[chief1983]

And if you recall, FractalSponge's mesh as used by Lucasarts was the incorrect version, he had since updated it to the proper proportions.  I always found that funny.

[Akalabeth Angel]

I shall gladly order my wingmen to kamikaze the bridge!

That was an SSD not an ISD.

    Yeah for ISD's you need to break out the Suncrusher. 

[brandx0]

There will be no suncrusher.  Not one that we'll do anyways.

[Akalabeth Angel]

There will be no suncrusher.  Not one that we'll do anyways.

      That's perfectly fine, I certainly won't miss it.
      That trilogy's one of the few SWs books I've ever bothered to read is all.

[LordMelvin]

Dear god, you mean to say that you've only been exposed to the EU via KJ Anderson, the bane of all that is Good and Holy, Defiler of Maud'dib, taunter of small children, and all around lousy writer? Go read some Zahn, man. Hurry! For your own good!

And follow that up with some Stackpole, he's good too.



Although KJA did have a mildly intresting original short in Analog a couple years back. I guess he just doesn't try as hard when it's other people's 'verses.

[Stormkeeper]

Huh?

[Turambar]

Zahn and Stackpole constructed a Star Wars universe that was actually coherent, cohesive, entertaining, and non-self-contradictory.  they shared characters and plot points and everything they did seemed to mesh together well. 

They are why I like Star Wars as much as I do.
(Allston helped, his stuff wasnt bad either)

[Akalabeth Angel]

Dear god, you mean to say that you've only been exposed to the EU via KJ Anderson, the bane of all that is Good and Holy, Defiler of Maud'dib, taunter of small children, and all around lousy writer? Go read some Zahn, man. Hurry! For your own good!

And follow that up with some Stackpole, he's good too.

     Eh, this is getting offtopic.
     I read the first few chapters of the Thrawn trilogy and then stopped for some reason or other, took the books back to library. As for Stackpole, yeah . . . a lot of people love him, but for Battletech he's not my favourite writer. Mostly because all of his characters are frigging unbeatable super heroes. It gets old. Not sure about his Star Wars stuff. Oh wait, actually I read the first book of Rogue Squadron, but then could never find the second. And didn't want to read anything out of sequence. It wasn't bad.


      Back on topic, I wonder how many polies the Mon Cals are going to be. If they're given the same amount of detail, they should be considerably more given their very organic nature. Or maybe a lot of the detail can be done with normal maps, etcetera . . . been a while since I watched RotJ

[brandx0]

Moncals don't have as many small greebles.  one could probably come up with a moncal cruiser at maybe 120% of the polies the ISD has.

EDIT: I should note though, that this is total polycount.  The Moncal can't get away with puttin everything in detail boxes like the ISD can.

[chief1983]

But it's smoothing can be reduced more with each LOD, the ISD can't really get rid of that base detail.

[Flipside]

I think you're going to need a nice wide FOV in this mod, so that you can truly appreciate the feel of gliding past that thing

Awesome work.

[Turambar]

I think you're going to need a nice wide FOV in this mod, so that you can truly appreciate the feel of gliding past that thing

Awesome work.

I was thinking narrow FOV just so that it appears that much more massive

[LordMelvin]

Oh, come on, please! My monitor's small enough as it is. Don't make it feel like I'm peering through a porthole or something. Big FOV! BIIIIIIIIIIG fov.


Fisheye!

[ShadowGorrath]

You can always set your own FOV. Unless the one in a mission overrides the custom one?

[brandx0]

Here we go, the first peek at the normal mapping on this monster

[colecampbell666]

Wow. You continue to amaze me.

[brandx0]

Lighting was too harsh, updated render with a better light setup

[colecampbell666]

The lines on the front don't look too good.

[Snail]

View full-size.

[Flipside]

I think you're going to need a nice wide FOV in this mod, so that you can truly appreciate the feel of gliding past that thing

Awesome work.

I was thinking narrow FOV just so that it appears that much more massive

My only problem with narrow FOV is that I tend to lose perspective of the size of my own ship, though, you are right that the smaller FOV would probably add more impact.

Of course, playing on a hemispherical monitor that covered around 120' of vision would be the perfect solution