[Vengence]

Something about watching good MetalDestroyer's vids on youtube like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUS4y6BEoAc&feature=channel_video_title  brings great joy to my heart, seeing my models doing awesome stuff  , but at the same time it brings me great great nostalgia as well as artist regret in such a rather... dated model. So the thought struck me, would you folk like a remake of the Hurricane V and Typhoon I? As in no crazy new aesthetic thrills as evidenced in my new designs, just an HTL sort remake including super high res textures?

[Dragon]

That would be great.

[Droid803]

That'd be cool :3

[Vengence]

[Droid803]

sexy

[AndrewofDoom]

You leave me astonished.

[Nuke]

i think i became so overwelmed with the need to htl nukemod ships that i havent made a new ship in years. these days i hardly consider myself artistic anymore.

[Scooby_Doo]

i think i became so overwelmed with the need to htl nukemod ships that i havent made a new ship in years. these days i hardly consider myself artistic anymore.

i hear ya...

[Droid803]

i think i became so overwelmed with the need to htl nukemod ships that i havent made a new ship in years. these days i hardly consider myself artistic anymore.

I donno, I feel the nukemod ships are fairly ok, seeing as they're all UVMapped and not tilemapped (big <3's).
I just take a few seconds to fix their uniform-smoothing and they're all fine and dandy.

[MetalDestroyer]

Oh yeah !! More awesomeness in the next months !

[Nuke]

i think i became so overwelmed with the need to htl nukemod ships that i havent made a new ship in years. these days i hardly consider myself artistic anymore.

I donno, I feel the nukemod ships are fairly ok, seeing as they're all UVMapped and not tilemapped (big <3's).
I just take a few seconds to fix their uniform-smoothing and they're all fine and dandy.

ive been incrementally converting my old truespace models over to max, which makes it easy to fix geometry errors and has better smoothing options. but im still struggling to find an ironclad way to normal map those ships which were just not uv mapped with normal mapping in mind.

[Vengence]

In my vision since this ship is an 'older' model it will have a lot of pipey shapes to it. Pipes all over. Think of it like Galactica vs Pegasus in the reimagining to its eventual replacement:



Though I would appreciate any sort of hints or design features you'd like to see. If not then this is generally following my own idea of how it'd look.

[TomJeffersonJones]

the fighter cockpit in those vids is beautiful...I suppose its the 'showship' method we're seeing there...didn't know it was possible to build such detailed 'pits into the fighter models.

Just an aside, don't  mean to stray from topic.

[Vengence]

Hopefully I can make the cockpit look better. I got lazy. It is supposed to have a sort of partial holograpic instruments.

Just to ask, the Hurricane V is exactly 6km long and I do not plan on using tile textures. But this poses a slight problem... 6000m/4096pixel. This means that for every meter there is one and a half of pixels. And that is if the hull is stretched completely to fill that void. I can tell you right now that I do not want to tile. I can try to use a high quality normal map and alower res diffuse map so when you look at the model the normal maps make the model a bit sharp looking. I could tile if you desire, but again I'd prefer to make a single texture map.

[JCDNWarrior]

Amazing stuff, Vengence, I've been testing and working with your ships too, and I love them all. Must be my opinion that I dont feel your ships are dated though, but updates like these are amazing to have! So, keep up the good work and make sure to inform when you're releasing them

[Vengence]

Yup



I plan to actually give this ship anti fighter weapons  . That's right. The once no AA giant Heavy Cruiser will now possess the ability to swat fighters out of the sky. Granted there won't be AABeams or flak! The thing will rely on rapid firing pulse cannons. Call it preference really. When I do release you can change it to flak and beams yourself.

[Commander Zane]

That thing is looking hot, damn.

[Droid803]

Yessss AA weapons

[Vengence]

Comments on the... uh.. pipe theme?

[Droid803]

A bit strange to have pipes on the exterior like that, IMO, but still looks good.
The ones from the exposed panelling look more "natural"