Original Frigate - the Edinburgh

[Furyofaseraph]

I'll let the coders handle that stuff - I just build the ships.

Textures are pretty much locked in, I think.

[Nebula]

Dude that thing is awesome...

It's a great splice between Homeworld and B5... hehehe (yes I know you said ignore this but it's just to great of a resemblance not to...)

Anyway the design itself is really really cool everything on it just fits and blends well together.
I can't wait to see this thing completed!!

[Furyofaseraph]

Trial colors! :-).

Yeah, she's definitely a hybrid of HW2, Halo, and B5 - which is exactly what I wanted, with a bit of FoaS sprinkled in for good measure. I am going to add a bit more detailing to the greeble textures, but thats for tomorrow.

[bankruptstudios]

The textures of the hull plating look extremity good but the color on the forward comms and weapons array and on the top look a little cheezed out. Maybe a weathered dark gray or even the same black thats on the under carriage. It's jest my opinion, you got mt download.

[King Class Scout]

I prefer the rust scheme as a matter of personal taste, but the multi-steel works just fine.
I think you deserve some overdue cookies.  find yourself a good hardpointer for this one.

[Furyofaseraph]

The textures of the hull plating look extremity good but the color on the forward comms and weapons array and on the top look a little cheezed out. Maybe a weathered dark gray or even the same black thats on the under carriage. It's jest my opinion, you got mt download.

I agree - I need to rework that particular texture.

[pointman]

very nifty looking, what is the poly count

[Furyofaseraph]

7,939 triangles

[Furyofaseraph]

At last she is done!

[bankruptstudios]

I'm still not sold on the orange tips, i think it look better is you follower the dark color all the way, but this rocks. I love the detail you've done on the textures. You need to make a tut for texturing. Do you have a release date yet?

[King Class Scout]

I agree.  the splotch cameo looks so completely natural on that ship, you should put out a tutorial.  the Edinburgh would make any millitary service proud.  I'll be plenty happy to DL this when it's ready.

[Furyofaseraph]

Wow - i figured that the splotchy thing would be easy to figure out.

1) On an empty layer: Filter > Render > Clouds
2) On the same layer: Filter > Artistic > Cutout (adjust settings as you want)
3) Create a Gradient Map adjustment layer
4) Clip the gradient map adjustment layer to the clouds/cutout layer (hold down alt and click between the two layers in the layer palette).
5 optional) For the gradient map I actually used two different shades of grey that are close to center, ie: 160,160,160 and 96,96,96 - I then created a solid color layer above that and changed it to overlay at 75%. Also clip this layer to the Cloud/Cutout layer.

[bankruptstudios]

Oh, that all.* puts head down and kicks a rock and mumbles to him self* Show off. LOL. Jest kidding, i never thought of that. Cookie.

[Furyofaseraph]

Also, if you look at my dA page (http://furyofaseraph.deviantart.com/) amongst my deviations there is a texture action set for photoshop. There are two actions that produce tilable textures that I use for the basis for all my metallic textures.

[bankruptstudios]

You got some cool ships there. I'd love to get my hands on thous Fed fighters. My next project is to make one for the show. Can you post a link to your texture action, i could not find it.

[Furyofaseraph]

No problem on the link: http://furyofaseraph.deviantart.com/art/FoaS-s-Texture-Actions-27384739

As far as the fighters go, no one really seemed that gung-ho about them - which I can follow - they were very macross-esque. I have the MAX file if you want it.

By the way - now that the frigate is done, I'm thinking the destroyer through. I will not be starting it tonight, but rather tomorrow.

BTW: so far, there are three variants of the frigate: Standard, Command, and Escort. The command adds various comm gear and what not, the escort replaces many primary armaments with defensive weapons. I've expanded the idea of how a wolf pack would function. Basically the squadron breakdown would be 6 ships total: 1 Command, 3 Standard, and 2 Escort. In fact its even likely that a Command Frigate, with its specialized CCI (Command, Communications, Intelligence) gear would actually be an integral part of even a destroyer squadron.

[bankruptstudios]

I'd love to have them.. you cane send them to my Email, jest hit my profile for the address, Thank you. I had an idea for the destroyer but the only way i can explain it if you could post a side and back view of you frigate i could do a quick PS and post it for you as an idea, i don't want to infringe on you creative thoughts.

[Furyofaseraph]

sure thing - i don't mind more ideas, even if I have a solid one in my head - besides, who says that there only has to be one design of any type of ship?

I'll shoot you the max file tomorrow - assuming you can handle files from 3ds Max 9

[King Class Scout]

unfortunately, some of us are lacking a proper "clouds" function, which is one thing I definetly miss from my PP8.  i have Paintshop rather than photoshop, and the cloud function is only a texture (otherwise, cool random bussards and showy plasma).

[Furyofaseraph]

I don't know if Paint Shop Pro can handle photoshop filter plugins - but GIMP can for sure.

Oh, here's that side view, bankrupt.