[KARMA]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h


Odd. I get smoothing to work.

It looks excellent VasAd.

Karma... try the Lucifer next

Or better yet, the Faustus. It had HUGE maps in FS1.

smoothing working with pcs? are you sure???what version?

for other ships... well I need also to like the ships I'm working on, and I don't like many except for fighters, and the lucifer isn't exactly at the top of my preferred. Faustus isn't bad, thought

[Starks]

So, anyone wanna wanna beef if up to "look" like a Leviathan?

[aldo_14]

Maybe he means smooth groups?

[Solatar]

*wants high-poly Apollo*

We need an Orion next.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Yay! Fantastic work

And yeah, Orion should be next on the list

[Raptor]

Originally posted by KARMA
I'd like to work in future -if nobody else will to meanwhile- on the deimos, but considering the way she's textured I'll probably diverge a lot from the original model: I'll not only just add details using the textures as reference, since there aren't textures that can be used for this purpose.

Just like the one I'm working (slowly) on: the Aeolus.

Very nice model there KARMA!:yes: Be intresting to see how you detail up the Deimos!

And very good work too Vasudan Admiral!  Though I will need to redo my Levithan maps for it (I created varient maps to differ the Lev from the Fenris).

Speaking of the Aeolus, someone please give comments on my progress so far here!
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,19967.0.html

I can't make a ship the comminuty will accept if I don't get comments!:shaking:

[kasperl]

you might want to throw it in a new thread and scream "HIGH POLY SHIPS IN HERE" at the top of your lungs.

[Lightspeed]

I'd like that engine to have an actual engine in it. Not sure how the ship flies with the BrickWall™ thruster

Else than that, I like it

[Starks]

Is there any poly difference at all between the Fenris and Leviathan?

[Vasudan Admiral]

Karma: PCS 1.1 and 1.3.4 definitly support smoothing- i use them all the time, especially considering the new lighting in FS, where a faceted ship can look...odd to say the least. especially during it's own explosion. smooth shading seems to make the light illuminate the right bits naturally, whereas faceted faces light up differently, often highlighting the fact that it is a model

Karma... try the Lucifer next

funny you should say that:





A few smaller details - so it doesn't take over the thread

and a final shot showing where the foreward red bit went

i began work on this secretly for TI a long while ago, before Woomeister did his one, so as you can imagine, i was quite surprised when he came up with the same thing later on.
i made the additions and changes after a looong time scrutinising the fs1 cutscenes, the decent network images and a bit of guesswork

it's nowhere near finished yet, and nowhere near the quality of Karmas fenris, and i'll probably end up stripping off the textures to do some real geometry editing (actually modeling some of the textured detail) before re-applying them, but that's it so far

back on topic:
Lightspeed:
well, i was trying to keep to the original maps as best i could, and the bit i used for the engine is actually from the radar surface. i will change it when i find something better to replace it with, but till then it does look better than the original single colour used

LLL:
no difference at all

Raptor:
there wouldn't be much to change between the maps, but you would have to reposition a couple of small details here and there that no matter how much warping i did i couldn't get to sit in the right places.

edit: oops, last link went to the same shot as the one above it. fix0red

[Starks]

The Lucifer is just ugly... Make a mk II model and give it a new name like...

Phlegethon
Cocytus
Malebolge
Acheron

[Taristin]

...I may be an extreme minority, but.

[size=500]Anubis!!!![/size]

Make that.

[Starks]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
...I may be an extreme minority, but.

[size=500]Anubis!!!![/size]

Make that.

The what?


Hmmm... PVF Anubis... Where have I heard that name before?

[Solatar]

Make the PVF Anubis!!! That is one of my favorite ships.

[Bobboau]

that Lucifer is greate, I think more detail should be added to the arms though, try to break up the simle shapes so it doesn't just look like an extruded triangle.

and the facet build is the most up-to-date version of PCS that will ever be made, there is nothing in that build missing that is in any other build, the changes made were minor but quite spectacular

[Starks]

The whole damn thing is dull, grainy, and blocky...

[KARMA]

Originally posted by Bobboau
that Lucifer is greate, I think more detail should be added to the arms though, try to break up the simle shapes so it doesn't just look like an extruded triangle.

second that.
the arms just suck, except them you are making that ugly ship looking pretty nice, so good work so far:) Unfourtunately also the textures suck and they'd need a revamp too.

and the facet build is the most up-to-date version of PCS that will ever be made, there is nothing in that build missing that is in any other build, the changes made were minor but quite spectacular [/B]

then I don't understand, to me the last pcs version that supported smoothing was 1.1, and I'm pretty sure (may be wrong, but improbable) I tested smoothing in the autofacet build too, with no success. Should check again.

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Vasudan Admiral

Lightspeed:
well, i was trying to keep to the original maps as best i could, and the bit i used for the engine is actually from the radar surface. i will change it when i find something better to replace it with, but till then it does look better than the original single colour used

The original at least looked like some sort of hole. A brick walled-engine  will not have any chance of putting out thrust, though. better have a solid black area there than that brick wall

[Vasudan Admiral]

thanx
i'll see what i can do about the arms, although they are uv mapped in a really odd way that i think will be difficult to copy at best.
but i have an idea of what to do with them geometry wise.

edit: (lightspeed posted just before me ) - i will put something in it's place, don't worry about that
just gotta find something that looks better than four thruster nozzels

[KARMA]

I haven't added anything to the thruster hole since I just supposed it was going to be covered by thruster glow, so it would have been a poly-waste.