fursWiPs: TMP Enterprise

[Lionus]

Are you going to make it a carrier, able to launch TIE-fighters?

[086gf]

Also I hope there's a way to target multiple ships at once.

Oh, indeed you can. Taking on five sovvies at once with this thing will be fun.

[furswift]

Are you going to make it a carrier, able to launch TIE-fighters?

Oddly, I never considered that. I should make some ultra low poly TIEs to go with it. I suppose if I'm going to learn to HP I should learn everything. Also, in the future when I make the regular Star Destroyer, I could have the Executor class ships launch those too.

Also I hope there's a way to target multiple ships at once.

Oh, indeed you can. Taking on five sovvies at once with this thing will be fun.

Yessss!

[Toa_Kaita]

Are you going to make it a carrier, able to launch TIE-fighters?

Oddly, I never considered that. I should make some ultra low poly TIEs to go with it.

Can't go wrong with Phantom TIES guarding the Terror.

[Digital_Clarity]

@ Fur,

I don't know anything about that game, but if someone wants to port the ship, I'll let them.

It's not something I could do, but I am sure there are plenty of folks at Empire at War filefront who could do so.
With your permission, I could put in a request for it on Empire at War filefront to have it ported to Empire at War.

[furswift]

I am at a bit of a crossroads when it comes to the textures on this ship. I've read the Maximum Poly thread and it seems that BC has a harder time manipulating models with big textures than it does models with big poly counts. The highest poly model I have in my BC install is Lint's NX Excelsior. It has 52,677 polys and the equivalent of 5.75 1024 textures. I fought against 5 ships from Wiley's Excelsior Family Pack with Lint's Excelsior. There was some noticeable lag, but nothing terrible. My specs are: Intel dual core @2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS with 256MB VRAM, so it's pretty middle of the road. I originally planned to make this model with ~18K polys and 3 2048 textures. I figure if I add greeble detail to the model itself and give myself a budget of about 40K polys and one 1024 texture, it will be reasonably easy to run and look a lot nicer ingame. Any thoughts or opinions?

[Lionus]

big yes for the 1024-sized textures. 2048s make my comp sputter, and that says something since it's 3.5Ghz, 4gb RAM and ATI Radeon 4870 with plenty of ram..

[FekLeyr Targ]

Do you think that you'll use those:
http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/file/SW_TIE_Fleet_Pack;76566

[Maxloef]

I am at a bit of a crossroads when it comes to the textures on this ship. I've read the Maximum Poly thread and it seems that BC has a harder time manipulating models with big textures than it does models with big poly counts. The highest poly model I have in my BC install is Lint's NX Excelsior. It has 52,677 polys and the equivalent of 5.75 1024 textures. I fought against 5 ships from Wiley's Excelsior Family Pack with Lint's Excelsior. There was some noticeable lag, but nothing terrible. My specs are: Intel dual core @2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS with 256MB VRAM, so it's pretty middle of the road. I originally planned to make this model with ~18K polys and 3 2048 textures. I figure if I add greeble detail to the model itself and give myself a budget of about 40K polys and one 1024 texture, it will be reasonably easy to run and look a lot nicer ingame. Any thoughts or opinions?

Use some repeating texture's for the main hull and only special texutres for the important stuf like the bridge and engines ;)

[sovereign001]

looks great mate!

[furswift]

So I decided to go the high poly, low texture route. I think (hope) that despite the high poly count (it's at 42K right now), the ship will be pretty light, so she can be used in a reasonably sized fleet battle. Texturing should be a breeze because it will only be one 1024 texture and the details on the studio model are mercifully homogenous.

@FekLeyr Targ: I'm not sure if I'll use those. There seems to be some dispute on the ownership of those. I might make my own low poly TIEs.

[Lionus]

  oh yes.

[metalnick]

Looking really awesome there, man. This will be the first SW ship to go into my install. 

[WileyCoyote]

So will this ship be 19km long as stated at Starship Dimensions, because when I start scaling my ID4 ships, the Executor (19km) is slightly smaller than a City Destroyer (24km)?

[ACES_HIGH]

now that would be an epic battle

[furswift]

The engines are done.

@WileyCoyote: I do plan on scaling the ship to 19km barring any complications. I'll scale it relative to my Excelsior (which is the same size as yours ;)). I can't wait to see that City Destroyer. Any ship that's even *slightly* bigger than the Executor is pretty terrifying.

[Kirk]

Those baked in glows are a bit unrealistic.

[JimmyB76]

*offtopic cleared*

guys please try and remain ontopic...

thx

[Shadowknight1]

Those baked in glows are a bit unrealistic.

I agree, tone it down by about half of what you've got, and that ought to do it.

[Bren]

Aye, and localise it a bit more to the engine's vicinity.