[Aardwolf]

Ok, I made this in about an hour in Wings3D tonight. It might benefit from being unwrapped again by someone competent, because basically I just tried to find 'interesting' bits on the generic shivan missiles texture, and there may be too much going on in the texture the way I have it.



Bottom-left image is side-view; the right edge of that is the back (i.e. the side that faces the pursuing fighter). The image in the bottom right corner is the rear view (facing the pursuer), top-right is the front view, and the other two are top/bottom views. It's got 3-way symmetry, because I reckon it looks ok this way.

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[Stormkeeper]

It looks like it could double well as a missile head.

How large on average is it?

[blowfish]

Some perspective views might by nice...

[Aardwolf]

It looks like it could double well as a missile head.

How large on average is it?

I scaled it to about 2.4 meters long, 1.5 meter radius, based on the existing countermeasure, which according to PCS2 is 2.6 meters across.

I'll get an iso/perspective shot in a second.

Edit: here's a perspective shot:



It's a rear view, so this is sort of what you would see if you were pursuing a fighter and it used this on you... if you were a missile.

[Snail]

Hmm. Looks cool.

[watsisname]

I agree, looks cool and quite Shivan.

[Aardwolf]

I'm going to do a little bit of polygon trimming on the model... it's 378, whereas the current shared-GTVA one is 348.

It's not a huge increase, but since I'm going to be making a lower-detail version anyway, I might as well look for unneeded stuff while I'm at it.

[Snail]

Nah leave it at 378. 30 polies is nothing.

[Droid803]

If something lags because of 30 polies, whatever it is needs an upgrade.

[Aardwolf]

I'm attaching the wings/3ds/obj again. Obviously it will need somebody to do a proper unwrapping/texturing.



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[Snail]

LODs on a countermeasure is a bad idea.

[Thaeris]

Maybe, but they do make LODs for missiles...

[Snail]

Why?

[Thaeris]

Can't say, though it almost makes sense. Why draw a detailed Treb model at full detail all the way out to its target? That would just be sloppy. On the flip side, I suppose you have to deal with more model data for a little object being stored in memory.

In general, however, it happens. Just go crack open the Harpoon .pof as an example. You'll find it has what amounts to a LOD 0, 1, and 2. Doing the same for a countermeasure doesn't sound like a bad idea.

[Galemp]

Always a good idea to have at least one LOD, so the models being used thousands of klicks away and are the size of a single pixel aren't at full detail.

[-Norbert-]

I think it would make a very good light shivan bomb (the shivan equivalent of the tsunami/cyclops).

[c914]

Or Shivan hornet type missile - Small but deadly.

[Aardwolf]

LODs on a countermeasure is a bad idea.

The existing countermeasure already has 2 LODs: the high-poly one (338) and the low-poly one (24).

And I like the existing Shivan bomb (the one with the two forward prongs) the way it is... In fact, I oppose any motion to replace it with this thing

[Stormkeeper]

Ah, but since you already put the .obj file, nothing's stopping us from using it to make light Shivan bombs with your countermeasure!

[Aardwolf]

Ah, but I would make a frowny face at you if you did that.