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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => Topic started by: Hellstryker on October 01, 2011, 09:12:17 pm

Title: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Hellstryker on October 01, 2011, 09:12:17 pm
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb317/Tyrkeyz/HTLMaatWIP01.png
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb317/Tyrkeyz/HTLMaatWIP02.png

Fire away.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Rampage on October 01, 2011, 09:14:58 pm
Very good start!  BTW are you using the concept art as a guide?

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Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Hellstryker on October 01, 2011, 09:16:15 pm
In some places. A lot of the concept art is really, really.. odd.

I'm mostly using it for random thing that slopes upwards on the starboard port side of the hull in the retail model. I'll also be using it for the cargo container clamp.

Rest is mostly going by texture detail.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: mjn.mixael on October 01, 2011, 09:25:31 pm
Hey, what a surprise! Nice work so far.

Interestingly.. this seems inverted (L/R) compared to what we have in the MediaVPs. We'll have to investigate that.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Hellstryker on October 01, 2011, 09:27:43 pm
That's...  :wtf:

Might be something with the importer/exporter.

You're right, it's the other way around in PCS. No problem though, I'll just flip it.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Black Wolf on October 01, 2011, 09:59:04 pm
I like pretty much the whole thing, especially the Hexagonal/round compromise. Nicely done! :yes:
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: CommanderDJ on October 01, 2011, 10:34:35 pm
Good to see this being worked on. It's sorely in need of an upgrade. Also, nice compromise between curviness and sharp edges.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Cyborg17 on October 01, 2011, 10:37:43 pm
Beautiful.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Hellstryker on October 02, 2011, 01:47:47 am
Some more progress. Is somewhere around 5.2k polies at the moment.

http://i55.tinypic.com/9szehd.png
http://i53.tinypic.com/nqs2zt.png
http://i51.tinypic.com/11wd6q1.png

Also switching to tinypic because it doesn't resize **** quit as badly as an unpaid photo****it account.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Droid803 on October 02, 2011, 02:08:45 am
photobucket resizing your **** = ur doin it wrong.

set it to max filesize instead of max dimensions.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Mongoose on October 02, 2011, 12:31:34 pm
Oh hey, the Ma'at looks like more than a tan brick now. :D
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Liberator on October 02, 2011, 02:18:55 pm
Don't forget to put the cargo lock back on the side there.  It's about the only part taht makes the design interesting, other than that, bang up job.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Bobboau on October 02, 2011, 04:53:32 pm
yeah, this is coming along nicely.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Hellstryker on October 03, 2011, 04:10:28 am
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb317/Tyrkeyz/HTLMaatWIP06.png
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb317/Tyrkeyz/HTLMaatWIP07.png

Not much more left to do other than the cargo clamp and turrets, the latter I have no idea how to go about doing seeing as how two of them are in the weirdest spots and have the weirdest shapes possible.

Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Commander Zane on October 03, 2011, 07:19:12 am
I don't think there'd be much of a problem keeping the overall strip shape of the fore and aft turret, with how good the Ma'at is looking now I think you'll be able to pull it off pretty easy.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Nyctaeus on October 03, 2011, 11:00:00 am
For me, it's cool :yes:.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Mars on October 03, 2011, 11:22:39 am
I can't believe I'm saying this. . .

this Vasudan ship feels too Terran; I'm hoping the textures will fix that.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: SypheDMar on October 03, 2011, 11:27:46 am
There is nothing Terran about a box.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Rga_Noris on October 03, 2011, 11:30:20 am
Even the retail Ma'at looks Terran. In fact, the aside from the tan color, there is nothing Vasudan about it at all.

IRC, there was a reskin for the Ma'at to make it a Terran ship... It looked perfectly Terran.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: mjn.mixael on October 03, 2011, 11:51:40 am
Whether or not it looks Terran is beside the point. It definitely looks like a Ma'at.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Hades on October 03, 2011, 01:51:37 pm
I'd suggest trying to incorporate more aspects from
(http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/images/PVFr_Ma%27at.png)
As it definitely looks fairly alienish.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Dragon on October 03, 2011, 02:04:18 pm
Also, try making the cargo clamp movable. It can be done, and could look interesting.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Hellstryker on October 03, 2011, 03:17:13 pm
Also, try making the cargo clamp movable. It can be done, and could look interesting.

Planned on it already.

And yes, I know it looks terran. The retail Ma'at looks terran aside from the textures, as somebody else pointed out already.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: Hellstryker on February 05, 2012, 01:28:31 am
I've passed to model on to mjn mixael as I no longer have the time to work on it. As far as I'm concerned however the mesh is nearly complete and all that's really missing is the cargo clamp.
Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: BrotherBryon on February 05, 2012, 01:58:11 am
Sweet!

Title: Re: HTL Ma'at WIP
Post by: LordPomposity on February 06, 2012, 04:28:22 pm
It doesn't look like a tilemapped brick. It's not FreeSpace!

On a non-sarcastic note, that looks absolutely brilliant. I can't wait to see the finished product.