My eyes are great and they look the same to me also :/

Need to raise the multipliers.

Is this a trick question I'm spotting or is the radar just there because it's part of the project? That rader on the left has a glow while the one on the right doesn't.

I'm gonna try on some other guns, see if I get anything.
Maybe a vehicle.

They look good enough.

my first model, still WIP, just want to see some feedback
and yes it is the reach spiker not h3 one.

Edited by Choclate Thunda on Oct 2, 2011 at 10:48 PM

Already better than all of my models... -___-

So... WIP AR firing effect, looks kind of meh at the moment, mostly because I am still figuring out how to orient my particles as they spawn. Feedback anyone?





http://www.xfire.com/video/4e74bd/

I agree at the moment, it spawns multiple sprites, at random angles, so it overlaps and looks strange, Im still trying to get the particles to align correctly. Do you like the sprite itself?

my only personal issue with it is not so much the sprite, but the opacity, I am not sure how these sprites work if they allow for only on (white) of off (black) opacities or if they will do in-betweens, but it just seems too prominent really like it's not so much that it's a firing discharge but a orange solid mass that comes out the end of the gun. It's just too prominent.

Gotcha, I think part of the issue there, is that each time the gun(fun ha! xD yay for spelling errors) fires it spawns multiple sprites which overlap and brighten each other. I will definitely look into the opacity though.
Edited by Bobblehob on Oct 3, 2011 at 03:48 AM

wayyyy too many star flash thingies

The shader setup is sex, but the render settings are meh. Get some lighting and mental-ray and whatnot in there.

Was a bit bored today, so made kind of a concept of an alien fighter/bomber aircraft:



Thanks to josh for giving me some modeling tips!
And I'm aware I am not a great modeler, I just did this to visualise an idea in my mind. Not sure if I ever plan to become more serious at modeling, we'll see how time progresses :-o

And I had fun making it, so that's what counts :-)

interesting

imo, the gun on the bottom kind of breaks the "aerodynamic" theme you have going on here. I think it would fit the visual style of if more if you had wing mounted cannons, or something like this ship's guns:

obviously you could make it more organic looking than that, but that's kinda the idea.

btw, you can fix those smoothing errors on the sides of the guns by connecting the verts so that you have some smaller quads, instead of one big n-gon


overall, I think it's an interesting concept, although I think the tail fin makes it feel very human, and "un-alien" like.
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Oct 5, 2011 at 05:14 PM

Thanks, my idea was that the gun was "retractable" though, and would only lower out when needed.

well that was just my suggestion, by all means, go ahead with the retractable gun idea, it's still a pretty good concept.

Looks like a Ferengi cruiser as far as the bulk shape at least.

Yea, but a Ferengi Cruiser would have the cockpit the other way. But I still get what yo mean, its just backwards. :)

no way, i made something like that a few months ago. :P

Hah, pretty cool yeah. I guess alot of people have similar ideas of what features an alien flying craft should have :p

I made another crappy alien thingy, this time went for a stationary turret:



Frankly I have no idea how to go about detailing these kinds of things, I can get a rough concept made in 3DS Max but I wouldn't have a clue on what techniques to use to create details. Atm all the gun itself has is a little use of the cut tool + extrude and rescaling that extrude... So yeah, if anyone here has some tips, shoot!
Edited by TM_updates on Oct 6, 2011 at 08:58 AM

PROTIP: Don't ask Higurl or your vehicles will start looking like mountains and cliffs.

lol.

Nice looking alien turret. I have an idea though, make the sides of the shield curved back so it provides a bit more protection.

I always read his name as hig-uy not hi-guy...

And I agree with that statement.

Need an opinion. Which looks better to you all. Halo 3 inspired floor tiles.

ignore that line in the texture. It is a crappy shadow due to me not having a ceiling in something that is supposed to have a ceiling and I don't feel like fixing it since it's not what is being judged here.


1: Floor tile without my crappy detail mask?



2: Floor tile with crappy detail mask?

I like the second one.. but for some reason when I look at this render i feel like im in a prison

With it, the second one, is nicer, and less contrasted. Maybe you can just bake the detail into the diffuse so it looks like the second one without needing two maps.

It's just a layer that i can turn on or off and 2 different speculars. The detail is already in the base map. It's not 2 separate bitmaps.
Edited by eliteslasher on Oct 8, 2011 at 02:22 PM

GO cops, Get the dogs....
Why did I think of that song right then...



Those bitmaps look good but the bottom one is fuzzy. I lieyk fiiorst

Some more texture WIPs
Updates to certain aspects of the speculars to come soon.
Open in new tab to see full res.

i like the bsp :p

Looks ALOT like narrows. Not a bad thing, I love how it looks.

Love it.

Textures look good but the architecture isn't that well planned out or modeled decently, which in turn greatly influences how the textures are mapped out...