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I played around with Lightwave some, and got this ship. I may make more ships like this one, and make it into a shipset. What do you think of it?

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Very dark. What is it?

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Its an escort... Its an ellipsoid, with two engines attached near the sides. It also has nice windows on the sides from crew quarters, and a nice bridge. As well as 2 weapon holes. Maybe I could make the windows illuminated...

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Cool. If you can lighten it up a bit, should be a nice looking ship. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif The reason why its so dark is probally because of the armor. I'm trying to get a nice cobalt color out of it, maybe if I bump up the diffuse...

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Here we go. Some nice engine glow, windows glow now, and we got 3 distant lights shining on it, instead of only one, and spread out a little.

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Maybe you should add some sort of orifice at the lower nose. It looks like a shark now, with the "gills", and I think that you should explore that aspect further.

Or you could focus more on the exhaust pipes, chrome them, make them bigger, twistier, etc. You could make DNs and BSs with massive arrays of immense twisting exhausts.

Anyway, lookin' good.

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Those aren't exaust pipes, those are the engines... And it has two torpedo tubes at the front.

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The engines, OK... but they look a little like massive truck exhaust pipes. And you don't really see the torpedo bays.

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Thats because its at the front, and its turned away. I made the engines like that on purpose http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif Looks speedier that way.

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It reminds me of the ship that the Robinson family used in the Lost In Space movie. I think it was called the Jupiter 2, though I may be way off base.

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You could make the engine openings face inwards and get narrower to the ends. If you have a narrow opening, stuff flows throught it faster than through wide openings, so having a ship with narrowing engine openings would give it better speed/acceleration.

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Its facing away so blasts won't affect the hangar on the rear. The real reason is that the polygons I extruded it from was slanted that way... I could just knife the engines to make it straight, but really don't want to.

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I'm not sating straight. I'm saying narrowing to the end. Like a reversed cone with its top cut off.

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Hmmmm, that might be possible...

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Nice.

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Frigate coming soon!

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New render! This time its of a frigate. Sorry about the darkness, the camera is facing the light. I mostly wanted to show the sun I made http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...shipandsun.jpg

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And noone comments...

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Ok...

Needs more ambient light.
Also, you may want to put a light source near the glow points, so as to light up the nearby hull surface realistically.

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I was trying to find a way where it could light up the surface around it. Maybe with radiosity...

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It looks nice.

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Soon, we shall have an animation! Woot!

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IT HAS COME! The animation! Woot! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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That's a good start.

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I made a ton of moving gifs and animations two years ago. Now where did I upload them too?????? Nice work BTW.

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Thank you http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Maybe i'll make an animated black hole next, ooo.

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Ya make it so that the BH spits the ship out. LOL that would be funny. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Woot! New render! This time with prettyful APBs http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I have changed the topic to reflect the content more http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Yep, pretty. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Here's a new and improved one, bigger APB beams http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I really like the kook of the APB and the "emitter" or "source" of the beam.

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Sweet, I really like the look of that. Well done. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I used a lens flare at the tip of the turret to have the emitter. Was wanting to have a bit of irregularity in the beam...

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FIghters coming soon!

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Here's what I have so far.

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Seriously, some lighting would certainly help your ships to be visible. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Those pics you attached are black squares with a small smear of blue.

You need light on those ships. That is by far the biggest problem with the pics.
They're lit like a B-rated horror movie.

What I can see of the modelling is pretty good. The problem is I can't see the ship.

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The escort is the only one that is dark now!

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Not a ship render, but its kinda spacy... A black hole thingie for my avatar!

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And a big system black hole pic.

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My satellite picture.

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Pretty.

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ITs a little hard to see Null, but interesting none the less.

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In the race to 1k posts, I've posted what I have so far. Everything is brighter http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif