My Work Thread

[Majestic]

Great work Starfox, those damage textures look fantastic.

 

[Jetfreak]

Yeah, the damage is pretty balanced across the hull. I like it.

Btw, looking forward to what you can do with the Abbe.

 

[Starfox1701]

Great work Starfox, those damage textures look fantastic.

Thanks; it took about 9 months of practice to get it to look kinda natural like real flame did the work.

Yeah, the damage is pretty balanced across the hull. I like it.

Btw, looking forward to what you can do with the Abbe.

Oh well couldn't sleep anyway

 

[Jetfreak]

Looks like burning the midnight oil did you some good, awesome.

 

[marsneedswomen]

Nice to see that the "p81 look" of TMP still lives on in Armada 2. Have you seen the TMP vessels on the battleclinic website? Lot of Starfleet Command modders did interesting things kitbashing the P81 Connie and Miranda.

 

[Starfox1701]

Looks like burning the midnight oil did you some good, awesome.

Yae I'm geting there

Nice to see that the "p81 look" of TMP still lives on in Armada 2. Have you seen the TMP vessels on the battleclinic website? Lot of Starfleet Command modders did interesting things kitbashing the P81 Connie and Miranda.

Yea its my first stop for fresh parts

Got 3 more burned up today

 

[kjc733]

owww, breaks my heart to see Connies all scared up like that.

But good work anyway

 

[marsneedswomen]

Let me guess, this is ship is based on Lord Schtupp's Connie?

 

[Starfox1701]

owww, breaks my heart to see Connies all scared up like that.

But good work anyway

Thanks will have more burned up ships tomarrow

Let me guess, this is ship is based on Lord Schtupp's Connie?

Yep

Well after a month working on the connies I nned a short break. So for the last 3 days I was showing love the other big explorer in the Fed fleet So without further ado I present Ambassador

 

[Majestic]

Nice Ambassadors mate.

 

[Jetfreak]

Some great ambitions there man, nice to see two variants.

 

[Terra_Inc]

Great! I lurves Ambassadors! Good to see you doing the Zhukov variant as well.

 

[Starfox1701]

Nice Ambassadors mate.

Thanks

Some great ambitions there man, nice to see two variants.

Thanks, Yea I'm hoping evetually to get all the way through the lost era

Great! I lurves Ambassadors! Good to see you doing the Zhukov variant as well.

Thanks; There will also be a V2 of my Dominion War variant.

 

[Starfox1701]

Got 2 more burned up today Also have some info on the release structure. I had originally planed for this to be one big pack but the volume of textures involved I am going to have to break it up into smaller chunks. Pic of the 2 damaged hulls

 

[Majestic]

As always, quality work on the damage textures.

A bunch of smaller downloads would probably be better for downloaders, perhaps a few ships per pack or something.

 

[StarBlade]

Hey Starfox, any chance you'd be willing to do a hero Ambassador or two? They look great.

 

[Starfox1701]

As always, quality work on the damage textures.

A bunch of smaller downloads would probably be better for downloaders, perhaps a few ships per pack or something.

Well Constitution will have to be broken down into at least 2 DLs because of size. There wound up being several hundred meg of textures because each hero set has to be a full set too and there is more then 30 different hero conies

Hey Starfox, any chance you'd be willing to do a hero Ambassador or two? They look great.

Alreading working in that direction will have some pic soon.

 

[Jetfreak]

Hey Starfox, one of my biggest issues in the p81 Ambassador was its inaccurate proportions. Simply put, her secondary hull is a tad smaller than usual. With respect to Rick Knox, his work on the aft section is pretty botched.

I've attached an image superimposing the mesh with a detailed schematic. Think you can give this a fix on widening the girth and moving the pylons plus nacelles?

 

[marsneedswomen]

Or just porting over a better Ambassador model. A BC modder by the name of JLS made a really nice Ambassador a while back. Maybe he'll give permission if asked.

 

[Starfox1701]

Hey Starfox, one of my biggest issues in the p81 Ambassador was its inaccurate proportions. Simply put, her secondary hull is a tad smaller than usual. With respect to Rick Knox, his work on the aft section is pretty botched.

I've attached an image superimposing the mesh with a detailed schematic. Think you can give this a fix on widening the girth and moving the pylons plus nacelles?

Can you give me side profile and Ventral veiws please sir so I can see all the markers

Or just porting over a better Ambassador model. A BC modder by the name of JLS made a really nice Ambassador a while back. Maybe he'll give permission if asked.

not an option as there are no other models at A2 poly weight for standard style play. The LC, DJ and JLS models are all to heavy for all but the best PCs

 

[Jetfreak]

Can you give me side profile and Ventral views please sir so I can see all the markers.

No problem, I've attached them for ya'

 

[Starfox1701]

Ok best I can do without a complete rebuild of the model. There not perfect but what in life is a. What you all think?

 

[Majestic]

So true, perfection is an illusion. Looking great Starfox.

 

[Jetfreak]

It's a great effort man, definitely got me convinced considering the model. You've done her proud.

 

[Terra_Inc]

Oh, pretty! Me lieks it.

 

[Starfox1701]

So true, perfection is an illusion. Looking great Starfox.

It's a great effort man, definitely got me convinced considering the model. You've done her proud.

Oh, pretty! Me lieks it.

Thanks Guys

Got one more coni to burn up then its iff to work on Excelsior

 

[StarBlade]

Starfox, I held up a plastic model of an Ambassador side-by-side with the monitor. They match up pretty well, I'd say 95% fidelity. Which is way better than the p81 Amber. Sad to say but Jet was absolutely right about that one. I can't wait to see the final product.

 

[Starfox1701]

Starfox, I held up a plastic model of an Ambassador side-by-side with the monitor. They match up pretty well, I'd say 95% fidelity. Which is way better than the p81 Amber. Sad to say but Jet was absolutely right about that one. I can't wait to see the final product.

Thanks I try

Done with damage meshes on the constitutions and have started in the execelsiors. Got the regestries done on the NX 2000 model What you all think?

 

[Jetfreak]

Very cool, especially on the tweaks on the secondary hull, very smooth. But the registry looks a bit too large. Why not use my sets?

So, ETA on the Connie release?

 

[Starfox1701]

Very cool, especially on the tweaks on the secondary hull, very smooth. But the registry looks a bit too large. Why not use my sets?

So, ETA on the Connie release?

Yea it might be or it might just be that it is in the worng place. I'm going to have to move those red lines out towrord the rim and the regestry will have to move too Oh well shouldn't take more then a day. That one reason why I'm not using yours. Another is that I want all the different ship signage to match no mater who has worked on them. Don't get me wrong I start out with your textures (which are a joy to work with )I just redo all the signage along with any other tweeks needed to get them working on these models.

1 more thing ni ETA yet; don't want to jinks myself