[WIP] Tal Lorex

[Styer_Crisis]

Heres the start

 

[Hellkite]

Romulan Tal lorex Light Destroyer

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[Styer_Crisis]

Alrighty, Model is finito, Here's some pics and the Model itself, I would be grateful if you could Unweld/weld it and texture cordinate/hardpoint it for me maj, as i am completely lost as to how to do those things. There also appeers to be a couple welding Errors, one ners the back of the tail, and one under the nose, that i can't seem to fix.

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View attachment Tal Lorrex.ms3d

 

[Hellkite]

Impressive Well doing Styer_Crisis

 

[Styer_Crisis]

Impressive Well doing Styer_Crisis

I'm just glad i didn't botch this one lolololololol


Edit: polys stand at about 450 i think,

 

[Hellkite]

Impressive
and I have good news I'll talked to Jet via Pm and he will texture it for us

 

[Styer_Crisis]

YAAY First (to be) released model under my belt.

 

[kjc733]

Very nice (and fast!) work. Good job

 

[Styer_Crisis]

Alright, that model up there iss obsolete, i refined the version a bit, got rid of the mesh errors and also added some details to the nacels. here's the new one.

 

[Hellkite]

any news

 

[Styer_Crisis]

Do i ever quit?

Actualy yes, have made yet another version. i smoved the mesh and brought the poly count up to 1600



View attachment Tal Lorex High poly.ms3d

 

[Hellkite]

So is this one the one that your going to send to Jet to have textured ??

 

[Adm_Z]

Could you show a top view of that new one?

 

[Styer_Crisis]

So is this one the one that your going to send to Jet to have textured ??

idk, i have no idea how to unwrap and texture cordinate at all, so this projec is pretty stalled untill i can get
maj or someone elsee to help me.

 

[Hellkite]

I think you could ask Maj. he would help you .

 

[kjc733]

Looks very good. Keep it up!

 

[pepperman]

Good to see someone else making some Romulan ships. Likes like a gread job there Styer_Crisis.

I was browsing Hellkite's 2D section last night and this was one that caught my eye so I am glad to see you are bring her to life.

 

[Styer_Crisis]

Good to see someone else making some Romulan ships. Likes like a gread job there Styer_Crisis.

I was browsing Hellkite's 2D section last night and this was one that caught my eye so I am glad to see you are bring her to life.

Thank you so much, it means a lot to have someone with your experince in modeling say that, (checks FO fourms, reads your thread, dies from inadiquicy). however it is still un- textured and finalised, could you help?

 

[pepperman]

Thank you so much, it means a lot to have someone with your experince in modeling say that, (checks FO fourms, reads your thread, dies from inadiquicy). however it is still un- textured and finalised, could you help?

Just to give you an idea of how it lines up to the design layout.

Oh by the way, I think you still have some mess errors (especially where the two halves join together.)

 

[Styer_Crisis]

Just to give you an idea of how it lines up to the design layout.View attachment 7358View attachment 7357

Oh by the way, I think you still have some mess errors (especially where the two halves join together.)

yeah, when i smoothed the mesh it created vallys in the center, unfourtineatly i never found the time to fix it

 

[pepperman]

Okay, if you don't mind I will fix the minor errors with the mess and put a set of clothese on the ole girl. Just keep in mind, I find texturing the hardest part so it may take a while.

 

[Styer_Crisis]

Okay, if you don't mind I will fix the minor errors with the mess and put a set of clothese on the ole girl. Just keep in mind, I find texturing the hardest part so it may take a while.

Hey, thanks i owe you.

 

[pepperman]

Most of the mesh issues have been resolved.

 

[Adm_Z]

Very nice!

 

[Majestic]

Nice work guys, top stuff!

 

[Hellkite]

Praetor approved

 

[kjc733]

yeah, when i smoothed the mesh it created vallys in the center, unfourtineatly i never found the time to fix it

You're a maya user if I recall. Did you build this one in maya? If so then I have the probable cause of the mesh error, it used to happen to me all the time, you missed a step out of the joining process.
What I suspect you did was:
1. build the mesh
2. delete the faces on the one side
3. duplicate and invert the remaining mesh (or mirror it)
4. combined the two sides of the mesh into a single entity
5. smoothed the mesh

There's actually a step between 4 and 5. Once it is a single mesh you need to switch to vertices and highlight the vertices down the centreline. Whilst it looks like a single row its actually two occupying the same space (assuming the vertices run perfectly down the centreline). Once highlighted go to Edit Polygons > Merge Vertices, this will merge the vertices occupying the same space so that it's a seamless join. A good confirmation is to keep the polygon count up, if you've only selected the vertices on the centreline the number should be halved post merging. If it doesn't then you've either missed one or got extra vertices selected.

What cause the mesh error is that its trying to smooth to an edge, so it curves the edge down.

Of course if you didnt build in maya then disregard what I said

Anyway, good job on building and texturing.

 

[Styer_Crisis]

Thanks pepperman, she really looks awesome.

And kjc, thx for the tips i actualy did know that but i find it easyer to duplicate and merge in milkshape, and this was the first model i had ever smothed to finesh, so that problem was unforseen on my part.

 

[pepperman]

Okay, so here are the textures. Hope you like them. I'll post the Milkshape file and texures up so you can hardpoint it and get her in the game. Fair enough.



Here's the Milkshape, and tga file. View attachment Romulan Tal Lorex.rar

Finally, here is the low poly version.

View attachment Tal Lorex Low Poly Final.ms3d

 

[Majestic]

Looking really good Pepperman.