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Title: [WIP] Supercruiser
Post by: Baron MacDoblin on October 20, 2003, 02:23:36 am
This is the Concordia from the Wing Commander Movie - this is the TCS Phoebe, CS-14 (take that, WCII box!). You'd think that since I want this to eventually go into HW2 I would take more pains to keep the poly count down ... and it is, comparitively, but still a bit much for my tastes.

Image one is a generic beauty shot. The circular thingies are where the guns are going to eventually go.
Image two shows off the modest bridge and superstructure detail.
Image three zooms in on the hangar deck, heavily influenced by those on the Hiigaran carrier and battlecruiser from Homeworld 2.
Image four is a close-up on what's supposed to be the torpedo tubes, though they aren't very easy to distinguish right now.

This is probably my favorite of the four or five supercruiser models I've created over the past week. I might add the big cannon thingy on the bow later ... or I might not, seeing how it would mess up the relative cleanness of the mesh (poly) and because it doesn't seem to exist on the official stats anyway. Final armament will probably be two ions cannons, two pulsar turrets, six kinetic burst cannons and six missile launcher tubes.

I'll add textures soon ... can't make any promises on how they'll look :\ I really need to learn to make decent ones - what programs/tutorials are good?

http://planetoxford.greatnow.com/ship1.jpg
http://planetoxford.greatnow.com/ship2.jpg
http://planetoxford.greatnow.com/ship3.jpg
http://planetoxford.greatnow.com/ship4.jpg
Title: [WIP] Supercruiser
Post by: kasperl on October 20, 2003, 03:46:56 am
i like this a lot, and it might be a decent FS sdestroyer too.
Title: [WIP] Supercruiser
Post by: Baron MacDoblin on October 21, 2003, 09:19:49 pm
http://planetoxford.greatnow.com/phoebe.jpg

More work. I've added the pseudo-PTC, as well as color-coded the texture areas and made the bow generally less pointy. All that's left is texturing ... and I don't have much experience with that :\ What programs are good for making textures? Or, failing that, where can I steal some good ones?
Title: [WIP] Supercruiser
Post by: StratComm on October 21, 2003, 09:29:17 pm
Two things.

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I'd love to see the ship though.
Title: [WIP] Supercruiser
Post by: Baron MacDoblin on October 21, 2003, 10:40:08 pm
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Originally posted by StratComm

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What? :\ I meant textures, not programs.

With some trouble, I've uploaded the pic to my Homestead account.  Try http://bobmcdob.homestead.com/files/simkitty/phoebe.jpg and see what you think.

Thanks for the heads-up.
Title: [WIP] Supercruiser
Post by: StratComm on October 21, 2003, 11:36:52 pm
Oh lol, I misread it :doh:

And I still can't get the link to work.
Title: [WIP] Supercruiser
Post by: an0n on October 21, 2003, 11:45:57 pm
http://www.fattonys.com/images
Title: [WIP] Supercruiser
Post by: Baron MacDoblin on October 21, 2003, 11:49:27 pm
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Originally posted by StratComm
Oh lol, I misread it :doh:

And I still can't get the link to work.


There, try now.

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Originally posted by an0n
http://www.fattonys.com/images


Erm, thanks ... I think ...

And maybe this should be moved to Freespace Modding (even though I don't, and never have had, any plans for making a FS mod ... but all the models are there :\)

Anyway, I've been looking through the models in the modeling forum for texture ideas and am starting to have sexual fantasies about them. Therefore, I will go to bed :wtf: