Replying to Fractalsponge Imperial Starship Models
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Phoenix Rising
Posted 17 January 2010 - 04:20 AM
For our purposes, those would actually be better - they're actually running in some game. With that being the case, the conversion process becomes much simpler and potentially doable. The only major problem I'd have with it is not having anything to offer their mods in return... we are ridiculously bare-boned for a mod team. I'll definitely think about it though, thanks.
Dalmp
Posted 16 January 2010 - 10:04 PM
On a much less impressive scale, but still very nice:
First Strike mod, and Freeworlds:Tides of War have been churning out quite a few great models. Both have been very open to cross platform sharing, and have many models better than anything I've seen in EaW. They might still be too high quality though...
http://www.moddb.com/mods/fwtow
http://www.moddb.com/mods/first-strike
Freeworlds in particular has a ton of new space station models, many of them canon, which is something I know EaW is starved for.
First Strike mod, and Freeworlds:Tides of War have been churning out quite a few great models. Both have been very open to cross platform sharing, and have many models better than anything I've seen in EaW. They might still be too high quality though...
http://www.moddb.com/mods/fwtow
http://www.moddb.com/mods/first-strike
Freeworlds in particular has a ton of new space station models, many of them canon, which is something I know EaW is starved for.
Kitkun
Posted 15 December 2009 - 08:42 PM
Still, we can dream, can't we?
Phoenix Rising
Posted 10 December 2009 - 10:03 PM
I've seen the site, yeah. There are a couple problems with using something like that for a game though.
One, you'd have to reduce a million and some polys to ~5000 tris. I can and have taken models down by 75% or so for LOD meshes, but 99+% is absurd; it probably wouldn't turn out.
Two, they're not textured or (I'm assuming) skinned. Even if the models work, I'm not sure who would be able to do that for us.
Certainly the renders look nice, but I think it'd be a lot less of a headache to work with something a little more manageable. Also, there's something to be said about consistency in art style and changing all of our star destroyers would be a lot of work for yet-questionable (have to see them post-poly reduction) improvement.
One, you'd have to reduce a million and some polys to ~5000 tris. I can and have taken models down by 75% or so for LOD meshes, but 99+% is absurd; it probably wouldn't turn out.
Two, they're not textured or (I'm assuming) skinned. Even if the models work, I'm not sure who would be able to do that for us.
Certainly the renders look nice, but I think it'd be a lot less of a headache to work with something a little more manageable. Also, there's something to be said about consistency in art style and changing all of our star destroyers would be a lot of work for yet-questionable (have to see them post-poly reduction) improvement.
Tropical Bob
Posted 06 December 2009 - 06:12 AM
Yeah, it's not showing up anymore.
Hostile
Posted 06 December 2009 - 03:53 AM
I viewed everything and nothing is wrong. Don't sweat it. I've been around for awhile...
Reedek
Posted 06 December 2009 - 03:24 AM
Ugh how can you tell if you have an HTML virus and what is the name of it please?I went to the Imperator-Class Star Destroyer page and my Avira detected an HTML virus.
Could be a false alarm but just a warning be careful.
EDIT:I don't know if my Anti Virus will catch it and if my high security settings on my browser stopped it
Hostile
Posted 05 December 2009 - 11:56 PM
That's an insane level of modeling. Wow...
Nertea
Posted 05 December 2009 - 11:35 PM
Reminds me of good old times on SFM when he was building that ISD... didn't know he was still modeling!
And yeah, I have one of the versions of his ISD laying around, as I recall it is around 1.8 million polygons
And yeah, I have one of the versions of his ISD laying around, as I recall it is around 1.8 million polygons
Tropical Bob
Posted 05 December 2009 - 07:06 PM
Avast! also detected one. It seems to be the only part of the page with such an occurrence though.
Those are really great works. The Bellator-class is certainly an interesting one. I guess it was supposed to be something like a partially Mon Calamari-ized Star Destroyer. That and the 'Pride of Defiance' images are my favorite ones methinks.
Those are really great works. The Bellator-class is certainly an interesting one. I guess it was supposed to be something like a partially Mon Calamari-ized Star Destroyer. That and the 'Pride of Defiance' images are my favorite ones methinks.