DJ Galaxy Class Now Available @ BCFiles

[Chronocidal Guy]

oooh.. I'll have to start doing that.. hand placing windows gets old fast.

[Dawg81]

sounds like u are getting back into the game CG a 2.0 CG Sov would go great with Lints ships i just hope i can have them all in QB at the same time this will truly be a test of my 8800GTS hehe.
On Topic:
DJ those textures are looking sweet and have another cookie u show off

[Bones]

bloody cookie this ship is awesome, cookie for u mate 

[cordanilus]

Hey DJ.  I have a question for you.

Are you going to have the collectors glowing inside the red exterior bulb?
I think they're called the "Bussard Collectors"...i think.   Not quite sure.

Anyway, I can get them to glow even with a translucent red exterior.

Could look interesting, what do you think?

[yanlou]

cord is that the best way to get the most cannon looking galaxy bussards, if so itll look sweet on your galaxy DJ, looking foward to seeing more(id give you a cookie if i knew how)

[FURNACE]

Just keeps getting better and better mate....Sweet

[DJ Curtis]

Update.  i've finished up the basics of the bottom of the cobra head, and also worked out a bunch of smoothing issues on the underside of the saucer.  Also, i'm going to be collaborating with Cordanilus on doing a very special set of bussard collectors for this ship that should really bring it to life.  in the meantime, I've used CE's bussard texture as an interim for the WIP pix.  There's also a few other details on the first round that I've to put, like a few decals and thrusters on the nacelles.

So now it's just the insides of those nacelle pylons, and the first round of texturing is done.  This ship is gonna be just ridiculous once I'm done detailing it in 2008.

I've got to say at this point, that I'm really happy with the way this ship is turning out.  when I started the mesh a year ago, I didn't even have the strongest intentions of texturing it, but boy am I glad I decided to.  The Galaxy Class has always been how I benchmark myself.

[DaAan]

wow dj, im not a big fan of the galaxy class i think its fugly tbh, but that is one impressive model and texture set you've got there mate

[Adm_willie]

Whoohoo    This looks even better than in the show

It can't get any better than this, great work DJ! 8)

[rengers]

just awesome

[FekLeyr Targ]

Looks good.
Do you think about a MVAM feature? (it's no update request)

[DJ Curtis]

FekLeyr Targ--> Yep.  I'll be doing mvam for this ship.

Adm_willie--> Heh, just wait till you see what's coming for this ship.

[Jb06]

Great work DJ! This is lookin even more fantastic every time i see it!  :spartasanta:

Another chocolate chip cookie to you ;)

~Jb06

JLS

[Glenn]

Nice work on those textures DJ, the Galaxy is looking most impressive indeed!!  

[yanlou]

i bet im going to need a new computer to play this, lol, look amazing

[DJ Curtis]

actually I don't think you will.  It's only half the number of polys the Ent F was.  And it has 4 2048x2048 textures as well.  So if you had no problems running the EntF, then this won't be a problem.  i'll also be including 1024 and 512 size maps for older graphics cards as well.

[Nighthawk]

you should include model LODs too.
lower polycount ships.

[DJ Curtis]

I would, but it would require a lot of remapping for the lower poly models, and the textures aren't really built to fit anything that looks different.  It would probably look so horrible that no one would use them anyhow.

[intrepid90]

actually I don't think you will.  It's only half the number of polys the Ent F was.  And it has 4 2048x2048 textures as well.  So if you had no problems running the EntF, then this won't be a problem.  i'll also be including 1024 and 512 size maps for older graphics cards as well.

fantastic, it will run veeeery smooth on my notebook

[yanlou]

i can run 1 entF, but i am having a few problems with my cpu at the moment so that might be the reason why, but from what youve said i should be able to run your ship, not sure about 2048X2048, but most defiently the lower res textures