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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Zeronet on January 05, 2003, 02:16:40 pm

Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Zeronet on January 05, 2003, 02:16:40 pm: Anyone think there's any promise in this high poly model? I,ve just started and i,ve got doubts about whether i can actually do something with it, in truespace.

(http://www.odeauk.fsnet.co.uk/mike/promise.jpg)

EDIT: For anyone wondering, its the engines and drive tubes that'll give it detail, as well as the hatches and stuff and combat sensors and combat wasp tubes and whether i can make those thermo-dump panals better.
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Shrike on January 05, 2003, 02:18:12 pm: The sphere needs more segments.
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Alikchi on January 05, 2003, 02:27:12 pm: I think I've said it before to you on IRC, but I think a more "teardrop" shape would seem to fit more. But meh. I like the concept but it needs fleshing out.
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Styxx on January 05, 2003, 02:45:29 pm: Hmm... It's a ball. :blah:
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Stryke 9 on January 05, 2003, 02:46:44 pm: High- poly?
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Shrike on January 05, 2003, 02:57:24 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Alikchi
I think I've said it before to you on IRC, but I think a more "teardrop" shape would seem to fit more. But meh. I like the concept but it needs fleshing out.
Adamist ships are all spherical, due to the engineering constraints of the ZTT drive system.
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Zeronet on January 05, 2003, 03:00:19 pm: "design reflects the limitations imposed by Adamist ZTT physics: the ZTT event horizon is perfectly spherical, so the fuselage is round and smooth"

I,ve made the fuselage more rounded.

Im trying to get it to look like this. That above is just the very beginning, i might as well post it before i end up losing interest.

(http://freespace.virgin.net/martin.burcombe/scott_halls_1.jpg)
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Ashrak on January 05, 2003, 03:08:21 pm: ok this is wierd....but the combat drones those are a andromeda ripoff :p
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Shrike on January 05, 2003, 03:10:39 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ashrak
ok this is wierd....but the combat drones those are a andromeda ripoff :p
Not quite....
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Zeronet on January 05, 2003, 03:15:40 pm: The first book came out in 1996.
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: SKYNET-011 on January 05, 2003, 03:20:02 pm: It's, ummm... Round! :)
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Post by: Stryke 9 on January 05, 2003, 03:23:03 pm: That's well and good for theory. Render ships are supposed to look more or less cool, physics real or imagined be damned.
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Zeronet on January 05, 2003, 03:25:07 pm: I think it does look l33t, with all its fiddy bits, which im trying to do. I think i'll put this project on the backburner for a few weeks and bump the topic when i,ve made the model.
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Nico on January 05, 2003, 03:30:58 pm: only spherical ship I really like is battletech's dropship, otherwise...
that's just a sphere with things glued on it :blah:
there's not even good mapping to save it ( I talk about the "MacBeth" one ). Boring.
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Setekh on January 05, 2003, 11:49:02 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Styxx
Hmm... It's a ball. :blah:

I think it looks like a weather balloon...
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: mikhael on January 06, 2003, 12:05:14 am: Yeah baby. The Lady MacBeth with Joshua Calvert on the command deck. :D

Now, someone model Tranquility, and some blackhawks and voidhawks. :D
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Levyathan on January 06, 2003, 12:22:49 am: It reminds me of a local comicbook's character's ship. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Styxx on January 06, 2003, 04:58:07 am: Quote
Originally posted by Levyathan
It reminds me of a local comicbook's character's ship. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.

Eh? Which one?
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Levyathan on January 06, 2003, 08:20:38 pm: :wtf:

There's just one local comic book character that has got a ship! A sphere-shaped ship...
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Styxx on January 06, 2003, 08:30:50 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Levyathan
:wtf:

There's just one local comic book character that has got a ship! A sphere-shaped ship...

I think I'm getting old. I had actually forgotten about that, you know? I remember it now.

:p
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Levyathan on January 07, 2003, 12:07:20 am: I still can't understand how he manages to wear that uniform. It's not very practical.
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Post by: Styxx on January 07, 2003, 05:23:57 am: Quote
Originally posted by Levyathan
I still can't understand how he manages to wear that uniform. It's not very practical.

Not indeed.
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: Shrike on January 07, 2003, 05:26:17 am: DISPLAY IMAGE OR BE SMOTE!

:drevil:
Title: Night Dawn Ship WIP
Post by: an0n on January 07, 2003, 02:00:56 pm: It's either God or the Krang from the Turtles.