[bobbtmann]

Is any one making the Carrack? If no one has claimed it, I woudn't mind having a go at it.

[chief1983]

Nope.  Can't wait to see what you can do.    And welcome to Fate of the Galaxy, don't think I've seen you around much.

[bobbtmann]

Are we making shields for the larger ships?

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[Galemp]

NICE!

And no, no shield meshes. The SCP's Surface Shields function will be used.

[Flipside]

I always liked the Carrack, not quite sure why, I think it's because wasn't a big stroppy bugger like the Supercaps, but was a nice challenge to face in combat, unlike the Corellian Corvette, which was always a bit too easy to take down (3 Proton Torps would do the job iirc).

[chief1983]

Not too bad.  I think the blisters and the radar might have a few too many polies, and would look just fine with fewer polies and good smoothing.  It definitely looks like a carrack though.  The only thing now is to make it look more inspired, and alive.  It's not a heavily referenced ship though, so it'll take some imagination.

[aRaven]

I always liked the Carrack, not quite sure why, I think it's because wasn't a big stroppy bugger like the Supercaps, but was a nice challenge to face in combat, unlike the Corellian Corvette, which was always a bit too easy to take down (3 Proton Torps would do the job iirc).

It's six(3x2) direct torpedo hits .

And the strength of the corvette depends obviously of its implementation in a game. It's much harder to take down in XWA than in XvsTIE.

[Flipside]

Heh, I think what I used to do was 3 Torps to drop shields, disable with Ions, destroy at leisure.

True about how they are implemented, they actually used to arrive in squadrons in the old XvsTIE

[brandx0]

Well, if the Vette can at least take a few direct hits from the ISD's big turbolasers, don't suspect you'll be blowing it up with a few torps from your X-Wing.

[Titan]

it also depends if it's from imps or someone else. IIRC, almost all non imp correlians were modified....

[chief1983]

Anyway, bobbtman, any more progress?  I'm curious what kind of setup you have for modeling and rendering too.

[brandx0]

Also what program are you modeling it in?

[bobbtmann]

Not a whole lot of progress, what with thanksgiving and midterms and all. Let's see, I've got the gun turrets put on, only missing the tractor beam emplacements. I was planning to just select a plate of armour, make it a subsystem and saying there's a tractor beam behind it.

This is all being done on 3ds max, if it means anything.

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[chief1983]

Since you're in Max, you may want to look into the clay render tutorials here or here.  Obviously not going to make your model any better but they can really help draw the oohs and aahs from the fans

Also, I'm curious what you're using for reference.  I'm specifically curious about your engines, as the pic on the Wookiee differs significantly.  I also have some shots here if you need more refs.

[LampArtPro]

Hi, I'm making a machinima for JK3, and I was wondering if you'd be willing to let us use your model once you are finished, all we'd need is finished screen shots from multiple angels of the ship, so we can animate it into our show.

[bobbtmann]

Hi, I'm making a machinima for JK3, and I was wondering if you'd be willing to let us use your model once you are finished, all we'd need is finished screen shots from multiple angels of the ship, so we can animate it into our show.

Sure, I guess. I'm unfamiliar with those terms you used, though. What's a machinima and what's JK3?

[Galemp]

Machinima in this circumstance is using the in-game models and engine to record video. It's basically using the character models as puppets.

JK3=Jedi Knight 3, Jedi Academy, a first-person shooter from LucasArts.

[bobbtmann]

Machinima in this circumstance is using the in-game models and engine to record video. It's basically using the character models as puppets.

JK3=Jedi Knight 3, Jedi Academy, a first-person shooter from LucasArts.

Gotcha

[Revan]

@LampArtPro
Would you like to make some Cutscenes for us?

Something Like:

Imperial Troops taking over a Planet (like that from X-Wing in Tour of Duty 1)
Vader is killing a Traitor (TIE Fighter, Harkovs Dead)
And so on?

[brandx0]

Revan: Who is this us you speak of?  I don't remember asking for any cutscenes for FotG at least.