[Lorric]

For what it's worth, the ship caught my eye when I saw it in the newsletter.

[cahdoge]

OK i'll rewiv the whole thing.
But I need some input to make the design of the bow mor homogeniuosly.
So it's more rounded.

[cahdoge]

This is the current state of the ship.
It seems like I've done neatly nothing, but i was trying a other engine section (informative but horrible design)

Is there somebody who can tell me why there are some faces missing in the obj-file? (I'm using blender 2.7)

[Nyctaeus]

These faces are probably buggy for some reason. Try to redo them.

[Veers]

Really loving your work, such a departure from what I'd consider 'traditional' designed ships. Completely loving it!

[cahdoge]

I've done some work on the back. But I don't have any idea what to make under the hangar notch.
Should I leave it flat an ungreebled ore has anyone a idea what to place there.
I'll maybe post the current state next weekend.

[cahdoge]

So here it is.
But it still needs some greebleing.

[perihelion]

Obvious bugs are obvious, but I'm really digging some of the visual concepts here.  As others have said, it is rather a departure from other ships.  At the beginning of the thread, I was thinking that this might be a civilian ship (thinking supertanker or possibly a deep space explorer).  But now it is looking armed to the teeth!  It presents a very wide target cross-section from pretty much any direction, but I get a sense of mass and strength from it as if to say, "So what?"  Might be a good fit for a particularly arrogant faction.  Someone with access to lots of hardware and resources, but not necessarily a pure military background.  Perhaps this was originally a civilian ship but it has been re-purposed for a more bellicose role?

The turbine-looking things on the top rear are also intriguing.  What are they?

[Mito [PL]]

Just Another Boss in Just Another Day?

[Black Wolf]

For some reason, 'm really digging this! No idea what you'd use it for, but it's a really cool model.

[The E]

Getting a strong Endless Space vibe from this now, which is pretty cool.

[Nyctaeus]

I love details on the right side of the ship

[cahdoge]

Whenthe Hades-rebellion ended some engineers and scientists immersed because they feared to get accused by the GTVA for high treason.
They had some information about shivan reactor technique with them.
After a short while they joined some other TI-refugees.
This pack of people disappeared for several years and were seeked out by private investors.
These investors wanted to build up their own fleet to defens themselves against piracy and to enforce their interrests.
While fighters are easy and cheap to get on black market bigger ships are way more expensive.
The investors decided to develop some ships on their own. So they met our refugees which need some money to cover their expenses.

The ship is concept as long range support- and/or commandship with focus on artillery support. The ship hasn't that much beam-cannons because big beams are way more expensive and only available on black market and very seldom.


If someone likes he/she can make a campaign around this group of TI-refugees. The campaign would begin at the end of Silent Threat and end around the Capella crysis.


PS: If there is somebody out there who would like to texture the ship let me know!

PPS: perihelion these turbin-look tings are part of the reactor.

[cahdoge]

Update !

[cahdoge]

I would like to texture it now but I have several problems.

The gimp-dds-patsch can't open the freespace dds-files.
Do I need UV-Mapping?
I wasn't able to find a tutorial that helps by texturing big ships, does anyone of you know where to find one?

And I do not have any idea how to texture it the way it looks good.

So I really need your help.

[The E]

Yes, generally speaking, you will have to UV-map your ship. You can try to trexture it using tiled textures, but chances are that you're not going to get very good results using that approach, especially given the amounts of modelled details you have on there.

As for dds files, I wouldn't worry about them during the texturing phase. While working on the textures, you can and should use some more easily edited lossless format like png or tga; DDS is only relevant once you've finished the textures.

[Nyctaeus]

Basicly the texturing is the "tricky part" of making a spaceship, especialy when most of the best texture artists here are gone or busy all the time. Every texture artist here developed his own methods and the best way to learn it is trying various things on your own, and combining various methods from different tutorials. You can also use parts of already made textures.

As for tile textures, it's just like The E said. It would be hard to tile a ship like this. You can do somekind of hybrid mapping. It mean you can do uvmapp of all the greebles and detailed stuff, and than paint some texture on it, but cover large, flat areas with tile textures of some armor plating.

Also remember about 64k poly limit per single object.

[fightermedic]

the easiest thing is to tilemap the whole ship, then create an UV map and bake the textures
your UV map doesn't need to be as good this way, and you don't need to create textures yourself
i always do that, because i suck at texturing
of course the result will be better if you texture the whole ship manually

[starbug]

I dont know if you have noticed it or not but at the front there are a couple of missing faces/polygons on the model. other than that its a pretty neat design, i like the rotor/gears at the top

[cahdoge]

I have noticed. and thes faces are just not displayed by p3d.