Let's see him reproduce it first...Smivs wrote:Shouldn't this be in 'Testing and Bug reports' ?Griff wrote:I thought i'd have a go at remaking the 'bug' from Elite 2...
Show and Tell (new ships/ ships in progress)
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Flying a Cobra Mk I Cobbie 3 with nothing but Explorers Club.OXP and a beam laser 4 proper lasers for company 
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*BUMP* Whatever happened to Ross154 and his nifty "city built on an asteroid" model?Ross154 wrote:A city built on an asteroid
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A new take on an old ship (even though it's In Service date isn't for another thousand years or so )...
This was my first play with Wings3D, and indeed with any form of 3D computer modelling.
Anyone who uses it regularly can probably see that I've only got the hang of about 3 or 4 different 'tools'
There have been some excellent new models put out for the fer-de-lance (it's still recognisable, right?
) but for me they all went a little away from the identity of the original: one of the few Elite wireframes with detail 'within the triangles'.
It looks less like a coffin now and more like a hand-held vacuum cleaner
(...'planetary "shake n' vac" in 5 minutes and counting'...)
Less sure about the underside...
An earlier version looked even more like a Harlequin
Feedback, advice, criticism,death-threats all welcome.
...and thanks to Simon B for his 'bump' and 'slide' tips in one of his Neolite tutorials
)...This was my first play with Wings3D, and indeed with any form of 3D computer modelling.
Anyone who uses it regularly can probably see that I've only got the hang of about 3 or 4 different 'tools'
There have been some excellent new models put out for the fer-de-lance (it's still recognisable, right?
) but for me they all went a little away from the identity of the original: one of the few Elite wireframes with detail 'within the triangles'. It looks less like a coffin now and more like a hand-held vacuum cleaner
(...'planetary "shake n' vac" in 5 minutes and counting'...)
Less sure about the underside...
An earlier version looked even more like a Harlequin
Feedback, advice, criticism,
...and thanks to Simon B for his 'bump' and 'slide' tips in one of his Neolite tutorials
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Looking very nice, especially for a first attempt at modeling! I'm impressed!
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The modell looks very nice and keeps the original elite style.Redspear wrote:A new take on an old ship (even though it's In Service date isn't for another thousand years or so
It looks less like a coffin now and more like a hand-held vacuum cleaner
(...'planetary "shake n' vac" in 5 minutes and counting'...)
I look forward how it will look when the model is textured. Good work!I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. (Douglas Adams, 1952 - 2001)
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Thanks for the encouragement folks 
I've done another but this one might be a bit more controversial...
I've done another but this one might be a bit more controversial...
I thought that the modelling was going to be the hard part and that texturing would be relatively easy... my opinion is starting to changeCaptain Beatnik wrote:I look forward how it will look when the model is textured.
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Two excellent looking ships, Redspear! Nice work..
Really? Why? It's still got that legendary Krait look about it.. but now with some nice detail-work.Redspear wrote:I've done another but this one might be a bit more controversial...
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
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Thank youDiziet Sma wrote:Two excellent looking ships, Redspear! Nice work..
Well, I've emphasised the... 'cockpit' (gasp!Diziet Sma wrote:Really? Why? It's still got that legendary Krait look about it.. but now with some nice detail-work.Redspear wrote:I've done another but this one might be a bit more controversial...
)... which some might find rankles a bit with regards to the dreaded 'S' word.After years of Elite, I just have trouble seeing it as anything else...
Anyway, nice to think that someone else doesn't see a problem with it
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Well heck.. so do Griff's ships.. they're even lit from within, and in at least one case, if you look very closely, you can even see what appears to be a suggestion of a pilot in a chair inside.. so I don't think what you've done is particularly controversial..
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Oi! That's my trusty Mercurial Amethyst in that pic! <grins>
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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So now we even know who it is that we can see strapped into that chair!
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Griff's stuff is amazing, as has been well documented on these boards (and rightly so), but if you compare the size of the cockpit on his krait with the size of the cockpit on this one then I suspect you can see what I'm getting at... not the presence of it but rather the relative scale of it.Diziet Sma wrote:Well heck.. so do Griff's ships.. they're even lit from within, and in at least one case, if you look very closely, you can even see what appears to be a suggestion of a pilot in a chair inside.. so I don't think what you've done is particularly controversial..
Sorry: I should really have explained myself better in the first place rather than beating around the bush
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<chuckles> Aye, that's me... and if you zoom right in, you can almost see Empedocles the ship's cat!Diziet Sma wrote:So now we even know who it is that we can see strapped into that chair!
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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DS, have you been sending one of your camera drones on spying missions?Cody wrote:Oi! That's my trusty Mercurial Amethyst in that pic! <grins>
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That's one explanation.. 
the other is that I noticed something going on in the cockpit of of one of Cody's posted screenshots, so I zoomed in for a better look, and found I really had seen what I thought I saw..
the other is that I noticed something going on in the cockpit of of one of Cody's posted screenshots, so I zoomed in for a better look, and found I really had seen what I thought I saw.. Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied