[IPAndrews]

Maverick. With a ship that size, no overlapping objects. They'll give you terribly bad clipping errors in-game. Anything that you create that overlaps during modelling do a boolean join on for the finished game model. Any seperate objects such as turrets make them aligned but not overlapping.

[Bobboau]

actualy that isn't as much of an issue as it used to be. though single subobject is still prefered.

[I_E_Maverick]

finally i managed to start it from scratch and this is what i have so far. there is the new and the old version for comparison.
also i would call this pretty finished, some details at the front and back maybe, but from the refs i cant see any more things.





and btw: the whole mesh is one object, except the 2 cones at the top

[Bobboau]

vast improvement, though that is an ugly ship to start with so there is only so much you can do with it.

[IPAndrews]

Yes it's looking... erm... accurate

[I_E_Maverick]

i did some more work on the BinTak, the LOD0 is finished and now i am working on the textures.

[I_E_Maverick]

last update for today:

[Fury]

Very nice work there!

[DaBrain]

Great model and nice texture.


I love Narn ships. The design is cool.

[Trivial Psychic]

Originally posted by I_E_Maverick
last update for today:

Are those secondary engines on the back of the wing pannels?

[I_E_Maverick]

i dont know exactly, it could be, but they had a blue glow and they look more like canons, but i am really not sure

[I_E_Maverick]

well, i couldnt let it stay away, so i did something more on the BinTak, it is now nearly finished, just the middle section and some very small details are missing

[Sigma957]

Very nice

[Primus]

I_E_Maverick, you're a God's gift to TBP.
Very good work.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Originally posted by Primus
I_E_Maverick, you're a God's gift to TBP.
Very good work.

I agree 100%. Looking good, Maverick

One small suggestion on the textures though. Some corners and especially the painted parts should have a "used universe" feel to them. A small scratch or a bit of dirt here and there could do wonders to the overall look of the ship.

[JanCS]

Nice work. Your models are real masterpieces.

Btw. are there some guidelines on how much polies capships and fighters can have in TPB, in comparison to those high-poly-ships made for SCP FS2?

[Sigma957]

As far as I know TBP can have as many polies as scp since it uses scp.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Originally posted by JanCS
Btw. are there some guidelines on how much polies capships and fighters can have in TPB, in comparison to those high-poly-ships made for SCP FS2?

As sigma said, the game engine is the same so you can go pretty high with the polycount. TBP's current policy is less polys=more ships, but this might change in the future. At least I hope it will

[I_E_Maverick]

first: thanks for the nice comments!!

Originally posted by Lt.Cannonfodder

I agree 100%. Looking good, Maverick

One small suggestion on the textures though. Some corners and especially the painted parts should have a "used universe" feel to them. A small scratch or a bit of dirt here and there could do wonders to the overall look of the ship.

i already did some dirt on the the main parts of the ship, but it seems that it is too subtle to see at all i will try to do some really bad scratches for you

and the polycount for this ship stays at 2564. i think that is enough, i found a little "rule" for using polycounts in tbp. every 1000m length 1000 polys i tr to keep that at least...

[I_E_Maverick]

so, i think it is finished now, some small details, but that parts depend on their purpose, which i dont know yet
i added also much dirt, i hope it looks now more used