High-Poly Sabre remake

[TheJamsh]

Nostromo sent me a zip of some of his high-poly models a while ago after asking him If i could use them as a basis for Serensis mod. Just started working on getting them into game, reducing the polys and adding additional detail, neccesary hardpoints and animations etc. Nostromo made his models for rendering purposes, so getting them into game is a bit tougher than just adding hardpoints. Good practice for me though reducing the poly count.

Did a little work on the sabre this morning. Struggling to get the vents on the barrel and turret body looking good, think i may have to use an alpha channel in the texture to avoid some odd smoothing issues, but i've left them as they are in this render. Also added a secondary barrel for the mortar, which I may re-work a little to get it looking more like the current cannon barrel.

There is also some detail on the lights that you can't see because I forgot to apply the transparent material, I'll do another render in a few hours.



Version 1
Current Polycount: 3,668
Target: 1800~2500




Version 2
Current Polycount: 2,981
Target: 2000~2600


(rear view for eddy)

[Baconboy]

Beautiful!

[Eddy]

I'm looking for the Apple logo, it's on there somewhere

Looks good, can you post a rear view of it?

[Josiah]

wow... and with that spanking new texture by, uh, whoever(I forgot) then you should be good to go

[TheJamsh]

Im hoping to make my own texture, i'll end up doing a 2048*2048 with lots of intricate detail. Texturing isn't my problem however, but mapping is. Importing the previous model from Nostromo also screwed his UV's up, so going to have to redo those

[Ded10c]

Hmm... any chance we could get a cockpit in there?

[TheJamsh]

Hmm... any chance we could get a cockpit in there?

There was one already there, but I removed it to bring the poly-count down a bit. That said, I could add a cockpit back in with pilot etc and use LOD models to keep the detail down at a distance, but being in the middle of a base will be a killer. If i put a cockpit in, I'd want a pilot in there when the craft is piloted as well...

[Ded10c]

I thought having a pilot in when piloted and out when not was no longer a problem?

[TheJamsh]

I thought having a pilot in when piloted and out when not was no longer a problem?

Its not, the poly count is the problem its already at 3,000 and that can't drop anymore no matter how much optimization i do (dont wanna spoil the vehicle and do too much)