[Droid803]

 

That is some insane detail you've got on there.

[Stormkeeper]

If sanity is for the weak, Brandx0 must be pretty strong.

[brandx0]

Why is everyone saying I'm insane?  I think it takes a pretty clear head to make these models (trust me, I've tried modeling drunk and it doesn't work too well)

=P

[brandx0]

Last update for the day.

[Galemp]

Make sure those turrets have enough clearance to rotate, otherwise they'll be stuck in the broadside position.

[brandx0]

I made sure that they do have room to rotate.  They're actually spaced out enough to do a complete 360 rotation, but these guns aren't designed to be able to fire outside of about a 120 degree fire arc to either side.  Any further and they'd hit the gun next to them when they fire.

[chief1983]

And I think that some of the new turret code being worked on should allow that kind of fine control as well.

[brandx0]

And another high res compare shot.

[brandx0]

More detail along the sides near the turrets.  Almost finished the Terraces!  After that it's just completing the detail on the bottom and a few other random parts, and then the trench!

[Titan]

speaking of turret control, how are you gonna get them to only fire in that very particular canon firing arc?

[colecampbell666]

By telling them. In PCS2, you can set constraints like that.

[Vasudan Admiral]

No you can't actually - but you can specify rotational limitations in the ships tbl entry for each turret under one of Wanderers builds.

The ISDs are lovely Brand. Very cool.
Could we get a closeup shot of the two destroyers bridge section greeblage perchance? They're my favourite piece of my favourite sci-fi ship and look particularly sweet here.

[brandx0]

Ask and ye shall recieve

[brandx0]

And finally! The terraces are complete!

[Akalabeth Angel]

And finally! The terraces are complete!

      Dang, What's the polycount on that thing? (keeping in mind that you probably haven't had the chance to clean it up yet).

[colecampbell666]

So again, what do you use to model?

And

[brandx0]

All of the detail all together comes up to 18k triangles right now (which is pretty damn good)

That'll decrease a bit, but increase once I get the trench done.  Also about 12k of that is in detail boxes.  

So all in all, we're doing damn good.

And I use 3D studio max to model, with VRay to render.

[Alan Bolte]

Impressive. Most impressive.

[Flaser]

You're probably the no. 1 reason why Kazan will hurry up the Collada implementation in PCS2.x
When told that he could have a Stardestroyer to play with - and finally a ship that properly uses detail boxes - sticking to Truespace and Truespace only will no longer cut it.

The same goes for getting wanderer's features into the trunk build.

In other words: you guys are an awesome motivation for coders.(...and Bobbau is swelling with pride, since such a polycount monster is only possible with his detail box code).

[Galemp]

I wish. I haven't seen them around in a while.

*waves wad of cash* Collada! Collada! Here boy! Here!