. I like the mismatched tubes, but it does seem a bit too cluttered to me.

[Aardwolf]

From what I understand, Shivans derive all of their ordinance from energy. Except for their torpedoes and shivan hornets. I like the mismatched tubes, but it does seem a bit too cluttered to me.

What the heck are you basing that on? That single scene in the FS2 intro?

[High Max]

;-)

[Droid803]

They do run out. If they survive that long.
It's just that enemy fighters die so fast they never expend all their missiles.

[Col. Fishguts]

Shaitans regularly run out of ordnance in FS1.

And in any case, I always thought of the effect that is used in the FS2 intro when the Manticore fires the missile just as a cool graphical effect, not as proof that the Shivans generate missiles out of energy.