[FireCrack]

Cool, are the windows on the "bridge towers" going to be seperate subobjects too?


Is it possible to have mmore than two subobject LOD's? i know this was the case, but i think bob might have changed it.


I'm glad the sublod feature is realy starting to get used.

[TrashMan]

You removed the wings? That's blasphemy!

[Fineus]

They're subobjects - they're not shown in the image

[FireCrack]

Yeah, i can jsut hope that they can have more than two lods, even then, two would be plenty enough i suppoose.

[Unknown Target]

Oh my God dude, I love that.

[WMCoolmon]

Make the front side pods subobjects too!

[Turnsky]

sweeet, the hecate never looked so good

[Raven2001]

Originally posted by FireCrack
Cool, are the windows on the "bridge towers" going to be seperate subobjects too?

Nop, they are part of the main mesh

Originally posted by FireCrack


Is it possible to have mmore than two subobject LOD's? i know this was the case, but i think bob might have changed it.

I hope he has changed it, because most of the subobjects have three different LODs, and one of them is supposed to not be seen from a certain distance, making that 4 LODs I think.

So, if it isn't yet changed, PLEASE BOB make the engine support more than 2 LODs per sub object!!!

Riiiiiiight, I said that you shouldn't see any updates untill next week... guess what? I lied

I took the trouble of adding all the sub objects (excluding turrets) to the main hull, just to show it to you, so there you go


http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y188/sb38R2/Hecate11.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y188/sb38R2/Hecate12.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y188/sb38R2/Hecate13.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y188/sb38R2/Hecate14.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y188/sb38R2/Hecate15.jpg


Just have to fix the geometry a bit in some of those subobjects, find any geometry error on everything, make all the LODs for the sub objects, and that's it...

Is anyone willing to draw the textures for this baby?? I can make a UV map template, no prob with that. If anyone has the time and skill for it, contact me through PM

See ya all next week (for real this time)

[Kie99]

Dear God, I'm loving this ship.

[Janos]

whoa.

If you can't finish it for whatever reason, release it as a WIP and let someone else finish the job. I hate seeing superb HTL ships just fall into obscurity because the modeller decided to start collecting stamps or tile bricks and never releases his WIPs.

[Trivial Psychic]

I can't tell from the shots so far, but are you gonna include any kind of a more substantial fighterbay.  I think you'll agree, the fighterbay on the original model was less than half-assed.

[Raven2001]

Originally posted by Janos

If you can't finish it for whatever reason, release it as a WIP and let someone else finish the job. I hate seeing superb HTL ships just fall into obscurity because the modeller decided to start collecting stamps or tile bricks and never releases his WIPs.

Nope, the idea is someone helping me finish it... I don't like to release unfinished stuff, sorry...
And no, I won't colect stamps

Originally posted by Trivial Psychic

I can't tell from the shots so far, but are you gonna include any kind of a more substantial fighterbay.

Explain "more substantial"... I have to confess that haven't put much work (if any) on the fighterbays, so I'm open to suggestions

[FireCrack]

The original models fighterbay was just a triangular tube going into the ship, make it a nice wide square thing or somthing.



By the way, every time i see your model i cant help but think that the four "bobbles" in the middle should be missile launchers.

[pyro-manic]

That is beautiful, Raven. I take back anything negative I said before. I love the deck detail on the underside. I'd like to suggest putting a bit more of that on it, perhaps around the "neck" and the parts that aren't the heavy armour plates.

As for the fighterbay, I'd suggest making a hangar, with launch rails and gantries and the like.

[Raven2001]

I'm back

Well, for the fighterbay, I already done what FireCrack suggested, but I will only make launch rails and gantries as LODs for the interior...

As for the bobbles looking like torpedo launchers... welll, I hope that if this model gets textured, it will fix that... they are supposed to be the docking points...

[Jeryko]

That is truely amazing...

[FireCrack]

Updates?

[Raven2001]

Be a bit patient! I'm almost done with it... I have been making the lods for the subobjects, so nothing worth showing yet.

Also, I'm working a bit on the main hull to save polys and I'm remodelling it a bit. Simple stuff.

I wager I'll be done with the mesh in 3/4 days max.

Now, here comes the hard part: I'm not going to release an unfinished ship, so for now, I need someone who can UV map my baby, and someone who can draw textures (copy\paste the tile textures to the UV template, fix any drawing errors, and maybe draw a bit).

The idea is to make 1 or 2 big textures for the whole model, so that it is HTL friendly...

If anyone is willing to help me, please send me a PM.

[Unknown Target]

While you're UV mapping it, you should use the opportunity to make some new textures, imo - the Hecate is a messy mass of tiled, nasty textures.

[Raven2001]

That's what I meant by "fix any drawing errors". I like the texture disposition on the Hecate, but it has many a mess... Whit a single UV template, the texturer should copy/paste the tiles, and then draw a bit to make the ship look less messed up