[Shrike]

Done in MAX 4.0, it's currently sitting at 87,199 polys which will get trimmed by the elimination of several more or less unseen parts.  It's more or less completed as a model, there's a few things left to add such are the recon drone bays along the top and bottom, but that's minor.

Isometric, side and top, in order.





And as a bonus feature, a look at the weapon loadout of the Cyclone!   The purple cluster you see floating around is one rotary's worth of missiles done as higher-poly models.  The first image is a single missile.  The blue hexagons are decoys and the rod is marked in one-meter intervals.  The second image is a cluster as they would be attached to the rotary spindle (which hasn't been modelled).  The final image is a wireframe showing the location of the 60 rotaries, in light blue.





Thanks for looking.

[Styxx]

Well, I've already replied at one of the other forums where you posted this, so I think I don't have to repeat myself.

[Nuclear1]

[Darth Vader]Impressive..... most impressive....[/Darth Vader]

Pretty good . Its gotta lotta guns (and hell, that's good )

[mikhael]

Looks good, but too many fiddly bits.

Seriously, 80k polys is a bit high for the detail I'm seeing. How many subdivisions are you using in the fillets and rounds?

[Ashrak]

niiiiice

[beatspete]

rotary missle launchers =  Top idea there, Shrike. What sort of scale is it comparable to? Corvete size?

[Anaz]

damn those be ugly missiles

Cool idea...looks like it needs to be animated

[Hudzy]

That is one sweet ship.

[Shrike]

Originally posted by mikhael
Seriously, 80k polys is a bit high for the detail I'm seeing. How many subdivisions are you using in the fillets and rounds?

The point defense turrets have a higher poly count than they probably should, that's where a fair bit of the poly count is coming from.

Originally posted by beatspete
rotary missle launchers =  Top idea there, Shrike. What sort of scale is it comparable to? Corvete size?

The hull length is about 300 meters.

[mikhael]

You should be able to take it way down for distant shots, or even medium closeups. What software are you using (Max, I assume)? And what are you intending to do with it?

The missile system rocks big time. Are the apertures big enough to launch the entire magazine (obviating the need for such a nice system) or are there single missile tube apertures that we can't see?

Also, good job on the missiles themselves. Its good to see people break away from atmospheric designs.

[Shrike]

Originally posted by mikhael
You should be able to take it way down for distant shots, or even medium closeups. What software are you using (Max, I assume)? And what are you intending to do with it?

Renders.... I suppose at some point I'll make an animation, but I've never done that before, so that's not a big concern at the moment.  And it's done in MAX 4.0

[q]The missile system rocks big time. Are the apertures big enough to launch the entire magazine (obviating the need for such a nice system) or are there single missile tube apertures that we can't see?[/q]It's single tubes, if you look at the top pic and the rearmost launcher you can see the tubes (the armored cover is open). I've done VLS-style designs, I wanted to do something else.

[q]Also, good job on the missiles themselves. Its good to see people break away from atmospheric designs. [/Q]Weellll....... It's based on an atmospheric missile.  Although the lack of streamlining is obvious, it's not meant to be fired into atmosphere.  Plus, I got an extra 2 missiles per launcher by going to space-optimised instead of the round ones I had before.

The little launchers will have missiles that are off-square in cross section, I'll do up a detailed model of those and post 'em - next year.

[Warlock]

As always another kickass model

I do see two flaws now though :

You never make anything FREESPACE MOD ABLE!!!!!!!

Worse.........oh so much worse :

You've still not done the two models for me in like 8 months lmao (The fighter and saber hilt,...yea I knew you forgot  lol no biggy)

Ok I'll go hide now

[Setekh]

Very nice, I like the missiles in particular. Like Analazon said, I think it would look great animated - think that's within your reach?

Oh, and do you plan on texturing?

[USS Alexander]

I only have 1 word........w00t:cool:

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Setekh
Oh, and do you plan on texturing?

Oh, the forbidden question has been asked!

[SKYNET-011]

*cough* lvlshot please *cough*

Oh great, now I got KT's cough.

[Shrike]

Textures!  Ohmygod!!!!

[Stryke 9]

Eew. Change it back.

[Anaz]

Looks vaguely b5-ish...

[Levyathan]

I like the green touch.