[FireCrack]

^well you could just have a panel that otates 180degrees on it's centerline.

Does it have one on each side? If so i think it would be kina cool (and functional) if one side faced upwards and the other downwards.

It would also be neat to see rerractable turrets...

[Axem]

StratComm: Oh like that. Yeah, that would indeed be tricky, I'd need to rotate it on two axes then, and finding the right values would be a pain.

FireCrack: I was thinking about having the two pods face different ways like that. Certainly would be unique.
Retractable turrets... okay now you're going too far.

[FireCrack]

Yeah... i was... but it would help avoid breaking up the ship's "sleek" look...


Anywyas.. as long as it looks nice...

[gevatter Lars]

Retractable turrets reminds me of the B5 defance grid where the turrets where behind blastdoors.
Other then that their was the one scene in the new Battlestar Galactica where the turrets where not directly pulled into the hull but had a "sleeping" position very close to the hull and got pulled up for combat.

[Axem]

Retractable turrets are cool (see text link to ship a few posts up), but I'm afraid I'm going to go too too high poly with it (as the count is already near 6500).



Anyhow, turrets added (though I'll probably move a few) and some of the geometry has been cleaned up. So with most of the modelling done, time to texture it... somehow...  

Armament stands at 20 single part turrets, 5 multi part turrets (3 dual barrel, 2 single barrel), and 3 anti ship beam cannons.

Still no name for it yet. Suggestions?

[WeatherOp]

Hmmm, it still looks like a cruiser built on the designs of the Pegasus or BSG, and it looks great. It would fit perfectly in the BSG universe.

[BlackDove]

Doesn't have anything to do with Pegasus in my eyes.

Works for me.

Also, Phobos.

He's Deimos' brother in Greek Mythology.

However, considering Phobos already exists in some form I believe, you might want to consider "Metus" - Roman equivalent to Deimos or the godess Enyo, accompanied the two brothers with Ares into war.

[StratComm]

There's a Phobos corvette floating around (Inferno) but this one is infinitely better.  I'll second Phobos.

[Nuclear1]

Originally posted by BlackDove
Also, Phobos.

Thirdeded.

[Axem]

Phobos is neat, but yeah, already taken. Can you imagine if those two met at a family reunion? Awkard...

Metus is neato, and oddly enough, what I'm calling a nebula in Children of Shiva. But I'm not totally writing that one off, as it is a cool name.

To take it one step further through obscurity, it could be the Timor, the Roman version of Phobos.

[BlackDove]

Originally posted by StratComm
There's a Phobos corvette floating around (Inferno) but this one is infinitely better.  I'll second Phobos.

Oh, that means it doesn't exist.

Take Phobos.

[Axem]

Anyone got any tips on mapping ships like this? I'm tile mapping it, and divided parts of the ship into different materials, for different textures, and... can't go any farther.

My attempts of mapping it in Wings3D is... bad (has a great UV editor, but terrible tile mapping), and attempts at mapping it in trueSpace3.2 are met with terribly distorted effects.

[StratComm]

That depends on how you want it mapped.  Custom UV?  Or tiled?

Either way, Max is much better suited to mapping than TS3.2 (which as far as I can tell starts to break down when you get anything more complex than a cube, for editing purposes).  If you need a UV template I can take a crack at making one for you.

[Axem]

My expertise doesn't lie in texturing, so I'd mostly just want it as a tile map and slap on some Deimos textures. And adding a nameplate to this thing shouldn't be that hard, right?

[StratComm]

That shouldn't be too hard.  Tile mapping in a UV editor basically consists of making it proportional and then scaling it up a lot, if that's possible in Wings3D.  Would you want to do it, or would you rather have it done by someone else?

And if you want a nameplate, just make a copy of a couple of polys floating just above the surface of the hull (less than .1 units, but not coplaner) and map it with a nameplate texture.

[Axem]

Hey now, that scaling up thing in the UV thing does the job well. Wing's UV tool automatically makes the traces proportional, but is a bit too efficent and sets some at an angle, which screws up the look a bit. Oh well, it shouldn't be much to correct that.

And thanks for the name plate tip.

[StratComm]

Originally posted by Axem
Hey now, that scaling up thing in the UV thing does the job well. Wing's UV tool automatically makes the traces proportional, but is a bit too efficent and sets some at an angle, which screws up the look a bit. Oh well, it shouldn't be much to correct that.

That's essentially all planer UV mapping does anyway.  I'm not too familiar with Wings3D, but I'm glad the general method works there (some programs confine the UV space to the range between 0 and 1, which prevents tiling).  Can't wait to see this thing textured

[FireCrack]

I'm personaly not too fond of the multiparts on that, they seem to break the ship's "sleekness"

[StratComm]

If they're depressed it should be ok.  Go submodel animation code!

[mikhael]

Originally posted by StratComm
If they're depressed it should be ok.  Go submodel animation code!

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