[TrashMan]

I'm making a Athena Advanced model..and well.. I cna't decide on the cockpit looks

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As for the second one (the top one) I plan to round hte cockpit ending a bit..it is kinda flat for now

[Trivial Psychic]

I like the one on the left myself (with the cannopy ridge).

[DaBrain]

The right one looks more like the old version. I like the left one though. I think it's better for an 'advanced' version.

[brugger]

I like the one on the left, but the one on the right would allow the pilot a better fov, so maybe that ones actually better

[Unknown Target]

The one on the left looks cool, but I'd definately lower the nose so that the cockpit slants down a bit. Right now the pilot has almost no forward FOV, imo.

[DarthWang]

It looks mutated.

[Knight Templar]

Whatever you do, for Christ's sake, give it better textures.

[WMCoolmon]

The bottom one.

[TrashMan]

Hmm...i realyl can'0t decide dammit.

The left one looks cool but kinda makes it look bigger..and hte Athena is supposed to be small. the Right one would give the pilot a better FOV, but it still has something missing..

Oh - this isn't ther real texture... I'm gonna  do a render of the current modelk and use that as a base for the texture (hevily editing it in photoshop)

[Getter Robo G]

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[TrashMan]

Here's the one I'm thinking of using.

Gave it a bit more length, angled it so it's not so flat and rounded the ending a bit.


Oh..another question..do you think it's worth it to spend too many polies on the gattling guns on this one?

Tehy are the same, only the lower one has those cool rings around the guns. The polycount is upper (1494), lower (2346) So that's allmsot 1000 polys for something rather trivil. I think I'll drop the rings.

[Ghost]

I'd keep the rings, though; they give it a more gun-like look to me. I guess it'd depend on whether it's a firearm or an energy weapon, though.. oh well. Nice model by the way. Somewhat reminds me of the Pyro.

[redsniper]

you could just make the rings lower poly. I don't see how they're adding 1000 polies in the first place.

[FireCrack]

yeah, they're way to high poly now if they're adding 1000.

[TrashMan]

2 10 sided rings on each gun. 4 guns. do the math.

I COULD cut it to ONE ring per gun and make it 8 sided...

[FireCrack]

Originally posted by TrashMan
2 10 sided rings on each gun. 4 guns. do the math.

The math gives me 320 triangles.

[TrashMan]

yeah, but they are unioned on the star shaped barrel with 5 5-sided cylinders..

I could glue then instead - that would cut the polycount cubstantially.

[StratComm]

I still don't understand why people keep modeling full-detail gatling guns.  For the amount of polies that you pump in there you get very little gain over proper textures, and all of those polygons can go into something more worthy of detail.

[Black Wolf]

/me agrees with KT.

Unless you're planning on using your generated maps as nothing more than templates and redrawing the entire thing from scratch (In which case it'd be better to uv it properly in lith or summat), you need to look seriously at those texs. FS fighter hulls just don't look like that.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by TrashMan

Oh..another question..do you think it's worth it to spend too many polies on the gattling guns on this one?

Tehy are the same, only the lower one has those cool rings around the guns. The polycount is upper (1494), lower (2346) So that's allmsot 1000 polys for something rather trivil. I think I'll drop the rings.

Far too many; not only is that detail disproportionate to what would be seen ingame, you also have big flat areas (especially the cockpit and nose) where you could much better use that polycount.