[ssmit132]

Last I looked 80 (I think - somewhere around there anyway), though that may have been boosted by the SCP, not sure. Sorry for all the non-commital answers, I'm not really much of a model maker

I'm sure there are more than that:

As you can see, Inferno's 'ShivWorm' (The SCa Shiamak) has 101 submodels, and AFAIK the model works without problems.

[Droid803]

The Shiamak indeed works fine. It has exactly 100 turrets, and it was made well before PCS2.
I think you can go over 100 too (just go turret101, but I don't think anything has been there yet).

[esarai]

YAY! more point-defense cannons!

[esarai]

I've been working on the textures, and here's what I have:









I've also got some modified retail textures that I intend to use. What would be some other good ones to make?

[Droid803]

Referring to when you said the turrets were too big, you could probably just scale them down without having them look too strange.
The textures are awesome. Especially the last one.

[esarai]

Thanks.

I fear the model is not detailed enough. As in I think my texturing job needs severe work.



And there's another issue: FRED can't cope with it.

[Getter Robo G]

It has horns - a more FS2ish name could be MINOTAUR.

True a defense sat with that name was made back in pre2001/2002ish I believe, but that should not be a problem.


Or, how about some names of fictional demons?

Shabranigdo
Pazuzu
Abaddon
Mephistopheles
Grazzt

As for your textring, try less detailed plates. IMHo the current ones on that big of a ship looks "noisy"

The details are lost in a wash of repetiveness on flat surfaces of that size.  try those textures on smaller ships (or even fighters) and you will see what I mean.


Darkstar

[ssmit132]

Very nice looking, but I agree with Getter - It's tiled too much. The blue light part is all right, but the main grey parts look like concrete or something.

[esarai]

As for your textring, try less detailed plates. IMHo the current ones on that big of a ship looks "noisy"

The details are lost in a wash of repetiveness on flat surfaces of that size.  try those textures on smaller ships (or even fighters) and you will see what I mean.


Darkstar

I agree with the noisy part, and that the surfaces are too repetitive. I let the tiling be small like that so when a fighter flies real close to intercept a bomber or whatnot the surface doesn't pixelate and look crapped. I think the best solution is probably to give it more actual geometry detail.

EDIT:  And that's what I stayed up till 3 in the morning doing the moment finals ended.



Now it's even more dangerous. Poly count over 25,000. Can someone tell me the poly count of the HTL'd GTD Orion?

[ssmit132]

The HTL Orion in the 3.6.10 MediaVPs has a total of 11198 polygons in LOD 0. 

However, the HTL Karnak has 27374 polygons in LOD 0. So your ship is within reason. (Although it'll probably kill my computer, the Karnak did a few times.  )

[lefkos]

that ship looks truely fantastic!

[shiv]

Awesomness. Any chance it's going to be soon relesed?

[esarai]

that ship looks truely fantastic!

Thanks!

Awesomness. Any chance it's going to be soon relesed?

Yes, yes there is hope this will finish before break ends. And I feel like throwing in some easter eggs.

The HTL Orion in the 3.6.10 MediaVPs has a total of 11198 polygons in LOD 0. 

However, the HTL Karnak has 27374 polygons in LOD 0. So your ship is within reason. (Although it'll probably kill my computer, the Karnak did a few times.  )

Oh good. I got the count down to around 21000, and it will have functional LODs, the lowest one having about 3000. That's the one thing that bakes my biscut about the HTL Orion is that the LODs don't function on my computer, so put more than 3 in there, and you're in trouble.

Oh my... 142 gun turrets. Will that break anything?
And I know, it's an insane amount of gunnery, but it's countered by enterable fighterbays and the inter-deck chasm has no defense systems, meaning enter the chasm and you can pick this thing apart. I wonder if a Fenris would fit in there... The real challenge is to get through the firestorm this thing will send at you.

I guess the best way to plausibly explain this overabundance of destructive power is that there are no flak guns on board, meaning they don't have to store ammo, and can devote space to more laser-based weapons.

EDIT: an entire wing of Fenrises could fly through there without breaking formation. Hell, send a few Diemos if you feel like it.

Oh btw,  I dedicate this post to Master Chief since it is my 117th post. And no, I am not a rabid Halo fan. I just felt like it.

[Jadehawk]

Can't wait to get my grubby texturing paws on this one too   I commend you on your excellent work! 

[Stormkeeper]

Kewl. If this little baby's gonna be released soon, I can wait.

[esarai]

I wonder... will having a turret named 'turret142' break PCS?  would it be better to name them "turret01a," "turret32b" and so on based on turret size?

[Droid803]

Now upon reflection, turrets can be named whatever.
If turret142 works, having bigturret99 and smlturret41 should not be any different.
Though I haven't tried either.

[Aardwolf]

Your ship (when I first saw it, anyway) looks a lot like a ship in my "Some Non-FS Models" thread in Fan Art or whatever that board is now called. (It's one of the most recently posted ships there)

[lostllama]

Daedalus and Icarus come to mind. Not the most scary of mythological names though.

[Droid803]

Oooh.
That looks like the 'cruiser'-sized counterpart to this juggernaut thing.
That one just needs some antennae at the front. And more greebling.