[Nico]

Rooooh, I'm such a tease

[jdjtcagle]

*breaks down in more tears*
You better release this one

[Gloriano]

 Looks very good:yes:

[Taristin]

Oh! A cocpit. Didn't see that at first.

I will forever haunt you however I can should you not release this.

[karajorma]

If you don't release it we'll all just stick you on ignore

Looks gorgeous. How many polys etc?

[Black Wolf]

If you delete this one like you did the Mara, I'm joining An0n to invade France... In other words, err, I guess I like it

[Psychoo]

At last, the best FS2 Terran fighter is looking like it always should...  INCREDIBLE! AWESOME! BEAUTIFULL! I've just slightly increased brightness of that image above and set it as  wallpaper:D . Great Job!
Any chances to see in-game shots of this beauty soon?

[Rictor]

OK, it took me like 15 minutes and 4 tries to load that pic, I dunno whats up with swooh.

1. Very, very nice work Venom, as usual.
2. Its kinda dark, no? Well, seeing as how it a WIP, that may change.
3. Can we get some more shots?

[Nico]

Bah, the dark pic was to tease you Here are some real pics:




I think it doesn't need more work ( I've considered reworking the wings, but they're fine as they are imho ).
I used DaBrains map ( a very nice map, tho I'd tone the texture layer done, makes it look a biy like concrete right now, imho ) as a template and cut the details out of the original mesh.
2748 triangles, and yeah, I'll release it ( I discarded the mara coz it was crap, I consider this one ok ).

[jdjtcagle]

I think I speak for everyone...
release? now? hurry!

[Nico]

Man, it has to be converted first, I can't do that, and because of the glass cockpit, it's a tad tricky too, so you'll have to wait a bit

[jdjtcagle]

*waits....................kinda......................................................*

[Lightspeed]

FREAKY!

*me wants*

when you LOD it - make useful LODs poly and texture (i.e. same UVmapping, so we can just halve the texture sizes) wise.

There should be a LOD for around 500 m distance (so pretty much the same poly count), since you wont need 1024² textures at any greater distance than that.

[Rictor]

Its as I feared. Some of the details get lost because of the textures. Still looks great though, but you can almost see more details on your dark picture than on these. That will probably be fixed somewhat when the model is in-game though, espcially with environement mapping and so forth.

[jdjtcagle]

Question:  If all ships get the HTL treatment.
Will it be a MAJOR problem?
Right now, with 3.6, there is no problem

[Nico]

Of course you see more details on the dark picture, relief shows because of the light/shadow contrasts, that's a natural law
There's nothing I can do about it, I've quite exagerated the reliefs already, and the only way to get it well would be to have raytraced shadows . There's no much point complaining about this, it'll be the same for every fighter and bomber. And really it's not that bad here coz the map is high res enough, and the details aren't drown in the usual bluriness.

Lighspeed: yeah right, dream on, I'm gonna take the original pof, and just replace the main lod with this one

[jdjtcagle]

Originally posted by Nico
Of course you see more details on the dark picture, relief shows because of the light/shadow contrasts, that's a natural law

And plus, it's in space soooo....

[Ace]

Nice, it looks like the arrows and warnings might need to be redone to match with the higher res stuff. (with some chipped paint and such)

If you pop a link on the FS upgrade internal, I can probably do them up for you.

[KARMA]

pretty nice indeed:)
personally I'd give it a go at reworking wings anyway, but surely it's already a pleasure for the eyes as it is

[Jetmech Jr.]

Originally posted by me
That's a really kickass Hp Perseus, Nico