3D Model Showroom

i didn’t even use any UV maps. too much time waste and with the program i use you can apply textures as procedural though rotate them, scale and strech them and translate them to any position you want.
if i want e.g. multiple rectangular shapes (on the model) to have the same symbol, i duplicate the material and later on in milkshape point to one and the same and the game does the rest just fine.
its cool that the ingame materials only define how they look like, not where on the model they should apply in which way.
however as a note i do all mat files manually… nonetheless its faster than UV mapping with the poor skills i have^^

We were wanting to break away from the vanilla precident on all of the house ships. After years of seeing Liberty (bird like models), Bretonian (fish like models), and whatnot… we wanted to do a change up and make ships that actually look high tech.

Agree. Vanilla FL is a nice thing, but it is old. After all the years the majority of the vanilla-based mods have the same ships with same design elements, but what looked so cool back in '03, looks odd nowadays. IMHO today ships like the ones in EVE or BL are much more modern and I strongly agree with you Forsaken, that they needs to be made more cutting edge and sophisticated.

BTW great ship. It is a scout or interceptor?

Good looking model, reminds me of a colonial viper with the tail cut off. I agree some new ‘vanilla’ designs should come through. Original ships are a bit old hat for my taste these days….(shuffles off back to his modding shed)

well, to me the vanilla designs still are totally great. i’d rather prefer some updates to them, such as mancer did (e.g. thinner wings on the defender), maybe some more detail and slickness. but the shapes are really good imo.

The vanilla models suck. They make me think of how people portrayed “the future” in the 80s. Back to the Future-style.

I love that new model Forsaken, and that’s some lavish paint job

Reminds me of Wipeout ships, which are epic.

FriendlyFire wrote:
The vanilla models suck. They make me think of how people portrayed “the future” in the 80s.

Agreed, but the same will say the ppl in 20 years when they see the actual portray of “the future” today.

Yes, but (and people will kill me for this :D) compare the ships in EVE online and Freelancer…both games are from 2003. Both have 4 major superpowers, both have Terran-based ancestor states, both set in distant future, and still which of the games have more ship like vessels? Sure we all like the FL ships…this is after all one of the reasons why we play teh game…but if I had a to choose a fighter to go in a battle, then I choose the ones from Freespace II or EVE…I will feel unsafe in FL ships

Yeh, they look fragile. But hey! they were better in beta

in a way you are right, FL designs are not realistic or strong. but somehow i like them that way. its sorta classic. i don’t say there is no better way to design vanilla. but keeping the shapes and making the meshes a bit more like modern elite military vessels are, with a lill bit scifi and you can show them again. the shapes themselves imo are great, but not interpreted good enough by the very modeler. sure some intermediate concept art looked just what i am talking about.

Lets be honest, the only thing that matters to us is how aesthetically pleasing on the eye ships are, and in that respect we’re all looking for something different from one another.
I would imagine in reality that spaceships might as well be like a brick or a ball for all the difference wings and aerodynamics would make up there. Only ship I’ve ever seen in a movie or anything that I thought made sense was the bubble fighter in lost in space, great view of things in that bubble and why wouldn’t you build a fighter with a 360 view if you could. You might attach the cockpit to a motorized gyroscopic frame of sorts to spin the ship on any desired axis, rather than turn the ship like an aircraft you would just point the thrusters in what ever direction you wish and have a 360 field of fire as a result. Be almost as though you were sat in a motorized turret that you could also fly. Imagine how fit you might have to be to withstand all that spinning and changing direction, combat would be insane.

Talking about realism, the this:

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/misconceptions.php

Kuze wrote:
Talking about realism, the this:

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/misconceptions.php

wow, angry little website. that guy takes science waaay too seriously, that and TV shows.
Personally I like to think that most of the science used in 1200 years time hasnt been written yet. Hopefully we cant even dream of what will be available then. Either that or we’ll all die in a Ice age / Global warming / Ozone layer / 3rd world war catastrophe

angry website HEHE…but there are few nice things to read

Predicting the distant future in such a way is futile.

Remember, it wasn’t long ago that we didn’t know what could electricity be useful for and that we were still doubting whether the Earth was flat.

At the rate of progress we are currently achieving, we can’t possibly know what things will look like when space ships are actually a plausible option and not just an extraordinary thing.

I needed a sort of Recon or AWACS based Rhino, something like that small AWACS cruiser in Freespace. With that in mind, I quickly threw this together. The Rhino model is remarkably modular, making it very easy to kitbash a new model by just moving and copying parts around. The only truly original geometry in this model is the radome.

It’s not terribly imaginative, but it works well enough for my purposes.

Bonus render comparing regular Rhino and a couple other ships for scale.

I like it so much, what a good idea, but compared to the regular Rhino it looks a bit huge. Those renders are amazing.

do you import the starspheres to lightwave to render these? o.O

I wish I knew how to render cool stuff like that!

Just finished the second ship in this line…

Beautiful work.