Author Topic: WIP of TheUnknown - The Akula (mk II) (Read 117960 times)

Captain_D · « **Reply #820 on:** August 04, 2011, 02:34:30 PM »

Love the plating effect, but it sort of overpowers the wing pattern. It may need toning down a bit so the other features on the textures show up better, but not by much.

Man she is looking great.

JamesTiberiusKirk · « **Reply #821 on:** August 04, 2011, 06:56:03 PM »

Finally a warbird with a perfect shape. good work so far! any chance you will be doin the talon class? it hasnt really been done before i think and it should be a lot easier, since you could youse your textures or the nacelles as a base.

086gf · « **Reply #822 on:** August 05, 2011, 04:37:33 PM »

That looks pretty good.

MarkyD · « **Reply #823 on:** August 08, 2011, 05:58:02 AM »

Nice work mate, I think if you had time I would manually do the aztec patterns to get the right feel.

X_TheUnknown_X · « **Reply #824 on:** August 28, 2011, 07:53:05 AM »

Im baaack!

In truth, I've been around for the last few days - but refrained from posting while I applied the latest changes to the Warbird.

First off, I've redone the plating pattern again (similar to MarkyD's suggestion), so it integrates better with the panelling alignment suggested earlier. Still a little more work to do with the latter changes. Also, I've added some gradient effects to try to fake things like ambient occlusion and specular effects, which the BC engine can't do (a similar idea is used on LC's Warbird). Most of all, however, is the relentless addition of details - I intend to squeese the most detail I can from the texture maps, again there's more work needed there, too (windows, as usual, will come last).
Take a look:

eclipse74569 · « **Reply #825 on:** August 28, 2011, 08:55:32 AM »

Niiiice!!!

Jb06 · « **Reply #826 on:** August 28, 2011, 08:59:25 AM »

Looks great Unknown

The only thing I'd suggest is to decrease the opacity of the azteching by about 40% and Let the specular highlights do the work

~Jb

Toa_Kaita · « **Reply #827 on:** August 28, 2011, 01:02:38 PM »

Shes really shaping up! Good job Unknown!

Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #828 on:** August 28, 2011, 01:40:54 PM »

Agreed. Great looking warbird!

Captain_D · « **Reply #829 on:** August 28, 2011, 02:57:12 PM »

Quote from: Jb06 on August 28, 2011, 08:59:25 AM

Looks great Unknown

The only thing I'd suggest is to decrease the opacity of the azteching by about 40% and Let the specular highlights do the work

~Jb

Agreed,or at least maybe by 30%, don't want to lose sight of them on the textures all together. Love the detail in the engine grills, subtle but noticeable, Nice.

Would like to see some kind of escape hatch pattern, but very subtle, something that you would see very close up to notice if you know what I mean. Perhaps along the bottom of the neck or in back of the head, just a suggestion to think about.

Great so far.

MarkyD · « **Reply #830 on:** August 29, 2011, 07:43:42 AM »

Top stuff mate

Aeries · « **Reply #831 on:** August 29, 2011, 08:21:37 AM »

man, that bird is ace!

tiqhud · « **Reply #832 on:** August 29, 2011, 02:43:25 PM »

Great work there.
Forgot, and a cookie , On me

086gf · « **Reply #833 on:** August 29, 2011, 02:44:29 PM »

This just keeps getting better and better!

Psyco Diver · « **Reply #834 on:** August 29, 2011, 10:49:30 PM »

When you HP this, please oh please don't make this ship a pig to fly

Commander_One · « **Reply #835 on:** August 30, 2011, 01:56:07 AM »

Any Romulan commander would be a Varuul to not want to fly this ship! Awesome job!

X_TheUnknown_X · « **Reply #836 on:** September 02, 2011, 07:39:08 AM »

Many thanks, everyone, for all the kind comments ;) .

Quote from: Jb06 on August 28, 2011, 08:59:25 AM

The only thing I'd suggest is to decrease the opacity of the azteching by about 40% and Let the specular highlights do the work

The opacity of the hull plating is probably an overcompensation after it was too faded when I started the texturing. I have reduced it now by one fifth, and it does allow some of the other details to show through.

Quote from: Psyco Diver on August 29, 2011, 10:49:30 PM

When you HP this, please oh please don't make this ship a pig to fly

I'll try as much as I can, but the inescapable truth is that the Warbird is a bit of a cow (twice the size of a Galaxy-class, that's a lot of mass to lug around). To compensate, I intend to give the Warbird a decent weapons coverage and top speed.
My biggest concern is what to make the weapon at the front of the ship (y'all know which); in Trek canon it's been a phaser, disruptor and a torpedo launcher. To me, it seems silly to have all the ships weapons in one place, so I'm leaning towards making it a high-power disruptor as in most of TNG. Although I'm open to popular opinion.

Nihilus · « **Reply #837 on:** September 02, 2011, 09:24:35 AM »

My vote is for Disruptor. It just looks cool that way.

007bashir · « **Reply #838 on:** September 02, 2011, 10:32:36 AM »

Quote from: Nihilus on September 02, 2011, 09:24:35 AM

My vote is for Disruptor. It just looks cool that way.

Me too.

X_TheUnknown_X · « **Reply #839 on:** September 02, 2011, 01:31:08 PM »

Quote from: Nihilus on September 02, 2011, 09:24:35 AM

My vote is for Disruptor. It just looks cool that way.

I should probably say, at this point, I mean a pulse disruptor rather than the beams on your image (such as on TNG's 'The Defector' or 'Tin Man'). I would then add beams to cover the rest of the ship, and relegate the torpedo launchers further down the 'head' section.

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