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Offline Sushi

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Introducing the GTF Actaeon
on: May 29, 2001, 07:01:00 pm
I've finished the model for my ship at last...here it is in untextured glory.    

     
     
     
     

Information on the backstory can be found here.

[EDIT]I don't believe IE didn't know what act01.fig was.   [/EDIT]

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Offline Bobboau

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Reply #1 on: May 30, 2001, 12:06:00 am
it looks kinda pyroish.

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Offline Fineus

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Reply #2 on: May 30, 2001, 01:46:00 am
Personally it reminds me of the fighters from starfox on the....SNES I think it was - but it's good nevertheless.  

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Offline Nico

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Reply #3 on: May 30, 2001, 12:22:00 pm
Hem.,? reminds me something I did some weeks ago... where it is?... ah, yea:
 http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/LX.html?989947543490



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Offline Sushi

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Reply #4 on: May 30, 2001, 02:56:00 pm
Yah, there does seem to be a slight resemblance- wings, tails, and a long nose.

Sortof old-school fighter design, but I like it. There aren't really any of this style in FS2, and I wanted something that looked like a traditional light/fast fighter.


I just need to figure out how to texture it.  

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Offline Nico

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Reply #5 on: May 30, 2001, 03:14:00 pm
I made the angel for I don't remember who... but I'm still waiting for Styxx to convert it with working thruster flames (subobjects doesn't like me, whatever I do   )
Ps: the angel is mentionned in FS1, it's the scout ship from which the Valkyrie is derivated

Edit: funny, bobboau said it looked pyroish... hem: http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/PyroPreview.html?989434539150
I made the above ship by welding vertices from this one... ( and yes, I made that pyro from scratch, that's why it may not look perfect)

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Offline Sushi

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Reply #6 on: May 30, 2001, 07:10:00 pm
That's not too shabby, Venom.   The variant looks like it could use some remapping, but the original looks great.



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Offline Sushi

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Reply #7 on: May 30, 2001, 07:35:00 pm
Well, I'm going to keep trying to texture it, but it's going to be slow and painful. If anyone with some skill and the right tools wants to give it a shot, please download it and try it out. I've put it in both COB and 3DS form in the zip, which can be downloaded here:

Actaeon.zip

Any help would be appreciated.  

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Offline Setekh

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Reply #8 on: May 31, 2001, 03:32:00 am
Nice, Sushi... nice.  
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Offline The Claw

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Reply #9 on: May 31, 2001, 03:31:00 pm
Well, I know how, but I have no tools. And that just sucks.

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Reply #10 on: June 02, 2001, 02:30:00 am
That Angel was for me.  

Get it converted as soon as you can.

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Offline Setekh

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Reply #11 on: June 02, 2001, 02:34:00 am
Everything is for you, Ace.  
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Offline Fattony

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Reply #12 on: June 02, 2001, 07:21:00 am
Its a little too "StarLancer"ish for my liking.
 

Offline Sushi

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Reply #13 on: June 05, 2001, 12:02:00 am
Look what I managed to do for textures...

Using 3D Exploration, UVMapper...and MS Paint.  
 
 
 

I know, I have a lot of work to do, but it's good enough for now. On to FS conversion!

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Offline Nico

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Reply #14 on: June 05, 2001, 02:20:00 pm
Yea, true Ace. Anyway, if you want to have it converted, you better ask styxx, coz I don't want to bug styxx, that pisses me off when someone does that to me, so I won't do that to someone else...

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Offline Sushi

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Reply #15 on: June 06, 2001, 11:18:00 am
Good news: I got it into the game!

Bad news: Because of the massive downscaling I had to do, some of the gaps between elements were eliminated- helloooooo clipping problems!   That, and using UVMapper split my ship into lots of little chunks. So my polycount jumped to about 500.
Oh yeah, the textures looked as low-res as I had feared. Oh yeah- and the center was at the very rear of the ship.

Good news: With luck, though, I'll have access to a copy of MAX soon, and I'll be able to fix the clipping, retexture using a REAL mapping utility, and recenter the ship. And I will make those textures a bit more interesting...

 



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Offline Sushi

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Reply #16 on: June 06, 2001, 09:02:00 pm
Nevermind about the MAX. The guy who was going to let me borrow his copy has a burned version with no hardware lock, so it won't work. Crap.  



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Offline Sushi

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Reply #17 on: June 08, 2001, 02:19:00 pm
Alright, enough talking about my stuff...I need some help now.

How do you get the thrusters to work? Right now, in COB object Detail0, I have three objects- Hull, Thruster01, and Thruster02. The model shows up in Modelview just fine, thrusters included, but they don't show up in the game. I've got glows just fine, but the thruster models themselves don't show up- what do I need to do?

One more thing- it's true. You really SHOULD make it out of one subobject- now I have to do Boolean followed by manual poly deletion...whoop de doo.  

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Offline Sushi

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Reply #18 on: June 09, 2001, 03:46:00 pm
Nevermind... not even Boolean can save this thing. I'd have to do a complete remodel, using extrusion techniques, and the version of 3ds I have makes that virtually impossible.  

As much as I'd like to finish, I just don't have the tools. The Actaeon is officially dead.  

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Offline Sushi

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Reply #19 on: June 11, 2001, 03:23:00 pm
I changed my mind. I'm going to change the model, but I'm not about to let this just die yet.   The Actaeon will arrive- although it may look a bit different.  

Just thought I'd mention it, in case anyone cared.

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