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Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Taristin on March 08, 2005, 06:49:24 pm
I'm looking for a nice multi part turret (I.e. a base and barrel(s)). Anyone have one they can spare? it needn't be mapped. I need one for my cruiser, but I'm not all that good at making turrets. They never look good.

Any help is appreciated. :)
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: pyro-manic on March 08, 2005, 07:05:23 pm
I'm trying to make some myself - Terran or Vasudan? Or something less specific?
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Taristin on March 08, 2005, 07:07:28 pm
Err. Terran. Although if you come up with a convincingly Vasudan design, I wouldn't hesitate to ask for that, too. ;)
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: pyro-manic on March 08, 2005, 07:11:47 pm
Hmmm. OK - I'll post what I've got when I've done some tweaking. :)
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: StratComm on March 08, 2005, 07:37:25 pm
I'd offer you one but I'm still not convinced myself that the thing's not too high-poly.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Taristin on March 08, 2005, 07:42:54 pm
How many polies is high poly? :p  My cruiser is only ~2000 polies.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: StratComm on March 08, 2005, 07:46:43 pm
IIRC, ~500+ triangulated.  So too high.  It's routinely pushing ships over the 10k mark when I use more than one at a time.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Trivial Psychic on March 08, 2005, 08:11:49 pm
You should try to contact Raptor.  He had some popular turrets out a while back.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Taristin on March 08, 2005, 08:20:17 pm
I have in the past, but it takes so long to get responses from him. He made four turrets for me for TVWP. They're great, but he's only online once a week.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: StratComm on March 08, 2005, 08:28:05 pm
If you aren't worried about textures and you have a poly budget for me to work with (and a couple of weeks to get it done - I can't work on it over spring break), I can give you a go at a custom turret.  There's a good chance I'll need a new one soon anyway.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Taristin on March 08, 2005, 08:40:23 pm
Nah. You don't need to devote time to it. I was just looking for anything that anyone may have laying about their hard drives. Although I do appreciate the offer. :)
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: FireCrack on March 08, 2005, 11:57:14 pm
I have one of those tiny yellow turrets if you need one (well that's what it was intended for)

It doesnt have a texture yet but it is UV mapped, and even has a normal map to boot.

It's a realy low poly turret, somthing in the range of 25 polies so i'm not sure if that's what you're looking for.

pic
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/FireCrack/LittleTinyTurret.png)
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Taristin on March 08, 2005, 11:58:24 pm
A but too low poly for my tastes... yeah. :blah: Thanks, though.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: FireCrack on March 09, 2005, 12:00:40 am
Yeah figured so. So you want a big turret, not a little one you can spam around?

and what kind of turret? flak? guns? beam? missile? other?
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Taristin on March 09, 2005, 12:02:30 am
I only intend to use about 3 or 4 of them, but yeah, I want them to be a feature, and not so much just 'there'... if you kow what I mean.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: FireCrack on March 09, 2005, 12:03:53 am
oh, and about how many barrels?
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Taristin on March 09, 2005, 12:04:57 am
One or two is just fine for me. I could use them on the corvette sister ship I made for it too.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Roanoke on March 09, 2005, 02:40:11 pm
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/magatsu1//gun.JPG)

This was gonna be on my Tiidan Destroyer but I doubt if it'll be ready any time soon.
Pretty untidy, but should be good if tweaked somewhat.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: karajorma on March 09, 2005, 02:54:14 pm
I'd offer mine from the Styx but they're too high poly again (like Strat's they're around the 500 poly mark).
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Singh on March 09, 2005, 03:10:23 pm
well, I have one. I was making it for the re-work of the triest class yesterday. It's definately in the very-high range (3k polies, concentrated mostly around the barrels) but I think it can be refined and reduced greatly in Truespace or any modelling program.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/turret1.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/turret2.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/anandraj/turret3.jpg)

Give me a PM if you're interested.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Starman01 on March 09, 2005, 03:22:29 pm
I still have those from my sentryguns. But If you can bring them to some use, I don't mind giving you the models. :)

(http://www.starman.ag5.de/pics/turrets.jpg)
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Taristin on March 09, 2005, 06:17:56 pm
Mmm.... Thanks for the replies, but I don't know if any of these are what I'm looking for for my cruiser and corvette.

But lately, I've been considerring UV Mapping my Cruiser and Corvette models... so I still have time.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Trivial Psychic on March 09, 2005, 07:02:17 pm
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Originally posted by Starman01
I still have those from my sentryguns. But If you can bring them to some use, I don't mind giving you the models. :)

Are you planning to release those sentryguns generally, or have they been secured by a mod?  I'm sure there are some campaigners out there that would like to get their hands on them.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: StratComm on March 09, 2005, 07:00:27 pm
Try this (http://www.duke.edu/~cek6/raaturret.zip).  It's poly reduced as far as I can take it, without starting to lose shape and is down to about 300 tri's.  It's got primitive UV's which you'll want to tweak, but I'm not providing the map since there's about a 2% chance that you'd actually use that.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Taristin on March 09, 2005, 07:19:37 pm
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Originally posted by StratComm
Try this (http://www.duke.edu/~cek6/raaturret.zip).  It's poly reduced as far as I can take it, without starting to lose shape and is down to about 300 tri's.  It's got primitive UV's which you'll want to tweak, but I'm not providing the map since there's about a 2% chance that you'd actually use that.


Thanks, I'll take a look at them later. :)
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Starman01 on March 10, 2005, 01:03:55 pm
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Originally posted by Trivial Psychic

Are you planning to release those sentryguns generally, or have they been secured by a mod?  I'm sure there are some campaigners out there that would like to get their hands on them.


I hope I will release them sooner or later (though I'm not really building them for a mod, they are meant for public use :) ). But since WCS consumes away all my modding-time, I have currently only a ingame-working LOD0 of the vasudan-one finished but it looks quite cool :)

I think after our prologue is finished, I will find some time finishing them.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Raptor on March 12, 2005, 07:25:35 am
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Originally posted by Raa
I have in the past, but it takes so long to get responses from him. He made four turrets for me for TVWP. They're great, but he's only online once a week.


Well, truth be told, I could be online every day, but it means driving from home to Fathers surgery every day, at 7pm-ish (need to avoid other staff...)

And tipically, 7pm onwards is when the good TV starts.

So, while I would love to be a more active member, it's a little impratical ATM.

Good Luck Raa.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: TopAce on March 12, 2005, 07:25:50 am
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Originally posted by Roanoke
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/magatsu1//gun.JPG)

This was gonna be on my Tiidan Destroyer but I doubt if it'll be ready any time soon.
Pretty untidy, but should be good if tweaked somewhat.


That's a nice turret, no doubt. It looks realistic.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Lynx on March 12, 2005, 07:51:53 am
Hey Starman, you could always set the sentry guns up for download and nope someone cool converts them. It's not like we don't have enough people with that ability here.:)
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Taristin on March 12, 2005, 09:10:04 am
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Originally posted by Raptor


Well, truth be told, I could be online every day, but it means driving from home to Fathers surgery every day, at 7pm-ish (need to avoid other staff...)

And tipically, 7pm onwards is when the good TV starts.

So, while I would love to be a more active member, it's a little impratical ATM.

Good Luck Raa.
 


I didn't mean anything by it. More truthfully, I'm] impatient. ;) Although your turrets are always the best I've seen.
Title: Anyone got a turret I can borrow?
Post by: Raptor on March 12, 2005, 10:10:07 am
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Originally posted by Raa


I didn't mean anything by it. More truthfully, I'm] impatient. ;) Although your turrets are always the best I've seen.


It's okay.  I'm not happy about it myself.

Thanks for the compliment.;)