[Krackers87]

4000 Triangles

Edit: Replaced pic with latest V. for the Atention Defecit who wont bother reading my last post...

[jdjtcagle]

*wipes tear* It's finally happening...

[karajorma]

It's the triangle count that is really important not polys. I suspect that once triangulated that will be way too high.

Pity cause it's a beautiful ship.

[TopAce]

Turret?

[Liberator]

A lot of it is in the greebling, which would only be visible in LOD1.  But the missile tips need to go(for gameplay), they're probably 100 polies apiece, but there are 16 of them.

[TopAce]

If I had to rate it on a 0-10 scale, my classification would be:

Missile pods: 8/10
Cockpit: 7/10
Middle part: 5/10
Engines and the back part: 9/10

[Rictor]

I like it, but I suspect that of those details are going to get lost in the textures. If you want to make greebling/detail stand out when textures are applied, you have to make it fairly exagerated. Take a look at Bobbaou's Deimos, most of the noticeable details have been somewhat "stylized' for lack of a better word.

For example, the second pic you posted, the back view, would not have the details lost, since they're big and chunky, but the front view has lots of subtle details which I fear may not show all that much ingame.

[Krackers87]

Took out the pods, so now its 2000 polys (so it was less than 100 per pod ) i might make some new lower poly ones later on.

Originally posted by TopAce
Turret?

oops


Edit: Nuts, i also forgot to do the guns..

[Black Wolf]

OK - you beat me - I basically suggested everything you did - except could you drop the green dot? That's a texture detail I reckon.

Otherwise, beautiful!

[Krackers87]

The green dot is a refrence point of where i wanted to put a glow point, its like a beacon light.

[magatsu1]

Originally posted by karajorma
It's the triangle count that is really important not polys. I suspect that once triangulated that will be way too high.

Pity cause it's a beautiful ship.

I always thought polys and triangles were the same thing...

[Black Wolf]

They are...Sort of. Polys can be any shape, but every regular 2d shape can be reduced down to a number of triangles. Many games, including FSO, reduce down the polies (Which may be squares, pentagons, dodecagons etc.) to their component triangles for rendering. This increases the polycount, but doesn;t change the shape of the model. So triangles can be polies, and once the model has been triangulated then they are the polies - but they can also be different.

[KARMA]

yeah, you have to triangulize, or you can't evaluate the performance hit.
I suspect the rounded intakes on the sides to be too much rounded, be sure they don't have more than 10/12 edges each at the border
Then you still can add the missle launchers, just make some intakes using 8 sided elements

[TopAce]

If I had at least a slight modelling knowledge, I would have made the rocket pods deeper.

[Starks]

The following ships are still UGLY!!!!

-Sekhmet
-Lucifer (My eyes bleed because noone has ever tried to make her pretty)
-Cain/Lilith

[Nico]

Krackers, if you want, you can get my cockpit from the link in my sig.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by LLivingLarge
The following ships are still UGLY!!!!

...
-Lucifer (My eyes bleed because noone has ever tried to make her pretty)
...

I think GalacticEmperor made a higher poly Lucifer for Inferno.

[jdjtcagle]

Yeah, and it's supposed to be more like the one in Fs1 CBANIMS

[Trivial Psychic]

Originally posted by TopAce
I think GalacticEmperor made a higher poly Lucifer for Inferno.

It is for Inferno, but IIRC it wasn't GE that made it.  There was a link to it somewhere in the recent threads in the Inferno forum.  It has been suggested that it could be returreted and given a shield mesh, and then added into the Port, but the Port has been somewhat inactive for several months now.  I think GE has left the community.

Later!

[jdjtcagle]

What!?!?!
He can't leave...