[Bobboau]

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/hiherc.zip

still in work, but good enough that you all should be sufficently impressed
this was posted in another thread, but I figured it deserved it's own thread

[Fineus]

Damn.. that's what I'm talking about! Upping to that level of detail alone is a good start - I don't even think more detail needs adding really - just some new textures...

[KARMA]

don't know if it work in game, and I looked at it only in modview, but you better check the way the to halfs are connected;) (the mirror tool of ts6 should fix it)
except this it's excellent (still don't like the side guns, thought)

[Bobboau]

I tryed useing mirror, it didn't work very good, so I just stuck them togther so people can play with it.

btw you should be useing the fs1 maps (I recomend you rescale them to 512x512, the fs1 maps should be slightly larger than that)

[KARMA]

lemmetry...be back in some minutes

[kasperl]

make screenies, please, i still haven't found the time to tinker enough to get FSO working.

[Fineus]

It crashes my copy of FS2 - the game loads ok but if I try to view it in techroom or  in mission, it quits to desktop.

[Drew]

i tested it hearlyer and it looks awesome

ill have some screens in a few mins bob.

[KARMA]

probably it is due the problem above.
btw bob I found that the mirror doesn't work when there are disconnected submodels (ventral guns), probably it is this why you weren't able to use the mirror tool.
http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/swfs2/wips/highherc.cob
edit: if the mirror lines aren't necessary for the uvmaps, you better cut em since they increase a bit the pcount.
Also, if you disconnect some bits here and there (splitting in few submodels) you should be able to save a lot of polys and have more room for extradetails.
Btw it isn't very necessary, since pcount isn't that high and it is already sweet

[Black Wolf]

From the top

FS2 Model, FS2 Texs

FS2 Model, FS1 Texs

Bobb's Model, FS1 Texs

[Bobboau]

well those were glued after I tried, try moveing some of the verts along the center line, you'll probly see there is quite a bit of weirdness going on, and I didn't want to deal with that

also this is for the HT&L capable FSO builds, it will crash stock FS (and most likely non-HTL mode FSO) undoubtedly, use the most up to date build.

[KARMA]

well in the cob I posted above I succesfully used the mirror, so the two halfs are now connected, and the line in the middle should be clean

[KARMA]

btw where are the moderators? we need a new highlight;)

[Fineus]

Ah yes, I forgot to turn HTL on... it works fine now - I'll upload some shots when I get back from the bank.

Edit: Right, here we go...



http://www.zen8740.zen.co.uk/hiherc/techroom.jpg
http://www.zen8740.zen.co.uk/hiherc/screen02.jpg
http://www.zen8740.zen.co.uk/hiherc/screen05.jpg
http://www.zen8740.zen.co.uk/hiherc/screen08.jpg

[mikhael]

Not too bad, Bob, but it barely looks different to me. Maybe I need to pull out my Herc1 model again.

[Drew]

aww cmon mik, wait untill you see some real screens

HTL was on, thats why there are no shines

as usual, techroom first.


check out what Bob did with the sides



worst screen i got, buy look what bob did with the fin.


nice ass


see those scoops? theyr *inside* instead of flat.


bod did  a great job sprucing it up   now if somone can get those halves fixed

[Fineus]

Oh, and Highlighted

[Woolie Wool]

The Herc may not be all that different, but there's really not much you can do with such a blocky ship.

[Lightspeed]

The great thing is it uses the current texture mapping.

It's pretty easy to make really high-res textures for it this way... the thing that makes it looking like the old one is just the bad texture job

Once the model is done, i can texture it, if nobody else wants to do it

[Ashrak]

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