[Pyro MX]

Well, after some reading and playing around with Blender, I finally started a ship. It doesn't have a name and it's not textured (that's why you see mostly a dark silhouette in the picture), but it'll come someday! It's a dropship. Altho it may look small on the picture, it's a heavy ship with big engines (which are mostly hidden by the wings). Originally, it had only 2 wings, but I decided to put up another pair since it was looking odd. It created a similarity with the Geat Fox.

[Dark Hunter]

The ship looks good, and that big blue thing behind it looks even better. 

What is that anyway? It's not any warp or explosion effect I've seen...

[Pyro MX]

That big blue bang is a huge supernova. A new world is born  It's done with a custom supernova in GIMP - added a mask to modify the shape of the nova then added some flames that are kinda "engraved" in the whole thing.

[Dark Hunter]

It is very pretty. 

[pecenipicek]

hmm, nice. me likes.

as for the ship, post a clay render or a wireframe for us to be able to judge.

[Pyro MX]

There ya go!



Ps: the model isn't finished yet

[Tyrian]

That supernova effect, with a little modding, could be made into a kick *** explosion effect in game...

Now the ship:  Looks pretty good, but it bears a strong resemblence to a songbird...

[Dark Hunter]

Beware the Canary-class fighter! 



Give it some incredible capabilities and people really will fear it, no matter what it may look like.

[Pyro MX]

That supernova effect, with a little modding, could be made into a kick *** explosion effect in game...

Now the ship:  Looks pretty good, but it bears a strong resemblence to a songbird...

If you want a XCF (I could do a PSD too, but you would loose the layer modes) with a sample explosion, which is really simple to do in GIMP, I could do it. But I don't know a single thing on how to make explosion effects in FS2.

As for the ship, I know the shape is very similar to a bird. Maybe not a songbird, but I don't remember the name of the one I'm thinking of. Either a turtle-dove or the ones with a huge mouth.

Beware the Canary-class fighter! 

Give it some incredible capabilities and people really will fear it, no matter what it may look like.

Canary-class fighter lol! Funny lol! But it's not a fighter, it's a dropship.

I must say there's still much to do on the model, rouding edges, adding detail, weapons and stuff like that.

[pecenipicek]

reminds me of my first few models keep up the good work mate as for the gimp file, i'd like to have a look at it, mind sending it over as its native format?

[Pyro MX]

reminds me of my first few models keep up the good work mate as for the gimp file, i'd like to have a look at it, mind sending it over as its native format?

PMed it.

[pecenipicek]

and after some minor photoshop magick, here it is

layer ordering in gimp and photoshop is a bit different and all, but gimp when saving to pdf leaves the layers undivided, so its no problem, you can set the layer order anyways

[Mefustae]

and after some minor photoshop magick, here it is

layer ordering in gimp and photoshop is a bit different and all, but gimp when saving to pdf leaves the layers undivided, so its no problem, you can set the layer order anyways

Ooh! Ooh!! Let's make that the new subspace effect!!

[Pyro MX]

Looks sharp! I know GIMP is able to save as PSD and keep the layer order, but you loose the layer modes  . You should try to find the similar modes in Photoshop to have the same effect as in GIMP.

[pecenipicek]

you got the mode additive, right, i think its one of the overlay modes, pin light or vivid light, i'll experiment some more with it.

as for making it a subspace effect... umm... well, i could try to animate it via rotation...


not going to work as predicted tho from my experience...

[Pyro MX]

There was also "divide" mode if I remember on one of the flames layer.

[Tyrian]

Send that over to the Upgrade Project.  Maybe they can turn it into a subspace or explosion effect.  That would look reeeeeaaaal sexy in game...   

[Pyro MX]

Here's how the original XCF looks like (but it's scaled down)

[Dark Hunter]

I love how everyone is more interested in the shiny bckground than in the new ship.

[Pyro MX]

I love how everyone is more interested in the shiny bckground than in the new ship.

Hahaha that's true! But when I post the updates of the ship, the interest will surely go back to the ship .