[Reprobator]

Sexy!

[Dragon]

Awesome.

[Scooby_Doo]

[Scooby_Doo]

TCFP Dagger (patrol/light)

[Dragon]

You keep amazing me, Scooby Doo.
BTW, isn't that Ecatona from Privateer II?

[Scooby_Doo]

Correct, this is about the forth increation of it and hopefully final LOL.

I know i've got a model dating back to 04.  This time nearly 95% of the model was scrapped and rebuilt.

Next up the Boanerges (or whatever name sounds good for it).

[Scooby_Doo]

TCFD Hammer (defense) or whatever a good name is... This was the Boanerge's early sketch modified up.

[Scooby_Doo]

[Ziame]

Sexy. Are these your ideas, or are you making something you saw, or both? The models i mean of course.

[Titan]

Don't really like the flat wall around the cockpit. Make it slope down, that would probably look better.

[Aardwolf]

* Aardwolf doesn't really like any of Scooby Doo's new cartoony-looking ships

[Scooby_Doo]

Sexy. Are these your ideas, or are you making something you saw, or both? The models i mean of course.

This was the Boanerges concept initially

* Aardwolf doesn't really like any of Scooby Doo's new cartoony-looking ships

What's cartoony?  I'm trying to get a more realistic look to them.

[Aardwolf]

I think it's the texturing, although it may just be the high amount of ambient light (in which case it's just a render settings problem).

Edit: wait no, I remembered what it was. It's all the rounded bits on the newer fighters you've been making.

[Scooby_Doo]

For the lighting I'm trying to mimic the light from the sun plus ambient light given off by earth below.

rounded bits? you mean the smoothing?  Most of that is just smoothing, and what isn't is chamfered to reduce the blocky sharp cornered box look.

[Aardwolf]

Yeah, the chamfered stuff.

[Mav]

I'm trying to get a more realistic look to them.

Don't overdo it... I at least don't like spacecraft dating to 26xx looking old and rusty, especially those that are supposed to be new when you first play them, like the Crossbow.
I mean - we already do have nanosurfaces with lotus-effect or whatever TODAY... In case technology doesn't go on a decline in-between now and then, it seems just strange to me.
Maybe except for the Standoff mod, where the storyline demands each and every old unused crap to be launched into space...

But of course, it's your decision . I just wanted to express my view about it.


Btw. - nice renders .
Any advice on how to do such lasers as in your Crossbow render from inside trueSpace?
     ...oops, I suddenly feel targeting crosshairs on my back ...

[Scooby_Doo]

Well in that case, pretty much none of the sci-fi games out there are reasonably accurate LOL.

I'm not looking for the beat up junker look, just the used look, hasn't gone through a car wash and buff LOL.


For the lasers, I used the game effects on a plane, (diffuse, glow and transparent are all the same texture). I linked them to the turret and rotated the turret to some angle, and then rotated the laser plane so it's facing the camera.  Same thing with the engine thrusters.

[peterv]

Why? Why aren't you working for the FS universe as well? 

[Scooby_Doo]

Actually the FS2 textures are considerably different than mine. 

[Retsof]

Speaking if fs2 textures, I know most of your stuff is for WC, but would it possibe for you to give some of these more FS-ish alternate textures?  Not a big deal, just thought it would be cool.