[blowfish]

The missile tubes look nice   Though I'm not sure about the primary guns either, especially since IIRC there's only one gun in each slot (4 total)

[Commander Zane]

Yeah, each port holds one gun but HOLY **** THAT LOOKS SEXY.

[Droid803]

Sexy!

[Galemp]

Mmf, I see what you were trying to do with the missile tubes, but I don't really think it works. Stars just aren't... Shivan.

Maybe try making them trapezoids instead of triangles? Just lop off the end of one of the triangle corners?

[Raven2001]

IMO I'd just replace those stars for the triangles again and leave the model as it is, looks great already

[Snail]

Really not liking the primary guns.

[BrotherBryon]

Fixed the missile tubes and reworked the one set of primaries as close as I can to the original textures. If its well liked I will make the other set of primaries the same way. It's really odd on this model with the missile banks being smaller in size than the primary cannons.


By brotherbryon at 2009-02-24

[blowfish]

I like those primaries

[Commander Zane]

Perfect!

[Mongoose]

I kind of liked the individual gun barrels myself, but those look cool too.

[Bobboau]

the thingy that links the main hull to the pods needs detail, invent some if you have to.

[Commander Zane]

I kind of liked the individual gun barrels myself, but those look cool too.

Except for that it had eight guns on it.

[Mongoose]

Well, I'd assume that yanking out half of them would have been a simple endeavor.

[Commander Zane]

Clever.

[blowfish]

I like the new ones anyway   IMO they match the original much more...

[FreeSpaceFreak]

the thingy that links the main hull to the pods needs detail, invent some if you have to.

Won't normal maps be able to add some greebling there?

Other than that, awesome work again, BB

[Galemp]

Can you make both top and bottom gun barrels the same, and symmetrical about the local center?

[BrotherBryon]

Can you make both top and bottom gun barrels the same, and symmetrical about the local center?

I suppose I could, I only made them the way they seem to appear in the original texture. The top one is significantly larger than the bottom one and their shapes are rather odd. I was thinking of scraping the interior barrel designs and making a new one. The only question is which shape would be appropriate. If I make them triangular or rectangular the top barrel will look larger than the missile tubes. They already do but the odd shape makes it a little less noticeable.

[Galemp]

Well, I like the idea of the inside being a =O= shape.

[BrotherBryon]

Just about finished, I changed the barrels and added some raised paneling and recesses for bobboau. The paneling isn't exactly to the original texture but the texture is difficult to make out in those areas. Normal maps can handle the rest. If there aren't any more objections or good suggestions this may become the final model.


By brotherbryon at 2009-02-25