[Hellstryker]

If you want a Japanese name, you can't go much better than Amaterasu  - Shinto sun goddess and ruler of the plane of heaven.

The name means "she who shines in the heavens" - sounds perfect for your description of the ship.

Seconded 

[esarai]

Good job on that model. I really like it
Is it for any non-FS universe?

It was made for FS.

I suggest FS2 era texturing. Deimos maps will fit this ship the best

I was thinking of trying a post-Capella mapping scheme based on/inspired by the Deimos' textures.

[esarai]

Okay, I antenna'd the forward spires, but left the third bottom one on (it needs some form of special weaponry).



I've always wondered if all the faces in a game model have to share edges with eachother. Does anybody know the answer to that question? Does the mesh have to be completely sealed, or can it be a bunch of non-connected boxes thrown together?

[Jadehawk]

Now this would be fun to texture Good work on your model! 

[esarai]

Thanks!

And thanks to everyone for all the comments and suggestions!

[Black Wolf]

Non sealed meshes used to mean potential bugs IIRC, dunno what the SCP's done about that, but I think the limitations have been relaxed somewhat.

Still, better to keep it solid, surely?

[ssmit132]

Yet another great model. How is it for size? Still 7 km or 3-2 km?

[shiv]

Good work on detailing this ship. I'd love to see this in-game

[esarai]

Non sealed meshes used to mean potential bugs IIRC, dunno what the SCP's done about that, but I think the limitations have been relaxed somewhat.

Still, better to keep it solid, surely?

hmmm....

I agree about keeping it solid. does it count as solid if all the parts intersect to form one continuous mesh without sharing sides, or does solid mean they have to all be contiguous? Right now the greeble is attached as a turret would be.

Yet another great model. How is it for size? Still 7 km or 3-2 km?

I haven't really decided, but I fear I might release two versions. 

[Black Wolf]

I'm not 100% sure actually - someone will be able to tell you though.

Of course, if you're feeling particularly adventurous you could make some of your greebles into non-targetable destroyable submodels and get pseudo geo-modding going on - course, that would limit the number of available subobjects for turrets a little bit, and on a 7 km ship you're going to want a lot of turrets.

[esarai]

What's the limit on submodels?

[Black Wolf]

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

[Galemp]

I've always wondered if all the faces in a game model have to share edges with eachother. Does anybody know the answer to that question? Does the mesh have to be completely sealed, or can it be a bunch of non-connected boxes thrown together?

Ah, I see what you mean...

For those greebles, you should be fine just having the faces intersect. As an added bonus you can delete any faces that are completely hidden. Booleaning them all together would really inflate the polycount.

The main hull though should definitely be topographically solid. Open edges can fail at collision and weapons fire detection.

Can we get more images, close-ups of certain areas? It looks really amazing with all those bits on it.

[Stormkeeper]

I think kara's freespace faq should answer your questions. Thoug i don't have the link atm

[DarthWang]

Looks Vasudan to me

Call it the GVJ Ramses or something

[esarai]

Here are two closeups,

Antennas



And the engine sectors



I'm working on the main weapon systems now.
hmmm... there's another question... are there any naming scripts available for blender? So that instead of having to go through and rename each turret from turret01.012 to turret13, the computer does it for me?

[Topgun]

Non sealed meshes used to mean potential bugs IIRC, dunno what the SCP's done about that, but I think the limitations have been relaxed somewhat.

Still, better to keep it solid, surely?

I think it had to do with a pcs bug, not scp. anyway, you should keep it solid wherever possible.

[esarai]

oh snap... If the limit is 80... this needs more guns than that!  And ugh... the anti-small stuff cannons are 40 m across if it's going to be 7 km long. Anti-Fighter beams are larger than the frikkin fighter. Some of the primary beams are over 300 m across.

With 1/2 of it's 80 Guns:



It has an absurdly thin anti-fighter screen.

[Droid803]

Well, if the beams are too big, you could always scale it down to be just juggernaut sized (~7km).
That'd lower the need for massive amounts of turrets too.

[esarai]

I just realized the 70 km typo. It's supposed to be 7.

Edited it out of the last post.