Models giveaway

Hooray for the Mass Effect series!

Only crit, element zero is supposed to be dark blue.

For those who don’t know:

Element zero, also known as ‘eezo’, is a substance that, when subjected to an electrical current, releases dark energy which can be manipulated into a mass effect field, raising or lowering the mass of all objects within that field. A positive current increases mass, a negative current decreases it. This ‘mass effect’ is used in countless ways, from generating artificial gravity to manufacturing high-strength construction materials. It is most prominently used to enable faster-than-light space travel. When humans discovered the Prothean ruins on Mars, they also discovered refined element zero that the Protheans had left behind. It enabled research into FTL ship drives before the Charon Relay was discovered.

Eezo is generated when solid matter, such as a planet, is affected by the energy of a star going supernova. The material is common in the asteroid debris that orbits neutron stars and pulsars. These are dangerous places to mine, requiring extensive use of robotics, telepresence, and shielding to survive the intense radiation from the dead star. Only a few major corporations can afford the set-up costs required to work these primary sources. Some planets have small eezo deposits or coalesced around a larger deposit during their formation. While these secondary sources are safer to mine, the yield from the ore is not as large. There are rumours that the Nemean Abyss has particularly rich eezo deposits.

Element zero forms the basis of many advanced medicines throughout Citadel space. The biotic drug ‘red sand’ allegedly has element zero as its base - according to urban legend, it was created by criminal triads on Mars from the eezo samples recovered there. The Normandy’s massive Tantalus drive core cost 120 billion credits because of the amount of element zero needed to power the ship’s specialized stealth system.

I believe the limit is actually in the range of 21,XXX polys. However, for the sake of simplicity, everyone throws 20k around because it is easy to remember, it’s a nice round number, and sticking to that as a guideline always means your models will be just fine as far as detail levels go.

Now I just need to finish the custom Normandy model sitting on my HDD and hopefully get that thing out for the community to use (and I need to write a detailed permissions readme too to prevent it from being abused).

Actually I was shooting for something like “ALWAYS ask me before using” lol.

Might me good to add a email or something

Oh yeah, that’ll work… :pint: :pint:

You mean the two buttons that say DOWNLOAD All Models at the *** Server?

Yep that’s big ^^

Here’s a thought, is it possible not to include the mipmaps with these textures? Its maybe the way you uvmap the model but a format that’s more customizable might be worth thinking about. Most of us convert the textures to DDS format which creates the mipmaps anyway when you save it. Would also reduce the overall texture size of the files you provide.

Looks nice, I may be mistaken but - that blue thing is from Star Wars, right?

actually it looks okay

two things only:
i don’t like the Imperial emblem on the model

and about that green surface, i mean of course it’s a fictional model and no one really cares about the reality.
I just asked me, is it a greenish layer of paint? And why is it rusty when it’s in space.
My suggestion, maybe it looks bit better if you would have a texture with metal like base texture and chipped off paint.

Just an oppinion you asked for but still great work

Hey Sol,

I am following you from time to time,and a word from an old dog to a younger one…

The more input you solicit from people, the more they are going to drag you back to do work on stuff you already thought you have finished.

So let them know that what you already did on an item is it - final.

And only release what you are happy for them to change, then…

Let them make their own changes by themselves, and go on from there to do the stuff you really want to do. My pal Gibbon is very capable, for example.

Just to be clear too…

I am not using any of your work at the moment as I don’t have time to make any more mods or update our current one which I am in the process of debugging (see us at www.rrjds.com and www.rrjds.com/forum), but I am very much impressed with your ideas and your high standard of work.

But I will ask your permission if I would like to use any of your work in future.

I am all eyes and ears, your work is amazing, pal.

wow, now i like that, in my oppinion it looks much better. Especially the emblem replacement looks great.