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failurecrusade — U.N.E.F. Assault Cruiser
Published: 2006-05-03 07:38:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 24659; Favourites: 308; Downloads: 2003
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For the first time in a long time I have given some love to my own universe.The goal for this model was to push my abilities in design, skill, and patience. The mentality was to use the techniques I have learned building low poly ships as highly efficient game models in a high poly model. The result: little to no geometry clipping, and severe polygon economy (all things considered) in the highest detail model I have built to date.
Aside from a test of skill, this model also marks the first of a new genoration in the Bloodstained Star's concept development. I had come to the conclusion that several design elements on the older concepts simply did not fit the feel and role I wanted the ships to have. This iteration however matches rather closely to what my minds eye had come up with years ago and been unable to produce untill now.
This is for all intensive purposes the final geometry. minute changes may be made, along with LOD's for the turrets and eventually texture mapping!
Lastly I seem to have developed an affinity for posting images with alpha channels, so if it looks a bit wonk zoomed out, then be sure to fullview
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no meshsmooth. tri are in the millions, but most of its in the turrets
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Well, I confuse. The edge of the ship seem look perfectly curved. Usually it's done by Meshsmooth.
Oh well, Still love the ship.
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nah, i enjoy getting those really clean curves by hand. all the extra useless poly you get out of meshsmooth just bother me.
glad you like her!
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You sculpt it? Just like sculpting statue? Amazing !!
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thanks! and yeah i guess thats one way to put it
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Well, good job then. It's impossible for me to do that, unless there's unused super computer
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its not impossible, just very time consuming. heavy use of the camfer, target weld and edge/vert connect tools. its a very efficient way to model so its easier on your system than alot of other methods.
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The methode you use similar with mine, except by adding meshsmooth and symmetry. Since I use Meshsmooth, using chamfer is nightmare 
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yeah.. so i know, the two really dont mix that well
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Gonna try your way someday. My campus had upgrade their PC
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look foeward to seeing it!
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It's still long to wait. I need finish several work, and maybe I will do it after that.
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almost forgot, wireframe [link]
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Thank god! This will help me to learn your way
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Very impressive work there! I love the vessel design with all its main guns ready for action. Very impressive.
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This is very beautiful, looks very clean. I like the feel of it. heh can't seem to get that same smooth and finished feeling in my geometry. Well done
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I can only see this in like a star wars opening, coming in from the top of the screen. but then going on like space balls, forever..amazing.
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Great job on this ship, I like the placement of the guns (are there any missiles, or are they concealed in the design?). What is Bloodstained Stars?
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Bloodstained stars is a story that i have been working on for a few years
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HOLY #$%
thats the most buitiful model ive ever seen
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dang. o.o;; far as I know, this is one of those superexpensive programs, right? shame all I can use is Google Sketchup. XD;;
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i got to build one of this thingies too
very cool design! the sphere at the back is not that much to my liking ...but thats a matter of taste and i guess
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Glad to know there are more space-nut jobs out there. Great job. Care to trade some thoughts on the subject? Gimme a call [[link]
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This is insanley fat. The effort was well worth it dude.
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i keep telling my ship's to go on diet's...but they never listen to me....
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practice and patience, all it takes
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Okay, I gaved up: too much comments to read on this one 
Thought I am not a fan of high poly models (can't find utility for them in RTS games I design
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actually before long we will be seeing models with this kind of geom detail in games, with some of the stats the next gen graphic's engines are boasting we are on the brink of haveing real time photoreal geom on screen ingame.
as for tex, i had planned on doing a texture, but no longer have a useable copy of the model (hard disk failure)
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This is really the most gorgeous, sound, and practical (at least in terms of futuristic ships) design I have ever seen. I'm not just talking about the model itself, but rather the entire concept. She somehow manages to keep a sleek body while having a powerful, blunt forward. Turret placement is very workable. My only slight complaint would be that she looks more vulnerable at her midsection, where it seems to be a fragile-looking "neck" of sorts. Aside from that though, VERY awe-inspiring.
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there is one turret emplacement on the ship that needs a fix, can you spot it?
the thin 'neck' is something that was adressed. the visual mass of the majority of the hull is deceptive in one way or another. in all reality the neck is no more thin than the rest of the hull. from neck aft (the spine) is all roughly the same thickness and internal density. the foreward section is, in terms of dimension, thicker. however the foreward section consist's mostly of docking bay's and is consequently at nowhere near the mass of any other component of the ship.
A rule often forgotten in Sci-fi is that ships have internal's and that those internals affect both the integrity adn physichal properties of the ship.
Anyway, glad you like her so much, she is to this day still my favorite and i look foreward to when i can do more in the same flavor.
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Something on the bottom of the ship looks like it'd accidentally hit the ship's forward if it fired... though it may be a perspective thing that's screwing with my eyes.
What did you major in to start designing and modeling things like this? I'm going to be entering college this fall as an intended industrial design major, but I don't know if a major like that is going to allow me to work with sci-fi so much.
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as far as the foreward arc is concerned all the guns are clear, its one of the turrets on the underside that would have a severely limited traverse as it is too far recessed into the underside, all i would need to do is raise the mount, but no can do as i no longer have the model.
Funny story im a college drop out. too expensive for what it is really worth. Figured out that i was better off on my own.
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Oh holy crap, that's some amazing crap. Don't game industries look for degrees as credentials?
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my experience is that it is a talent driven industry.
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Flawless modeling you got there.
Can't find anything that bothers me. Everyting is well constructed.
Only thing I could ask for is enviroment, and it blowing stuff up.
FAV!
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environment...blowing stuff up.....ill add it to my incredibly long list of things to do.
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Hehe, same here.
Just a thought though. It's always nice to see the whole package to a nice model, but heh sometimes it would only be possible if you had that clock that can stop time around you. P
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just stunning!! actually we are looking for rendered ships for a non-comercial project (www.cosmicproject.de). everything non-exclusive and just the rendered work of course! if you would like to contribute, let me know... if not, i still enjoy watching your work very much! its fantastic!! take care and keep on
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If you had caught me about two and a half years ago i would have been all for it.
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Spherical drive! Awesome. Absolutely gorgeous.
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*bows*
i figured it was the best way to go for the tech, and it's not something that people are sick to their stomachs of seeing, glad you approve!
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