[Nuke]

why not a tellatubbie

because his antennae would break the glass

[Unknown Target]

How's this look?

[Flipside]

It's getting there, but personally I think that if that is 'dirt' on the plating it is too high a contrast, and if it's a camo effect, it's too small. It's works ok as a basecoat, but needs character. Also, for my part, I'm not too fond of the dots at the front, a flame effect could actually work on this occasion. The model itself looks good, it's just the texture. But then, that's just my opinion

[Unknown Target]

What would you suggest for the grime/cammo?

By the way, I'm going out soon, so I figured I'd post this update of the stripe identification system. The different stripe colors denote different uses of the vessel - yellow is military, orange is private, blue is law enforcement (might be changed, due to it being hard to see )




WARNING - mild nudity. Linkified below. Just playing around with the noseart

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/nosearthehe.jpg

[Nuke]

now everyones gonna do nudie nose art
i like, gives that WW2 feel.

[Unknown Target]

The top. Im not sure about it, should I redo it?

[Nuke]

wing seems to look a litle bit to big. it might look ok if you texture them with a darker color. or you gan split em up into a dragmonfly configuration. detail of any kind would help too.

[WeatherOp]

Hmmm, what kind of fighter are you going for? If very fast or something in that range doesn't really suit it. But, ether a bomber interceptor in the WW2 since, lots of armor and guns would be better. Or something like the BF-110 likeness, as a tank destoryer or something that shoots all kind of rockets and drops all kind of bombs.

[Gregster2k]

It looks like a missile-boat fighter. The kind of thing that would hold more than an Ares and skimp on primaries in favor of ridiculous numbers of secondaries. In which case this would be, if in the GTVA universe, a "transport killer" fighter

[FireCrack]

I think you should darken the gaps between panels a bit, and/or make it look more metalic.

[WMCoolmon]

1600x600 isn't a power of 2, it is a multiple of 2.

Powers of 2:
2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 and so on.

[Unknown Target]

It's your standard Martian defensive spacecraft, not too fast, some good armor to keep inexperienced pilots alive, and a heavy armarment to make sure that once they get behind an enemy, they shoot him down. In the hands of an experienced pilot, it can be deadly, and in the hands of a novice, slightly less deadly.

You have no idea how much pain I went through to make the sides of the wings and the lights. These things took me all day to do, but I hope it's worth it. What do you think?

[FireCrack]

Some messed up mapping on top of the bottom "pod"

Other than that she lookin' real good 'ere

[Unknown Target]

Yea, I haven't made textures/assigned UV coordinates for the front, back, and top of the PAC (the "pod" ) yet.

[FireCrack]

PAC

Powered Assault Core?
Positional Altitude Controller?
Potential Accumulation Capacitor?

What does it stand for!!!

[Unknown Target]

Propellant and Ammunition Container. It's there so small fighters like these have enough fuel and ballistics ammunition to stay in the fight (Fuel is liquid Hydrogen, by the way - and don't worry, the PAC is heavily armored, but hey, you can get a lucky shot on it...)

[Nuke]

so you texture and uv simultaniously i take it. i usually find it easyer to uv in one pass and thus make use of as many pixels as possible. some of my textures have around 95% usage wich is damn good imho. btw anyone know a way to export uv polygons to an *.ai (ilustrator) file? as i generally make heavy use of vecrtor shapes in rendering the texture and having a way to do a direct conversion would speed this up .

[Unknown Target]

Yes, I UV while I texture - MS3D isn't too great at making a decent UV map

By the way, the picture of the girl was sort of a placeholder - in true WW2 style, I decided to draw the nose art myself Here we go - what do you think?



And with that I' m gonna take a little break from this girl She's starting to get on my nerves with her little texture errors (misaligned textures on opposite sides - egh, not noticable from a distance, but definately there up close). I'll probably come back to her later, but my perfectionist side is driving me insane right now

[Nuke]

how cute

[MicroPsycho]

That thing is ****ing massive!
...no offense.

I'm not too keen on the design myself, it's not a bad model, it's just that I couldn't fly that thing.