[Colonol Dekker]

... and I don't recall retail textures implying doors.

Ya, so the GTVA also posses some teleport tech, and the fighters materialize out of thin air nothingness outside the ship?

Belated sarcastic answer...

Alt+J

[Hades]

Old link broke, here's the new one. http://p3d.in/eqbjM

Also a bit more detail work on the front bit done, wiring will come later (when I CBA to do it, it's extremely time consuming)

[Crybertrance]

Old link broke, here's the new one. http://p3d.in/eqbjM

Also a bit more detail work on the front bit done, wiring will come later (when I CBA to do it, it's extremely time consuming)

Looking awesome as always Hades! Good job 

Btw, are those circular thingies (above the Thrusters and elsewhere on the ship) AA beams? 

[headdie]

Love the progress so far mate

[Luis Dias]

I love the way you are hollowing it out. It's amazingly accurate to the canon Orion, while reinterpreting the textured trusses as actual hollow trusses.

Please do more of that! 

[Hades]

Btw, are those circular thingies (above the Thrusters and elsewhere on the ship) AA beams?

They're not, it's some texture detail thing, which is probably escape pods like the ones on the CR90 or something.

[Col.Hornet]

Nice to see more armour plates on the hull Over rounded parts are not as much noticeable as they were before. Can't wait to see the final mesh.

[Alan Bolte]

Why did you model the name on the nameplate? I know you could just have a separate blank model that makes use of nameplate textures, but it'd be kinda weird to see a modeled name in one mission and a textured name in another.

[Luis Dias]

I really hope that's just Hades having fun.

[Hades]

It is.

[Hades]

http://p3d.in/eqbjM

[Cobra]

*drools*

[Rodo]

no longer a giant cube of death eh?

nice work

[bobbtmann]

Looking good, Hades. I like how dense and unified your model is.

 A small critique: the recent greebling over top of the nameplate looks a bit arbitrary. I don't know if you have a plan with the texture, but it's something to be aware of.

[Hades]

A small critique: the recent greebling over top of the nameplate looks a bit arbitrary. I don't know if you have a plan with the texture, but it's something to be aware of.

The place above the nameplate was the same tex as near the front, I'm just greebling it too for consistency's sake.

[blowfish]

Aren't things like all those tiny pipes near the front the kind of thing that's best left to normal maps?  Not that more detail is a bad thing, but freeing up polygons there would allow more detail in other places.  Plus, the difference between details that small and well done normal maps is barely going to be noticeable.

[An4ximandros]

Doesn't he need a high poly model in order to make the Normals? Afaik, Hades is not as foolish as I would be about poly counts!

[mjn.mixael]

According to p3d it's only at 38k. He's got -plenty- of polies to spare if the new Sath, Hades, Arcadia, Typhon are any example.

[blowfish]

Doesn't he need a high poly model in order to make the Normals? Afaik, Hades is not as foolish as I would be about poly counts!

Baking a super high poly mesh is one way to create normal maps, but it's not the only way, and not the way most FS normal maps are done.

According to p3d it's only at 38k. He's got -plenty- of polies to spare if the new Sath, Hades, Arcadia, Typhon are any example.

If the wireframe view is to be believed it's not entirely triangulated though.

[mjn.mixael]

OK, and? At worst it's at 76k. But I doubt it's that high.

Hades is 104k total for detail0 (includes all subobjects and destroyed variants, not lods or debris.). Sath is 199k. Arcadia is 80k.

He is definitely not at a point where he needs to be cutting polies. Let's just let Hades do his thing and we can worry about the poly count later.