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failurecrusade — Kothryn Guard Dreadnought V2
Published: 2005-11-18 11:38:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 4949; Favourites: 65; Downloads: 263
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two of these travel with the Kothryn at all times. modified with the same features as the flagship these two are jump capable and carry the shifting fins similar to those seen on the Kothryn. aside from these features they are near identical to the rest of the Kothryn built dreadnoughts.with few exceptions only ships in the Kothryn guard carry shifting fins, so when you see shifter fins on ships and they have this color scheme they belong to the Guard.
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Hi I really love your work.I want to know what programs do you use to make it
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hey thanks alot!
my weapon of choice is 3ds max
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thank you! im glad you like it!
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the angle it's on simply says "don't mess wit da Kothryn"
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and you don wanna mess with em either theyll tear your shit up and feed it to the rats
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hmmm... i wouldn't really care if my shit was torn up and fed to some rats. i think that's where my shit ends up anyway
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oh well in that case bow down or die....of course im not speaking for myself here just the insane warrior race in my head
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theres another bit of eyecandy with this ship coming up in jsut a moment...well as long as it takes to finish rendering anyway. big fleet render of all the lusfa ships ive done so far.
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Cool I'll be on the look out for that. I wanted to get the Fire Hawk up today but the winows are taking for ever to make even with copy and pasting them in large sums.
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im guessing this will be a 2d not 3d work?
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No its 3D but the program I use doesn't have a mirror option so I'm stuck drawing the windows for one side and then having to do the same thing on the other. I'm trying to see if it has any updates that add the mirror option.
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Sketch Up, it's supposed to be an architectual design program but I have found other uses for it. Plus it costs less than AutoCAD.
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never heard of it...why not find a pirate and move a step up to something like max or maya?
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Actually its the cartoon like effect that drew me to it. Reminds me of Futurama if I do say so myself. But I could get a pirate if I wanted to. But to me a 3d program is a 3d program.
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nah 3d programs are anything but created equal. for example do yu have tools like camfer, bevel, and extrude? subdivision surfaces? nurbs? free deformation latices? those are just a few of what i would die without. now granted with whatever you could get the interfaces would be set up differently. but you modeling would love you for it. ive used quite a few different programs, each one takes a deal of itime to learn but each also has very different strengths and weaknesses.
and for that cartoon effect there is a shader built into 3ds max that will give you a very nice cartoon effect, much the same there is one in lightwave as well.
but id say pick one up, its not like your useing it commercial so no one will really care, equally you can get Gmax (game model variant of 3dsmax) for free at turbosquid.com along with a shiton of free models for a whole slue of programs
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i'll check that website out.
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its an excellent resource for alot of crap so its well worth it to take a gander at what theyve got
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that's good. I got the program and will test it either to night or tomorrow.
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excellent!!! my understanding is that there is no built in render engine that it is strictly a modeler. but it should do nicely for popping out some pretty ships.
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Hey as long as it works. I should have another ship up this weekend and I'll be editing the older ones so they make more sense.
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indeed! ill be looking forward to seeing what you can ocme up with!
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I got it working now and it's a whole different experience. But I can't tell the program to draw a line 100 feet I have to estimate basically. I haven't totaly figured it out yet but I'll try.
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what i do in most programs to guess scale is i simply enter the number for the dimension as whatever unit is default. ie for a 100ft line i would simply draw two points and then enter the corridnates for the first point to be x-0, y-0, x-0 and the second x-0, y-100, z-0 and then just call the units feet when it came down to imagineing size. when im building something i just build to the proportions i had visualized, then make a box at the length and scale the rest uniform till it matches the box.
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That sounds like a good plan. I'll try something like that. Now I just have to get used to drawing with the three screens and looking at the perspective view to make sure I'm doing it right.
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the three screens will come in handy, youll findyourself working off of those more than any other veiw. there also should be veiw rotate tools for each screen, if it is as much like 3dsmax as i have been told then youll find all the veiwport tools in the bottom right corner
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Ok well I'll keep messing with it until I get the hang of it. I'm just used to working on one screen where you can change your views. Like going from top view and then switchin to Iso so I can extrude it.
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also you hsould be able to set it up to work with just one screen at a time. and switch between them like your used to
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yeah I found that out, I like the program and all it just needs a rendering option.
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im fired i still havent started up gmax yet. extrude is a handy tool, one that i use almost all the time. if it has an editable poly option another tool you may find yourself useing is inset, when coupled with extrude its a very very quick way to do armour plates. have you found a way to translate the models into your rendering engine? otherwise how ya liken the program so far?
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im fired i still havent started up gmax yet. extrude is a handy tool, one that i use almost all the time. if it has an editable poly option another tool you may find yourself useing is inset, when coupled with extrude its a very very quick way to do armour plates. have you found a way to translate the models into your rendering engine? otherwise how ya liken the program so far?
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gmax doesn't export any of the files that can be imported into sketch up. It exports them as plasma files or .p3d. Gmax is basically like sketch up just without the rendering option.
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i see you hitting your stride again. you used to talk about the ships and their tech. then you stopped posting stuff for a while. then you posted them, but talked about the work process and stuff. now im seeing the ship tech. and the ships look beautiful. u still got it bro.
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yah i was without the means to post for a long time...got a new computer and some 3d software...now i get to spam da with my work and tech
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must be the angle that makes the detail show up beter, its the same as the other dreadnought i just posted
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wow, damn , the attitude of this one 
very cool detail!
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im pretty pleased. very little change from the predecessor, but that little did alot for it
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indeed! it looks way more agressive now
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the fins really added to it didnt they?
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oh yes. the overall silhoette or profile of this ship is awsome.
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yeah little additions go a long way.
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