WileyCoyote's WIPs - Continues to Lurk Around

[ChiefBrex]

Guys, this is a very small and tiny area of the ship, and we are nitpicking it. I'm not going to change it.

AMEN!

[Lurok91]

AMEN!

[Bren]

Guys, this is a very small and tiny area of the ship, and we are nitpicking it. I'm not going to change it.

I wasn't really suggesting you should, just discussing it. I suppose that was slightly off topic, sorry.

[andyp]

just found a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txvygvZgCWo&feature=related) which could be used to make a bridge set for the yacht, and ive been doing some looking around and ive learnt from the film just exactaly how the whole yacht detachement scene works.

i was the one who asked him to post this, i may do it as my next bridge project, should this one work out well.

[WileyCoyote]

The Enterprise-E is nearing completion. I have the yacht left to texture, then lighting and speculars are next. 

[moed]

Looks real nice Wiley.

Great job... and thanks!

[CptBenSisko]

Looks good Wiley!! How many texture maps are we lookin at for this badboy?

[WileyCoyote]

Looks good Wiley!! How many texture maps are we lookin at for this badboy?

4 2048px textures (not including speculars), 1 1024px texture for the captain's yacht. This is considerably less than my other ships. The polycount is around 18.7 tris.

[Shadowknight1]

Looks great there Wiley!

[Captain_D]

Awesome job.  Looking forward to her launch.

[JimmyB76]

fabulous!
forgive me if the question has been asked before (even if by me, my memory sucks lol)
but any chance to do a USS Sovereign registry as well?
if for nothing else, would be good for SP...

[CptBenSisko]

AANDD!! Blanks of course so we can make our own registries and variants...

[Bones]

I love it !

you've captured all the colors on the hull so perfectly, those aztecs are so subtle, cookie for another fantastic ship

[WileyCoyote]

but any chance to do a USS Sovereign registry as well?

AANDD!! Blanks of course so we can make our own registries and variants...

The ship is not mapped for ID-swapping, unless you want additional textures. It would take me a little longer. As I recall, some of DJ's ships do not have this function. Plus, do we honestly need 10+ Sovereign ships, when we only play with a few?

[Bones]

The ship is not mapped for ID-swapping, unless you want additional textures. It would take me a little longer. As I recall, some of DJ's ships do not have this function. Plus, do we honestly need 10+ Sovereign ships, when we only play with a few?

Funny but after Connie refit v.2 pack I realised there's no point to make 20+ ships while they differ only in registries while each reg map is 4 up to even 12 mb... besides from what I can tell, they are used in complex-eye-candy-pictures anyway

I'll be satisfied with old good E-E, thank you 

[eclipse74569]

Funny but after Connie refit v.2 pack I realised there's no point to make 20+ ships while they differ only in registries while each reg map is 4 up to even 12 mb... besides from what I can tell, they are used in complex-eye-candy-pictures anyway

I'll be satisfied with old good E-E, thank you 

Eh I'm liable to edit the mesh and make a registry map for myself *shrugs* Do what you feel is best Wiley, I won't complain and I WILL download

[IRML]

sorry to hijack the thread, but I just want to give you some friendly advice

I've been building my own enterprise-e for some time, and I couldn't help notice the similarities here:   yours   mine

I know we're making the same thing so it's obviously going to look similar, but I've had to make my own changes from the movies and concept art to flesh out that area and make it fit, and I see them all duplicated here, albeit in game resolution, but it's still obvious enough to me

I wanted to remind you I am just a fan modeler, my model is in no way official, so you should not really be using it for reference, think of this sort of thing as like copying with analogue tapes - if you make copies from the source you get the best quality, but if you keep copying from other copies then you get lower quality results - in modeling terms I'm saying you get inaccuracies if you use another fan model as your reference, as a modeler you should take the time to look at the concept art and make your own judgements about how this area should fit, it feels wrong to be seeing my own choices (and the flaws that go with them) showing up in other peoples work

[ACES_HIGH]

I'm pretty sure that's a coincidence, great minds think alike.  Wiley isn't exactly the kind of person to rip off someone's work

[WileyCoyote]

I wanted to remind you I am just a fan modeler, my model is in no way official, so you should not really be using it for reference, think of this sort of thing as like copying with analogue tapes - if you make copies from the source you get the best quality, but if you keep copying from other copies then you get lower quality results - in modeling terms I'm saying you get inaccuracies if you use another fan model as your reference, as a modeler you should take the time to look at the concept art and make your own judgements about how this area should fit, it feels wrong to be seeing my own choices (and the flaws that go with them) showing up in other peoples work

I didn't mean to disrespect or "ripoff" your work. Your version seemed the most complete of that area. I did use your picture as inspiration, but I agree with your comment. I will make the appropriate changes to my textures to differentiate from yours. After looking at mine again, I could definitely change it- no hassle.

[IRML]

I didn't mean to disrespect or "ripoff" your work.

those were the words of the guy above, who must have misunderstood my post, I wasn't accusing you of that

I know it's only a tiny bit on your model but I say the same thing to everyone when this has happened before, some people tell me I should shut up and be flattered when this happens, but I prefer to give the advice than be flattered