[mikhael]

I've been poking at a rebuild of an old design. I suppose it will be an overly large carrier when its complete. I'd like some opinions on the overall design so far, and if possible, some suggestions where it could use improvement. For the record, the four big nacelle things are the engines and they are at the aft end of the ship.

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[edit] 901 polys, no booleans and no overlaps/intersections
Updated model, new engine layout.
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Input greatly appreciated.

[LtNarol]

looks great, how many polys?

[Stryke 9]

Good start. Needs lots of detail to be a carrier, tho. For some reason, it reminds me of an Argo. That's my favorite model, tho, so I suppose that's a good thing.

[Kamikaze]

A two up for that, nice design, just needs some detail (isn't the base smiley infuriating?)

[untouchable]

Just a little more work and that could be a kewl model just needs a touch more detail.

[mikhael]

This thing is no where near done. This is the basic shape slapup. From here I'll be carving in bits and adding on bits, and molding other bits to fit those bits....

Some more details:
--approximately 3.4km long
-- 634 faces (if I put this in a game, it'll stop at about 1100 total, if not, it'll go up to around 20-30k of silly detail)
-- that smaller indentation on the port side is where the four hangar decks are open to space

[Kamikaze]

Zeronet would like it

[Setekh]

Pretty. I'll hold comments till you make summore progress.

[Styxx]

Nice work, post the pics when you've worked more on it.

[Nico]

From tyhe name, it could be a NGTA ship from OtT lol
Nice design, just need more details
Somehow to me it would make a good challenger to the golgotha, tho.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by venom2506
From tyhe name, it could be a NGTA ship from OtT lol
Nice design, just need more details
Somehow to me it would make a good challenger to the golgotha, tho.

Well, when its done, you can have the mesh if you want, Venom.

I'm working on making the hull more interesting right now, then I'll add in some more serious detailing.

[Nico]

Originally posted by mikhael


Well, when its done, you can have the mesh if you want, Venom.

I'm working on making the hull more interesting right now, then I'll add in some more serious detailing.

Sure
I could use a NGTA carrier actually But make sure there's no intersecting polys, FS2 don't handle that well at all ( horrible clipping pbs otherwise)

[mikhael]

Originally posted by venom2506

But make sure there's no intersecting polys, FS2 don't handle that well at all

I pride myself on the fact that no model I build in Lightwave has overlapping polys, thank you very much.

[Nico]

Originally posted by mikhael


I pride myself on the fact that no model I build in Lightwave has overlapping polys, thank you very much.

ok cool

[mikhael]

*bump* for updates

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by Kamikaze
Zeronet would like it

Indeed,indeed...

[Setekh]

Nice updates...

Mmm, it'll be good to see this in OtT...

[Nico]

Yeah, it's cool
tell me if you want the generic NGTA capship maps, or if you prefer that i map it

[mikhael]

You'll have to map it, Venom. I am, so far, incapable of setting up a ship for use in Freespace (its a lot harder than Iwar2! *heh*). I'll give you the completed mesh, with some LODs and you can put weapons and stuff where you want them and put it in the game.

Oh, and once you've got it textured, Venom, don't forget to give it to Steak. He owes me one of his crazy sexy renders.

[Stunaep]

Looks like something belonging to the TAP project. I'd like to see this baby mapped however.

Overall,