[Unknown Target]

Along the same lines of this vessel - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/nodots.jpg, and incorporating a similar (but much smaller) PAC system (Propellant and Ammunition Container), to extend the craft's longevity, I give you my as-yet-unnamed space fighter

(This is in modding because, hopefully, I'm going to get it into Freespace 2. Hopefully).





It's pretty much complete, save for a few details (such as a cockpit/external munitions hardpoints).

C&C?

EDIT: Small addendum - some quickie weapon pylons:




EDIT: Orrr, this version?

[Scooby_Doo]

Both are very good... You know the first thing I thought of when I saw this was Crimson Sky.

[Black Wolf]

For some reason, I like this one a lot better than I like most of your stuff UT. It seems... cleaner somehow. Did you change technique or something?

[EDIT]Also, I really like those engines for some reason. Isn't there a [V] concept picture with very similar ones? They're cool no matter where they came from though

[Turey]

Isn't there a [V] concept picture with very similar ones?

2_crim13.pcx or crim14.pcx, take your pick.

2_crim29.pcx (or crim30.pcx) is still my favorite concept ship.

[Unknown Target]

Cheers, thanks for the comments thus far

Scooby: Maybe the Bloodhawk (the one with the big rudder sticking out the bottom? )

Blackwolf: Well I've been much more vigilant in keeping my Sketchup meshes clean and free of interfering lines. I don't think I've done any major technique changes, other than to just be more careful when I actually make the model.

Turey: crim14's engines look the most similar IMO

Oh, and some coloring work, done in Sketchup. Hopefully I can export this and find a way to use what I'm doing as a UV Map

[Taristin]

Its the noses. They look sleek now, as opposed to being bulbous like they used to!

[neoterran]

go Longhorns ! (UT) 

[Nuke]

your gatling gun is too small

j/k, awesome ship. i see youre doing external pylons and gatling guns, wonder where you got that idea from
unless youre gonna use scripting i sugest making the gatling gun a seprate model so as to use vwep for it. i wanted to do something of a similar profile, with a large gun in about the same spot. cept mine would have the engines on gimballed pylons rather than as part of the fusalage.

[Unknown Target]

To be honest in all my years of modding FS2, I've never actually learned how to convert a ship properly What do you mean by vwep? What I was planning on doing was just making the barrels of the gun a separate submodel, and have them continuously rotate. Unless I can do that only when the trigger is pulled?

Update - the cockpit. I cheated a little, and stole parts from some of my older models

Outside:


Close up:


Inside:

[MetalDestroyer]

Good job as always ! 

[Admiral Cheater]

Wow! That is great! I wish I could make things that good.

[NGTM-1R]

I really, really am not loving the way the gun was done like that. If you want to recess it fine, but the way it's currently set up just looks ridiculous. Like the front end of the nose would collapse or snap off.

[Scooby_Doo]

Wooo love the cockpit.... I'm going to have to start updating mine now 

[Col. Fishguts]

You know... ditch the cockpit and gatling, scale it up and you get a badass corvette/destroyer.

As a fighter it's cool too

[aldo_14]

Purdy

[Unknown Target]

Cheers, thanks for the comments so far

Some more coloring:

[NGTM-1R]

Somehow textured I don't find it so annoying. 0,o

[Nuke]

what you do for vwep is take the gun and make it a subobject, however save it as a completely different model, and omit it from the ship. then create a single fire point where the gun submodel was. convert both models. in the weapon entry you can add fields for a gun model and spinup acceleration, forget what they are off hand, see the wiki. in the ships table entry, enable weapon models for that bank. if you need an example, just look at nukemod.

[Gregster2k]

Oh, i see...so that the ship can have different guns mounted (even physically/visually) if the mission designer chooses, Nuke?

[Black Wolf]

I don't really like where the texs are going. You need thinner lines and bigger plates, or at least less capshippy look to them.

Though I very much doubt you'll stop because I don't like it.