Alert Fighter

[technomage]

Hi everyone

Just incase you wondered I am still working on Alert fighter.

I have had some major problems with speed on low end machines and after some investigation I found it was down to the scripting system. It just wasn't fast enough for what I needed. So I'm re-working the whole system to still allow the designers to define which thrusters fire for certain control inputs, but the whole this will just run normal compiled code.

I might still hang on to the scripts for other non critical stuff though.

In the mean time I almost finished the Raptor model,so here's a quick peek



Enjoy

Dean

[Traveler]

Thats a fine looking model. How many polys in that thing?

The url posted appears not to work.
[size=9px]edit: url fixed[/size]

[savage]

I fixed the typo in Dean's link. The model does indeed look excellent!

[technomage]

Thanks for fixing the link Dom

The model has

1244 Verticies
1492 Triangles

It was done using Milkshape. The image here has a bump map applied from within Unwrap 3D, I'm going to be implementing bump mapping in Alert Fighter over the next week or so (I hope)

Thanks for the feedback, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one that thinks that ship looks good

[technomage]

I finally finished the Raptor model

Final Vertex count is 1501
Triangle Count is 1724





BTW - I anyone wants any low poly space craft models doing (of this kind of quality) let me know and I might be able to help out (not for the Competition though as I'm a judge )

Here are a few other ships I've done/am doing.

http://alertfighter.mirthmedia.co.uk...bhamerhead.png

This one is a definate work in progress

http://alertfighter.mirthmedia.co.uk...ighterscrn.png

[LP]

That's a neat low-poly model!

P.S. How long (approx.) does it take to create a ship like this in Milkshape?

[technomage]

Thanks Lifepower,

It took about a day/ day & half in total. I tend to use reference images when I'm building a ship that has already been designed, that makes it easier

[madwoody]

It really looks nice for a low poly ship!

[technomage]

More updates. I got the raptor in game shots done now.






sorry if they appear a biut dark, it's something to do with taking the shots on my laptop. I'll try and sort it out later.

[WILL]

Hey Dean I just found something rather neat on SciFi.com (the tv network that runs the show BSG).

http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/ships/ships/

It's a list of a whole bunch of ships that are used on the show. I think that it might help you with making the more proinent vessels in your game.

And the actual model of the newer Viper that I can't remember it being mentioned in the series yet, is the Mark VII.

Enjoy!

[size=9px]BTW: How many of these do you think we'll actually see in the game?[/size]