[wEvil]

This is for anyone wanting to participate in bringing Nodewars into the 3D world.

Essentially its an extension of the threads i've been occasionally spamming the NW and Hard Light forums with.

I'd like to start with a new Solarian League Cruiser i've just finished today -




If anyone's interested in doing anything just post it in here.  Just one thing...try to make the ships origional (form following function, that sort of thing)

*edit*
why the hell does everything look so dark?  is a TNT2's image quality really THIS crappy? i know i make everything on a dedicated graphics rig but still...shouldnt look this bad on an Nvidia board...

[an0n]

If it's for the movie maybe you should post a list of the ships needed.

[Shrike]

*cough* illuminate it better *cough*

[Alikchi]

That's interesting, it does look like the Trajan. Are most Sol ships going to have that rounded-head thing?

[wEvil]

to start with, at least (which I haven't already done):

Irae
Union
Solarian Spacedock
Solarian Ships (done the dread and the cruiser..which are pictured above)
SKM Vessels (Nike, Star Knight, Heracles)
Vasudan Vessels (havent got a clue)
TSI Vindicator
TSI Battleship (i'm working on the dread)

Shrike, the (3D) lightings' fine on my other machine (which is properly calibrated for print...or it should be) so maybe the contrast/brightness on your monitor needs tweaking..dunno.  ill have to look on a few other boxes and find out why it suddenly goes so dark.

Alikchi - yep, i'm trying to stick to a similar design ethos for each factions' ships.  If I didn't things would probably get pretty messy.

Obviously "2nd generation" sol designs like the irae will look different.

[Ace]

Vasudan ships:
Ankhul Cruiser
Thutmose class Assault Carrier
Aqaba Frigate
Sovis class corvette

BTW this cruiser you just did up I believe should be the Venture, the 'Venture-X' is a second generation League ship with some Ancients design influence in it.

[Nico]

I like this map but the model kindda likes details. but I guess it's enough for its prupose anyway.

[Zeronet]

Um, lacks detail?! The Texture isnt creating all those bumps along its hull. Still wEvil, when can you show those intial drawings of the TSI Dreadnought(you have it down as a battleship).

EDIT-OT= Arg, damn Lightwave, i cant even move the camera or models around to render, they just keep reverting back.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Zeronet
Um, lacks detail?! The Texture isnt creating all those bumps along its hull. Still wEvil, when can you show those intial drawings of the TSI Dreadnought(you have it down as a battleship).
 

yes it is. only way to prove me wrong is to post an untextured shot. anyway that's not what I meant by undetailled. I lmeant, bioth ends ARE pretty detailled after all, but between them there's not much.

[wEvil]

Yes....I haven't modelled the heavy laser turrets in yet.

And its only using basic shader with a very slight texture map.  Its practically all geometry.

[Ace]

Venom, that's geometry. Now imagine a well done bumpmap on that too, *detail*

[Nico]

Originally posted by Ace
Venom, that's geometry. Now imagine a well done bumpmap on that too, *detail*

I'm pretty sure the plates are bump maps. Wevil?

[Zeronet]

Nope they arent. wEvil just applies that very basic brown colour to all models, its better than white. Like wEvil said himself, its a basic shader.

EDIT: Well i,ve decided to change my dropship into a TSI dropship or something, it'll never work out as a FS one, i'll make another for that, if i could scrap the other thread i would.

Also wEvil what can you do with this? Its a new ship i'll be announcing sometime in NW, a battleship/dropship.

[Grey Wolf]

I'm going to try to re-do that Nike mesh I made a while back....

[wEvil]

I can try...

first i'm going to finish off the cruiser, and ZN, i'm working on your dreadnought currently, then it's probably an Irae, then the hi-polified Nike.  and then some more CWA/NTU ships.

I might well need the vindicator at some point to complete the first trailer though.

Its hard to bumpmap those kinds of shapes....the texture can go very odd considering most of the time its using a box as the projection.  Cylinder maps give 'orrible stretching, you see.

I've added some laser cannons to it...post it up tomorrow.

Those panels on the cruiser are done mostly with greeble.  I could have used shapemerge but it would have been long and tedious.  It's all geometry though --  the cruiser uses the same texture as the Trajan dreadnought in the background.

[Grey Wolf]

Here's an enhanced Nike with a few changes in shape. It's a bit more detailed now.

[Nico]

Originally posted by wEvil
Those panels on the cruiser are done mostly with greeble.  I could have used shapemerge but it would have been long and tedious.  It's all geometry though --  the cruiser uses the same texture as the Trajan dreadnought in the background.

ok, I was wrong I'm human after all ^_^

[wEvil]

Here we go...more stuff.



This Venture class cruiser of the Solarian league mounts 4 torpedo tubes, 4 heavy laser turrets and 4 light laser turrets.

Pretty fast and with a high turn rate thanks to the nacelle-mounted engines.  

*EDIT*
GRAAAA!!!  this poxy connection..I can't upload more than 5mb to any FTP sites per day it appears before this pathetic excuse for a connection starts dieing.

Going to have to wait until tomorrow for the animations i'm afraid.

[Alikchi]

What you've got there already looks really good
I like the turrets - very nice!

[Zeronet]

Shouldnt do animations yet.