[Trivial Psychic]

Maverick, one other thing about the Sharlin.  Since this is a high-ploy upgrade to the current one, you should make sure that you match up the submodels from the original, so there is least amount of table changes necessary.

[IPAndrews]

Since this is a high-ploy upgrade to the current one

Higher, but not high. I think it's quite a reasonable poly count for a big capital ship with so many curves. 

[Col. Fishguts]

Since this is a high-ploy upgrade to the current one

Higher, but not high. I think it's quite a reasonable poly count for a big capital ship with so many curves.

Seconded. This is a pretty good bang-for-buck ratio, I'd say

[I_E_Maverick]

ok, enough of the sharlin
i did some work to new b4 textures, i think i will only need 3 maps now. 2 are used so far. hope you like it.

[Prophet]

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[I_E_Maverick]

ok, textured the sharlin, though it may change because i need permission from Thomas Banner. I used most of his textures and just added light and shinemap and some little details. i hope i get permission cause it looks pretty cool. anyway, here the pics:

[Trivial Psychic]

Looks phenomenal, but still no fighterbay that I can see.

B4: 

[I_E_Maverick]

oh, right, i forgot to tell that i had a look at some movies and episodes, i have never seen a fighterbay at the front. if anyone could grab me some shots where the fighterbay can be seen that would be very nice!

[Trivial Psychic]

Maverick, don't you have all B5 seasons on DVD?  Just open up B5 S2 season premiere "Points of Departure".  When the Trigatti arrives to pick a fight with B5, it launches fighters and you can clearly see them arriving from a recess at the extreme nose of the War Wruiser.  Another example would be in S1 "And The Sky Full of Stars" (as previously mentioned), when Sinclair's fighter is pulled into the Minbari Cruiser after being disabled.  It may also be in ITB.  I'll take a look.

OK, in ITB, they don't actually show a bay entrance there, but that's where Sinclair's fighter was brought in, so there must be some kind of bay, even if its covered by a door of some kind.  I've uploaded a couple of shots of the front of a Sharlin from ITB, onto the project's FTP in the Reference folder, called MinbariScreenies.rar.  Its also got shots of the atmospheric freighter/transport seen once in that movie as well.  Unfortunately, the images were VERY dark, so I had to jack up the contrast to get make the profile visible.  Most shots of it are from underneath, but there are a couple from the front and rear (rear one is very blurry as a result of the crop, zoom and contrast, it could look like anything to the untrained eye).

[Col. Fishguts]

It's kinda hard to see:

[Dwin]

Ah. There are windows on the interior walls of the fighter bay, so it's difficult to see.

[Col. Fishguts]

Seems to be the case. I have other shots, in which the nose is completely dark, so I guess the 'hangar lights' were not alway on.

[Trivial Psychic]

Edited my previous post.  Are those screens from "And The Sky Full Of Stars"?  You need the shot as Sinclar's fighter is getting pulled into the bay.  They reused part of that sequence for ITB, but switched to a different profile, then to a shot of the Grey Council, before showing the fighter getting pulled in.  It should be noted that there appears to be a CGI change for the Minbari cruisers, between the S1/2 stuff, and the ITB stuff.  The old shots shows a window grid there, as seen in the Col.'s screens, but of the shots I found, its got no windows there.  Its interesting that they use both the old (reused) and new shots for ITB, so the same cruiser has windows in the nose as Sinclair is on approach from a distance, then switches to the no-windows for the closeup.

[I_E_Maverick]

ok, i hope this is better:

edit: just recieved a mail by Thomas Banner and he was so kind to give permission to use his textures, so sharlin can stay as it is
just remember to put him in the credits section!

[Trivial Psychic]

Excellent.  I just hope its big enough for a Minbari Flyer to enter.

[Dwin]

 

*generic compliment regarding the aesthetic pleasantness of the computer generated 3-dimensional rendering of the fictional Sharlin class ship of the science fiction television series Babylon 5*

[tomcat]

Mav... the fish looks goood now let's fry the sucker

[Col. Fishguts]

Are those screens from "And The Sky Full Of Stars"? You need the shot as Sinclar's fighter is getting pulled into the bay. ......

Those are some released high-res renders of S1 IIRC.

I checked "Points of Departure" on my DVD. The Nial launching scene doesn't show much, but the 2nd Sharlin firing reveals some more details.
Overall, I'd say Mav is spot on, maybe add those 6 little round thingies on the front where "thick parts" end (for lack of a better word, I hope you get what I mean)




And for what it's worth, some blurry shots from ITB (I don't have that one on DVD, just a lowres DivX)

[I_E_Maverick]

to be honest, i had many problems to find that hangar, for me it looked in most shots like little cubes that are build on the surface of the front. hard to tell how that hangar really looks like.
i can do the round things though

[Trivial Psychic]

Hey Col. Fishguts, I didn't know you were Canadian.