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[Camille]

Sgt. Rho, on 14 September 2012 - 12:21, said:

Those are mine-plows. They are supposed to make it look more evil

they look awesome

[General]

That last render looks "pro", well, in fact, it looks better than all models in C&C3! My only complain would be that some places look a bit blurry, I am not sure but it may look better if it look a bit sharper

[Sgt. Rho]

I'll see if I can do anything about that.

In the meantime, I decided to model a Turian cruiser:

[Sgt. Rho]

Working on an IFX-45 Aquila, design by HaryoPanji

Edited by Sgt. Rho, 28 September 2012 - 00:08.

[CoLT]

Love the design. It's like a Su-27 with a bit of MiG 1.42 in it.

[Sgt. Rho]

According to Haryo, it's based on the F22, PAK-FA and the CFA-44 from Ace Combat 6.

Edited by Sgt. Rho, 29 September 2012 - 02:23.

[Sgt. Rho]

[Destiny]

Man, that is so awesome. The tails are a bit small, but this fighter's eyecandy bombing.

[Sgt. Rho]

Fixed the tail rudder...the whole thing moves.

[Sgt. Rho]

And finished:



A good 25-30 hours have gone into this thing.

Edited by Sgt. Rho, 30 September 2012 - 02:10.

[Destiny]

Wow man, this is wallpaper-quality stuff. Really lovely jets

[Sgt. Rho]

Thx

I'm working on another one of Haryopanji's jets, the Archer:

Edited by Sgt. Rho, 01 October 2012 - 07:10.

[CoLT]

Wow. your planes look amazing. How did you learn to do them? I've been trying to do smooth shapes for ages and I can't figure it out.

[Sgt. Rho]

practice, as with basically everything I know about modeling and texturing. I use smoothing groups to create the "stealth seams", and use a different smoothing group for each side of wings, fins, etc. It's important to keep a roughly uniform curve to the shape, else it will look off. I'm actually surprised how smooth this one turned out.

[Sgt. Rho]

Model's done, now to texture it.

[General]

That render with three planes looks pretty awesome. Is it possible to do that without the crosshair and render lines and adding a couple dozen more aircraft and a soil in the horizon which anti air fire coming from ? If you do that, that would be recorded as epic !

[Sgt. Rho]

I was planning on an air battle between Archers and Aquilas, but that doesn't sound bad either.

Here's a WIP of the texture:

[Sgt. Rho]

[CoLT]

You adding bump maps to this?

[Sgt. Rho]

later on. yes-

[Raven]

Awesome stuff Rho. Really really cool!!!

[Sgt. Rho]

Mostly done now, only need to finish the canards and the cockpit interior.

[CoLT]

It's looking great! If I can make a suggestion though, try adding a bit more of lighting and shadowing on the texture around the seams in the metal. It'll create a bit more depth, because right now as they are it makes an otherwise greatly detailed texture look a little flat.

[Sgt. Rho]

I always do that, but I do it after I'm done with the platelines. I then copy all platelines, merge them, and blur them.

Also: Done.

[Destiny]

I am in love with the Archer. It reminds me of the FFR-41MR Mave <3