[Black Wolf]

Looks fantastic.

[Sobbsy]

I think it looks brilliant. It'll likely need a good dose of anti aliasing to really do it justice, as I think all those ribbed structures will look a bit scratchy at any kind of distance without AA applied.

Otherwise, bake some sexy textures and it'll look stunning. The design is simply perfect... It captures that inelegant 'it just works' style that Shivan ships are best known for - almost like it was heaped together from raw materials and made to fly with some dark magic.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Nice pipes on the back there, the irregularity fits the Shivans quite well. The engines are pretty darn awesome... actually the entire back half is. And you made the spikes look good as well

Will there be some more detailing on those front ends, between the beam spikes? It looks kind of empty there as-is, compared to the rest of the ship.

I'm not a great fan of the plating of the front half... it looks very regular and *almost* Terran when viewed from the side. The random cuts in the panels just... don't cut it. IMHO. For variation in that area, I would suggest to somewhat shift the plating left and right, and adding a few differently shaped plates, as on the original below.

Take it or leave it, either way it's an improvement over retail

[Rga_Noris]

Randomized the sizing of the plates to add some irregularity, also adjusted the Snickerdoodle Generator... think Ravan-esque cables.

[Commander Zane]

Can't wait to shoot at these.
If I can pull the trigger.

[Kolgena]

That looks really good.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Hot damn, good sir.

This is shaping up to be incredibly awesome. I can't wait to see it menacing the skies and shooting at me...it's a good thing the power of a ship doesn't scale up with how awesome it looks. This thing would be packing all ULTRA af beams were that the case.

[sigtau]

I jizzed buckets.

I can't wait to see it textured.

[Colonol Dekker]

It's like a Zerg

[Rga_Noris]

WIP texture:











Things that should be obvious: No red is present because I have not made the glow map. No shine map is currently active in those screens, as it is hanging out with the normal map in the Not-Done-Lounge.

Red glows are planned to be coming from in between the front plates, near the rear downward spike, and behind the pipes in the back.

[sigtau]

Blaasljdfalsknvlasdnvzcwebabab... *drool*

Rga_Noris is a godsend for FSU.

[Commander Zane]

Woah the inside of the bow is nice.

[Shivan Hunter]

I was wondering about the front end before, but it'll go awesomely with that texture. Can't wait for the glowmap!

[Ulala]

Kickass.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Holy crap. That looks even better than I imagined.

[Rodo]

yummy!

[Kolgena]

I like that touch of gold. It's like a shoutout to the Sathanas texture scheme.

[T-LoW]

The texture part in the gap at the front looks like a space vagina of steel. Awesome!

Fun aside - you really create great textures! Very well done

[Mongoose]

The texture part in the gap at the front looks like a space vagina of steel. Awesome!

oh god cannot unsee

But otherwise, wow.

[Rga_Noris]

I like that touch of gold. It's like a shoutout to the Sathanas texture scheme.

Glad you noticed! I would like to bring a consistant look to the FSU, so I try to make mah Shivans look similar to one another.