[Krackers87]

Made completely in TrueSpace. The FS upgrade wanted higher poly models so i made this.

Im not done yet.

[Liberator]

Looks more like the older Cerberus sentry.

[Woolie Wool]

Yeah, it's a Watchdog/Cerberus, not an Alastor.

And what's with the handles? Is some enormous astronaut supposed to pick these up and carry them to where they will be deployed?

[Starks]

What is the diff between the Cerebus and Watchdog?

[Bobboau]

some table values

[diamondgeezer]

Yeah, the Cerberus takes about two hits to kill while the Watchdog takes a few more. Or possibly the other way round.

Kracks mate, try adding mechanical details like maintainance hatches and what not. Maybe some tubing or cabling or something. Steal ideas from the Mjolinir thread.

[Taristin]

Ok, so it is pretty good, but I hope those handly bits are made from the mesh, and not just glued there...


Not that it really matters to me, but...

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Yeah, the Cerberus takes about two hits to kill while the Watchdog takes a few more. Or possibly the other way round.

Kracks mate, try adding mechanical details like maintainance hatches and what not. Maybe some tubing or cabling or something. Steal ideas from the Mjolinir thread.

The Watchdog is the wimpy one, with 20 hitpoints and Terran Turrets. The Cerberus is a little tougher, with more hitpoints and Subachs.

[Setekh]

I remember these babies from FS1, mostly. "These sentries have been reprogrammed!" Lookin' good, K.

[TopAce]

I really don't know why it is needed to make a small sentry gun higher poly. You won't see those details if you take out the sentries from a distance(>200 metters). Unless you collide with it, you see nothing about those details.

You should do warships more detailed. Like a Hatshepsut, or the Typhon. Or are they difficult to edit?

[KARMA]

there are a couple of edges in the main struct that look a bit odd, except this it look nice althought I'd make some little more detailed guns: the barrell for example could benefit of a larger tip, and the turrett base could be less blocky or have more detailes

anyway..topace, you are right, there are more important models that should be redone, but I think that kracker's intention was to gain experience, and the best way to gain experience is to make practice, starting from the very simple models
And don't forget that with lods you will hardly see lod0, there will be almost no performance hit at all from this thing.

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by TopAce
I really don't know why it is needed to make a small sentry gun higher poly. You won't see those details if you take out the sentries from a distance(>200 metters). Unless you collide with it, you see nothing about those details.

For fun?

[TopAce]

Originally posted by KARMA
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anyway..topace, you are right, there are more important models that should be redone, but I think that kracker's intention was to gain experience, and the best way to gain experience is to make practice, starting from the very simple models
And don't forget that with lods you will hardly see lod0, there will be almost no performance hit at all from this thing.

Yeah, if you make the LOD distance flag well.

[diamondgeezer]

To answer your question TA, I think the majority of peeps here want to see the entire fleet upgraded eventually. This will take a lot of work, and so anything modelers can do to help will aid the process. I also think Krackers ahs made a good choice in tackling the Watchdog since, no offense to him, he's a relative modelling noob compared to the Mjolnir guys. This a is an excellent project for him to build his talents. As you said, this senrty is a very small feature of the game and will hardly be noticed, but it's a small step in the right direction

Now, a question of my own - with all this HTL fancy stuff, should the V models have their LOD draw distances revised so that high detail LODs are displayed at greater distances than the defaults?

[Bobboau]

in regards to upgradeing poly counts the entier fleet, look at this

[kasperl]

i doubt it would help much, really. on ultra high detail you don't see much but LOD0 IIRC, and even LOD0 isn't all that detailed on most V ships either.

[TopAce]

OK, polycount incease, but what about the textures? I belive the [V] Cerberus texture won't fit the current model completely. Just have a look at the model itself, and imagine the original Cerberus at the same position.

You will see what I say(write ) ....

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Bobboau
in regards to upgradeing poly counts the entier fleet, look at this

... says a man with an ATI card to a man with a GF4

Get this run under nVidia and I'll give you gold

[Taristin]

Ditto.

[diamondgeezer]

Look Bobboau! Gold! Beautiful shiney gold! And it can be yours... you know what you must do...