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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Stryke 9 on July 30, 2002, 09:50:29 pm
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I've gotten this far on a something, and realized I no longer have any clue what it is. The parts at the front were originally gonna be the ends of a magnetic railgun track that loops around the whole outer frame, but then I decided they'd be better as connectors to a larger body, seeing as the thing, if it's a spaceship, doesn't have much room for engines, and if it' something else, it's not much of one. So... any ideas? Make it a component of a larger whole? Leave as-is?
(http://www.wpierce.com/wlp/thing.gif)
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Looks sorta like that UT map... Hyperblast I think its called...
Why not have the engine attached to those points, have it curve around the ship (think the Falcon, only.. different)..
some sorty of funky new drive...
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The original idea was to give it some kinda gravitic drive that would use the curved configuration, but I'm having second thoughts about making that much of a stretch... most of my stuff has at least SOME factual basis.
And besides, without all the gunpoints it's kinda useless.
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UPDATE: Recognize it now? I decided the least of the many evils would be to attach an entire station to it. Yes, it's a WIP. No, I have no better textures. No, I can't fit a more detailed image on my account at the moment.
BTW: Which looks better- the texture on the bottom cone, or the texture on the rest of the thing? The main one's mapped concrete, the cone cover is half-procedural.
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I prefer the cone's texture style myself.
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it needs less of a bump map.
Looking good though...nice & shiny.
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The bump map already varies between 1/4 normal level, and 6%. If I lower it any more, it won't be there at all.;)
But yeah, using the procedural might help that...
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Here. Looks like a giant green turd to me, but hey. It's a cool-looking giant green turd, at least from up close.
(http://www.wpierce.com/wlp/Ships/topside.gif)