(FINISHED)Proposed Model for the Rlaan Sensor Drone Gaozong
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(FINISHED)Proposed Model for the Rlaan Sensor Drone Gaozong
midterms tomorrow but with the reviews (actually pre-exam exams that's a wee bit harder than the actual exams. lol) over, I found some little spare time to work on something.
Veering off from my penchant of creating ships without basing it on anything, I decided to really try to make it look VS-sy enough.
Partly also because I was working on the Rlaan shipstyle, and looking at the models, I realized it was simple enough in geometry. The only problem is the lack of proper "raw" textures. I tried a bit of hocus-pocus trying to make my own new texture, but gave up. Anyway, I just re-used pontiac's (it was pontiac who did the rlaan's right? or was it Major?) textures to make this ship. It's pretty small and cannot be piloted, so any misgivings on the texture recycling and less-than-perfect unwrapping would not be that obvious.
So... Rlaans are rlaans. I'll try harder next time in creating a set of textures, which will be useful in the shipstyle guidelines. I will also be searching the forums for any posts about shipstyles. Know of one? please pm me, thanks.
Here's the renders, pre-submission. I've got to know first if it's acceptable before I submit it.
Please please please make sure it fits perfectly with the other VS ships. I realized that the battlecruiser and the gunship I did were not VS-sy enough in their textures (probably in the mesh too), so I hesitate to make the same mistake again. Please be brutally honest with critiscism, but don't nitpick. I hate to have to redo ships for some small mistakes, that could be easily overlooked ingame. But no, I won't get angry if you really think it's important to change a particular part.
So here it is. Open-season to you folks. I'll see what comments it will gather then I'll work on changes (if present) this weekend after the exams.
Some points:
-It's small, the main body less than half of an Rlaan interceptor in size. For comparison, the "wings" are approximately similar in size with that of the Shizu.
-It is quite fragile once it's shields are penetrated, (Disproportionally heavy shielding though, lots of shield generators at the back, and sensor antennae and stuff).
-the current model has about ~2000 vertices
-the ship still retains the bilateral symmetry that Rlaans equate with speed, though it shows a bit of quadrilateral symmetry too (hence fast, but not fast enough )
For comparison I'm including the Shizu profile:
Top:
Bottom:
Front:
Back:
Side:
Perspective Views:
Veering off from my penchant of creating ships without basing it on anything, I decided to really try to make it look VS-sy enough.
Partly also because I was working on the Rlaan shipstyle, and looking at the models, I realized it was simple enough in geometry. The only problem is the lack of proper "raw" textures. I tried a bit of hocus-pocus trying to make my own new texture, but gave up. Anyway, I just re-used pontiac's (it was pontiac who did the rlaan's right? or was it Major?) textures to make this ship. It's pretty small and cannot be piloted, so any misgivings on the texture recycling and less-than-perfect unwrapping would not be that obvious.
So... Rlaans are rlaans. I'll try harder next time in creating a set of textures, which will be useful in the shipstyle guidelines. I will also be searching the forums for any posts about shipstyles. Know of one? please pm me, thanks.
Here's the renders, pre-submission. I've got to know first if it's acceptable before I submit it.
Please please please make sure it fits perfectly with the other VS ships. I realized that the battlecruiser and the gunship I did were not VS-sy enough in their textures (probably in the mesh too), so I hesitate to make the same mistake again. Please be brutally honest with critiscism, but don't nitpick. I hate to have to redo ships for some small mistakes, that could be easily overlooked ingame. But no, I won't get angry if you really think it's important to change a particular part.
So here it is. Open-season to you folks. I'll see what comments it will gather then I'll work on changes (if present) this weekend after the exams.
Some points:
-It's small, the main body less than half of an Rlaan interceptor in size. For comparison, the "wings" are approximately similar in size with that of the Shizu.
-It is quite fragile once it's shields are penetrated, (Disproportionally heavy shielding though, lots of shield generators at the back, and sensor antennae and stuff).
-the current model has about ~2000 vertices
-the ship still retains the bilateral symmetry that Rlaans equate with speed, though it shows a bit of quadrilateral symmetry too (hence fast, but not fast enough )
For comparison I'm including the Shizu profile:
Top:
Bottom:
Front:
Back:
Side:
Perspective Views:
Last edited by Oblivion on Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Ach!
Nada commentarios?
Don't take the "don't nitpick" part seriously. Nitpicking's my favorite pasttime... besides grooming body hair, and swinging in the branches.
Nada commentarios?
Don't take the "don't nitpick" part seriously. Nitpicking's my favorite pasttime... besides grooming body hair, and swinging in the branches.
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It's quite good - very keen use of the existing textures (they're H.E. Day's) I'd consider replacing the two ovoid regions that borrow from the darker cockpit-analog region of the Rlaan ships with a set of overlapping spheroids/dark bubble-like things (thinking something like a a mash-up of a bunch of tapioca pearls).with short spines of varying length coming out from some of them to evoke more of an alien-probe-sensor feel. More simply, that, or anything else that seems more appropriate to you that heightens the random-sensor-type feeling (pretty good) while decreasing the might-be-piloted feeling (already pretty low) would be great in my book.
I think, either way, it's plenty ready for slating for inclusion, no matter what the outcome of additional minor touches is.
I think, either way, it's plenty ready for slating for inclusion, no matter what the outcome of additional minor touches is.
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Thanks JackS. You always do have the funniest analogies. lol Okay, minor touches coming up...thinking something like a a mash-up of a bunch of tapioca pearls
..and don't worry, I intend to be through with it this very night. Feeling particularly celebratory today.. EXAMS DONE!
Really? Still, I wish HED was still here, so he could have at least passed on the knowledge of how he did his ships, styles and all.Must be a first for non-HED VS contributions huh?
Honestly, I started on Gaozong because its small and easy and would not be prominent ingame. Just so I could see what it takes for other modellers to succesfully create ships in the Rlaan shipstyle.
I believe its quite necessary for other modellers to be able to copy the styles of other artists. If only to create uniformity.
Thanks.
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Dude you're becoming your own version of HED. The difference in quality between the work you doing now and the stuff you started out with is staggering and I don't think you're going to get worse.
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Done.
Here are the renders of this thing.
Did my best to comply with jackS' suggestions, hope it's enough.
Will post the ingame shots and the meshes themselves later.
And the number of vertices and faces:
Here are the renders of this thing.
Did my best to comply with jackS' suggestions, hope it's enough.
Will post the ingame shots and the meshes themselves later.
And the number of vertices and faces:
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Ingame Shots:
(Sorry for the strain the amount of pics might be causing your computer.. Older computers might want to stay clear, this could induce a stroke on your systems, consult your computer doctor, )
(Sorry for the strain the amount of pics might be causing your computer.. Older computers might want to stay clear, this could induce a stroke on your systems, consult your computer doctor, )
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Need a little help in uploading the files, guys..
As for now, please rename the files below to
"anything.rar"
they are rar files, changed the extension to .txt to fool the attachment limit.
As for now, please rename the files below to
"anything.rar"
they are rar files, changed the extension to .txt to fool the attachment limit.
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...aaargh, I can't get it to swallow a 5mb file.
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Oblivion... u rock!
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Argg.
I've reached the 10mb upload Quota.
For those wanting to punch this ingame please just take GaozongDIFF.jpg, edit it to produce a reddish hue and then name it
GaozongDMG.jpg
It is necessary since it has been linked already to the bfxm file.
That's all folks. I really REALLY NEED someplace to upload my files to.
Help please
I've reached the 10mb upload Quota.
For those wanting to punch this ingame please just take GaozongDIFF.jpg, edit it to produce a reddish hue and then name it
GaozongDMG.jpg
It is necessary since it has been linked already to the bfxm file.
That's all folks. I really REALLY NEED someplace to upload my files to.
Help please
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Double post.
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Okay. Here is everything in ONE Folder.
Finally found a site
http://www.freefileupload.net/file.php? ... aozong.rar
Finally found a site
http://www.freefileupload.net/file.php? ... aozong.rar
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Ok.. was this lost too?
Anyway, just to make sure, posting the files.
Meshfiles
Mtl:
http://www.mediafire.com/?axrget3bcx3
Obj:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0nyjkeyzdx3
3ds:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4e0xggj8jtm
max:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2m2hyq2emco
DIFFUSE MAP:
http://img106.mytextgraphics.com/photol ... 2awp2l.jpg
SPEC/PPL:
http://img103.mytextgraphics.com/photol ... 2c8olx.jpg
GLOW:
http://img106.mytextgraphics.com/photol ... 2bti6a.jpg
hmm... seems like the glow's useless, and the dmg map nonexistent. anyways...
Anyway, just to make sure, posting the files.
Meshfiles
Mtl:
http://www.mediafire.com/?axrget3bcx3
Obj:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0nyjkeyzdx3
3ds:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4e0xggj8jtm
max:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2m2hyq2emco
DIFFUSE MAP:
http://img106.mytextgraphics.com/photol ... 2awp2l.jpg
SPEC/PPL:
http://img103.mytextgraphics.com/photol ... 2c8olx.jpg
GLOW:
http://img106.mytextgraphics.com/photol ... 2bti6a.jpg
hmm... seems like the glow's useless, and the dmg map nonexistent. anyways...
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