[Hades]

Updated. As you can see on the right side, placement for the multiparts from the Volition renders has been added for the variant.pof version of it (with some detailing around them, too!) and you can see how it looks without the turrets, ala vanilla MediaVP version (like armor plates)

[Ulala]

Looks sick. I'm curious what this little thing on the back is though? It looks almost as if it's floating just up and to the right of the back of the model.



[edit] better screenshot:

[Hades]

That's a quick design I made for the missile launcher, which I still need to finish up.

[Mars]

It looks so much better with those side multiparts.

[Rodo]

I concur, maybe they'd look better a little smaller?

[Cobra]

Can you work the rear now?

[An4ximandros]

I concur, the back is woefully under detailed now.

[Alan Bolte]

After staring at it for a bit, I think the area outlined in red would be well-served by borrowing its greebling style from the area outlined in blue. Lots of horizontal lines following the curves would add detail without breaking up the smoothness too much.

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[cahdoge]

  VERRY NICE model
It's a nice idea to take the name as relief
 but may I name the ship other than Lysander?

[mralexs]

You can name it whatever you want in FRED

[niffiwan]

I think he's referring to the modelled nameplate

I thought there was a comment in the thread about being able to change that, but I can't find it 

edit: typo

[Cobra]

I think he's referring to the modelled nameplate

I'm thought there was a comment in the thread about being able to change that, but I can't find it 

Elusive comment is elusive.

[Alan Bolte]

IIRC Hades modeled the nameplate on the Orion too before he eventually removed it. It's just for show.

[cahdoge]

I mean may i change the name standing on the model anyhow without modeling experience?

[Mars]

I mean may i change the name standing on the model anyhow without modeling experience?

Yes the texture replacement feature in FRED that allows you to change the nameplate of a ship. There are a ton of FREDing resources available, and the wiki will show you many of them.

If you meant on the model in general? Once its released, no, you would need a little bit of modding knowledge to change the nameplate in anything other than Freespace and FRED, and I believe it would require explicit permission from Hades and anyone else who built this model.

[SypheDMar]

Well, that would be a problem if true. FSU assets should be under the free-to-use-and-finish licensing guidelines that Kara and BlackWolf mentioned before for other assets. While other assets not part of FSU aren't mandated (but encouraged to nonetheless), FSU should be an exception out of principle.

Of course, if it is not required of Hades yet, we can't force him to take that position. But if FSU did adopt that position, it should be upheld for all future works and anyone providing assets for FSU should be expected to be in such an agreement.

[Hades]

You guys are talking about a lot of silly **** considering the modeled nameplate is only there for show.

[Mongoose]

Man, though, just imagine if we could have procedurally-generated modeled nameplates...

[Hades]

Update on the window stuff on the side. Not completely finished meshwise, and I still need to add a bit more to the neck bit as well.

[Buckshee Rounds]

The neck looks great, I love the way it flows into the engine block there. It kind of almost looks Vasudany which I guess would make sense lore-wise.