[Raptor]

Originally posted by Setekh
Out of those options, embossed for sure; but I think you could play with it further and extend the depth of that texture. Give it some more character, perhaps add some more overlays.

I'm planing that for LOD0, there will be a submodel, made up of lots of small bits, that would add extra detail.  Things like raised hull plates, hatches, etc.

Latest hull plating work.  Reworked the plating.  Still needs more detail.


I'll see about getting the rest of the hull like this before doing any other detail.  Getting those lines to go around the edges will be hard though...

[Raptor]

Hmmm, 24 hours and no replys....

Forgot to mention this yesterday.  What would people say to the idea of this ship having partial shielding, covering vital sections of the ship (turrets, engines, hangerbay, etc...)?

[Turnsky]

i like.. and nice model, reason i didn't reply, 'cuz i haven't noticed it until now.. if i had, and haven't noticed

[karajorma]

No replies cause my only possible reply would have been exactly what I said last time. Nice work, keep going

[Taristin]

Using the emboss tool to make those plates, eh? Cheater. I draw in my highlights by hand.

[Raptor]

Originally posted by Raa
Using the emboss tool to make those plates, eh? Cheater. I draw in my highlights by hand.

True, but a) its faster & b) my PSP skills are nothing compared to others around here.

Besides, Could you handle doing all those highlights on a 5120x2560 map, by hand?  I do the basic panel lines by hand, and it takes ages

[Taristin]

Could I? Nope.  That's why I never try.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Raptor


True, but a) its faster & b) my PSP skills are nothing compared to others around here.

Besides, Could you handle doing all those highlights on a 5120x2560 map, by hand?  I do the basic panel lines by hand, and it takes ages

I did it on 4 1024*1024, 1 512*512 and a 256*256 map for a ship, does that count?

[Raptor]

Originally posted by aldo_14


I did it on 4 1024*1024, 1 512*512 and a 256*256 map for a ship, does that count?

It does:D

[Gregster2k]

Like I said before Raptor, try making multiple versions of the same ship. Performance vs. quality, or semi-shielded vs. total shielded.

Personally...I think it would be cool if it were entirely sheath-shielded (as in the shield is JUST above the ship's hull, enough to prevent player fighters or AI from flying thru the shields and then bombing it)...all shielded except for the engine. I wouldn't expect a sleek ship like that to have shielding on its engines cuz I'd expect a sleek ship like that thing to be nice and fast...you could state that due to the design of the engine (as new as it is) it cant shield it...

One more thing, I have a question about the Hera design...how many dock points does it have (it oughta at least be capable of docking with an Arcadia if it needs to...or docking side-side with another capship)...and where are they anyway?

[Getter Robo G]

Occasionally I would figure some ships are too big to "dock" with other things aside fom the construction yard, and from the size of the Hera I figure that's what it's shuttles are for... Am I right Raptor?

[Raptor]

ATM, it has two dock points, just forward of the cruiser bay, for Argo type transports.  Smaller transports will use the main launchvay under the prow, and cruiser class ships will dock in the bay underneath.  So far those docks haven't really worked.

Might see if it could dock with another destroyer, but that depends on a) where the dockpoints on the secnod ship are, & b) the geometry of the second ship.

Oh, and the Hera's slated to be 2.5Km long.  Larger than than any other destroyer, but smaller than a super destroyer (ie Hades)

[Lynx]

I don't get it why you guys are all freaking out over Raptors ship; sure, it's detailed, but as far as I can see the detaillevel is compareable to most other HTL capships if not a bit lower. Most of the surface detail like window areas are texture only. The performance won't drop dead with that ship, it'll run fine even on most older machines.

[Raptor]

I hate being the bearer of bad news, but...

This morning I added the outlines of the polys on to my work image as a layer.  Unfortunately, when I saved and exited the program (PSP 7), it merged the layer with the background.

Now, I could possiblely recover from this, but I'm not that good.  To be fair, I'm struggling with it anyway.  My texturing skills suck.

Is there a good texturer out there will to have a crack at this?