Originally posted by Kalfireth
I don't suppose you could put up a comparison pic of the original, Bobs and your model side by side?
Certainly. They have to be pretty big to get any sense of scale or detail, so I'm going to link them instead of posting the images.
Starboard side,
Before and
After. All the detail in the curved parts behind the fighterbay was lost with the original mapping.
Port side,
Before and
After. I tried to follow the 'Rule of Four' when mapping this; there were so many individual modules that I mapped them with varying textures..
Antenna array,
Before and
After. I'm particularly proud of the job I did on these.
Poop Deck,
Before and
After. Note the new radar dishes, using fewer polies than Bobboau's.
Aft engine block,
Before and
After. I think I did a much better job on the engines themselves, and used the capital01-01a texture to accentuate the rounded end of the extrusion edged with lights.
Overall I'm very happy with it. Bobboau's model did the Orion justice scale-wise, I'm only trying to carry that over to the texturing. Huge thanks to him for doing this in the first place. Thanks to Styxx, too, for his MAX converter and support.