[WarpStar]

Those look like....look like.....you don't work for a game company do you?

[Shrike]

No, but the guy who did those does (kinda).

He's actually pretty cool, gave me some tips on making asteroids in MAX.

[Setekh]

 www.zaon.com

I'm dialling it up now...  

[mikhael]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Oh dear...  

Mik, you're my new hero.  

Who where what how why when I didn't do it you can't prove anything! *heh*



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--Mik
http://www.404error.com

[mikhael]

 

Originally posted by Warlock:
No biggy     If you decide to give it a go let me know and I'll give you the details.

So you know, Warlock, I'm going to start poly-stripping the Roon tonight. If you've not picked a name yet, I'll probably name her 'Waterdancer' (inspired by the Volition Bravos which led to the Braavosi Waterdancers of Martin's A Game of Thrones books).

Shrike, the reason those Zaon renders look so good is lighting, textures and greeblies. The overall modelling is good, but where they shine is good lighting and excellent textures (the textrues make them feel solid to me). Then to top it off, extensive use of greeblies gives them that 'hi tech' look. These guys must have a massive rendering farm, if they turn out stuff like this regularly: doing greeblies in geometry instead of texture is math intensive. *heh*

Lucas knew not what he wrought when he unleashed the Star Destroyer design upon the world.

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--Mik http://www.404error.com

[This message has been edited by mikhael (edited 12-20-2001).]

[Warlock]

Waterdancer works for me  

[KillMeNow]

has anyone seen darkshear around recently - he (accord to dc) offered to explain afew things about live wave to some people and i would love to accept if hes still willing

[CODEDOG ND]

KillMeNow, I got lightwave 7.0 now.  Come on ICQ sometime.  Need ya to help me with somethin.  

[mikhael]

 

Originally posted by KillMeNow:
has anyone seen darkshear around recently - he (accord to dc) offered to explain afew things about live wave to some people and i would love to accept if hes still willing

Any way I can help, let me know.

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--Mik
http://www.404error.com

[Fineus]

Tell me, how long did it take you to put that top one together?

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by mikhael:
Who where what how why when I didn't do it you can't prove anything! *heh*

You here pics I saw them they're cool right now yes I can prove it!  

[mikhael]

 

Originally posted by Thunder:
Tell me, how long did it take you to put that top one together?

*hrm* That's hard to say.

There's only six asteroids. Those were spheres that I hit with a randomizer and then smoothed. I keep them saved on my hard drive to boolean together into other asteroids. that was what? 10m we'll say.

The Waterdancer (the larger ship) took about three days to go from original slap up to completion. That's another thing that was laying around on my hard drive.

The Misatos (the fighters) were what prompted that pic. They were the fourth in a series of ships that all used some common elements (the Waterdancer was the second and the Molly was the fifth). Those took two days.

Setting up that scene took an hour or two. Maybe more. If I had done all that work in one shot, it would likely have taken me about 5-7 days. In reality, that scene was built over the course of a month (since everything was modelled in isolation with no scenes in mind).



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--Mik
http://www.404error.com
ruhkferret on ICQ/AIM

[Fineus]

Really? well nice work - you rock  

[Nico]

the fighters deserves a better mapping  

[mikhael]

 

Originally posted by Thunder:
Really? well nice work - you rock    

Thanks, Thunder.  

Venom, I'd give the Misato a better mapping if I had the skill. I'm 100% hopeless with textures (why do you think the Iwar2 Molly is flat shaded?   ). Seriously, I'm trying to learn so that I make these things look good.

If you look carefully, btw, the mapping on the fighters is the exact same one as on the Waterdancer itself.

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--Mik http://www.404error.com
ruhkferret on ICQ/AIM

[This message has been edited by mikhael (edited 12-24-2001).]

[mikhael]

Bump

[Stryke 9]

Spank me.  
It's still moderately close, give it a year...


[stupid newbie]How many polys is that top one, Shrike? Can i put it in my personal campaign?[/stupid newbie]