[Angelus]

finally had some free time and energy to finish this(Manticore), I'm currently on vacation so I can't really post any screenshots, anyone who wants to feel free to do it
http://www.mediafire.com/?7mi58rvahi6e5cd

Ok, there you go.

[Commander Zane]

Awesome.

[SypheDMar]

So I checked the Manticore in the ship lab, and I don't really like the big glowmap on the thing. Compared to the other other Shivan fighters, this one looks very plain. I'm okay with the smaller glows, though. Just the big one looks undetailed compared to the whole ship.

[Rodo]

I agree, the hole thing looks good so far, my only complain are the glowmaps on the rear part of the arms, maybe adding some grey pipes/lines would help.

[Luis Dias]

shades of red would work, instead of full 256 on the R.

[Nemesis6]

Indeed - It stands out a bit too much with that intensity.

[Droid803]

Ungh, whats with the monored glow thing for the thrusters.
So unimaginative and ugly. Just because it's there in retail (just as ugly)...

[Nighteyes]

there is so much one can do with a plain polygon, it was there a few pages back and nobody complained about the red, I'll maybe add some detail there, but remember that part it completely covered with a thruster glow...

[Trivial Psychic]

Perhaps you should take some cues from the design show for the Hi-Poly Scorpion, since they have very similar thrusters.

[Nighteyes]

here are some more screenshots, I really don't see whats so wrong with the thrusters, usually you only see the model from far away anyway, but as I said if most people don't like it I can always go back and tweak the glows a bit, it will just take some time as I'm not free to work on this atm...

[Dragon]

I like it.

[swashmebuckle]

Looks great to me!  I tend to play with my bloom setting a bit lower than the default (I'm at around 35 I think), but even that goes a long way towards making full red surfaces like that look convincingly glowing rather than just flat. Love all the Shivan progress

[General Battuta]

I like it, honestly.

[bigchunk1]

That's really mantahardcore! The weapon arms look like they pack something painful.

[BrotherBryon]

Looks good enough as is IMO and if you want to consider it done I have no gripes. To be honest though when I designed the arms I was intending not to use the large glowing blocks found on the original. I didn't realize the end of the arms were supposed to be thrusters or I would have modeled something mechanical looking in. I followed the concept art where the two inset bands around the arms were supposed to be glows in the same styling as those found on the central hull. Sorry I should have mentioned that a lot sooner.

[Droid803]

Well they'll be covered with glows except when the ship's disabled...
So I still think there should be like at least a little bit of detail drawn on the back face (like a thruster hole or something), just make it look more like the top/bottom, with some details over the glow.
You can keep most of it glowy, but the whole back part being totally mono-glowy-red is kinda :/

[CommanderDJ]

I reckon the whole thing should be a glowmap. 




But seriously, I like it as it is.

[SypheDMar]

You can keep most of it glowy, but the whole back part being totally mono-glowy-red is kinda :/

Yeah. It wouldn't look so bad if the glows had any sort of shading, either, but they don't. It's just one color, one value. Looks a lot like Windmills's ships.

[Luis Dias]

"I like it" doesn't do it justice. I still think the glows could use some work, but hey we are discussing perfection.

[Dragon]

I've made some minor modifications to the model in PCS2, here's a fully usable version: http://www.mediafire.com/?e532tm4qlemmu13
It features two LODs (I found adding 3rd also adds yet another texture, which I didn't wanted) imported straight from Mediavps Manticore, so it would be great if they got remade at some point.
All other POF data should be fine.