Eximius retexture

[Bones]

Hi there !
Here I've got something different than TMP ships, (I have to rest from these for a while) the Eximius is a cool ship but it has almost every texture ripped from p81 sov which I don't like... they are outdated, and there is only one way to get rid of outdated textures - replace them with new ones
here is a pic :

[yanlou]

it is a cool ship, so your just going to replace them with more upto date sov textures?
how about creating a new texture thatll make the eximius stand out more, but still keeping elements of the sov textures, i think itll look reli gd like that 

[Bones]

It is going to have different textures ... lets say they will be a mix of sov and sabre textures

[yanlou]

sounds gd, defiently going to be unique, cant wait to see

[Starforce2]

are you keeping the mapping or remapping it too?

[admiral horton]

i hope you will put some well define phaser strips i know the mesh has none

[lint]

if your willing to go a step further you should try and smooth out the mesh and round off the secondry hull a little ,
But never the less, cant wait to see what you come up with!

[DJ Curtis]

Cool.  The Eximus is a neat ship and is way overdue for having been redone.  If you're going to go to the trouble of making new textures for it, definitely remap the thing too, the old maps had some silliness to them.

[Bones]

I'll ask some finest modellers if they could improve model, add phasers stripes.

are you keeping the mapping or remapping it too?

No just retexturing, there is no need to remap anything I think

Cool.  The Eximus is a neat ship and is way overdue for having been redone.  If you're going to go to the trouble of making new textures for it, definitely remap the thing too, the old maps had some silliness to them.

If I only had enough experience with ms3d, I would 

EDIT:

I've pointed out some areas which needs to be fixed cuz they look awful also secondary hull needs to be smoothed as it is on CG Sov.

Is there anyone who would like to edit model ? (fix pointed issues, fix smoothing, add some phasers strips and eventually remap it a little)

Now what color should be the deflector ? I gave it blue but its kinda doesn't fit well to this design in my opinion ...

[Adm_willie]

looks good so far

I think the deflector should be yellow just like it was on the Sovereign class

[yanlou]

i agree with the yellow, but maybe a slightly yellow, also will this replace the eximius in my km install?

[Bones]

Well I guess this will replace old eximius with this one and since this ship will have standard 1024x1024 maps plus rather low polycount it will still run very smoothly  HP will also be altered only slightly, I don't want to break the balance between all KM ships

[Firestar]

Looks good. Keep it up. 8)





 :firedrake

[yanlou]

cool, what do u have in mind for the hp?, ( sorry i was ment to say slightly darker yellow in my other post whoops)

[Bones]

well I am tempted now to add some pulse phasers in front of the ship and leave the rest as it is now and maybe make shields weaker but with faster recharge rate
I don't want this ship to be a god ship just small and maneuverable ship something like future sovereign/sabre mix

[yanlou]

yer sounds gd, so a sort of light cruiser? im looking foward to see this when its completed

[Bones]

Thats the plan this eximius is going to be a tad smaller and weaker than it was originally

[yanlou]

yer u dont want a light cruiser, thats powerful, so for comparison is strength is going to be similair to norway/sabre

[Starforce2]

The eximus is atleast a CL. Or perhaps a strike cruiser.

[Weasel]

I agree. If you make it the size of a Nova, you're de-fanging it, and that's not doing the ship justice. The original artist obviously meant for it to be a front-line combat ship, leading the attack as either a battle-group command vessel, or as an escort cruiser for high-value units.

It doesn't have to be a "god-ship"- but it should certainly be a very frightening enemy for anything less than a tactical cube to have to face.