[LAW ENFORCER]

humm it turned it into a borg ship....

not what I was looking for!:lol:

Its actualy armour pads.... (tech for 100% damage death)


The lights n stuff on the other hand work quite well... I will put some on my texture and see what happens:)

[Flipside]

LOL Damn! I always do the greens too bright, and without the model to check textures against, it was all hit and miss anyway
Ah well, it was worth a try

Flipside

[Taristin]

Better, but no on the green...

[Krackers87]

2 things

1 add engines that pos out of the side.

2 make the green stuff dark blue (with glowmaps Hint: presure containment field for unstable objects or large ones) or dark silver that stands out against the other siler. Also make the main silver part darker. Its way to bright of a color for a freighter.

Edit: 3 make 1 fighter bay near the top of the front instead of four and add some gubins to the bottom part or make it slant backwards. Like this (ignore the ----) :

_______
--------l
--------l
-------/
_____/

4 round out the front

[LAW ENFORCER]

yeah.... no

thanks but its staying the way it is blue, boxy and it has enough engines! Do you want me to exceed the limit and crash FS2???

yeah Raa the green was flipside's 'experiment':nervous:

[Flipside]

LOL Not quite experiment, just the result of trying to design up a texture scheme in the whole 15 mins I spent on that one at 3:10am It wasn't really so much designed to show my texturing abilities, as to show that a non-symmetrical will help to 'untile' repeated-looking textures, and look on the bright side, at least I had a pop at 'something'

I've de-greenified the texture now, but no matter what, textures alone wouldn't break up the surface enough. Still a nice model though.


Flipside

[LAW ENFORCER]

thats right! so what do you think of the latest 'bits and bobs'?

[Black Wolf]

What you need to do is put a similar but different texture in the middle somewhere, so that it's not always the blue section repeated over and over so close toether.

[LAW ENFORCER]

Another daring adventure for Captain obvious and his sidekick Duh...


Its a repeating texture... it took me ages to align correctly (15mins:D )  and putting one in the middle would mean breaking up the side (UV too) to put in a bit of extra texture - all in all too much work for a small amount

so im just going to hope people are too busy shooting at it to notice... mabye the cannon tracers will distract them?

[StratComm]

Originally posted by LAW ENFORCER
thanks but its staying the way it is blue, boxy and it has enough engines! Do you want me to exceed the limit and crash FS2???

Exceed the limit?  Freespace limits engines?  I've never seen any evidence of that

It looks much better with the other stuff attached, I think the big killer was the large expanse of box that ran from under the bridge to the front of the ship; it may seem fine but in conjunction with the obvious tiling it made the ship look too plain.  As for the front, I know it's not done but you need something to break the symmetry (plus the fact that the hanger bays look like they were poured out of concrete) to improve that.  I would suggest that you take off one and turn it into a group of antennas, but leave the other three as they are.

[LAW ENFORCER]

It has enought anttenas...

it supposed to be a 'cheap' (compared to TSC) company civilian carrier... its not the saviour of the universe:p


I was thinking about putting large pads of geomartry that are really thin and textured diffrently that basicaly cover up parts of the texture but the polys are going up its about 900 now and I still need to add a few things inside and those pads... gonna have to make the engines destroyable it seems mabe the eniter bridge area too...

[LAW ENFORCER]

ok can yous see an glaring mistakes? ugly parts? well? (I dont remeber modeling any wells on it though)

[FreeTerran]

Nice how long is it ?

[LAW ENFORCER]

err... I dont know, I havn't converted it yet... () but those doors should be about 30m wide to accomidate medium bombers which it can carry (fighters are about 5-10m wide)

[LAW ENFORCER]

bump...


wounldn't mind some opinions/ideas ya know....

[Flipside]

Well, since this is to be a carrier, you will probs need radar and a few point defences. And how about a large landing pad on the top for freighters and other things that are too big to land in the fighter bays. After all, the things gotta resupply somehow?

Flipside

[LAW ENFORCER]

turrets are installed sepratly before LODs and debris etc its got lots of radar.... see those attena? they are sensors... read my tech refrences when my MOD comes out for further information;)

its dock will just be on the side shuttles can land in the hanger

[Flipside]

I would say it's pretty much done then, most Aircraft carriers are quite literally Runways with a ship under them, this ship looks perfectly functional and believable as a Carrier.
I suppose the SCP could let you do some cool things with the textures as they are Are you going to use an animated glowmap for the landing lights along the side of the bays? That would be cool Another nice little texture effect would be to use a specular map that is very bright for the light gray panels, and quite dark for the rest of the texture, that would help add that 'Armour' feel to them
The only other thing I might suggest is maybe put some lights on the lower bridge section, sort of crew quarters?

Flipside

[LAW ENFORCER]

ah yes! Windows, lights! Thats why it looks so bland up there! Thank you!


Yes SCP stuff will be used in my Gamma demo (in joke - thats obvious as well)

(waiting for a stable release that has everything before test/demo gets underway with missions but scripts and models is coming along nicly now)