Well, after an emergency motherboard transplant and several windows installs, I'm back up and running again. So, finished the back of the bridge tower, finally. Here are some shots:
Gotta take a final stock of the armament eventually...
I don't know why, but when I look at a lot of the parts around the engines, I think 'flaps'. Why I think of aircraft Landing Flaps on something this big, I have no idea. Maybe it's the bad influence of Grevious' flagship.
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Vehrec wrote:I don't know why, but when I look at a lot of the parts around the engines, I think 'flaps'. Why I think of aircraft Landing Flaps on something this big, I have no idea. Maybe it's the bad influence of Grevious' flagship.
Vehrec wrote:I don't know why, but when I look at a lot of the parts around the engines, I think 'flaps'. Why I think of aircraft Landing Flaps on something this big, I have no idea. Maybe it's the bad influence of Grevious' flagship.
Thrust vectoring panels.
Not just those, the trailing edge of the ship's hull itself looks like flappy bits that should move to me. I keep expecting something to start moving, or blinking or for the sounds of the engines to reach my ears.
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I did some SW modelling on 3ds Max 5 back in the day, even modelled a small corellian freighter for my party of RPG fellows... but that thing is just wonderful!
Tell me, since I've been out of the 3d loop for some time, what version of MAX (looks like a MAX to me, but I might be wrong) do you use and what kind of computer do you have to be able to model on that level of detail?
Vehrec wrote:I don't know why, but when I look at a lot of the parts around the engines, I think 'flaps'. Why I think of aircraft Landing Flaps on something this big, I have no idea. Maybe it's the bad influence of Grevious' flagship.
Thrust vectoring panels.
Not just those, the trailing edge of the ship's hull itself looks like flappy bits that should move to me. I keep expecting something to start moving, or blinking or for the sounds of the engines to reach my ears.
I've been thinking of them as the neutrino radiators, actually. Never labeled in any ICS or technical document, so I figure why not, surface area to play with.
I use 3dsmax2008 now, but there's a 2009 version that came out recently. I'm currently running a core 2 quad 6600 machine, 4 (soon to be 6) gb ram, and a radeon 4850. Renders at 1920x1200 can take up to ~30min depending on how much detail is visible. The whole ship is tracking towards 3-4million polygons, about my target before I started.
Holy crap! Man, I want to see this thing in a Star Wars game or book.
"Impossible! Lasers can't even harm out deflector dish! Clearly these foes are masters of illusion!' 'But sir, my console says we-' 'MASTERS OF ILLUSION! - General Schatten
And, considering this will be 3-4million polygons when it's done, I don't think there's a game engine that will do that yet.
Anyways, today's work. I actually detailed a fair bit more of that flat counter under the main engine bank before I remembered that half of it would be covered. Oh well, more detail for the other blank spots...
The 'tail' reminds me right now of a crocodile's armor - and in pic 65 I have the feeling there is a 'We brake for nobody'-sign just out of view
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fractalsponge1 wrote:^Yeah, that was cool, and very not, all at once.
Why not? Did they "forget" to ask for permission?
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They didn't ask. But I hear it wasn't lucasarts itself, rather a contractor from singapore. And just for the trailer, they caught it internally before that.
As for how much time has been spent, I started this in early July, and finished most of the modeling by last weekend. I usually put in a few hours per day after work, and most of the time of half the weekends.
fractalsponge1 wrote:They didn't ask. But I hear it wasn't lucasarts itself, rather a contractor from singapore. And just for the trailer, they caught it internally before that.
Damn, that sucks. Is there no way to sue the hell out of these assholes?