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Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Omniscaper on November 06, 2004, 12:38:05 am: Need a skilled Texture artist to tackly my 90% complete model. Contact me ASAP if interested. When I say interested, I' mean interested in finishing. I can tackle this project but I must finish my Galaxy model first. That means it will be quite awhile before I have time to do it.

(http://www.penguinbomb.com/omniscaper/WIPS/Hammer1.JPG)
(http://www.penguinbomb.com/omniscaper/WIPS/Hammer2.JPG)
(http://www.penguinbomb.com/omniscaper/WIPS/Hammer3.JPG)
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Eviscerator on November 06, 2004, 02:22:42 am: I have a very talented texture mapper on my team. Let me get with him and see if he can make time for this. :)
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Omniscaper on November 06, 2004, 02:33:19 am: Keep me posted
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Roanoke on November 06, 2004, 05:37:54 am: Quote
Originally posted by Eviscerator
I have a very talented texture mapper on my team. Let me get with him and see if he can make time for this. :)

you have a team ?
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Nuke on November 06, 2004, 02:37:33 pm: doesnt the hammerhead have a turret in the nose?
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: c914 on November 06, 2004, 03:00:04 pm: yes it had, aloso has got turret on top:)
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Eviscerator on November 07, 2004, 10:43:49 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Roanoke

you have a team ?

Yes. We have been doing other stuff, mostly in house, but we are lookin to get involved in more FS2 stuff too, as well as adding some new faces. :)
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Bobboau on November 07, 2004, 11:14:03 pm: that,eh... that isn't high-poly...
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Liberator on November 08, 2004, 12:13:16 am: :lol:

He's right.

That looks like about 300 polies...maybe. HTL FS2 fighters are about twice that.
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Bobboau on November 08, 2004, 12:55:00 am: think 4-5 times that
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Liberator on November 08, 2004, 01:03:53 am: so it's 2000 polies for a fighter? I thought that many, while possible was frowned on... :confused:
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Omniscaper on November 08, 2004, 01:51:48 am: Well, at the moment, its a spline model with 0 subdivision. From there I can start beefing it up. At 0 subsivision, its at 800 polyies.
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: karajorma on November 08, 2004, 12:59:30 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
so it's 2000 polies for a fighter? I thought that many, while possible was frowned on... :confused:

Nope. Nico's Ezechial was about twice that. (although that was extreme). The perseus was above that too.
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: aldo_14 on November 08, 2004, 05:55:02 pm: I have a couple of 2000-3500 poly fighters / bombers somewhere......
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: GoulMeister on November 08, 2004, 05:58:03 pm: someone should make a saab mod
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Nuke on November 08, 2004, 06:53:29 pm: all my models were originally created to be in the 500-1000 poly range. if you were using the old engine that would be acceptable. however the new enine allows you to be more libral with the detail. id consider this model to be a good second lod.
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Trivial Psychic on November 08, 2004, 10:09:42 pm: Quote
Originally posted by GoulMeister
someone should make a saab mod

But how would a Saab work in space? There's no air to power the internal combustion engine, and the tires can't push off anything to get any speed anyway. :rolleyes: ;)

Later!
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Omniscaper on November 08, 2004, 10:35:46 pm: LOL!!!

You funny dude Trivial ;)

Geeze, can't I do anything right!? When I released the high poly Star Trek runabout, it was too much (9000k polys). I've got so much flak for my Trek conversions being too high poly, despite the fact that I've yet to break 12000k poly mark.

This time I go conservative, now its TOO LITTLE. ::sigh::

Once textured, do you folks really think a 3000k poly Hammerhead is necessary when 800 gives precise dimensions? Stock FS2 ships range from 150 - 300 polys. I think 800 is a good compromise between quality and playability. Yes?
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Nuke on November 08, 2004, 11:52:47 pm: just keep it under 2k, 3k is acceptable on some models. if you do hi poly, just be sure to include a full set of lod models.
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Col. Fishguts on November 09, 2004, 02:59:53 am: Don't listen to the heretics...
It's a good model with reasonable polycount, which means more of them can be on-screen simultaneously.
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: NGTM-1R on November 09, 2004, 03:25:38 am: This way I can have fifty of them, as opposed to say, twelve, and a decent framerate too while running stuff besides FS2_Open in the background.
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: aldo_14 on November 09, 2004, 05:50:47 am: Why run stuff besides fs2_open?
Title: Hey guys !!!
Post by: Getter Robo G on November 09, 2004, 11:54:00 am: I just got ahold of Borg124 (when I went to the site that ahd his ICQ number It was down!!!! Grrrrrr!) Anyway, he said sure no problem just list him in credits.

SOOOOOO that means if DG can get motivated again and finish the damn motheship the demo would be ready for fredding, he he...

Of course that was back with retail limits... I see you guys are already bumping up for FSopen...

Anyway you COULD use these as PLACEHOLDERS so at least the missions look close to what the fianl result will be. (why use a shivan when you can use a chig?)

here are the pics of the Chig models (yes they DID have some geometry erros but DG and Galemp fixed them) Plus Krackers and Galemp did a few textures for us and well here was the result:

Chig Fighter (blue, cause we like Blue...)
(http://img63.exs.cx/img63/6517/iviewcapture_date_09_11_2004_time_12_21_23.jpg)

Chig Fighter (Red, my favorite !!!)
(http://img63.exs.cx/img63/6472/iviewcapture_date_09_11_2004_time_12_21_37.jpg)

Chiggy Von Richtoifen (was still a WIP texture wise but, so what)
(http://img122.exs.cx/img122/8011/iviewcapture_date_09_11_2004_time_12_20_59.jpg)

And the best of all! The Chig Bomber (this one is fricken hard to hit cause of it's thin profile!!!) :mad: ALso it was the FIRST ship conveted (incidently by me!)
(http://img63.exs.cx/img63/9931/iviewcapture_date_09_11_2004_time_12_21_54.jpg)

I hoped you enjoyed the pics!

[Edit] sorry! I didn't realise they were slightly too big. (my bad).
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Swamp_Thing on November 09, 2004, 12:48:29 pm: :wtf:
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Bobboau on November 09, 2004, 04:16:20 pm: eh, are those suposed to look like something?...
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: karajorma on November 09, 2004, 04:51:13 pm: Yep. Pretty much exactly what he posted.

S:AAB had great models for all the terran craft but when it came to the chigs it looks like 30 minutes before they were about to start rendering the CGI someone realised that no one had made the enemy craft and got the tea lady to do them.
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Eviscerator on November 09, 2004, 07:46:01 pm: Surely we can do better.....

Well, the guy I was hoping to have do this does not have time to do so, though he REALLY wanted to. I do, however, have another person in mind. Shooting an email off to him. Will keep you posted.

I am surprised noone else has jumped on this though.
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: karajorma on November 11, 2004, 02:35:12 pm: I agree. To be honest I think the best thing a S:AAB mod could do is include those ships for accuracy but go and make a whole new set of ships based on what we saw of chig design. Trouble is finding someone with the talent and the time to do that.
Title: Well yeah
Post by: Getter Robo G on November 11, 2004, 05:51:39 pm: Before all the "hoo ha", this was planned for FS2 Retail limits. It's sad that DG was distracted by those "people" as the mod would have been done by now and instead of starting it from scratch you guys woudl have been like, "let's give SAAB an upgrade". I still had a section on my hard drvie when I was doing voice rips for the mod. (I never deleted it in the hopes that we would return to it, but I did stop making them).
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: freespace2pilot on November 11, 2004, 09:08:33 pm: should be GTV rather than just GT or GV. scratch that. a model like that should have same skin as the colossus
Title: ??? Aroo?
Post by: Getter Robo G on November 12, 2004, 04:54:18 am: Please translate that into over 30 speech, I didn't quite understand your meaning sonny... (where's my cane - no no, the STICK not the SHIP!)

:D
Title: Need Texture artist for SAAB Hammerhead high-poly model
Post by: Eviscerator on November 16, 2004, 11:15:26 pm: I think he posted on the wrong thread by accident.

I agree that we should be as canon as possible, but I still feel that we can take the canon designs and use them as a base to do better.

Omni, good news! Check your PM box.