[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Ace:
Nice, but it does look like an areospace fighter you'd expect to see in maybe 30 years in the future as opposed to 500 or so.

actually, I think that's exactly how spacefighters would look like TODAY if we had the tech ( just like the car in the first batman would be exactly how cars would have looked like in middle age if knights did have the tech). hey... that gives me good ideas for an alternative universe  

[mikhael]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
Well, Macek did the best he could with what they told him to do I think (plus w/o robotech, no-one would know about southern cross and mospaedan even in japan they're not known).
Anyway, just say it would fit well in Macross et voila  

*heh* I had seen Genesis Diver MOSPEADA when I lived in Germany, long before I ever saw Robotech (and it isn't unknown in japan, its a cult classic. You could find wall scrolls, cel-books and stuff for it everywhere in Yamato, Machida and even in Tokyo. One of the hobby magazines even had a section for kitbashed MOSPEADA models, plastic and resin). I don't think anyone told Macek what to do with the three series: I think he just made up a bunch of crap so he could reuse the cels.

I'll agree, though: It looks like something right out of Macross.  

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[Nico]

actually, Macek did that because he was asked to do so: the original macross series was too short for a full US TV season and... well, it's a long story, i'm sure you already have heard about it.
Yeah, true, Mospaeda is well known, but not Southern Cross ( and, honestly, it's not difficult to understand why). damn, I even have two Mospaeda toys   ( in very bad shape unfortunately   )

[LtNarol]

bit startrekish, replicator, temporal travel? heh, nice model though, muy excellente.

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[Nico]

 

Originally posted by LtNarol:
bit startrekish

coming from me, that'd be, well... an insult, at least  
The model's excellent anyway, I wish I had those skills for high poly meshes...

[Stryke 9]

 

Originally posted by ZylonBane:
Mmmm... a half-meg animated middle finger to all the dialup users.

Should I, or shouldn't I?  

[ZylonBane]

 

Originally posted by mikhael:
Closer to a third of a meg

474K. 45% of a megabyte.

[an0n]

If you round it down sufficiently, it's 0% of a Mb.  

[mikhael]

 

Originally posted by ZylonBane:

Originally posted by mikhael:
Closer to a third of a meg

474K. 45% of a megabyte.[/B]

And, on a 56k modem getting closer to about 52, that's about 71sec. Nothing to whine about.

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[an0n]

It loaded instantly on my broadband, which has a max speed of 50KBytes/s. Hmmmmm?

[CougEr]

Relax... it's only a 15 frames per second 320x240 256 colour pallet gif.
 I can make it even smaller on DiVX but HTML is not enabled here so I can't post it as such.
 I'm on a slow dialup and it took me about 60 secs to see it.   But from the 21st of this month    tadaaaa...I'll be on cable again.
Instantly!

BTW I know nothing about anime...   who's or what is Macross?

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[Shrike]

Macross inna nutshell:

Alien spaceship crashes on Earth.
Humans rebuild said ship, calling it the SDF-1.
Humans also develop variable (transforming) fighters known as Veritechs.
Giant Zentreadi warriors arrive ten years later, trying to recapture the SDF-1.
SDF-1 folds to Pluto space and tries to return to Earth.
Much ****  happens, and in an impressive display of fireworks 99.9% of Earths population and about 4.5 of 5 million ships are destroyed.

[Gortef]

A nice model... and I agree with some people here, it does have someking of Macross feeling in it

[Nico]

Originally posted by Shrike
Macross inna nutshell:

Alien spaceship crashes on Earth.
Humans rebuild said ship, calling it the SDF-1.
Humans also develop variable (transforming) fighters known as Veritechs.
Giant Zentreadi warriors arrive ten years later, trying to recapture the SDF-1.
SDF-1 folds to Pluto space and tries to return to Earth.
Much ****  happens, and in an impressive display of fireworks 99.9% of Earths population and about 4.5 of 5 million ships are destroyed.

excellent summary

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Shrike
Macross inna nutshell:

Alien spaceship crashes on Earth.
Humans rebuild said ship, calling it the SDF-1.
Humans also develop variable (transforming) fighters known as Veritechs.
Giant Zentreadi warriors arrive ten years later, trying to recapture the SDF-1.
SDF-1 folds to Pluto space and tries to return to Earth.
Much ****  happens, and in an impressive display of fireworks 99.9% of Earths population and about 4.5 of 5 million ships are destroyed.

Damn...

Well summarised.

[Gortef]

Agreed

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Shrike
Macross inna nutshell:

Alien spaceship crashes on Earth.
Humans rebuild said ship, calling it the SDF-1.
Humans also develop variable (transforming) fighters known as Veritechs.
Giant Zentreadi warriors arrive ten years later, trying to recapture the SDF-1.
SDF-1 folds to Pluto space and tries to return to Earth.
Much ****  happens, and in an impressive display of fireworks 99.9% of Earths population and about 4.5 of 5 million ships are destroyed.

Good summary for Robotech, not quite as good for Macross.

[CougEr]

okay I'll try to use this new improved forum although looks a little too technical for me.

Thank you for the nice comments on the F-440


Now to my chores. I am working on the background for a TV commercial. They send me this old tug,  a cardassian starship.  I did not make the model but I did all the textures lighting and effects.
I just thought I share this one with you to get your imput.
 it is no finished by all meens.





I'm not sure about the BKG yet.
 the main effect will be in the next pass where the background will warp wherever the ship passes over it.

my idea was to make a particle animation nebula that would gently push out of the way of the ship as it passes over it, but NOPE.
  NEEXT! client did not like the idea.
Client likes red. I hate red  but that's what they want.

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[CougEr]

...broken link to one of my servers  by the looks.    

fixed!;)

[Nico]

well, it looks finished to me
---> that means it looks great already btw