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Title: model help.
Post by: Ryx on May 14, 2002, 12:58:00 pm
(http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/L1.jpg)
(http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/L2.jpg)
(http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/L3.jpg)
(http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/L4.jpg)

Started yesterday, ran out of ideas today :sigh:

Fire at will!
 
Title: model help.
Post by: Ulundel on May 14, 2002, 01:04:20 pm
My head is empty so I don't have any suggestions but one is sure: I Want it
and a name for it: GTC Lycos
BTW, texture it (or what you have so far) :D

edit: think something out with the nose and the back. Looks kinda' flat.

still forgot to tell ya that...w00t! :D
Title: model help.
Post by: Stunaep on May 14, 2002, 01:08:51 pm
GTCv Yahoo!!! GTD Altavista

sorry, just the first thing that came to my mind. :sigh:
Title: model help.
Post by: Ulundel on May 14, 2002, 01:10:11 pm
It's Lycos.
And where that Yahoo and altavista came from... :wtf:
Title: model help.
Post by: Nico on May 14, 2002, 01:16:42 pm
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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
It's Lycos.
And where that Yahoo and altavista came from... :wtf:

lycos is a search engine
Title: model help.
Post by: Ulundel on May 14, 2002, 01:19:07 pm
Oh...sorry, I forgot... :sigh:
Title: model help.
Post by: mikhael on May 14, 2002, 09:34:22 pm
What were you going for Ryx? It looks, from the side, like you were after a capship, but from the top and rear it looks like a fighter.

If you want to lean toward a fighter, slenderise that nose. If you're after a fighter, tone down the side bits some.
Title: model help.
Post by: TheVirtu on May 14, 2002, 09:43:41 pm
GTCv or GTD Amphios

GTCv or GTD Draken
Title: model help.
Post by: Ryx on May 15, 2002, 06:46:11 am
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Originally posted by mikhael
What were you going for Ryx? It looks, from the side, like you were after a capship, but from the top and rear it looks like a fighter.

If you want to lean toward a fighter, slenderise that nose. If you're after a fighter, tone down the side bits some.


Well, not a fightercraft. Something else.
Title: model help.
Post by: Styxx on May 15, 2002, 08:06:47 am
Carve an engine section at the rear end of the main body, increase the vertical assymmetry and add some details to the nose section. It looks like some sort of strike capship to me, maybe you could make it a bradside dueller or something similar.
Title: model help.
Post by: mikhael on May 15, 2002, 09:00:43 am
Get rid of the winglets, but keep the side bits. That's will bring the top profile in a bit, give it a more 'chunky' appearance. Styxx' idea of a broadside dueller is a great one, especially since you've put so much care into the detail.

I would do something to soften the severity of the blunt nose some. Rather than making it more symmetrix vertically, though, I would likely cut in at the bottom.
Title: model help.
Post by: Ryx on May 15, 2002, 10:41:24 am
(http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/L5.jpg)
(http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/L6.jpg)
(http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/L7.jpg)

I don't thibk I'll keep all of the modifications - wings stay, for now.
Title: model help.
Post by: CP5670 on May 15, 2002, 10:44:47 am
I somehow really like the design of this one. Would make a great cruiser in my opinion. ;) (or if the scale permits, destroyer, with some added details)
Title: model help.
Post by: mikhael on May 15, 2002, 10:49:20 am
Oh, Ryx, I forgot to ask: how many spotlights are you using in that sphere network? And how large is the sphere?
Title: model help.
Post by: Ryx on May 15, 2002, 10:59:35 am
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Originally posted by mikhael
Oh, Ryx, I forgot to ask: how many spotlights are you using in that sphere network? And how large is the sphere?


Let's see. 52 spots. With about 5 shiplenghts in radius. :p
I just resize if I have to. As long as the object is within the lightcone really.
Title: model help.
Post by: mikhael on May 15, 2002, 11:01:27 am
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Originally posted by Ryx


Let's see. 52 spots. With about 5 shiplenghts in radius. :p
I just resize if I have to. As long as the object is within the lightcone really.


Are those evenly spaced around the sphere, or is there some other arrangement?
Title: model help.
Post by: Ryx on May 15, 2002, 11:02:45 am
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Originally posted by mikhael


Are those evenly spaced around the sphere, or is there some other arrangement?


More or less even.

I'll post a screenshot later
Title: model help.
Post by: Ryx on May 15, 2002, 11:14:07 am
Ok screenshot here (http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/dump.jpg).
Title: model help.
Post by: Styxx on May 15, 2002, 11:38:26 am
You sure have a lot of lights there. :D

And about the ship - I'd ditch the new extrusion on the top of the frontal section, and make the engine recession on the back less deep and wider. :)
Title: model help.
Post by: Nico on May 15, 2002, 12:03:21 pm
now that's a cool design :yes:
Title: model help.
Post by: mikhael on May 15, 2002, 12:15:21 pm
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Originally posted by Styxx
You sure have a lot of lights there. :D

And about the ship - I'd ditch the new extrusion on the top of the frontal section, and make the engine recession on the back less deep and wider. :)


Absolutely.

Oh, and thanks for the screenshot, Ryx. I'm going to do a custom foley in Lightwave for that same sort of thing. :)
Title: model help.
Post by: Ulundel on May 15, 2002, 12:26:13 pm
heh, now it looks shivan :p
Title: model help.
Post by: Ryx on May 15, 2002, 12:29:48 pm
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Originally posted by Styxx
You sure have a lot of lights there. :D

And about the ship - I'd ditch the new extrusion on the top of the frontal section, and make the engine recession on the back less deep and wider. :)


I'll tweak the engine recession, as for the rest... We'll see.

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Originally posted by venom2506
now that's a cool design :yes:

Thanx man. :)

Actually, thanks everybody. :)

Quote
Originally posted by mikhael


Absolutely.

Oh, and thanks for the screenshot, Ryx. I'm going to do a custom foley in Lightwave for that same sort of thing. :)


Any time dude! Glad I could help ;)
Title: model help.
Post by: beatspete on May 15, 2002, 01:07:04 pm
To make it look like a cruiser:  remove the small wings, and remove the hump at the front since it looks like a cockpit.  Oh and the hanging down bit

To make it look like a fighter: try making the front narrower, but only about the top cut.  Infact make the cockpit area as wide as the cut.
Otherwise it looks pretty good, i like the rear section, top and bottom. :)

pete
Title: model help.
Post by: Kellan on May 15, 2002, 01:24:47 pm
Excellent ship...somehow reminds me of something out of Homeworld. :)

The level of detail on it and the number of engines seems to suggest to me a powerful strike corvette (larger with more firepower than the Deimos) or a destroyer.  I like the downward 'tail' but the hexagonal thing underneath looks a little blunt - unless it's a makeshift fighterbay... :nod:
Title: model help.
Post by: Nico on May 15, 2002, 01:28:59 pm
about removing stuff that makes it look like a fighter... don't forget that when mapped, it won't look that way.
Title: model help.
Post by: Ryx on May 16, 2002, 08:21:37 am
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Originally posted by Kellan
I like the downward 'tail' but the hexagonal thing underneath looks a little blunt - unless it's a makeshift fighterbay... :nod:


Wouldn't hold many fighters / bombers... I'll do both and post pix of both versions. ;)
Title: model help.
Post by: Ulundel on May 16, 2002, 09:46:04 am
Right Ryx. Send me the model please. :)
Title: model help.
Post by: TheCelestialOne on May 16, 2002, 10:25:44 am
Name suggestions :

GT(Fill in class) Agalia (Means "happy")
GT(Fill in class) Aidoios (Means "honored")
GT(Fill in class) Eda (Means "generation")
GT(Fill in class) Kyros (Means "Master" )
GT(Fill in class) Leksi (Means "defender of men")
GT(Fill in class) Pancratius (Means "supreme ruler")

I couldn't think of any more.

BTW : the names are all Greek.
Title: model help.
Post by: Zeronet on May 16, 2002, 10:30:32 am
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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
Right Ryx. Send me the model please. :)
Title: model help.
Post by: Ryx on May 16, 2002, 01:04:42 pm
(http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/L9.jpg)
(http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/L10.jpg)

Quick hanger and a Quick removal of the ... thing.

I'll put it up for general consumption later
Title: model help.
Post by: Kellan on May 16, 2002, 01:30:17 pm
Sans thing looks better, IMO. :D
Title: model help.
Post by: Styxx on May 16, 2002, 01:59:16 pm
Looking better now... :)
Title: model help.
Post by: Ryx on May 16, 2002, 02:03:37 pm
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Originally posted by Styxx
Looking better now... :)


err.. which one?
Title: model help.
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 16, 2002, 03:50:06 pm
Looks like a clipper or light trading frigate to me. Lose the hangar-ships big enough for one of those look better chunkier, and that one looks like it'd be too good at zipping about to be something huge.

And depending on how you skin it, you really might not need anymore. Something like the Orion scheme (sides plated, extruded inner edges something more delicate-ideally piping) would look good with all those extruded surfaces sticking out.
Title: model help.
Post by: Nico on May 16, 2002, 04:06:30 pm
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Originally posted by Ryx


err.. which one?

second one for me
Title: model help.
Post by: Ryx on May 17, 2002, 06:45:30 am
I'll put the model without the thing up for download, when I get home. ;)
Title: model help.
Post by: Styxx on May 17, 2002, 07:36:11 am
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Originally posted by venom2506
second one for me


Move the hangar to the protusion on the front and you have a winner.
Title: Release!
Post by: Ryx on May 17, 2002, 11:49:51 am
Grab the model! (http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/newcv.exe) :wink:
Title: Just so everyone has a chance to get it.
Post by: Ryx on May 18, 2002, 05:34:33 pm
:bump:
Title: model help.
Post by: EdrickV on May 24, 2002, 11:48:48 pm
Dang. All these cool models in here. I need to read this forum more often. :D