[Shrike]

Bit more playing, with lights.  I'll have to get back to modelling in more details soon.

[Stryke 9]

Maybe a LITTLE better. Need more variety in the texes.

[Shrike]

Variety in the textures themselves or just more textures?

[Fetty]

more more more
or paint the ship pink
i love that cycloneguts pics

[Anaz]

Originally posted by Fetty
or paint the ship pink

and  you are high on what now?

[Stryke 9]

Shrike: Probably both. You need some, I've got about 70 or so for metals (some repeats)...

[Shrike]

And because I'm a lazy SOB who should be modelling but isn't, here's a cel render.

[mikhael]

Give some weight to secondary lines. That's just too flat for even cel/manga shading.

[Shrike]

I know, it looks weird.  I just downloaded the shader, so I haven't really looked into its capabilities yet.

[Alikchi]

Niiice..

[Nico]

Originally posted by Shrike
Textures!  Ohmygod!!!!

those maps ruins the sense of scale.

[Fetty]

anala
imagine u meet a pink missle carrier in space

[Stryke 9]

...Launching the old GTCv Dildo as missiles?

[Shrike]

Updates on the main turrets.  Changed them from pulse to beam; yes the turrets look differently depending on what kind of weapon it contains.

[mikhael]

Is the entire beam projector in the hinge cylinder? Right now, it looks like the barrels have no machinery for generating anything behind them.

There's something wrong with the metal procedural too. I'm thinking the pockmarks look too deep. Something to do with the scale anyway. Something just isn't right there.

Otherwise, nice design.

[Shrike]

It's actually a U-Bend sort of dealy.  The muzzle is just for final vectoring and to strip the acceleration charge.  Most of the length of the acceleration ladder is 'below deck'.

[Fetty]

if it looks cool keep it comin

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Shrike
It's actually a U-Bend sort of dealy.  The muzzle is just for final vectoring and to strip the acceleration charge.  Most of the length of the acceleration ladder is 'below deck'.

How vulnerable do you suppose it would be for weapons where the barrels were completely above-deck? (That is, like the big turrets on the Orion, and unlike the little spot turrets on the Deimos.) Unshielded, do you suppose they'd really stand up to much?

[Nico]

Shrike, try that for materials:

shader basic parameters, replace blinn with metal
dunno how bright you want it, but for a nice dark color:
ambient: 44.44.44
diffuse: 146.146.146
put specular at about 80

glossiness map, use a smoke material ( set up th size/iterations/exponant as you want, but keep black/white colors )

add bump etc as you like

that's my favourite setup for maps.
you can make it lighter of course, but I think it might look as good.

[Shrike]

Originally posted by Setekh
How vulnerable do you suppose it would be for weapons where the barrels were completely above-deck? (That is, like the big turrets on the Orion, and unlike the little spot turrets on the Deimos.) Unshielded, do you suppose they'd really stand up to much?

Depends on how big the weapon is, and how much armor you can put on.  In the particular tech background for that ship, pulse cannons (ie some sort of plasma weapon) have most of their internals in the turret itself, whereas beam weapons which are some sort of particle accelerator have the main accelerator itself underneath the turret.  It's all under armor, of course, but the less you have actually moving, the faster you can make it move.  Either way they've got armor, but a big turret makes an awfully inviting target.

Originally posted by venom2506
Shrike, try that for materials:

shader basic parameters, replace blinn with metal
dunno how bright you want it, but for a nice dark color:
ambient: 44.44.44
diffuse: 146.146.146
put specular at about 80

glossiness map, use a smoke material ( set up th size/iterations/exponant as you want, but keep black/white colors )

add bump etc as you like

that's my favourite setup for maps.
you can make it lighter of course, but I think it might look as good.

I'll try this in the next iteration of the model and see how it comes out.  Currently I'm using some metal and some strauss shaders.