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Offline Raptor

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Return of the.....
on: March 01, 2004, 12:58:05 pm
I was not going to post about this until I had done the UVmapping, but I'm running out of ideas...

It's about my attempt to remake the Aeolus cruiser.
Previous thread:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,20322.0.html

Latest screenshot:

Excuse the size, it wouldn't reduce nicely...

I've redone the 'neck' and reduced the smoothing along the egdes, they were wasting polgons.  The ring in the 'neck' is meant to be the dock point.

Any futher thoughts people?  I get the feeling somethings missing, but I can't think what....:doubt:
...There ought to be something surreal about a Zoid offering romantic advice...and yet there is not. It seems perfectly normal that the Liger is giving Bit advice on relationships, and it shouldn't, but it does. Dangit man, you've confused me again.[/I]
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Offline Unknown Target

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Reply #1 on: March 01, 2004, 02:01:50 pm
EDIT: nvm, looking pretty good :)

But add more detail to the "nose" of the ship!
 

Offline Taristin

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Reply #2 on: March 01, 2004, 02:26:30 pm
I just love your turrets.

The mesh looks pretty good too.
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Offline mikhael

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Re: Return of the.....
Reply #3 on: March 01, 2004, 02:34:59 pm
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Originally posted by Raptor
Any futher thoughts people?  I get the feeling somethings missing, but I can't think what....:doubt:


Gimme the mesh. I'll show you what's missing. Unfortunately, It'll lose all its UV Mapping in the process.
[I am not really here. This post is entirely a figment of your imagination.]
 

Offline Raptor

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Reply #4 on: March 02, 2004, 03:00:07 am
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Originally posted by mikhael


Gimme the mesh. I'll show you what's missing. Unfortunately, It'll lose all its UV Mapping in the process.


Okay, since it dosn't have any UVmapping yet (the Dorsal/Ventral turrets do...).

Do you want the turrets as well, or just the hull?

Expect PM with link.
...There ought to be something surreal about a Zoid offering romantic advice...and yet there is not. It seems perfectly normal that the Liger is giving Bit advice on relationships, and it shouldn't, but it does. Dangit man, you've confused me again.[/I]
NGTM-R review of one of the chapters in my fanfic story :D Story is here! -> 'Ancient Legacies'
 

Offline Havock

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Reply #5 on: March 02, 2004, 07:45:51 am
I always thought the eauolus missed something, but it's something like a bridge.
there are NO windows at all :p
 

Offline Liberator

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Reply #6 on: March 02, 2004, 11:29:27 am
*cheesy brit accent* Brilliant!!
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

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Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #7 on: March 02, 2004, 10:02:43 pm
*corny Merrycan accent*

Lookin' mighty fine. Boy howdy.


You know, given factors such as the awful mapping on the V version and the lack of windows and what not, I have to suggest that a remap from scratch may be in order? It'd be a terrible shame to simply slap the V maps on this spanking new cruiser :nod:
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #8 on: March 02, 2004, 10:36:12 pm
The original Aeolus mapjob was an effing travesty, may i add.
 

Offline KARMA

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Reply #9 on: March 03, 2004, 03:43:37 am
yes, one of the weirdest examples of mapping
 

Offline Raptor

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Reply #10 on: March 03, 2004, 04:10:53 am
*pats Lilith UVunwrap*:D

Trust me, I have no intension of simply slapping on the terrible orginal mapping.;)

Just waiting to see what Mikhael does...
...There ought to be something surreal about a Zoid offering romantic advice...and yet there is not. It seems perfectly normal that the Liger is giving Bit advice on relationships, and it shouldn't, but it does. Dangit man, you've confused me again.[/I]
NGTM-R review of one of the chapters in my fanfic story :D Story is here! -> 'Ancient Legacies'
 

Offline KARMA

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Reply #11 on: March 03, 2004, 04:18:13 am
you could model some windows lines on the nose btw, to simulate a bridge
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #12 on: March 03, 2004, 05:44:28 am
Or minor window indents..... the original Aeolus doesn't have any windows, does it?
 

Offline KARMA

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Reply #13 on: March 03, 2004, 05:50:20 am
yes, I was thinking at window indents too, placed in lines at the top and the sides of the nose, indents like those I made for the fenris
 

Offline Raptor

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Reply #14 on: March 03, 2004, 07:37:09 am
Thats is possible, maybe I'll do that, If Mikhael dosn't.

Say Mik, any thing happening?
...There ought to be something surreal about a Zoid offering romantic advice...and yet there is not. It seems perfectly normal that the Liger is giving Bit advice on relationships, and it shouldn't, but it does. Dangit man, you've confused me again.[/I]
NGTM-R review of one of the chapters in my fanfic story :D Story is here! -> 'Ancient Legacies'
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #15 on: March 03, 2004, 07:46:04 am
More detail on the engine section maybe... hard to say from a side view, though.
 

Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #16 on: March 04, 2004, 10:27:45 am
The more you look at the Aelous, the more you realise quite how badly it was executed. I mean, it has to be one of V's best concepts yet they slaughtered it when it came to actually putting in the game. It has to hold some sort of record for good concept:bad execution ratio :nod:
 

Offline KARMA

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Reply #17 on: March 04, 2004, 10:43:14 am
actually I like a lot the aeolus concept. Maybe it isn't that original, it makes me think at the nebulon frigate from star wars, an helicopter and some other stuff, but indeed it's cool.
If you ask me what's the worst realized concept in the fs2 shipset, the aeolus would be one of most probable winners, with the hecate probably
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #18 on: March 04, 2004, 11:07:59 am

(very old ship)

Was based on the concept art that became the Aeolus.  Anyone who wants the pof, can 'ave it.  i'm not using it any more.
 

Offline Lightspeed

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Reply #19 on: March 04, 2004, 11:43:47 am
Make a Hi-Poly more Aeolus looking version of that, and it will rock :)

I dont mind changing the looks of some FS2 ships around, as some of them are really crappy (Aeolus is one of them).
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