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Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on June 27, 2004, 09:54:27 am
I'm in a modelling mood. But I lack inspiration. (Well, I lack good[/b] inspiration...)
I'd like to make meshes from drawings and the like, doesn't matter what game.

So if you made, have, found, or whatever else I can put in this space, concept art, or ridiculously high poly models I can copy from, I'd be much obliged.

Pwease?!

Edit: Oh. I realize that could be very broad...  Ships. I want to model ships. Fighters, destroyers, bombers, corvettes, I don't care. :)
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: kasperl on June 27, 2004, 10:40:30 am
I've got something, but I have no clue where.....

Basicly it's an bomber-cruiser hybrid. Fighter weapons, bit of bombs, and 2-3 cannons using fighter weaps  as well. Enough space to store 2 weeks worth of supply's, and powerfull enough to pull a steady 30 and   40 in a sprint. I've got some art lying around somewhere, but it could've been on some old deleted webspace.
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: kasperl on June 27, 2004, 10:58:16 am
Oh god, I didn't realise it was this bad:

http://www.swooh.com/peon/kasperl/HPVtop1clean.gif

http://www.swooh.com/peon/kasperl/HPV001.cob

Don't ask me what's in the cob, I don't have TS on this machine. No 3dex either.

Anyway, a bit more of a description:

About 100 meters long (This is still a lot smaller then a levy, right?), a quarter of that high and wide. Looks like a brick, flies like one. Has "quarters" for a pilot an co-pilot, a flight engineer and 2 gunners. Meaning 3 bunk beds, a single toilet/shower (think RV), and a microwave. Meant for 1 to 2 week patrolls in border systems, where cruisers are too expensive and fighters have to return to base too often. Has 2*4 primaries, and 3 very large secondary banks. 3 turrets, top and sides, one either AI or gunned by the engineer. The turrets can be equiped with any fighter weapon, mostly subach, morning star or maxim. Shields, but not much. Good armor. 30-40 m/s. Made out of old fighters and other pieces of junk, so there can be variations.

I had a pretty worked out idea on these, but I lost the texts and don't have the time to re-type it all.
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: pyro-manic on June 27, 2004, 12:11:59 pm
I've got a few sketches - I'll see if I c'n scan 'em in for ya :)
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on June 27, 2004, 02:03:53 pm
...No offense to Kas, but maybe I should change my request to slightly more detailed concept art.

But I will look at the cob, and see what's what with it.
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: kasperl on June 27, 2004, 02:09:33 pm
Yeah, I'm not offended, I just forgot how awfull it was.
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Turambar on June 27, 2004, 02:44:08 pm
i had some ideas, but i wrote them on a napkin using a sharpie, so i can't tell what it is anymore...

you can have some photoshop failures of mine later
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on June 27, 2004, 02:46:53 pm
I'd say I spent an hour on this mesh...
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on June 27, 2004, 02:47:25 pm
Anybody like it? I'm not totally pleased with it, but I do like the idea...
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on June 27, 2004, 02:48:35 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Turambar


you can have some photoshop failures of mine later


What's a photoshop failure? I'm curious now...
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Turambar on June 27, 2004, 03:28:28 pm
just little things i draw in photoshop, kinda like a really expensive (well, mines ripped...) version of MS Paint.

just little ideas that float around in my head, they look more star-warsy though...

Edit: I like the mesh, like some kind of freighter or something, that or some sort of crazy Ion Frigate from Homeworld...
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on June 27, 2004, 03:46:51 pm
Yeah, I've gotta stop designing ships around their engines...  Although I really like these...
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Trivial Psychic on June 27, 2004, 08:58:49 pm
Here's an idea, though I can't scan it, so I'll just describe it.

Take an Erinyes, add a pair of high-mouted wings with an anhedral, and a pair of low mounted wings with a diheral.  Both pairs would attatch on to the nacelle sections of the fuselage, about halfway from the nose to the tail of the craft.  The upper wings anhedral is greater than the dihedral of the lower wings.  They meet at a pair of weapons pods, that are the same shape and proportion as the Erinyes' main nacelles, though about 1/3 the size.  The addition of the wings and weapons pods on the sides, give this fighter a total width of about 3-4 times that of the Erinyes.  The resulting shape is reminiscent of the Romunlan Warbird from ST.  It also has a small ventral fin, similar to the Hurc1, but not as long proportionally.  The maps would be similar to the Erinyes, but where brown is the pimary colour on that ship, green is present on this ship... Romulan Warbird green.  It would be slower and slightly less agile than the Erinyes, but it still handles better than the Hurcs or the Ares.  Weapons cappacity and armor would be greater than the Erinyes, with the addition of a 3rd secondary bay, but less than the Ares.

Hope that gives you something to work with.  I call it the Thunderbolt.

BTW, your "ship" pof, IMO would make a better hi-poly render of a fighter primary, for the creation of loadout ani... not that I could do any better, with no modling skills at all.

Later!
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Singh on June 27, 2004, 11:26:02 pm
I had a few ideas the other day...drew them, but i cant transfer em to my home PCs.........
Shouldnt be too hard to re-draw in paint though.. :/
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Black Wolf on June 27, 2004, 11:28:29 pm
Looks Star Warsy actually, but more like the EU Stuff (Carrack, Lancer Etc.)
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Krackers87 on June 30, 2004, 08:26:02 pm
we need a dedicated, sticky thread for this...
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Setekh on June 30, 2004, 10:49:59 pm
I like the engine block on that, Raa. :p :D
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on July 01, 2004, 09:02:45 am
Yeah so do I, the only thing is once I built the engines, I couldn't figure out how to design the rest of the ship. :p Give me a little while, I'll post the back end with some textures on it. (Man MAX is easier to texture with than TS)
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: pyro-manic on July 01, 2004, 11:53:24 am
Here you go, Raa - concept piccies. They're somewhat large, but I've reduced them down as far as they'll go while still being readable. :)

Iron Duke-class destroyer
http://www.freewebs.com/pyro-manic/iron-duke01.jpg

Dreadnought-class super-heavy destroyer
http://www.freewebs.com/pyro-manic/super-heavy01.jpg

I've got a tactical carrier as well, but I wanna see if I can do it myself (it's much simpler than these). See if you can do these - I haven't got a hope in hell... ;)

EDIT: Bah, they never show from that host. Changed 'em to links.
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Knight Templar on July 01, 2004, 01:12:13 pm
Snipes: jeez, if you want something to model, why didn't you ask me? :p

MSN! MSN!
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on July 01, 2004, 02:40:32 pm
Yeah, but that's different. You want campaign stuff, I want to model what I think is cool looking. :p
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Knight Templar on July 02, 2004, 02:18:55 am
Who says that can't coincide? :p

Did you change those textures btw?
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Alan Bolte on July 02, 2004, 08:33:51 am
It's Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber!

Anyhow, here's some of my WIPs:
Interior of some 800m SW warship, with one external front/back view at the bottom (http://www.geocities.com/poison_quill/AccInt.txt)
One of my many Star Destroyer designs, this one oversized with a carrier basis. (http://www.geocities.com/poison_quill/BSD.txt)
A gunship with Bab5, FS2, and SW influences (http://www.geocities.com/poison_quill/gunship.txt)
A missile cruiser, with AAA beams and flak guns. Note that the massive antiship missile tubes should be in those blocky structures in the rear to either side. (http://www.geocities.com/poison_quill/missilecruiser.txt)
Something I'm working on now. (http://www.geocities.com/poison_quill/wipcruiser.txt)
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on July 02, 2004, 09:51:47 am
Bandwidth exceeded. Wait one hour.
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Alan Bolte on July 02, 2004, 09:56:56 am
Typical. I really need to get some actual webspace, I've just never needed any up until the past two weeks or so.
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on July 02, 2004, 10:05:43 am
*points Alan to NodeWar and instructs him to ask an0n*
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on July 02, 2004, 11:43:07 am
(http://3dap.com/hlp/hosted/14_year_war/Raa/tubeship.jpg)
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Turambar on July 02, 2004, 11:47:00 am
i like, it'll look great when its all shiny and stuff.

redo the deimos, with the curves all smoothed and it'll look great
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Falcon on July 02, 2004, 03:21:07 pm
Yeah the Deimos needs to be redone. To me it doesn't look like a corvette. Just cut the bottom off the diemos and add some nice engines on the bottome with a fighter bay below.
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Trivial Psychic on July 02, 2004, 11:04:40 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Falcon
Yeah the Deimos needs to be redone. To me it doesn't look like a corvette. Just cut the bottom off the diemos and add some nice engines on the bottome with a fighter bay below.


Blasphemy!  Thou shalt not alter the Deimos.  Thou may IMPROVE the Deimos, but not alter it. :D

Later!
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: DragonClaw on July 02, 2004, 11:17:45 pm
Meh, I guess I'm weird, but I like the Deimos as-is. Sure, some parts you can see polygons where it's supposed to be smooth. But if anybody touches that thing and messes it up :drevil:
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Black Wolf on July 04, 2004, 01:44:05 am
Hmmm... interesting... I don;'t really have an opinion one way or the oither just yet, but It might be hard to make it look good with the standard FS tiled texs... you may need to poach for thjis ship.
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: aldo_14 on July 04, 2004, 09:54:30 am
I had a sort of 'baby' Deimos model.... think it's in the Reci DL thread on this forum.
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Liberator on July 04, 2004, 04:36:45 pm
Well, I been trying to make this one:
(http://swooh.com/peon/liberator/purplething.bmp)
but have been having little luck.

And then there's this one:
(http://swooh.com/peon/liberator/freenthing.bmp)
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on July 04, 2004, 05:59:18 pm
I can't even tell what that is...  Anyway. I have another ripoff to show. Mikhael'll kill me, but I don't care.
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on July 05, 2004, 10:16:53 am
Like I said, I ripped off mikhael's Dragonfly mesh that I saw in the 158th dev site. Mine isn't nearly as good of course, and it actually looked alot better to me last night ( :doubt: ), but here it is anyway...

(http://3dap.com/hlp/hosted/14_year_war/Raa/mripoff.jpg)

(http://3dap.com/hlp/hosted/14_year_war/Raa/mripoff2.jpg)

(http://3dap.com/hlp/hosted/14_year_war/Raa/mripoff3.jpg)


But what did you expect? I only spent about 40 minutes on it...
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Alan Bolte on July 05, 2004, 12:36:44 pm
I'm trying to use my college webspace, but there seems to be a software problem involved, so I'm waiting for tech support. Heh. Any luck d/ling from that Geocities account?
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Liberator on July 05, 2004, 02:39:54 pm
Raa, that looks like an Orca from C&C: Renegade, minus the enginesof course.

Those are ships from a 2D SHMUP I got from HOTU.
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Taristin on July 05, 2004, 04:47:28 pm
Never played C&C. I copied the design from Mik's render in the 158th forum...


Anywho. I got bored, and textured this model I found in Aldo's modeldump... Blankfighter, it was called.

(http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=496331)
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Liberator on July 05, 2004, 05:16:18 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Never played C&C.


*gibbers uncontrolably*
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Knight Templar on July 05, 2004, 07:08:20 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Never played C&C.



:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
Title: Anybody have concept art?
Post by: Alan Bolte on July 07, 2004, 12:35:57 pm
Here we go. I had to learn several unix commands and relearn how to use ftp in the process, but I finally have webspace.

Interior of some 800m SW warship, with one external front/back view at the bottom (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/abolte/AccInt.jpg)

One of my many Star Destroyer designs, this one oversized with a carrier basis. (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/abolte/BSD.jpg)

A gunship with Bab5, FS2, and SW influences (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/abolte/gunship.jpg)

A missile cruiser, with AAA beams and flak guns. Note that the massive antiship missile tubes should be in those blocky structures in the rear to either side. (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/abolte/missilecruiser.jpg)

Something I'm working on now. (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/abolte/wipcruiser.jpg)