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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => Topic started by: mjn.mixael on April 11, 2013, 05:14:59 pm

Title: HTL Hermes
Post by: mjn.mixael on April 11, 2013, 05:14:59 pm: Finally got around to mapping and texturing this one. Model is by Hades.

Hermes (View in 3D (http://p3d.in/rha3S))
(http://p3d.in/model_data/snapshot/rha3S) (http://p3d.in/rha3S)

P3D is showing the normals and shine somewhat inaccurately, but in FSO it looks great. I still need to do LODs and debris.
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: Shivan Hunter on April 11, 2013, 06:35:23 pm: Nice to see this thing again! Can't wait to blow it up :P
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: Mongoose on April 11, 2013, 07:14:26 pm: I was going to say that I thought we already had one of these...and obviously we did! And now it's painted! :yes:

(The P3D derpiness makes it look like someone chucked a rock through the windshield. :p)
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: redsniper on April 12, 2013, 08:24:58 am: Quote from: mjn.mixael on April 11, 2013, 05:14:59 pm
...but in FSO it looks great...

Can we see?
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: mjn.mixael on April 12, 2013, 09:26:15 am: I'm out of town all weekend. I wanted to post the p3d... But in-game screens will have to wait until Monday.
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: T-LoW on April 12, 2013, 12:34:32 pm: Looking really awesome. But I think there is no model which breaks comparsion more than the hermes. Compared to normal people (in the game) the doors and windows would be ridiculously oversized wouldn't they?
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: Shivan Hunter on April 12, 2013, 01:04:14 pm: The door is a bit large in the retail texture (around 2x3 meters, same as it is here), but that's not entirely unreasonable for an external door on an escape pod.
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: Cyborg17 on April 12, 2013, 03:18:38 pm: Yes! :yes:
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: Black_Yoshi1230 on April 13, 2013, 12:23:14 am: Hoo boy. Now come putting them in Silent Threat Reborn, I have to frustratingly watch cooler looking escape pods get blown up by Shivans or rogue Terrans.

Spoiler:
Or in earlier versions of War in Heaven if I'm not wrong, that plot-critical person getting blown up by stealthed Maxim fighters.

Besides that point, that pod looks fantastic.

Quote from: Mongoose on April 11, 2013, 07:14:26 pm
(The P3D derpiness makes it look like someone chucked a rock through the windshield. :p)

Yeah, I noticed that "bump."
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: Kolgena on April 14, 2013, 12:50:59 pm: Looks great!

Planning to bake an AO to diffuse? Or not really worth it for the cracks around the engine and the groove all around the body?
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: Kopachris on April 14, 2013, 07:36:12 pm: Dayum.

Also, now I think I understand why the Hermes is so slow. Looks like it's using an ion engine back there.
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: mjn.mixael on April 16, 2013, 08:14:10 am: Quote from: Kolgena on April 14, 2013, 12:50:59 pm
Looks great!

Planning to bake an AO to diffuse? Or not really worth it for the cracks around the engine and the groove all around the body?

When I put up the p3d via remote connect through my tablet.. I remember thinking. 'There's no AO bake. Kolgena's gonna ask about it... awesome.'

At least you have a 'thing' on HLP, right? You're 'AO bake' guy! :yes:
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: General Battuta on April 16, 2013, 08:16:34 am: Be advised, my AO is baked, over
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: mjn.mixael on April 16, 2013, 08:23:39 am: Here are the in-game screens.

(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk264/mjnmixael/Private/screen0429_zps266a1852.jpg)
(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk264/mjnmixael/Private/screen0425_zps37094e35.jpg)
(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk264/mjnmixael/Private/screen0427_zps0fc69075.jpg)
(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk264/mjnmixael/Private/screen0426_zps7885be7c.jpg)
(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk264/mjnmixael/Private/screen0428_zps5ee6f132.jpg)
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: Rodo on April 16, 2013, 08:45:13 am: ahhh, shiny death trap :yes:
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: Oddgrim on April 16, 2013, 08:49:37 am: Looks good c: Perhaps the only issue with it is the yellow paint strip on it is too faded but that is a very minor thing. Overall I think it's a well done job.
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: Mongoose on April 16, 2013, 02:33:01 pm: Looks good enough to accidentally ram to death.
Title: Re: HTL Hermes
Post by: An4ximandros on April 16, 2013, 03:00:02 pm: That non-centered yellow line is killing me with OCD, arrrgh. :banghead: Other than that, fantastic work on the escape brick.