[morris13]

VERY nice =)

[Jabu]

Incredible. Except I liked the dark cockpit.

[morris13]

Yeah.. the textures are almost TOO clean. It looks a lot more like a GI Joe toy than a real fighter, although I'm not exactly sure why.

[Kazan]

*Kazan's jaw hits the floor* teach me!

[Martinus]

It looks like a toy because the lines are too "deep", try lightening them a little and reducing their width. Use real aircraft for reference if it helps and for mercy's sake keep it up!!  

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[Shrike]

No no, if he used real aircraft it would be robin's-egg blue all over, perhaps slightly darker on the top, and there'd be no lines on it, as bumps and ridges would play merry hell with aerodynamics.

[Ace]

The textures would look better if a minor fill was done to give the metal the look of stress lines. (i.e. look at Volition's textures and look at the grain lines of the metallic hull)

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Originally posted by Ace:
The textures would look better if a minor fill was done to give the metal the look of stress lines. (i.e. look at Volition's textures and look at the grain lines of the metallic hull)

Now I'm lost. What are you talking about? In English please?


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[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by Styxx:
 

That looks... really, really nice...  

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Shrike:
No no, if he used real aircraft it would be robin's-egg blue all over, perhaps slightly darker on the top, and there'd be no lines on it, as bumps and ridges would play merry hell with aerodynamics.

I think that for a plane in FS universe, the aerodynamism isn't really important, because the shield will suffr all the contraints.
For my part, I would apply a metalic layer over the whole thing (with a very low opacity of course, between 5 and 10) to make it look less "plastic".

[Styxx]

I'm trying to do that, but as I said it's the first time I ever do a fighter skin from scratch - so I'm taking an incremental approach.  

[edit: if anyone knows of good tutorials for doing this on Paint Shop Pro, please tell me  ]

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[Daedalus]

Superb!

Look at what difference some good textures make!  

 

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Originally posted by venom2506:
I think that for a plane in FS universe, the aerodynamism isn't really important, because the shield will suffr all the contraints.

Actually, that's wrong.   Notice in the nebula that you can see contrails coming off the tips of the wings on most fighters? That wouldn't happen if the nebular gas was impacting the sheild and not the hull.


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[morris13]

That is actually a little interesting... if the shield stops solid projectiles like missiles and kinetic rounds then it has to be opaque to solid matter, and if its blocking other primary shots it has to be opaque to the particles that make up the energy shots (photons for laser beams, various ions for particle accellerator guns) Either way if a shield is going to defend against weapons it OUGHT to be pushing the nebula gasses away too. The other confusing thing, now that I think about it... if beams are laser weapons(photon beam cannon) , then if they can block lasers like the Subach they should block beams too.

[QXMX]

Lookin good.  If the textures are as good as the model, it will be a fine ship indeed  

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Originally posted by morris13:
That is actually a little interesting... if the shield stops solid projectiles like missiles and kinetic rounds then it has to be opaque to solid matter, and if its blocking other primary shots it has to be opaque to the particles that make up the energy shots (photons for laser beams, various ions for particle accellerator guns) Either way if a shield is going to defend against weapons it OUGHT to be pushing the nebula gasses away too. The other confusing thing, now that I think about it... if beams are laser weapons(photon beam cannon) , then if they can block lasers like the Subach they should block beams too.

Then I guess the same can be said for pilots who love to bang their fighters against capital ships and other fighters then. The damage from the collision should impact on the fighter shields, not the hull.



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[Kazan]

i've explained why beams are not blocked on the VBB a long time ago... want me to explain it again?

[Martinus]

I wasn't talking about the colors of a RL plane, just the way the lines between surfaces on the body look.

Hmmmm, this is probably even more confusing  

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Kazan:
i've explained why beams are not blocked on the VBB a long time ago... want me to explain it again?

Yep, plus I'de like to know why sunshine is not stopped by the shields, too...