[beatspete]

Wow, those models are actually quite beautiful, in their own way. The high poly stuff being produced by you guys is really impressive

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Ryx

Polycount: ~13500

Right I feel I've spent enough time on those generator things. Time to return to the actual turret. Now I feel, I have to model some sort of mechanism, that moves the barrels up and down, so that's what I hope to do today. I am still going to try to get a third barrel in there!

You might want to burn a few more polys on the hairpin bends on those tubes. Of course, you'll almost NEVER see them that close, but still...

[Ryx]

Originally posted by mikhael

You might want to burn a few more polys on the hairpin bends on those tubes. Of course, you'll almost NEVER see them that close, but still...

Well, when I resized stuff for the third barrel, I had to redo those hoses and they look a bit better now. Otherwise, I think tweaking around with the smoothing should work pretty well.


As per Venom's suggestion, I scaled the turrets down 60%, and it turned out pretty well.
There are a few minor details I want to put in, but otherwise modeling is finished. At least, I can't think of anything more to do.

[mikhael]

Very nice. There's a few flat surfaces that I'd add detail to, but you'll probably use textures for that.

[Ashrak]

nice cant wait to render with that

[Stryke 9]

Man, now I'm losing interest in my own ****. Quick, gimme an estimate on how long that took so I can feel better.

I give it four idolatries out of five. Waiting on the completed for the last.

[Ryx]

oh, I don't know, 3-4 days.

[HeX]

Originally posted by Shrike

You're being an idiot too.

Yeah well we all got our hobbies.


Regardless, I'm interested to see what the Orion could look like with these kind of turrets. Could be interesting. Might even look better then the original design which I found to be....blah. Honestly, the Orion turrets were IMO absolute crap looking. A totally unique design could add much.

[HeX]

And from what I'm seeing, this is going to be a DAMN impressive model.

[WMCoolmon]

Just so long as he doesn't decide to model the entire crew, too

[Warlock]

Turret looks great .... just I have to agree with Shrike....just doesn't look .... FS-ish to me.

Scarey thing is my GF agreed .... and she's only caught a few glimpses of FS2 this weekend after I finally reinstalled it.

But like i said ... the model itself looks excellent ! Damned good job

[delta_7890]

Bah, who cares if it isn't FS-ish?  Methinks the Orion could use a bit of a redesign anyways!

[Warlock]

Well hey if it's an Orion MK II go for it

just saying Shrike has a point,... you can't really call a design a repilca if you're not trying to be as close to 100% to the original as possible.

[Ryx]

Originally posted by Warlock
Well hey if it's an Orion MK II go for it

just saying Shrike has a point,... you can't really call a design a repilca if you're not trying to be as close to 100% to the original as possible.

*cough*

Originally posted by Ryx
Allright then, It'll be an Orion variant/retrofit/whatever.

*cough*

[Warlock]

LOL OK got me ... I was half asleep when I read the thread last night

[Galemp]

ARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!!!! That's it, I'm making my own Terran Huge Turret hi-poly model that LOOKS like the one on the Orion. I can't stand having this on there.

[Galemp]

Here, just some quick fiddling around in Rhino. Needs work, obviously, but it's what I'd like to see.

[vyper]

*must see in-game one day...*

[Ryx]

A bit better. Now I want to put a little colour somewhere, but where?
I was thinking about putting some kind of text on the side of the turrets, but what should it say?

Anyone have any ideas for a better colour on the 'main' turret bit? I was thinking brownish, but I'd thought i'd ask first.

Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
Here, just some quick fiddling around in Rhino. Needs work, obviously, but it's what I'd like to see.

 I suggest you continue modeling that then. I'm not changing mine, at this point.

[Mr Carrot]

Looks great but get rid of the glowing lights it makes it look all cheap sci fi instead of real gritty millitary hardware.