[Vasudan Admiral]

Overall I would have used 4 evenly spaced larger engines as you had in the last pic of the first post, but I'd be ok with these ones if you really don't want to change them further.

[Enioch]

No, you're right. The spacing is a bit off. I moved the starboard engines around a bit to get a more symmetrical look. I'll post a pic when I finish the bottom dock.

[Galemp]

Hey, have you done anything with the turrets yet? I'd like to see their upgrades.

[Enioch]

Mesh+Smoothgroups done!

No MSmooth modifier, I'm afraid, because it catapults the tri count to over 20k. See attachments for final version.

Changes: Scaled up the radar dish. finished the bottom dock. Slightly re-positioned the engines. Optimized the smoothgroups.

Hey, have you done anything with the turrets yet? I'd like to see their upgrades.

I haven't touched them. Post Xmas, if you don't mind...



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[Enioch]

And the bottom dock:

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[IceFire]

Wow...you've managed to make the Argo look awesome

Nicely done!

[eliex]

It's very well done now. 

[Col. Fishguts]

Very cool

As for thebridge thin discussed before, I was under the impression that the rectangular thing on the flat forward facing area on the starboard side were supposed to be windows, no ? Because it would make sense to have some sort of bridge there for docking manouvers.

[peterv]

This is very good! 

[Hellstryker]

Well, you made arguably one of the least detailed models in FS 2 beautiful, so 

[Enioch]

If anybody wants to play around with it, here is the mesh, in .max and .obj formats. Any other format on request.

Contains lod-0 for hull and radar dish.

If you find any issues, let me know.

P.S: I gave it a nasty texture, just to be able to export it and got it in-game. It seems like it's working well...  The version I'm posting is texture-free (trust me, you don't want to see my awesome mapping skillz...

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[shiv]

Good job, I love this ship

[Enioch]

If anybody decides to have a go at texturing it, please let me know. I've got some turrets cooking and they need textures as well...

[BrotherBryon]

I like what you've done with this ship. 

[FireCrack]

Good on ya man!

When I started on this I thought of giving each subsystem it's own destroyable mesh, you certianly have enough detail to go for that!

Either way, awesome job!

[Enioch]

Good on ya man!

You sure you don't mind?

When I started on this I thought of giving each subsystem it's own destroyable mesh, you certainly have enough detail to go for that!

Well, I've been thinking about it as well. The problem is that, until I get somebody to texture it, I'm not sure I should do anything to the mesh. I mean, right now, it's actually a blank piece of paper: you can chop it up, LOD it, debris it however you want (and feel like it should be done). I know I won't be texturing this (see first post), but if I find a texturer and he asks me to chop it up, I'll be glad to do so as per his instructions.

Until then, I'm working on its turrets.

[Enioch]

...of which I present you the first (?) draft...



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[Snail]

Sexy turrets. Too bad they'll only ever fire blobs.

[Droid803]

Very nice turret!
IIRC they do shoot flak in one mission...not sure though.

[Enioch]

Yeah. Just ONE mission (I think it's the one where it's you VS a NTF Orion and an Argo). I always felt sorry for the poor transport...

Now, on a more serious note. I will freeze the modeling, until the Argo gets a texturer. There is really no point in me doing anything else at this stage, unless I get directions from a texturer. So, hands up anybody who wants to have a try.