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minilogoguy18 wrote:I made one a while back but it was kinda too large to use in space maps, didn't fit in the hangar. It's in game and with working effects and chunks I just never modeled the rear turret and set it up. The jedi fighter's yellow markings are too bright, like you did it in paint or something, add some dirt and depth.

I know that it's impossible to put it into a hangar, but u can use it in normal maps or I modeling a new hangar for the shuttle.

Wow, that thing has probably 3-4 times more polygons than mine, you should probably just start over cause I think it would take just as long to reduce all those polys from the current model.

minilogoguy18 wrote:Wow, that thing has probably 3-4 times more polygons than mine, you should probably just start over cause I think it would take just as long to reduce all those polys from the current model.

Yes, I'm going to remove it now.
Ps: I've finished the animation work today.

A partially finished Terran Bomber for an upcoming map series:


I dislike the color of the underslung turret, and I still need to model torpedo tubes somewhere. Any advice on what color to make the engine housing? Also, any idea for a name?

Fiodis wrote:A partially finished Terran Bomber for an upcoming map series:

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I dislike the color of the underslung turret, and I still need to model torpedo tubes somewhere. Any advice on what color to make the engine housing? Also, any idea for a name?

"the stalker"? lol idk, it looks pretty nice though the texture seems different but i actually like it.

Hmm, now that I look at it the blue on the back of the wigns may be too bright. Also, you can't see it well from this angle, but all the shapes except the engines and the blaster's barrel are hard-edged, so in-game it'll show up all angular. That will, hopefully, remove a bit of that wierd effect you get by a repeated, grainy texture like that; the effect that makes you think the wing is almost flat.

Adding hard edges is nothing magic, and won't serve the purpose you want it to. Any monotonous, grainy texture will make it look like that. You shouldn't use a totally self-made texture just for the heck of it. Don't let pride get in the way of making the model look better by using an edited Pandemic texture.

Improved Commando: Imperial Commando

Nice commando, but "Generator" is spelt with an "o" at the end.

Frisbeetarian wrote:Adding hard edges is nothing magic, and won't serve the purpose you want it to. Any monotonous, grainy texture will make it look like that. You shouldn't use a totally self-made texture just for the heck of it. Don't let pride get in the way of making the model look better by using an edited Pandemic texture.

But I like magic!


It's far from pride, more of an assesment of my own UVing skills. I'm not using a self-made texture for the heck of it, for all of my previous models I've been using Pandemic's textures. The only problem is that it's difficult for me to get the UV's right with shipped textures, even GIMPbashes of shipped textures; and in any case how am I going to get better at texturing from scratch, other than through practice?


EDIT - A Terran Interceptor model for the map series, I whipped it up in about an hour. Still needs a texture, otherwise I'm pretty much okay with everything else.

As before, does anyone have some naming suggestiongs? "Terran Interceptor" sounds kinda...out-of-the-can, like a drive-by-starfighter name, if you know what I mean.

Oh, yeah, I ought to post a picture. Here it is:


Missile tubes on either side of the cockpit, blaster barrels farther out on the wings, kinda hard to see in these pics but you'll definately be able to spot them in the wireframe.

And where are its engines? And please, make the wings less blocky, if its a winged craft the wings need to be thinner and look like they provide some lift or little wind-resistance (like an X-wing does).

Star Wars ships get away with un-aerodynamic designs because of the extremely powerful engines, they pretty much make the need for lifting wings a non-issue.

VF501 wrote:And where are its engines? And please, make the wings less blocky, if its a winged craft the wings need to be thinner and look like they provide some lift or little wind-resistance (like an X-wing does).

Star Wars ships get away with un-aerodynamic designs because of the extremely powerful engines, they pretty much make the need for lifting wings a non-issue.

Lol, can't believe I forgot the engines.

I think I'll keep the wings, though, and use the SW excuse.

EDIT - Forgot to mention, these will be in space, so lift and air resistance isn't an issue.

Thunder wrote:Improved Commando: Imperial Commando

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Nice model, those Generators look really cool.

Fiodis, Display Options (All Cameras) -> Enable Headlight to get rid of those shadows so we can clearly see your model from all angles. You really don't need to use a hollow cylinder with so many sides, just texture the barrels on and use a more efficient cylinder that doesn't account for half the models polies.

I am learning. Thanks for the camera tips, I'll try it out tomorrow. By the cylinder that takes up half the polys, do you mean the torpedo tubes? Or the blaster barrels?

I'm guessing the torpedo tubes that are attached to the body but if the blaster barrels are hollow as well they really don't need to be, that sort of detail is hardly noticed in game by the average person playing the game.

the skeleton - modeling is nearly done (the neck has such a strange angle because of the swbf-unit-skeleton)

very nice duck did you use any references or did you do that totally from scratch

Looks good just the cheekbones look a bit funny but great job!

Ipod Nano Model W.I.P.

Lightsaber hilt?