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Offline gevatter Lars

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Re: The cat's Bloodfang is back.
Suggestions...well that depend on what you want. Following a Human-Kilrathi hybrid like you mentioned for the WC2 Bloodfang would most likely be symetric and would move the cockpit to a center position. At the moment it would have two cockpits at the sides.
It also strongly reminds me of the Crossbow in its current configuration. Maybe you might want to take a look at it also for inspiration. Crossbow bomber
I would also remove the lower fins or make them smaller.

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Re: The cat's Bloodfang is back.
Sweet, I kinda liked the Crossbow bomber, especially it's shape, does a mesh of it exist? I'm already getting some ideas for it  :drevil:

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Offline gevatter Lars

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Re: The cat's Bloodfang is back.
Not that I know of any mesh except the one that was created for Standoff.
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Re: The cat's Bloodfang is back.
Thats too bad  :(  But thanks for the picture, that should help create one, only wish there was a front view. You'll probably be hearing back from me about this in a few days  ;)
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Re: The cat's Bloodfang is back.
Ok maybe less than a few days. After about an hour of work.

Engines still need a ton of work (LOL they look like flashlights), Cockpit hull needs some touching up, plus a unique cockpit,(I'm guessing front and back style, not side by side pilots (hides the copilot LOL). and everything needs to be booleaned and combined to cut out intersections and lots of detailing.

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Offline aldo_14

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Re: The cat's Bloodfang is back.
That's not tiling on that Omega, it's hull plating. An Omega class destroyer is a big ship. At least comparable to the Orion, IIRC.

And the Orion is tiled too, it's just not that repetitive or, more importantly, uniform.  Hull plating should not repeat.  The pattern of repetition should certainly not be the same on the hanger as it is on the hab array as it is on the engines etc.  And it shouldn't streak across the inner cylinder.

Well, bear in mind it's from CGI (assuming it's either the actual show model or close to it).  You don't really need good textures for a lot of CGI, because you have lots more polygonal effects, shadowing and light variance, motion blur from movement, proper phong shading, etc that all add 'on top' of the texture detail to mask the plain-ness or otherwise of it.  I remember one shot from the show of a whitestar docked onto B4, and the texturing for the station hull was actually really repetitive; you just normally don't see because of the lighting.

  

Offline Col. Fishguts

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Re: The cat's Bloodfang is back.
Looks like a fan render. But the actual model used in the show looks pretty much the same. And the basic hull plating map is actually tiled, although not very visible.

But check out some season 1 episodes, if you want to see some old school CGI work. Especially B5 station had some very bad texturing (bz today-s standards)
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Re: The cat's Bloodfang is back.
Well it's converted :-)  I had a little trouble with the cockpit glass, PCS frooze up when it tried converting it. I've found that at least with MAX if you draw a box around the offending object and do a boolean intersection? it'll create a new object identical to the original but will convert with PCS.







As soon as the Aurora cruiser gets converted I'll re-release everything again.
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