[Turambar]

ooh, im gonna love the animated glowmap for that one

[Deepblue]

Textures seem a bit low res. (and stretched in a few places)

BTW if you want someone to do weapons for ya, I can help. (Or additional modeling, (texturing for me is still at beta stage))

[Omniscaper]

Originally posted by Deepblue
Textures seem a bit low res. (and stretched in a few places)

BTW if you want someone to do weapons for ya, I can help. (Or additional modeling, (texturing for me is still at beta stage))

It was just a test to see what it could possibly look like finished. The model is far from done. I haven't even tweaked the UVmaps yet nevermind home brew some textures.

Any help is welcomed!

[Ace]

That should look nice when finished.

[Omniscaper]

I think the mesh is just about done. Total polygon count 1660.

[Turambar]

ooooh

can anything be done about the outer edge of the wings, they seem just a little kinky to me, but im sure ingame i'd barely notice it, but its just there...

Edit: Oh, and i bow to your skill, its amazing and i love it, and i cant wait for the sweeping red eye

[Trivial Psychic]

Originally posted by Omniscaper

Looks kinda like an Alien head from the "Alien" movies.

[WMCoolmon]

Very nice.

I agree about the wings though...would it be too hard/take too many polies to make 'em rounder?

[Omniscaper]

Believe me, I would love to smoother her out more, but I'm tring to keep her under 2000 polys.  I have a smoothed out wing version which has 3500 polys. I doubt we'll be able to recreate the Battle of Ragnar with 50+ raiders with the high poly version.

Here are a couple of more shots. Suggestions?

[Omniscaper]

Here's the 3330 polygon version. Is this worth a performance hit?

[StratComm]

Realistically speaking (having played with Nico's HTL mods for a bit now) the performance hit isn't nearly as bad as you're assuming it will be.  Those 3300 polys (assuming tris, if not then it is too much) really won't add that much in terms of render time, especially if they are all mapped with one map, I am fairly certain that it'd be less than adding a second map into the mix.  Lod it very well and it won't be nearly as big a performance hit as you might think.

[Turambar]

and its worth it

hell yeah, that thing is beautiful

[Nuke]

the wings on the phoenix are pretty high poly but i only used 1200- polies. the designs are similar and when i first saw bsg i had thought they ripped my model off the net. heres a wireframe pic for referance:



really though htl will chew through that thing like it was nothing. more polies less textures is the way to go. and you already have the first two lods

[Omniscaper]

Your ship use simple rudimentary shapes. So yours is optimized. It took me forever to figure out a way to approach the wings for the Raider.




3330 poly version


I could use some advise or insight.

[Omniscaper]

Rendered Bumpmap/specular textures..... baked in

[WMCoolmon]

I'd say yeah, it's worth it as long as you don't use many maps. There's always LODs, after all.

[Deepblue]

Awesome.

[Nuke]

i really should learn how to do that baking thing. i usually do everything in photoshop my last texture was over 120 megs in photoshop format with like 60 layers and a hundred shape paths, baking would cut that down abit.

you might try increasing the poly density on the leading and trailing edge of the wing, and lower it twards the middle where the extra detail would be hard to see.

[Omniscaper]

I made a mistake calculating polygon numbers. The actuall polygon count of the high-poly Raider is actually 5000+ polys. I think thats a bit much for a fighter. I have missions in mind that will have 50+ fighter furballs.

[Nuke]

i have a feeling that with the limited number of ship classes in bsg its gonna do htl a few favors and thus make the game faster. you can probibly set your lod distances to be closer and generate a speed boost that way. but i get the feeling that 50 of the same ship class will only marginally slowing down the engie, but thats just a baseless assumption