[aldo_14]

Looks good

RE: Karma, this is what i meant.... it looks a lot older, rather than corroded i s'pose

[Liberator]

Originally posted by Nico
getting closer:







I wanna get Dark's crown with this one

Now you're cooking with GAS!!  That is beautiful!!:nod:

[Woolie Wool]

I can't stop looking at it...

[Nico]

Wheeee, I'm almost done with the main lod!



That's pretty tiring, doing that thing... And making the lods, now THAT is gonna be fun
Anyway, Windows just told me I was running dangerously low on memory, so I think it's time to stop for today.

[Woolie Wool]

*spooge*

Could you orient it in a conventional three-quarter view so we can get a really good look at it?

Like this:

[Nico]

tomorrow, I've shut down max already.

[aldi]

wow nico that is the best fighter i have seen when do you think you will release it.

[adwight]

Best ship ever created, period.  Damn it, it's amazing and perfect.  I wish I had the skills of you man, awesome...

[Woolie Wool]

I'm not sure if I would ever want to change it. Damn, that's a fine ship now that it's completed its little diet.

[IceFire]

Venom...almost sorry to say it but I DO think you can have Dark's crown with that one.  Thats amazingly awesome!  Incredibly amazingly awesome

Just make sure its a good size for the FS2 engine when you convert!

I'll be signing up to fly her!

[Ace]

Originally posted by Nico
Wheeee, I'm almost done with the main lod!

That's pretty tiring, doing that thing... And making the lods, now THAT is gonna be fun
Anyway, Windows just told me I was running dangerously low on memory, so I think it's time to stop for today.

Nice, the high res textures really pay off

I'm not a fan of the hull plating lines being so bold as well as the strong beveling on some of the things, prefering a subtle beveling on all of the details, however since you're aiming for an anime look it works.

I love the version with the nose canards since it reminds be of the SAAB Viggin (one of my favorite airplanes since it's so weird)

...and it looks like Dark is dead, long live Venom! (of course now Dark will show up after all of these years and make us bow down to his campaign, Arsenal of Darkness, which has in truth secretly been in development... )

[aldo_14]

Venico, how long did you actually spend on that map BTW?

[jdjtcagle]

Nico, that person should be on all Fs2 fighters:nod:

[Nico]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Venico, how long did you actually spend on that map BTW?

started two days ago, working on and off on it.

Ace: it's Viggen ( and it's not especailly weird, not more than the grippen, the rafale or the ef2000, try the draken, if you want an odd looking saab plane )

Icefire: it'll be scaled around the pilot, so I'm afraid it'll be as big as the old version
Difference is, this time, it's gonna face FS2 era ships, not the OTT fighters and weapons. The thing is quite superior, gotta have some sort of weakness, right? ( well I know you won't agree, but can't help it )

jdjtcagle: I don't understand what you mean

[Bobboau]

you know what I think would be especaly cool, if you shine mapped it so the darker colors were shiney (and had a diferent color tint) and the white was matte.

it looks like you haven't UVmapped the very top/bottom, but that could just be te texture

[Nico]

they are uv mapped, but that's a side mapping, hence the map warping there. But I can't do anything about it: no more room on the map to add such a large area

[Bobboau]

[Nico]

bah, come on, ingame, nobody would notice.

[KARMA]

you should try to fix at least the polys with the white plating.
You don't notice it on the black parts due to low contrast, but it is noticeable on the white. Maybe trying to reuse other portions of the map, partially redesigning them to make it pssible?

[Nico]

I'm gonna try something. But seriously, it's much worse UNDER the nose
Anyway, fixing just the white part won't do it coz:
1) the white part doesn't follow at all the polys
2) in case of a reskin, that would just move the pb somewhere else