Author Topic: HTL Sobek  (Read 40948 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Rga_Noris

  • 29
  • What?
Fantastic. Looks ready to release, IMO.

Turrets could use some work though. (Do something about the rectangle barrels, and make the two vslash dishes bigger (at risk of screwing balance))

The turrets were a little odd for me on this one. The Sobek has such a cool shape, that too flashy of a turret could detract from that, so I kept them quite simple.
I think I'll call REAL Mahjong 'Chinese Dominoes', just to make people think I'm an ignorant asshat.

 

Offline Kolgena

  • 211
Fair enough. I really dislike the rectangular barrels though. It looks like someone sawed them off the boanerges and glued them back onto this corvette.

(Also, the U-shaped pink glow on the front looks slightly weird to me. It looks either too bright, or not tapered enough to be a baked glow from windows that I also have trouble seeing)

 

Offline Rga_Noris

  • 29
  • What?
Copy that. A few people have expressed its over brightness, I tend to agree. Easy fix.
I think I'll call REAL Mahjong 'Chinese Dominoes', just to make people think I'm an ignorant asshat.

 

Offline Commander Zane

  • 212
  • Spoot Knight of Anvils
Wow. This has simply blown my mind.

 

Offline Mongoose

  • Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
  • Global Moderator
  • 212
  • This brain for rent.
    • Steam
    • Something
Well this'll do.

 

Offline Droid803

  • Trusted poster of legit stuff
  • 213
  • /人 ◕ ‿‿ ◕ 人\ Do you want to be a Magical Girl?
    • Skype
    • Steam
Now that someone has pointed it out, not  fan of the multiparts right now. The multiparts on the old "HTL" Sobek were pretty nice. I would much prefer just using the old ones, they were nice and simple, yet they had something to make them not look so bland/blocky, so they fit better with the ship.
(´・ω・`)
=============================================================

 

Offline Ulala

  • 29
  • Groooove Evening, viewers!
I think it looks phenomenal, and your take on the weird pink glowyness thing translates very nicely, though I agree with the front glow being a little more subtle. Much props!
I am a revolutionary.

 
The model and the glows on the back look pretty good. Overall it is a bit uniformly shiny. It exaggerates the normal maps and makes the ship feel... inflated.

 

Offline bigchunk1

  • bigchunk1 = Awesome²
  • 29
  • ...and by awesome I mean Jerk!
Ok first off that looks amazing, I never thought the Sobek could look that good.

Just curious but, what's with the red glows and the machine like textures? This Sobek looks kinda like a shivan hybrid.
BP Multi
The Antagonist
Zacam: Uh. No, using an effect is okay. But you are literally using the TECHROOM ani as the weapon effect.

 

Offline Droid803

  • Trusted poster of legit stuff
  • 213
  • /人 ◕ ‿‿ ◕ 人\ Do you want to be a Magical Girl?
    • Skype
    • Steam
(´・ω・`)
=============================================================

 

Offline Rga_Noris

  • 29
  • What?
bigchunk, the retail Sobek has machine like textures all over it. Load the retail and check the neck and back near the thrusters...

The red glows are actually pink, but yeah, again take a look at retail. It has pink space meat, which I have no idea what to do with, so that is the only way I knew of the incorperate the coloration of the retail model.
I think I'll call REAL Mahjong 'Chinese Dominoes', just to make people think I'm an ignorant asshat.

 

Offline sigtau

  • 29
  • unfortunate technical art assclown
lkajslkaksdfj

First, sporatic progress pictures of the model as it's being worked on, and then spontaneous near-completion screenshots.  This is why you're awesome, Rga.
Who uses forum signatures anymore?

 

Offline Rodo

  • Custom tittle
  • 212
  • stargazer
    • Steam
el hombre vicio...

 

Offline Rga_Noris

  • 29
  • What?
So the multiparts will get overhauled. Once people pointed them out, I kinda started to dislike them too. If VA taught me anything, its that if you need to convince yourself its right, it isnt.
I think I'll call REAL Mahjong 'Chinese Dominoes', just to make people think I'm an ignorant asshat.

 

Offline Deadly in a Shadow

  • 29
  • Buntu!
Sweet mother'n'mercy.

That's looks really brilliant. Very good job!
"Ka-BOOOOOOOOM!!!!"
"Uh, Sir we can hear the explosion."
"No you can't, there is no air in space. Sound can't travel through a vacuum!"

 

Offline Black Wolf

  • Twisted Infinities
  • 212
  • Hey! You! Get off-a my cloud!
    • Visit the TI homepage!
OK, I can admit when I'm wrong. I'm still not crazy about the wheels, but this turned out way, way better than I expected it would. Big props RGA.
TWISTED INFINITIES · SECTORGAME· FRONTLINES
Rarely Updated P3D.
Burn the heretic who killed F2S! Burn him, burn him!!- GalEmp

 

Offline Liberator

  • Poe's Law In Action
  • 210
This is just me, and everyone knows that I'm a brain-impaired monkey about just about everything from girls to apparently just about everything else so bear with me.

It's too shiny.  Could you make the texture more "sandy".  There's nothing in the original textures to suggest that it's shiny on the beige parts.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.

 

Offline Crybertrance

  • 29
  • Conventional warheads only, no funny business
Fair enough. I really dislike the rectangular barrels though. It looks like someone sawed them off the boanerges and glued them back onto this corvette.


I have to agree with Kolgena, the Vasudans have a notorious habit of having most of their ships, etc quite curvy.. It just looks a bit out of place..

Aside from that, AWESOME WORK!! :yes: :yes:
<21:08:30>   Hartzaden fires a slammer at Cybertrance
<21:09:13>   Crybertrance pops flares, but wonders how Hartzaden acquired aspect lock on a stealth fighter... :\
<21:11:58>   *** The_E joined #bp [email protected]
21:11:58   +++ ChanServ has given op to The_E
<21:12:58>   Hartzaden continues to paint crybertrance and feeding the info to a wing of gunships
<21:14:07>   Crybertrance sends emergency "IM GETING MY ASS KICKED HERE!!!!eleventy NEED HELPZZZZ" to 3rd fleet command
<21:14:50>   Hartzaden jamms the transmission.
<21:14:51>   The_E explodes the sun

 

Offline Rga_Noris

  • 29
  • What?
It's too shiny.

The shine map may be the issue here, but more than likely it's the normal map. I think I have too great of a contrast between high and low on the beige parts. If you look at the darker brown on the sides of the head and somewhat on the rear fins, you'll note a muted shine and more sandyness. That's what  I will be going for.
I think I'll call REAL Mahjong 'Chinese Dominoes', just to make people think I'm an ignorant asshat.

 

Offline crizza

  • 210
Yeah, it's a real beauty, but I honestly don't like the barrels of the turrets...