[Scooby_Doo]

I guess the other topic has sputtered out and actually these should be going in a new topic and not a re-release one.

Paktothfang bomber.

[Starman01]

Model is really nice, but it definitly needs a better name

[gevatter Lars]

You could even make it a little bid bigger and see it as the kilrathi equivalent of the Centurion Privateer ship.

[Scooby_Doo]

I don't know the length for the Centurion, but this bomber is 40m long and about 66m wide.

As for name... I'm up for suggestions LOL

[Scooby_Doo]

[Unknown Target]

Nice model, but is it just me or did Origin + Co. just throw together th's and kath's to make Kilrathi ship names?

[aldo_14]

Nice model, but is it just me or did Origin + Co. just throw together th's and kath's to make Kilrathi ship names?

I think they also used 'ith's and 'ra's.

Like the Ithkathrath.

[Scooby_Doo]

"Ithkathrath" I'll have to remember that name...

The next in line, Tembler rechristened as "Cobra" (as in the Cobra helicopter)

[Scooby_Doo]

Yikes apparently using skylight in max increases your rendering time many fold UGH.... and lighting was way too bright (unless of course their close to a star, sorta reminisent of Apollo landings.)


Patrol Watch...


(took 2 hours to render with just the normal settings  )

[supernova]

if your skylight is too bright just turn it's intensity down...when using radiosity, i usually have the skylight set to about 0.1 or so...pretty low, but just about right for having other lights in the scene

Question real fast...exactly how slow is your computer???    Unless you're using multilayer maps and about ten raytraced lights and shadows, and about 400K polygons...how does that picture take 2 hours to render in max?   I use skylights all the time and average render times are somewhere around five to ten minutes, and that's with bumps, specular, diffuse, raytracing, 4-6 lights, raytraced shadows, skylight, 100k polys, glows, motion blur, lens effects, depth of field, etc...and that takes about 12 passes to render.

maybe you're doing something with that scene that i'm not seeing in the picture...

[supernova]

duplicate post...

[Scooby_Doo]

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LOL it's a P2@450...  

The problem was, without skylighting it took only a few minutes to render and looked pretty good... however that skylight added the light and i wasn't about to spend another two hours afterwards LOL

BTW as you can tell, Cobra's textured and ready for conversion.

[supernova]

OLD

LOL it's a P2@450...

OMG

That would explain the difference in render times, man, i'd hate to see some of my work render on your computer...i used to use Max on an Duron 600 system, and scenes that took between six and twelve hours, now take about ten to twenty minutes on my "new" rig.   It's not that fast, but certainly faster than before.

[Scooby_Doo]

Well I was in the process of building a X2 3800.... but with Core 2 Duo in just a couple of months... UGHHHH *Frustration* LOL

[gevatter Lars]

Didn't I said that skylights aren't good for your current PC ^_^
Also you could "copy" the effect. Well it isn't exactly a skylight then but should reduce rendertimes....now I would have to remember what I made. I think it was something about a lot of omnis...can't remember.

[supernova]

Well I was in the process of building a X2 3800.... but with Core 2 Duo in just a couple of months... UGHHHH *Frustration* LOL

hmmm...i always recommend AMD...then again i'm biased.   But the X2 platform if fantastic and has practically all the benchmarks in it's favor.   Funny thing is, its the Core Duo Intel procs that are the only ones that actually can compete when it comes to games...

even more hilarious, is that Pentium M architecture is based upon the P3...the much older cousin of the P4...i guess that explains why they're shortening their instructions pipeline and lowering frequency(heat issues).   

I think that Core Duo or X2 would be the way to go though...both are quality architectures...but like i said, go AMD and support the marketshare underdog.

[Scooby_Doo]

Well not Core Duo, rather Core 2 Duo (Conroe), which by the looks of it will have the benchmarks in it's favor big time (C2D middle end beating high end FX-60 by ~20%).  Just have to wait and see..
I read that C2D will also have resemblences to my chip P2 too

[Scooby_Doo]

21 model completed 
Maybe I should post a seperate thread for each model.  The mods would kill me   

Cobra, light fighter, was Privateer 2's Tembler.  I need to figure out the idea gun convergence.









Edit: Opps sorry about the non-standard resolution (1280*1024 i think)
I also need to build a excel sheet and try and balance speed, agility between everything.

[Mars]

Sexiness.

[Scooby_Doo]

Thanks :-)


Since I posted this on CIC I might as well give you "sneak peaks" too. (If you saw it on CIC then you've already seen everything so far)

Black Widow (aka a symetric CIS Heretic) [it's UVed and ready for texturing as soon as I'm done with my current Saga model)


Just for a change of pace... not really sure I like the results or not..
Could someone find a good "vorlon like" organic texture?


Kriska (yup that was a HHriss) As you can tell, my Kilrathi fighters are aiming for both WC1/2 and 3/4/5, symertic, rounded yet sharp claw like.


Talon Mk2 (something about the lack of main stabilizing wings make it look more like a unsafe dart   ) [also uv'ed]


Gothhek (still getting detailed) (a Gorthi Grikath stepchild )


Unnamed, Suggestions? This one's based off of . Still needs small stuff (cockpit, guns, engines) , shouldn't take long.


SWACS Seagull (Like seahawk)

(It's only 20m longer than the Venture, and yes that is a correctly scaled cockpit, in fact the entire cockpit area is enough space to house the living quaters of a corvette.)

And finally (so far....)
the Flak Frigate Gilgamesh


Edit:
Vindicator Mk 2