[Nico]

Originally posted by Woomeister

Yeah, I was the one who found there was a limit

actually no, Killmenow figured it out first when doing his ( hey, what a coincidence ) ISD.

[TrashMan]

How many low-poly LOD models do I have to make? 1, 2, 3?
For close, medium and far away?
I'll have to do only the hull, right?
Or do I have to make LOD models for turrets too?

[Bobboau]

you can do the turrets but it would be kinda counter productive to need them in all LODs, just do the realy big ones (note turrets that are in more than LOD0 need to have there names ending in a for LOD0, b for LOD1, c for LOD2, ect...) you should have four LOD0 (the main one with full detains),
LOD1 (poly choped some small details, remove most of the small turrets),
LOD2 (probly only about 200 poly here at most, not turrets unless it's huge, spinning subobjects should be gone after here),
and LOD3 (a box or triangle)

if you want to make more go ahead, but this is how I do it,
oh and make it out of one subobject... or else (im asuming you doing this right and not throughing fourty or so primitives or spline objects together into a nonseemless mesh, there's been an upsurge in that sort of thing lately)

[Setekh]

Manners, guys? Welcome to HLP, trashman; good to have you here.

[Raven2001]

Originally posted by venom2506


Ouais, ben alors ça mon pôte t'aurais pu éviter, hein, c'est pas moi qui posterait dans ma langue natale, ça non alors, alors tu devrais avoir honte!

nah, I can do that too

Yah... não me digas, eu tambem sei falar portugues e tu nem por isso Quando quiseres eu ensino-te a falar...  

Styxx: DON'T even say a WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TrashMan]

So, three models for the hull, and two for large turrets.
How many debris should I have?
What abot fighters - they need LODs too, but I guess two would be enough.
Bombers and their turrets are allso seperate?
Can they have more than two turrets?

[TrashMan]

O.k. the battleship's hull has about 430 (or was it 340?) polys.
I'll check that.

B.t.w. - Infested Larva, the story is good, except for one starange part; - why the hell would the GTVA want to rebuild the node to Gamma Draconis, they know the Shivans are there!?

[TrashMan]

The GTVBS -  Battleship Paladin(I wanted to call it Apocalypse, but I saw that there are allready ships with that name), the military science vessel Galileo, a wing of Phoenix adv. heavy fighters and a Washington class freighter

Just a test picture

[TrashMan]

What do you think of the following names:
- Archangel
- Valiant
- Valour
- Avenger
- Vanguard
- Titan
- Paladin
- Claymore

[Odyssey]

You know, it really made me wonder why my floppy disk drive was churning, until I saw the image locations.
TrashMan, you need to get the images on a webserver before any of us can see them. The simplest way to do that is to Private Message any of the moderators here, and kindly ask them to host the images on HLP webspace.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Odyssey
You know, it really made me wonder why my floppy disk drive was churning, until I saw the image locations.
TrashMan, you need to get the images on a webserver before any of us can see them. The simplest way to do that is to Private Message any of the moderators here, and kindly ask them to host the images on HLP webspace.

lol yeah, I wondered why too
I was about to kick my poor laptop again

[TrashMan]

Look now and tell me what you think!;7
I'll post other pictures, as soon as I finish making models of:
- Thunderbolt strike bomber
- Whirlwind Corvette
- Protector Cruiser (aaf)
- Unnamed race fighter (does Hygarii sound good)
- Unnamed race Bomber
- Terran Starbase (Vanguard)
- Shivan Destroyer (or Juggernout, I'll have to see)

[TrashMan]

Thank you all for your help.
I still haven't got an answer on the question about turrets and bombers.
How do you animate the turret (it's barrels)?

Thanks for the offer Star Dragon, I may take you up on your word.
I'll write the main stroy of the campaign and put it on my homepage (don't laugh when you see it, I didn't even try to make it look noce, it's only a test page), and post the message here when I'm done (with the link). It might take a while, I have lots of exams coming up.

[Nico]

woah, looks neat! those ships designs reminds me of my own for OS ( "sob" ). two thumbs up
( tho don't expect to have all this pretty lighting effects ingame no specular map hehe )

[Nico]

mmh, about lods, 2 are sure enough, but then they would better have a very low polycount. I always make the 3 lods anyway, coz Lod1 has to still look pretty good -as you see it in the targetting window- and lod3 can be as basic as a cube, so...
for bombers, yeah, you have to make the turrets subobjects and glue them, just like for a capship.
Don't quote me on that, but I think there's no turret limit for bombers ( well, save for the subobject limit of course)

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Setekh
Manners, guys? Welcome to HLP, trashman; good to have you here.

Yessir.

Looking very good there, btw

[TrashMan]

Glad you like it.
I'll be finished with the lods soon. Can anyone make the skin for it (I'll even send him the textue I used in TS)?

[TrashMan]

The two models that are allmost ready(for texturing) are the GTVBS Paladin and the GTF Black Phoenix.
Anyone interested?

[MeatPie]

I'm guessing 2 LODs for a fighter would be enough? 1 with fewer polys and the second just a triangle should do.

What about the engine flames?  That would be a subobject glued to the hull right?

And can someone please explain this stuff about hierarchies? thanks

[TrashMan]

 How many debris parts should I make.
How detailed should they be, and do they have to fit in like a puzzle ( put three peaces together and you have the original ship).
And what about putting turrets on the debris?
C'mon guys, talk to me.