Author Topic: WIP of TheUnknown - The Akula (mk II) (Read 106658 times)

Bren · « **Reply #680 on:** February 26, 2011, 09:42:06 PM »

The only suggestion I can make is that the lighting under the rim of the top mushroom head looks a bit dark. In the films, it was bright enough to illuminate the dark ribbing in the trench beside it. I think you should probably texture a subtle glow into eaiter side of the trench, not too much, just enough to show the light spill.

Really, I can offer no other suggestions, such is the PERFECTION of this work of art. WELL DONE!

Captain_D · « **Reply #681 on:** February 27, 2011, 01:08:28 PM »

Quote from: phoenixfett on February 24, 2011, 02:59:31 PM

WOW!!!

,,,more like,,, :eek WOW!!!! :eek

Setting the self-destruct sequence on your old base now so I will be ready for this one.

Awesome job.

Saquist · « **Reply #682 on:** February 27, 2011, 11:30:25 PM »

Quote from: Bren on February 26, 2011, 09:42:06 PM

The only suggestion I can make is that the lighting under the rim of the top mushroom head looks a bit dark. In the films, it was bright enough to illuminate the dark ribbing in the trench beside it. I think you should probably texture a subtle glow into eaiter side of the trench, not too much, just enough to show the light spill.

Really, I can offer no other suggestions, such is the PERFECTION of this work of art. WELL DONE!

Those glows come from shuttle bays in the outter rim of the Primary Dock.
The original starbase lit it up far too much.
The bays are intermittent and the lighting should reflect that. Some are double bays stack one one another and some are single bays, while others are quad bays two stacked bays side by side.

CDR_Daxian · « **Reply #683 on:** March 01, 2011, 07:26:11 PM »

Awesome Work TU

I look forward to seeing it in Bridge Commander

Keep up the Good work!

andyp · « **Reply #684 on:** March 01, 2011, 08:56:28 PM »

Quote from: X_TheUnknown_X on February 26, 2011, 03:37:49 PM

here's some pictures (NFX doen't show up the specs as well as Blender does, I think):

glad to know there are other blender users out there, please tell me that you'll release the .blend file with it

Bren · « **Reply #685 on:** March 01, 2011, 09:18:40 PM »

Quote from: Saquist on February 27, 2011, 11:30:25 PM

Those glows come from shuttle bays in the outter rim of the Primary Dock.
The original starbase lit it up far too much.
The bays are intermittent and the lighting should reflect that. Some are double bays stack one one another and some are single bays, while others are quad bays two stacked bays side by side.

My thoughts exactly.

X_TheUnknown_X · « **Reply #686 on:** March 02, 2011, 05:04:15 PM »

Quote from: andyp on March 01, 2011, 08:56:28 PM

glad to know there are other blender users out there, please tell me that you'll release the .blend file with it

There aren't many Blender users in game modding, that's for sure. I won't release the .blend with the Starbase, as it'll just increase the size of the ZIP. But you can download Blender NIF Scripts which will import any BC models for you, or get NifSkope and export as OBJ (which blender can import without plugins).

I also have a little sneak preview/surprise ready for you guys. I've still got a lot of work to do; hardpointing, scaling, getting the animated lights to work etc. I'm even thinking of giving the Spacedock shuttle launching capability (maybe up to small ships

). But here's the first shots of the base in game:

007bashir · « **Reply #687 on:** March 02, 2011, 05:23:31 PM »

That is so beatiful, cant wait to get it. Cool idea with shuttle launching and/or bigger ships

mckinneyc · « **Reply #688 on:** March 02, 2011, 06:32:11 PM »

Amazing

Nihilus · « **Reply #689 on:** March 02, 2011, 06:32:28 PM »

That looks absolutely beautiful. You did an amazing job TU. Did you make that shuttle recently too or has that always been available? I always really liked the Insurrection Shuttle, it would be sweet to play around with one in game.

Morgan · « **Reply #690 on:** March 02, 2011, 10:19:49 PM »

Awesome work Unknown! Looks amazing in-game.

moed · « **Reply #691 on:** March 03, 2011, 12:42:59 AM »

Fantastic work dude! This is definitely a new level for the space dock.

metalnick · « **Reply #692 on:** March 03, 2011, 12:55:15 AM »

Pure win, sir. Pure Win.

Killallewoks · « **Reply #693 on:** March 03, 2011, 04:12:38 AM »

TU this blows all the starbases out now out the water.

tiqhud · « **Reply #694 on:** March 03, 2011, 08:06:20 AM »

What we talking about texture size , and poly count , now that you got it ingame?

X_TheUnknown_X · « **Reply #695 on:** March 04, 2011, 12:57:40 PM »

Quote from: tiqhud on March 03, 2011, 08:06:20 AM

What we talking about texture size , and poly count , now that you got it ingame?

I can't be certain with the poly count, because exporting to NIF converts quads into triangles and NifSkope won't give me a total figure - but a close estimate would be about 18.5 - 19k polys in total. As with textures, is stands at 50MB so far; but I plan to reduce to size of the speculars and change some of the others, so that's likely to change before the final release.

Thanks for all the support, as well, everyone

.

X_TheUnknown_X · « **Reply #696 on:** March 05, 2011, 04:36:38 PM »

Another small update, now. I'm just about finished with the textures now, just a few nitpicks to sort out. I've toned down some of the alphas; and added some (non-canon) phaser banks to the dome and lower section, just so that the base no longer fires phasers out of a strip of paint

. Also, the basics with the hardpoints are in place, and I'll move on to giving it shuttle launching. Then it should be ready for... Beta Testing.

Here's another screenshot:

baz1701 · « **Reply #697 on:** March 05, 2011, 05:51:10 PM »

very cool

Nihilus · « **Reply #698 on:** March 05, 2011, 08:40:45 PM »

Quote from: X_TheUnknown_X on March 05, 2011, 04:36:38 PM

Then it should be ready for... Beta Testing.

I'll volunteer for this

086gf · « **Reply #699 on:** March 06, 2011, 12:50:55 AM »

All I gotta say is wow, very nice!

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