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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Boomer on July 18, 2005, 11:18:14 am

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: Boomer on July 18, 2005, 11:18:14 am

Just got done modeling a new Terran fighter and wanted some input.  Take a gander:

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/Salawat/TUlyssesprofile.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/Salawat/TUlyssestop.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/Salawat/TUlyssesside.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/Salawat/TUlyssesfront.jpg)

Reactions?  Flames?  Death threats?

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: karajorma on July 18, 2005, 11:21:44 am

Bigger pics! :D

Looks similar to that Ulysses Mk II that was posted recently. Not that that is a bad thing.

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: brugger on July 18, 2005, 11:24:28 am

I think I like it, the pics are too small to really make anything out, but it reminds me of the Ulysses. Try looking at the texture for inspiration to add some greebling on the wings.

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: Taristin on July 18, 2005, 11:28:12 am

Pics are really tiny, but from what I see, it looks like you just pulled vertices on the original Uly. :blah:


Hard to tell though. Too small.

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: Boomer on July 18, 2005, 11:38:02 am

Damn, they noticed...

Yeah, I just pulled for the most part, but added some more modeled guns.  I plan for most of the work to be done in the texturing anyway, but this is a WIP after all.

I just figured out how to Snap UV's to the model so I expect to come out of this with a more or less kickass Texture job.

Might do some more tweeks with the mesh.  Let me see If I can't enlarge the pics...

[edit]  ****it photobucket!  Stop Shrinking my Pics!!!!![edit]

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: StratComm on July 18, 2005, 11:51:51 am

they should give you a link to a page along with that thumbnail, use the picture as a link (nested image tag should do it) and we'll figure it out.

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: Axem on July 18, 2005, 11:53:18 am

Photobucket shrinks anything over 250kb. This might have to do with the fact that those pics are bmps, which can get really huge.

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: Boomer on July 18, 2005, 12:22:44 pm

I got it.  They divided the 800x600 by 4 so I shrank the pictures to 640x480.  Might change them to JPGs later but I think for the moment the problem is fixed.  For now anyways.  With any update pics they'll be JPG or GIF methinks.

Just look back at the aforementioned Pics.

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: StratComm on July 18, 2005, 12:58:45 pm

Actually, it shrinks them in each dimension by 2 repeatedly until it gets down to a suitabke size; those are still only 320x240.  You realize that a JPG at your original resolution would only be about 35k, right?

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: Boomer on July 18, 2005, 01:59:07 pm

...............

Really?:o

Oh......
Brb.

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: Boomer on July 18, 2005, 02:18:13 pm

Double posting Rocks!  [not]

My friends I give you larger pics.

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 18, 2005, 02:58:32 pm

I sort of like it. You could always write up some fluff about it being based on the Ulysses' chassis to save $$$ to explain the resemblance. ;)

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: SadisticSid on July 19, 2005, 05:17:41 am

Make the tail fins 3D and it'll look quite nice for a pull job.

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: Boomer on July 19, 2005, 12:14:05 pm

My personal goal was to make this a plausible MKII.  One that looks different enough to have had some redesign, but I wanted base resemblance to remain.  I didn't want to turn the Ulysses into an apollo and call it a MkII.

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: Krackers87 on July 19, 2005, 09:40:15 pm

[zombie] Mooore pooolys [/zombie]

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: Boomer on July 19, 2005, 09:52:05 pm

More polies must be justified.  Give me something to make and I will.  If you want more, give a helpful hint.
More guns.
More engines.

Don't just say more polies.  That doesn't help me at all!

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 20, 2005, 03:06:23 am

Add gun holes for VWep.

Greeble some air vent heat-sink thingies.

A cockpit

Maybe little doohickeys and thingamabobs for navigation/targeting sensors. ;)

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: Boomer on July 20, 2005, 06:47:36 am

Hmmm.  I doubt I have the ability to get the cockpit right, however, more detailed Primary and secondary weapons banks I'm  willing to tackle.  And of course, I'll make sure to texture this baby in style.  

I'll be the first to admit I'm not the second coming of Jesus with modeling (that's Bobboau's department),  But give me a base model and I'll damn well make it better (IMO).

Title: Prelim WIP
Post by: brugger on July 20, 2005, 08:05:59 am

Quote

Originally posted by brugger
Try looking at the Ulysses  texture for inspiration to add some greebling on the wings.

If you look hard theres usually all kinds of little stuf that can be modeled