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Old December 30th, 2004, 08:38 PM
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Default The Terrans

I don't know how many people know this, but I'm the one who came up with the original Terran shipset for SE4 (ducks flying shoe). I know, not exactly Humanity's finest moment. While I always liked the basic idea, I think the execution fell a little short of what I'd originally envisaged. I've trying to figure out how to manifest the idea in my head, and I think I may be on to something.
Presented for your viewing pleasure (?) is the new Terran Escort. There's still a bit of work to do on the forward section, and guns have yet to be added, but what say ye of the new design? Improvement, or not so much?

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Wow, fantastic work! I rarely comment on pictures posted here, but this looks really, really great!
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That's an awesome piece of art! Are we by any chance going to see this as a model in SE5??!!??
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The metallic shiny texture and mirror effects are awesome, but it looks rather complicated for the 'low poly-count' engine that Starfury uses. From a design standpoint, the big 'wings' or 'shields' on either side are a mystery. And a major source of additional unnecesary polygons. This is a concern for a game that will sometimes have to model dozens or even hundreds of ships. Why not just go with a 'utilitarian' boxey design kinda like the MOO III human ships? Shouldn't humans have fairly simple ships? I liked the triangular 'imperial' shipset that Atrocities posted a few months ago. Nice, clean lines that sort-of resemble the Star Wars Imperial ships but not closely enough to look like a knock-off.
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Hm, and who told you that this model will be used in SE5? I think Tim has no right to publish his artwork for se5, unless Aaron allowed him to do it (nda and all this "secrecy of game development").

As for model - it's awesome. I think it will bring mirror effects into fashion (Last word of fashion was "glowiness"). Thumbs up!
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Re: the wings - I think they're supposed to be armor! Never thought of the original Terran set that way, but I like the "primitiveness" of it, with the visible components and armor!
And maybe SE5 has a fancier render engine than SF does, or that's just a portrait image and the model used in combat will be much less detailed? (Though I highly doubt the former, else the fancier images would surely have been used on the three teaser images which involve starships )

Anyway, great work!
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Default Re: The Terrans

Did you make that attachment pic with Bryce?? The flame effects look Bryce-like.
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Yup. Pretty much all my artwork is done exclusively using Bryce. Used to have a really good explosion texture, but it seems to have up and disappeared on me.
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Ship is great. Explosion looks unrealistic.
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Yeah, I'm none too happy with the explosion either. The probelm with it is twofold: 1) I don't have a really decent explosion texture. 2) I haven't gotten around to moddelling a Venduu Cruiser, so I have no ship model to put in the middle of the explosion.
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