Just something I've been working on over the past few days. Animating is being done by someone with 3ds, so all the pictures here are of a scenery object. I plan on making the inside walls a bit rounder, in addition to touching up the textures.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/Nugga117/sapien2007-06-2012-25-16-40.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/Nugga117/sapien2007-06-2012-25-24-15.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/Nugga117/sapien2007-06-2120-03-58-23.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/Nugga117/sapien2007-06-2120-04-59-01.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/Nugga117/sapien2007-06-2120-05-05-68.jpg

Nice, I like it. Shiny!!!!

give it red velvet textures on the inside. Now thats Fancy! nice work i like it.

Things have changed since those pics were taken. I've decreased the size of the UVW map so the wood is less repetative. I would like for the wood to have a slight reflection or gloss to it, but it doesn't seem to like it as it won't apply the reflection map. In addition it's gonna have one of baddest engine sounds in CE (IMO).
Edited by Nugga117 on Jun 21, 2007 at 11:10 PM

i love it. im interested to see how you make it work in gameplay... no nukes please?

It's going to have 2 prototype human lasers on the front. The laser will "heat" up it's target and eventually kill it. (sentinal laser, going to try and make it nearly invisible)
Secondary fire will be a flare of some type. (rocket that has a severe arc to it, no damage caused)
The ship will rely mainly on escort fighters or crusiers to take it around a map.

Edited by Nugga117 on Jun 22, 2007 at 01:01 AM

Way to shiney and it looks impracticle to fly. why would executives get around in a combat ship?

please make this atleast as fast as a jet and make it alot less shiney.

also, can we have picks of it's cockpit?

i think it looks great how it is.....how much longer until its done?

Pretty pretty shiny shiny...

I like the model, kinda looks like one of those old Vulcan bombers the British Royal Air Force had back in the 80's. Pretty cool.

I'm not getting rid of the shininess, it looks terrible and boring without it. Besides, no other craft in CE is this shiny. Also, it doesn't have a cockpit, there's only a door where the entry marker is. For now.

atleast make it fast. your gona see that thing from a mile away >_>

how do you fly it without a cockpit?

heh, maybe make it so shiny that the light reflects in the enemys eyes? the only thing better than stealth is burning someones retnas just by flying by

screw that, make it cause lolbright lenseflairs and stick it in a night time map :D

Wow.... nice. I'm not a fan of smooth things similar to this... but it's different and i'm not going to complain cause the idea for it is good.


EDIT: i just looked at it again.... did you remodel the longsword and improve on it? Not bad..... cause thats something that looks like an executive jet for halo.... as long as it's a unsc jet.
Edited by tygron on Jun 23, 2007 at 12:07 AM

This was modeled completlely from scratch (cept for the seats) in gmax using the spline tool, some extrusions, a tiny bit of welding, and the #2 smoothing group. Although the rear fin looks like it was taken from the LS, it wasn't.

When the map this thing is going in is finished, you can rip all you want (my ship that is, the map is a group effort with everyone making their own custom flying vehicle, not sure if they'll picky over their ship).

It's easy to fly without a cockpit (don't try it at home, lol), make a wall with a door texture on it, and put the entry marker before the door. He'll get into the area where the cockpit WOULD be, so no one inside the ship sees him.

This thing will be probably 1.5 - 2 times faster than the longsword.

And lol noobinator, maybe I'll ask Mr. Sharma and see of he can give me some tips for lens flare and bright lighting. :D
Edited by Nugga117 on Jun 23, 2007 at 12:26 AM

Anyone else reminded of Padme's fighter from Star Wars? Just me? Must be the shininess.
Anyway, looks great. Can you make it destructible?

Done by scratch? wow.... look like a longsword to me but you need inspiration (if you can call it that...... not being mean... i'm saying that in a good way.) and it looks good... so thats most of what counts.... the looks.

Ah, I see now. Some differences, but it's easy to see how someone can get the two mixed up.

fixed.

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=2810]you mean this?

:D

Fixed the link. :D

Oh and I did get a little inspiration from Padme's ship in Episode III. I wanted to get the sound from said ship, but I'm not going to spend days upon days of searching. However I did find an engine sound from an old game that I'm going to use.

ahh yes i remember he posted that on gbx a while ago.A good tutorial.

I was testing out various cubemaps today and I picked out my favorite ones from the 20 some I tested.
First, here's the one that I'll be using from now on (less shiny, but still shiny enough):
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/Nugga117/sapien2007-06-2318-42-41-23.jpg
And here were the runner-ups:
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/Nugga117/sapien2007-06-2318-36-13-21.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/Nugga117/sapien2007-06-2318-37-11-54.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/Nugga117/sapien2007-06-2318-38-23-82.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/Nugga117/sapien2007-06-2318-39-34-60.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/Nugga117/sapien2007-06-2318-44-37-26.jpg

Why didn't you use Bill Gates' golden jet? JK, it looks fine now.

blue ftw D:

(but the gold one would be awesome if your doing that lolense flair thing)
Edited by n00b1n8R on Jun 24, 2007 at 01:23 AM

i like the shiny gold one. but the silver one is more practical

Lol purple!

That is gross you are gross.

/bump.

WOW! i've been looking for a fancy personal transport plane like this for a while. nice work!

how big is the ship? any maps of it?
Edited by markciubancan on Jun 26, 2007 at 11:01 PM

judging by the pictures there are at least five.

I have some map ideas for this vehicle, don't worry.

so when is this going to be done? and are you going to have the tag for download?

*Checks*
Yep. It could be because Dennis has been missing from the forums as of late, have you noticed? As soon as he leaves, the noobs arrive. They're going to be in for a big surprise when he gets back.

how in the world are you changing the colors? are you just switching it's cube maps.

I have the brightness settings at 1 (which is max), and the tint color is white, so I get the full effect of the cubemap. The texture underneath is "steel-light".

Black