Author Topic: FarShot's WIPs - The fire in which we burn... (Read 92328 times)

Bones · « **Reply #320 on:** January 23, 2012, 06:25:37 AM »

challenge accepted

007bashir · « **Reply #321 on:** January 23, 2012, 06:33:47 AM »

it will be Legend... Wait for it... dary

King Class Scout · « **Reply #322 on:** January 23, 2012, 08:22:18 AM »

well, since Bashir made the joke, there has to be a "Kung-Fu Panda" name in there now!

better yet, throw on an alt reg with a famous Chinese person on it.

USS Wong feiHong?
Wushu?
Chun-Li Zhang?
Son Goku?
BRUCE LEE!

FarShot · « **Reply #323 on:** January 23, 2012, 08:52:43 AM »

As an Asian, I am somewhat offended, but mostly

at the repeated panda-isms. :roll

EDIT: Let's see, just a few things left before I begin mapping it: other phaser arrays, phaser cannons, cargo bay doors, impulse engine details, and shuttle bay rapid egress hatches.

Bones · « **Reply #324 on:** January 23, 2012, 09:51:34 AM »

Ok, enough with pandas, it's time for an update

Stardrive is about half completed.

FarShot · « **Reply #325 on:** January 23, 2012, 10:02:12 AM »

I... oh my. I just... there are no words to express my... joy/excitement/happiness/ecstasy... Dammit man, I'd give you a hug right now if I could. That's just f***ing beautiful. *tears of joy*

Killallewoks · « **Reply #326 on:** January 23, 2012, 10:05:11 AM »

Quote from: FarShot on January 23, 2012, 10:02:12 AM

I... oh my. I just... there are no words to express my... joy/excitement/happiness/ecstasy... Dammit man, I'd give you a hug right now if I could. That's just f***ing beautiful. *tears of joy*

Hey guys I just had an idea for your screen name for your parntership model/texture endeavour

Shotbones productions?

Vladko1 · « **Reply #327 on:** January 23, 2012, 11:08:07 AM »

Everything is shaping very nicely! Keep the good work!

And Bones, mate, you are the best dude, awesome textures, cookie

Bones · « **Reply #328 on:** January 23, 2012, 11:40:49 AM »

Quote from: Vladko1 on January 23, 2012, 11:08:07 AM

Everything is shaping very nicely! Keep the good work!
And Bones, mate, you are the best dude, awesome textures, cookie

thx Vlady ! I appreciate

Quote from: Killallewoks on January 23, 2012, 10:05:11 AM

Hey guys I just had an idea for your screen name for your parntership model/texture endeavour

Shotbones productions?

Strange but that dude look almost the same as Charlie Runkle (Californication)

Yeah lol, the name is cool

Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #329 on:** January 23, 2012, 12:22:30 PM »

Cookie for Bones and Farshot. The Exeter's textures are fantastic, and that new model looks like a predecessor to MayhemUK's Courageous. Very cool.

Bones · « **Reply #330 on:** January 23, 2012, 03:27:06 PM »

That's the last update today, most of the ships diffuse maps are finished, just nacelles left to finish, then I'll move to alpha channels ;)

here are some pics of secondary hull, nacelles and pylons

Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #331 on:** January 23, 2012, 03:42:11 PM »

Not sure what I think of those bussards, the double cowling, or the connection between the pylons and the secondary hull. I wish I had some suggestions for the collectors. The cowling seems a bit too busy to me and for both cowlings to be the same color seems off. As for the connection, it just seems like it should flow a little better.

These are only my opinions though, and it's still a fantastic job.

Bones · « **Reply #332 on:** January 23, 2012, 04:06:09 PM »

bussards are just placeholders, I'm making a different style tomorrow, yes, the connection is too rubbish ATM, I'm gonna play with textures to make a collar around the pylon so it doesn't just stick out of the random hull platings.

As for double cowling, it's meant to be like that. This way nacelles resemble JJverse stylistics.

your opinions are important to me because I might overlook some things, pointing these out to me helps me improving textures ;)

FarShot · « **Reply #333 on:** January 23, 2012, 05:31:06 PM »

Originally, the bigger and more fore of the cowlings was of the lighter hull color, so feel free to play around with that. Also, I'm fairly confident you'll find an excellent bussard color.

And feel free to up the resolution of the nacelles. The panelling lines are very heavy there as opposed to a lot of other places on the ship.

One more thing that occurred to me was that there doesn't seem to be panelling on the saucer rim besides the four horizontal lines. I think some light and subtle panelling behind the windows and those lines will really flesh out the ship.

All this being said, I think that secondary hull might be the most beautiful thing I've laid my eyes on.

EDIT: Yeah, just screwing around with the thread name. Hmm, BS Productions?

Darkthunder · « **Reply #334 on:** January 23, 2012, 06:31:27 PM »

This one beats the hell out of the STO version, that's for sure.

Bones · « **Reply #335 on:** January 23, 2012, 06:43:30 PM »

BoneShot's ?!?!? Bone(r)shots :eek

nah seriously, I wanted to show new bussards but I can't get it rendered right

they turn out black ...

FarShot · « **Reply #336 on:** January 23, 2012, 07:42:12 PM »

I guess my mind wasn't dirty enough to see that coming.

Well, we could always just put the developer as FarShot - Bones - WhoeverHPsIt. Do you have any ideas about that, by the way? I've never used MPE or whatever it is in my life before.

moed · « **Reply #337 on:** January 23, 2012, 11:53:27 PM »

This is looking awesome but... I feel the cowlings shouldn't be so uniformly dark. I think it needs more light parts.

Bones · « **Reply #338 on:** January 24, 2012, 01:34:03 AM »

I can make'em light just like the rest of the hull, I don't like the pattern on them anyway

FarShot · « **Reply #339 on:** January 24, 2012, 02:21:29 AM »

Also, there's that Starfleet Chevron on the side of the fore cowl, and it probably doesn't show up well on dark panelling. I'll leave the final choice up to Bones though. One other thing though, I'm not sure if the UV map for the nacelle is reflected where the registry will go so that it's not mirrored or anything. I'll need to check.

As for the Vendetta, I'm calling the model done, what with the addition of phaser cannons, cargo bay hatches, a warp core ejection port, and the nice pretty bridge model. Time to UV map it and ship it off to you, Bones. ;) Oh and did I mention the 8000-ish triangles it's made of?

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