[Woolie Wool]

     b. The polycount is ~5600 so far. If i turn the guns from squares to octagons it will reach ~6400. Shall i do that or make them simple culinders and depend their shape on the normal maps?

*smack* Remove those little cutouts from the guns and just make them cylinders. Please. Texture them that way but having all those little crinkles drives up the polycount for no benefit whatsoever. 90% of the time this thing is onscreen, those guns will be smaller than a single pixel. Please, just make them octagonal cylinders.

At that distance, the model wouldn't be in LOD 0 anyway, so why does it matter?

[Sushi]

The divot things on the gun tubes are the kind of detail that doesn't really need to be modeled, IMHO. Just use textures + normal maps and it'll look just as good.

[Aardwolf]

The divot things on the gun tubes are the kind of detail that doesn't really need to be modeled, IMHO. Just use textures + normal maps and it'll look just as good.

Lol, "divot."

I agree (in theory). But my graphics card sucks and can't do GLSL. Nonetheless, this is one of the few times I'm going to not be all like "no you selfish people save some for the low-end guys." Making them big enough to be modeled-in doesn't make sense, anyway.

[peterv]

Ingame:



http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f022eb4747a0098990a82c7bb0fad7ade04e75f6e8ebb871

(well, not exactly, just a bad convertion of Lod0  )

[Vasudan Admiral]

Gorgeous.

[peterv]

I've found some UV-map problems so ignore the previous pof. I'll post a better one tomorrow 

[Rodo]

you are really fast, congrats!

I'll be glad to have a new toy to play around ^^

[Galemp]

I don't think the pilot's been smoothed.

[Cobra]

Nope. The Vasudan's blockier than a Halcyon-class cruiser.

[shiv]

Absolutely brilliant work, peterv! I'd love to see more in-game pictures in hi-resolution.

[Dragon]

So download it and take pics yourself. 
I agree that this model is great, plus, it's the first mediavps model which have Vasudan cockpit.
I hope somebody will remake Horus and Seraphis to also include this feature.

[peterv]

Nope. The Vasudan's blockier than a Halcyon-class cruiser.

... and not smoothed. After lowing the guns - polys i have no excuse: I'll try to do better 

[Galemp]

Blocky's OK, just make sure it's smoothed and it'll look fine.

[blowfish]

I think he uses COB for conversions, so no control...

You might want to consider DAE ... I think someone on FotG got it to work successfully with 3DS Max.

[Galemp]

COB has smoothing, I've done it before. It just has to be converted to COB very carefully. It's Ancient Lore by now, so I can't help you, but maybe there's something on the Wiki or in an old thread.

[esarai]

AFAIK You could do it in cob with edge-splits, but hey, if you need it smoothed, give me the file and I'll do it.  I can smoothing with blender.  Just PM me a link, ya?

[peterv]

I admit it: I am lazy and i always take advantage of peoples kindness. 
So Esarai please check your PM's. 

[Hades]

The preliminary version has been uploaded, at -link removed because it contains a few errors-.

EDIT: I didn't notice that it did not have debris, so this is not the final version. Sorry for my oversight.

[Commander Zane]

Woot!
This marks the dawn of the visible-pilot age of Vasudan small craft, now the other Vasudan fighters need the same treatment.

[Cyrip]

Is there a Model WITHOUT the vasudan pilot avalaible? Though it looks pretty good it kind of doesnt fit during the regular Campaign, since your supposed to be a terran pilot....