3D Model Showroom

PantherX

Kuze wrote:
The last one is inspired by the Navy fighters from Cowboy Bebop: The Movie? It looks awesome.

Yes! You’re the first person to recognize the design

Thaddeus wrote:
Welcome back Mr X. I remeber seeing these on the old Evo site years ago, was a little dissapointed when they never made it game side. Particulary the Junker ship and the mini Hellhound Xeno fighter, the texturing on the old 'stang looks pretty good too. Any chance of a download?

Not as disappointed as I was not to finish them. Real life was kicking my butt at the time and I burned out, I only ended up finished about 25% of what I had started.

The Mustang texture was done for a clan on a single server mod, I made a matching one for the WC Banshee as well.

I’m more than happy to upload all my finished models for general use but I have to warn you that I didn’t have all the nifty tools you guys have now. So no custom .sur files or animation.

Now that I think about it I can upload Ospreys Sentinel and the APS ship pack as well since I exported those myself and was given permission to distribute the models.

Kuze

And the camo one is inspired by a Homeworld 2 concept art, right? I recognize the one with the scull and flames too as a HW2 concept. There is not so much starship arond I am not familiar with :-D…sometimes I make a ship and then I find a similar design on the internet…:)

BTW have you guys noticed how good ANY starship looks with camo? It makes little sense in space but gives the ship the cool military look.

VNM51

Jesus Christ! PantherX from EVO nightmare? Good to see you here bud. You had several good ships.

PantherX

Kuze wrote:
And the camo one is inspired by a Homeworld 2 concept art, right? I recognize the one with the scull and flames too as a HW2 concept. There is not so much starship arond I am not familiar with :-D…sometimes I make a ship and then I find a similar design on the internet…:)

BTW have you guys noticed how good ANY starship looks with camo? It makes little sense in space but gives the ship the cool military look.

Actually the camo ship (Grendel), the one with skulls (Loki) AND the Mustang (the one with the blue bits) were all heavily inspired by homeworld concept art.

I also agree with you 100%; Camo does make a starfighter look kick@$$.

Davis wrote:
Jesus Christ! PantherX from EVO nightmare? Good to see you here bud. You had several good ships.

Wow that almost made me blush…Thanks for the enthusiastic welcome

Hopefully I can finish some of the work I started and maybe one of the few active mods left will use them.

Xarian_Prime

As a Heavy Consumer (lol) of Shipmodels for freelancer old and new (yes it’s true… my modding is all a front for my addiction… hehe) I too would like to give a hearty HIA!! to one of our lost, now returned

Seriously looking forward to some new toys, Great to see another modeler return, thems nice meshs… really dig that black red… erm… thingy… i like strange thingy’s…
in space i mean…

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@Pantherx: 1, 5-7 of unfinished line are cool! Best fit for vamilla fl imho

Sizer

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8177/largerenderagb.png

My latest work.

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Good to see that someone still works for ToW

PantherX

Sizer wrote:
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My latest work.

Isn’t 10,000 polys a bit on the high side? You could have saved some polys but putting more detail into the textures.

Looks really good though.

FriendlyFire

We use LODs.

Gisteron

besides, while 10k is fairly beyond FL’s standards, it was considerably outdated less than a year later, if not even at release time. so on larger ships, modeled detail is often a choice wise to make (let’s just ignore that in FW:ToW you have normal maps which take away most of the necessity to model hull details anyway :D).
nice gunboat anyway. If it needs any animations, i’d gladly make some

PantherX

Freelancer uses normal maps now :-??? I feel so out of touch.

VNM51

@Sizer:
Very good texturing work on that ship Sizer.
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Freelancer uses normal maps now ??

That’s new to me too.

Gisteron

Freelancer itself doesn’t, but in FW:ToW, afaik, there will be a different rendering engine which will support normal and specular maps and some fairly nice features.

cvekiboy

Gisteron wrote:
… If it needs any animations, i’d gladly make some

May I ask a favour?
As I’m terrible in maths (as sig says), there is no way I can successfully make the tail animation like snake movement is.
Its the Sc_tail wag and part in Sc_end anim.

LOOK the VIDEO
why is youtube tag broken?

3MAJ-VHF

NO RUSH & Muchas Gracias in advance!

FriendlyFire

Gisteron wrote:
Freelancer itself doesn’t, but in FW:ToW, afaik, there will be a different rendering engine which will support normal and specular maps and some fairly nice features.

The engine supersedes FL’s, it doesn’t sit besides it. We’re disabling the old DirectX 8 renderer entirely to streamline code and support.

Kuze

Not exactly a Freelancer ship, since it already have around 30k polys, but I thought I show it to you guys. It’s a wip, many more details to come.

Gisteron

@sumanuti: i’ll just ignore how little i think of this to be a typical or ballanced spaceship design
you sure are challenging me, but i’ll see if i can find some room in my schedule for this. interesting idea anyway.

SolCommand

Kuze that model looks great mate but if you really want to use it ingame you could easily turn that into a 5-10k poly model. Anyway, nice ship, keep it up.

Kuze

Thanks. The ship is a personal project. A modelling training one can say. It will in the end have, I predict, around 80k-100k polys. It is not for Freelancer. I only did FL-related ship before, and I realized recently how limited my modelling skills are and very much I lack 3D experience. A good way to improve is imo a non-fl model where I am not limited to polygon count or design elements.

BTW I need to figure out how to make the landing gears and where to put them.