[AqueousShadow]

LOOK, LOOK!!! I finished my Battlecruiser model and it is WAY more precise than the wraith will ever be. I hope you guys liked it, and I figured why the wraith was being a pain when importing to Truespace and I made sure to take precautions so that my battlecruiser wouldn't end up the same. As for those of you waiting for my Protoss ships, keep waiting cause I am no expert at making smooth "Vasudan-like" ships.

copy the links and paste them into your address bar. Stupid geo****ties....*mumble* *mumble* And if the stupid thing doesn't work, give me your e-mail addresses and I'll send them to you. And actually texturing the ships would be very helpful I also have to learn how to turret it.....

http://www.geocities.com/vietbboyraver/BC1.GIF
http://www.geocities.com/vietbboyraver/BC2.GIF
http://www.geocities.com/vietbboyraver/BC3.GIF

[Stryke 9]

Not bad. This is the sort of ship that looks really fantastic with lots of detail, tho, if you can afford the poly count.

[AqueousShadow]

Oh yea...I forgot to mention the poly count! That was the main thing I was supposed to put in the post! And what's worse, I can't even remember!!! I was wondering what the recommended poly count limit there was. I know it's about 500 for fighters, but I knew that was totally different from destroyers and the like. The BC is way upwards of 500 polys, but I sure hope it's not above it. Grrr....turrets....texturing...hierarchy....

[vadar_1]

it looks a little "squashed", or else the head is just out of proportion. The shaft connecting to the head is not supposed to be completly solid either. Engines are much too long, and need to be in more of a diamond shape.

Those are just suggested improvements... its a good start though. You can either detail it now, or give it detailed textures...

[Nico]

yeah, the head shpould be smaller, and the whole thing longer

[Vasudan Admiral]

Engines are much too long, and need to be in more of a diamond shape.

dimond shape?????
just make the head a bit smaller and you got a pretty cool ship. if you want it to look sleekish mabey try getting rid of right angles.
and if that's only your second ship, well, wow. i think i took at least 5 trys to even begin to get my models looking like ships. nice start

[AqueousShadow]

Thanx for the suggestions vadar. But the engines should be, if anything, more circular, not triangular. Yes I know the shaft connecting the head and the body is not completely solid, but I needed to know the recommended poly limit so I didn't want to try at it. When I got to the end, I was like, screw it, so I added the side panels as well and got lazy so I didn't wanna change the shaft. I agree the ship should be longer and maybe the head should be a bit smaller. When I first finished the thing, the whole ship was practically "stubby." I then extended it a bit. I guess it could use some more "extending." Well...again, if anyone can help me texture it, add turrets and stuff, and help with the heirarchy, that would be cool.

[Flipside]

Well, I think it looks good At the end of the day, Battleships are not going to be going in for speed races, leave that to the cruisers etc, my own idea of a Battleship is like a destroyer, but where the launch bays are, they have cunningly installed even more guns instead
As for texturing..... To be honest, it's better to learn how to do it yourself, you'll never be 100% happy with someone elses work, just as no-one else will ever be 100% happy with yours, alas, it's a side effect of being human

Actually this reminds me of a couple of questions.....

1 : Isn't there a patch to increase max polys, I'm sure I read about one somewhere?

2 : For one of my own projects, I think somewhere on this forum, theres a Registry patch that lets you use larger than 256 x 256 textures for fighters etc in FS2?

Any help would be appreciated

Flipside

[AqueousShadow]

ditto

[Vasudan Admiral]

haven't heard of the poly patch, the reg thing is around here somewhere (it was in the news) but it didn't work for me. said it had to be a valid registery file. although, it seemed to work for everyone else. :doh:
and for the poly max, the limit is effectively 3500 polys alltogether. as you need modview, unless you use pcs to do all the pofing then it's fs's limit of 5000. (and if kazan perfects pcs's new viewer, most people probably will. )

[karajorma]

For the reg altering have a look here

[Vasudan Admiral]

even reading all that, i'm still not sure what they do. how d they make the textures better?

[AqueousShadow]

Haven't actually tried it, but it makes sense. lolz I dunno, I'm perfectly fine using my 3dfx Glide option The game runs perfectly with all details up at maximum resolution and...guess wut? My computer is only 300 Mhz! But of course, I'm gonna get a new motherboard and processor for it. Welp...still tweaking my battlecruiser:sigh:

[Knight Templar]

cool model should look good w/ some of the above suggested improvements, otherwise,

   excellence

[Flipside]

It's texture divider and use large textures I'm interested in, Since Freespace only allows a maximum texture size of 256 x 256 (I think it can use larger ones if they are tiled, but that's not good for fighters). I have 512 x 512 textures for my models, which I tend to have to scale down, I thought it would be great if I could use them, even if only for LOD 0 on my new models I use a GeForce 4 on a 1700XP, so I think it should just be able to handle it hehehehehehehe
I'll give it a try, and if my computer is still working afterwards, I'll let you know what happens

Flipside

[AqueousShadow]

cool

[vadar_1]

shadow, please stop making posts with no useful content...

anyways, just to clarify on my previous post, I meant the engines should be arranged to more of a diamond then diamond-shaped. I beleave it should also be possible to hollow out some of the neck while still keeping poly count down, but right now its pretty low as it is, so I dont see where the problem is.

[Kitsune]

The poly limit per object is about 850-890.
Subobjects can have that many as well provided they don't break that limit of 3.5k.

As for the model itself, yeah, the head is too big, or the body too small.  Take your pick.

[Vasudan Admiral]

a 3.5k limit? never heard of that one before.

[Kitsune]

3,500 pollies total for a ship, including sub-models and  other junk.

Hell, I'm quoting YOU.