[Raptor]

That's the one.  Bottom right.

His design drawing:


There's a hanger pod hang between and below the two arms that hold the engines.

And SteveW's UBER model of it:


That guy's worse than Omni!

Weblink ot his ships designs:
http://ravensbranch.allen.com/colonialshipdescriptions.html
It's all for a table-top 'Babylon 5 Wars' TC, but I figured we can easily use them in FS2 (and yes, I already have permission)

[DaBrain]

That guy's worse than Omni!

You think so? Keep in mind Omniscaper is restrained by the game performance...

[Raptor]

You think so? Keep in mind Omniscaper is restrained by the game performance...

True, but then SteveW modelled Atlantis (as SG1's Atlantis) and that was reaching over half a million polys!

And each of his BSG ships are in the region of three-fifty thousand...

[Roanoke]

ah, right. Wasn't paying attention.

Y'know for render work, half a mill isn't such a big number. There's no real limit other than what's pratical for the pc to work with. I always found lighting made the largest dent, performamce wise.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

And each of his BSG ships are in the region of three-fifty thousand...

Make that sixty-seventy.

[karajorma]

It should be a crime to make a model of that quality and then cut and paste it onto a stock background

[DaBrain]

You think so? Keep in mind Omniscaper is restrained by the game performance...

True, but then SteveW modelled Atlantis (as SG1's Atlantis) and that was reaching over half a million polys!

And each of his BSG ships are in the region of three-fifty thousand...

That's nothing. Watch out for my upcomming model.

Battleship Sphere!

"Omg it's sooo smooth!!!

Incredible how 100 million polys can be put into almost good use so quickly.


... ok... I guess you shouldn't compare models, that are ment to be for games, with models that aren't.

[Getter Robo G]

Back to work on Star Fox (TM) you!...

  (Jibber Jabbing about 100 million poly spheres no one can ever use)... 

 

[Raptor]

That's nothing. Watch out for my upcomming model.

Battleship Sphere!

"Omg it's sooo smooth!!!

Incredible how 100 million polys can be put into almost good use so quickly.


... ok... I guess you shouldn't compare models, that are ment to be for games, with models that aren't.

Yea.  Since his are for renders, they are made so badly (by FS2 standards)


Not that they are poor models, just that the poly use is nuts...

[Flipside]

I think that increasing the polycount, even on a flat surface, will increase the effectiveness of the rendering. Not sure with the level of Renderer they use in BSG though, but often a 2 polygon surface that is too big can start to look a bit telltale in the lighting effects department, even professional renderers like Lightwave and 3DS Max can suffer from this sometimes By sudividing the body up particularly when using polygon shaders, you can improve the look of the lighting whilst making no difference to the 'look' of the mesh itself at all