Arwing Landing member does 3-D Hestia!

Boba Fettuccini · Post by **Boba Fettuccini** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:12 am

there are a lot of roughly rectangular shapes near the front. save the image and draw on it in paint and re-upload to show me which ones you mean. Or just explain better

M123 · Post by **M123** » Thu May 29, 2008 2:04 pm

These ones:

^Click for bigger pic^
Image CodeSkillz!

Boba Fettuccini · Post by **Boba Fettuccini** » Thu May 29, 2008 2:09 pm

Ah, those are peripheral awesomizers.

They started their life as an attempt to do a Hestia Alpha, but the ablative armor kinda... failed. But I left those cuz I thought it looked better with the elongated nosewings.

Kartoffelkopf · Post by **Kartoffelkopf** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 12:33 pm

That looks SO awesome...

Dragons_Weyr · Post by **Dragons_Weyr** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:13 pm

to the original topic: when that guy is done with the model and put a texture
on it could you ask him about making it public?
because i would love to adapt that to be put in a game like X3 or ST:bc

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weevil · Post by **weevil** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:42 am

Hi chaps. I popped in to say hi. But first

1) Three pages, I'm impressed
2) I know nothing about battleships forever so you'll have excuse the artistic liscencing there
3) I read the post that asked if I was going to release the model.

Yes. If it's wanted I will release the model, but I need to do/ask a couple of things first, so

I've had a check on the board a couple of times, first off, cheers chaps, the C&C actually Helped (which, doesn't happen very often, it's normally an opinionated response) so thanks for that.

Second off. I've looked at the images you've made. 'Mr_Wizard' in particular, the cockpit looks so much better than mine design wise, that gattling cannon is in a much better place as well. (I have no idea what 'Lizzie's' is but, very nice)

Now. I read the request about releasing the model. I need to ask questions first.

First off, this is the big one. What/where does this get used in/for? (ie other games, things like that)
What object format do you need (like .x, .cob)

Second off. What's the best way for me protect the model I've made from somebody claiming it's theirs, I'll attach a read me to the model anyway but can I honestly do a 'gentleman's' agreement whereby you're free to edit it, use it and patch it into games, but you need to say that the original model was done by me.

Finally. I'd be happy to do other ships if this works out. But, I need to texture, and make changes to this one first

Weevil

Hiant · Post by **Hiant** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:48 am

i don't know anything how to do :X

Dragons_Weyr · Post by **Dragons_Weyr** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:48 am

@weevil
I know just what you need in respects to the licensing of the model.
you need the GNU General Public license, to quote the site;

The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.

heres their site http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

as to the format, there are several format's i've found to be most widely used.
.obj is one, also .3ds and .lwo, also some other's i can't remember.
but any of them will work :p.

and the question about what it would be used in;
i would probably put it in a game like X3 (http://www.egosoft.com/games/x3/info_en.php),
or Sins of a Solar Empire (http://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/)

EDIT: I've decided to put it in SoaSE

weevil · Post by **weevil** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:07 am

Right. That's a fantastic find, I'll look into that.

But...as for games. I don't think it's poly-efficient enough, I hadn't banked on release requests.

I have textured it though, I'm not entirely satisfied with it. It's the best I can do for now. I need to get better at this sort of stuff

If you haven't got quicktime, you're wasting your time
http://www.mediafire.com/?i3nma0yju10
If/when I release it, I'll put it as these file types

.cob
.3ds
.x
.obj

Dragons_Weyr · Post by **Dragons_Weyr** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:35 am

your welcome

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Wow, nice job!

as for poly-efficient, some of the models that come with SoaSE have upwards of 30,000 polys

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Boba Fettuccini · Post by **Boba Fettuccini** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:50 am

weevil wrote:Right. That's a fantastic find, I'll look into that.
If you haven't got quicktime, you're wasting your time
http://www.mediafire.com/?i3nma0yju10

Needs moar neon green.

weevil · Post by **weevil** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:56 pm

^Yeah, forgot about that, neons are hard to do with bog standard textures.

Alright, due to the fact that I'm lazy at the moment, here's the UNtextured object. This is to test that it works.

This by the way has near enough to 8000 ploys, so we're fine on that count

http://www.mediafire.com/?xymnm1xo1tj

M123 · Post by **M123** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:35 am

I think something broke...

That was with the .3ds file.

weevil · Post by **weevil** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:11 pm

Gah! Garn!

That's going to annoy me quickly, I'm going to have to put more polys on it to sort it out

weevil · Post by **weevil** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:33 pm

Alright. I've triangulated the faces that need it (or hit the triangulate button) and hoped for the best

it's just .3ds and .x this time around

I hate triangulation, it makes the model really hard to edit

http://www.mediafire.com/?jjmy2uy9xd0