Contest: Retexture the Star Fortress

strangelet · Post by **strangelet** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:49 pm

this is WIP. enjoi.

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 6:18 pm

The game is ON! W00t!

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 7:13 pm

Looks like we'll have several star fortresses after this competition is over.

strangelet · Post by **strangelet** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 8:16 pm

omg ok hold it check this out.

et voila. un fortress d'star magnifique.

coming in at 2694 poly with a 1024x tex map on 3 channels, colour, specular and luminosity.

small changes to geometry include a lil rounding, and some extra superstructure around the inner hub.

mb ill do a few dif tex variations while i got the photoshop file open...

etheral walker · Post by **etheral walker** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 8:37 pm

it really rocks

It seems I won't go to bed if I want to have a hope

etheral walker · Post by **etheral walker** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:13 pm

the night is still beginning, I'm not at bed so soon

pincushionman · Post by **pincushionman** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:41 pm

I've changed my mind...I should concentrate on finishing the Ox. I'm not far enough along on my entry to justify working my tail off just to lose to you guys.

-pincushionman

etheral walker · Post by **etheral walker** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 12:40 am

I really need to go to bed, I have a meeting in 3 hours

enough for this night, baked radosity, painted some stuffs, modelled some other, well, see you tomorow guys (ca va etre dur de monter au niveau de Strangelet, mais je m'accroche)

bobdickgus · Post by **bobdickgus** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:01 am

These are both gonna be fantastic and as the designs are significantly different they can both be used in game.

etheral walker · Post by **etheral walker** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:16 pm

still many work, but it's coming

Post by **zaydana** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 5:49 pm

They look great!

But all the little towers sticking out of them make them look more like commerce centers than star fortresses

I wish i could texture that good.

Post by **jackS** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 5:51 pm

Those are really shaping up to end up beautiful

(just please tell me that all those lights aren't windows/portholes

)

actually, one request - (albeit you're under no obligation to meet it) given how much prettier the star fortress is going to end up looking, any chance I could convince you to make some matching meshes+textures for the turrets I'm going to have to stick on it

?

etheral walker · Post by **etheral walker** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 5:52 pm

it depends, for the little towers, if you look starwars ships, there is many many little nurnies like that on huge warships

Post by **hellcatv** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:24 pm

we'd just need a few varieties of texture models
currently we have a distorted cube and two roundish guns coming out of it...total:14 polys

having something more pleasing would be welcome

Post by **jackS** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:26 pm

etheral walker wrote:it depends, for the little towers, if you look starwars ships, there is many many little nurnies like that on huge warships

I think the question in zaydana's head may have been more along the lines of "oooh pretty.... but.... what do those...DO...?" which can be solved in any number of ways (what comes to mind for me is making some fraction of them more obviously serving some purpose, be it sensor arrays, service bays, minor docking platforms, garbage disposal vents, escape pod launchers,what-have-you - but this requires more variation in form and texture) but isn't critical.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:10 pm

Wow, you guys both just kill me! This is turning into Godzilla vs. Megalon!

etheral walker · Post by **etheral walker** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:34 am

almost finished rings, baked radiosity wirh more bounces and lightsources (kof, kof, 2 hours to output a 1024 map, really need to upgrade my computer). I will try to add more variations to windows clusters, just have to finish the central part and the 4 hangars.

Post by **hurleybird** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 3:51 am

woah... i dont think im even going to TRY to beat you or strangelets work.

Post by **hellcatv** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 8:42 am

*sigh* hurley why don't you make another base then

the factory could use a redo

Post by **hurleybird** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 6:00 pm

I could look into it after finals are done

Targon · Post by **Targon** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 7:41 am

The original model is so sickening Trekish... why don't remodel it as well?
http://img46.photobucket.com/albums/v14 ... -wip-b.jpg
http://img46.photobucket.com/albums/v14 ... -wip-a.jpg

etheral walker · Post by **etheral walker** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:57 pm

I took some freedom while remodelling it but I kept the overall shape. You will see when it will be finished.

Post by **hurleybird** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 11:30 pm

Wow Targon... that model instills fear... it looks very heavy, forboding, and militiristic. If it were to have a texture similar to Etheral walker's, or Strangelet's than it would blow this competition away

Post by **jackS** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:21 am

Targon wrote:The original model is so sickening Trekish...

I have to agree with you on that - I never did figure out entirely how to justify why someone would build a frontline military base that was so... spindly...

...but VS has only recently begun an attempt to ammend its track record of being less than particular about its art - and I wanted to wait until I had something constructive to say about it, which I still haven't really bothered to take the time to do for this model (there's little to be gained from kvetching without coming up with solutions)

I welcome more divergent modelling solutions.

(My only comment on yours at this point is that I hope you're the one who's going to come up with the valid turret arcs and not me

- figuring out all the appropriate fields of fire for that looks like it'll be interesting)

bghfhfg · Post by **bghfhfg** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:19 am

Why is Ethereal's star fortress in two pieces? And where are the weapons systems?

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