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New Cruiser/Corvette *UPDATE*
I recently finished a couple of long-winded models in Truespace.  The next few posts are all ships i made.  this one here is a
proposed cruiser/corvette. three photos below are of the ship itself.    Like always, i have no name for it.  angelfire refuses to let me let people dl things off of it, so if anyone could recommend a good FTP for files, it would be greatly appreciated, kudos to Village Photos for their high-quality service
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Offline karajorma

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I like it but it's a little flat edged. How many polys is it? Can you spare some to round the beak and engines out a little?
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Make the circles rotate and call it a vasudan exploration vessel - the rings could be like micro knossoses, allowing it to traverse unstable node.
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First thoughts: you've gotten a little too close to the sweep button.  Also, turn off quadrangle subdivision if you have it on, thouse are fine for renders but terrible for FS models.  I wouldn't mention it but it looks like (particularly on this design) that there are a couple of areas comsuming the vast majority of your polygon count, i.e. the leading edge of the forward "wings," and they have a bit of that repetition indicative of the quad division feature.

The design is good, much better than my early designs.  Just try some things besides sweeping, or sweeping different parts in sequence, rather than relying on one long sweep to get you where you want to go with extrusions.  Not to discourage you from using the feature (I still use it predominantly in the construction of new ship designs), but try to make use of the bevel, tip, vertex weld, and add/remove faces tools while you are adding features.  One last tip, in case you haven't been warned already, AVOID THE BOOLEANS!!!  At least unless you know how to fix the stuff that they screw up...
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Offline Anaz

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Stratt-you may not know, but this isn't one of his first designs :D

*hunts up other pics to use as blackmail :drevil:*

Anyways, I think this one would make a better science ship than a cruiser, and you have a lot of wasted polys on that second collection of faces from the front.
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Originally posted by Analazon
Stratt-you may not know, but this isn't one of his first designs :D

*hunts up other pics to use as blackmail :drevil:*

Anyways, I think this one would make a better science ship than a cruiser, and you have a lot of wasted polys on that second collection of faces from the front.


Yeah, there was that other fighter mod he did a while back, but I got the same feeling from it, just not as pronounced as these.  The fighters are good looking, but I think this ship is a bit on the blocky side and has some obvious polygon wastage.  Unless it's just a trick of the shading, of course...

EDIT: speaking of which, a basic wireframe would help us see the shape better in that untextured state.

And last I checked, you could still host up to 15mb on Geocities.
« Last Edit: February 26, 2003, 04:02:22 pm by 570 »
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Last edited by StratComm on 08-23-2027 at 08:34 PM

  
would definatly make a good future vasudan style ship, similar theme to a sobek. Though as people have said - poly count. :doubt:

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can't see it

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Offline Anaz

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Originally posted by StratComm


Yeah, there was that other fighter mod he did a while back, but I got the same feeling from it, just not as pronounced as these.  The fighters are good looking, but I think this ship is a bit on the blocky side and has some obvious polygon wastage.  Unless it's just a trick of the shading, of course...

EDIT: speaking of which, a basic wireframe would help us see the shape better in that untextured state.

And last I checked, you could still host up to 15mb on Geocities.


no stratt...I mean his very FIRST models...you see, I taught him how to use TS last summer :D
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
can't see it

broken links up the ying yang


same here
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Originally posted by Katalyan
Sorry, my images are hosted on a free village photos account, i will be upgrading soon to increase bandwidth amopunt so that you can see it all the time!  until then wait for the server reset


Try editing the post so that the picture is a hyperlink. That way people like me who have seen it don`t waste your bandwidth.

EDIT : Yay! I`ve got my avatar back :) Thanks to the admin who did it :)
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Offline Killfrenzy

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I WANT THAT SHIP!!!!

But again, it'll be a civilian ship - probably a freighter....
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Offline diamondgeezer

I likes it :nod:

Definitely Vasudan - maybe a new cruiser, like a mini Sobek?

 

Offline pyro-manic

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Like it a lot, but I think it looks a little flimsy.  Make it a bit bigger in the middle, and it'll look a lot harder!:)
The poly count looks huge,  especially on the front - could cause problems.
I like Black Wolf's mini-knossos explorer ship idea - would be cool!
Very good, though - when's it gonna get textured?
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Offline Knight Templar

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Vasudan Science deffinitly. Maybe lab experiments with Zero-G or something in the rings.
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It is a high poly count, mostly the rings in the middle though,  I will be removing a lot of polys from the nose but the back was relatively low.  Expect an up date soon.  To killfrenzy:  what would you like this ship for and as what.  I've heard science vessel but i was hoping to stick some beam turrets on the forward protrusion, but my turreting/texturing skills are zilch.  if anyone could direct my way towards a good texturing or turreting tutorial it would be greatly appreciated.  also, having been recently relocated to my laptop, can someone redirect me towards the PCS and VpView and DescentView web pages?  eiter that or i'll get my good buddy Analazon to email 'em. :p
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Offline karajorma

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Links to all the programs are in my FAQ. There are quite a few good modding tutorials linked to in there too.
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Offline Killfrenzy

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Kat: She'd be a civilian ship, either a light freighter or pleasure craft. Probably the latter. It's for a total conversion I'm doing.
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I am currently bonking out the kinks on my ships expect updates soon.
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