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The side position looks perfect to me! I thought that it will be inline with the hangars, so that no lift is needed. Just roll there the fighters, buckle them in to the tube, and fire :D But this way it's even better, this way there's enough place for mechanism and a larger hangar. Yes, those...

@ Maj.Striker :Good to hear that :D 3 hour render time is not because of HDRi, I had one of my cars rendered with HDRI lighting only, under 5minutes! (300.000 polys, relfective paints and such). So HDRI can even shorten render times, in some cases. Much depends on the software used, GI setup...

Well, no offense meant there! I just know that sometimes admins don't have the time for it. Cuase, I was one myself. We had about the same number of threads and posts every day, and it was hard to keep up sometimes.(it was il2-sturmoviks hungarian online squadrons forum) SO, I think that 4...

@ChrisReid: tell me please, whats the "valid point" there? What that "they brought it back on the Midway in WC:P" has to do with a WC1 ship? Anyway, as I said before, WC:P only proved that 1:Launching tubes can be destroyed fast-and-easy= no more fighter support, 2: the animations showed us the...

@Striker: gotta agree, everything was great, even the vocie acting :D Just that smoke was a bit out of style. One day one of our many great animators gotta (=pleaseifyouwouldbe so kind to) tell me how to do such great laser gunfire effect :D I really missed the fireworks though (= no missiles...

It also roks for fur, in a way. Not for hair though. Got any idea for hair? I couldn't get my Kilrathi mapped properly though, so the "fur" turned out to point in the directions of a sphere. SO it became a furball :D It works nice for tires too.

heh, sizes are really strange. The hellcats look deffinetly too big for Mr.Biped. Love the detail on the runway, and the hangars a nice one too. But, now that I see the picture, I can't see any space that ould be filled with a launch tube. Torpedos should be under the bridge in the wings? That...

It simply a 10*10 plane primitive, poly edited to have some bumps,added UWV map, added the deffault 3dsMax Ground_Grass material, changed its glossyness and specular level to something low value instead of zero, and turned off bump map slot. Than came the trick, the VRay Displacement map. The...

I liked the separate hangar landing part, but I don't know if there's enough space to implement into this modell. I was refering to the engine houseings as "wings". It would help us to understand each other if you could post a render of the full ship in view. We could sketch onto that. I...

@ gevatter LarsThanx, I shall give it a try first. One thing though: don't you need full frames for composition? Wrapped into divX it can get really small. Personally, I hate photoshop. It's so overcomplicated to do even the most simple things. I'm used to Photopaint, it can do all the same...

So you don't need tubes, because loading a ship into a tube takes ages, as seen in WC:P, and the fighters are small enough to emerge in large groups form the hangar, and you don't use bomber for emergencies right? :D Ok, you need the tube cause it was in the Tigers Claw. How about inserting...

well, you decide on the size of the thrusters. I wouls make it with the double hole design you drawn, that looks good to me. You don't really need small ones, as even a big thruster can make very small thrusts cause useing less fuel to burn. But, its up to you of course. I don't have an idea for...

The only thing why I still don't really like the runway idea is that every WC ship can hover, like the ones in Star Wars.... Look at the dragon langin and takeing off on the virus-bombed planet in WC4, or the shuttles landing and takeing off in WC3,4. I wuld leave off the tubes, for more...

Thanx for the info. I'm useing Max5, but I never needed to do layers before :D It'l be about time to learn that too. I don't have compositing software just yet, allthough, maybe I can do it with corell photopaint?? I don't know if I can insert multiple animations into another. I know I can edit...

hah, how come i missed this thread? :D When I first saw wing commander, I was 5 years old. My father got a copy of WC1. At that age I was mostly whatching my father play, and sometimes going for a drive with Test Drive, or going Indiana Jones. I had no idea of languages of course, so the...

I mean that I was looking through the Wc3d thread, and I couldn't see it there. It only showed on the main page as a "last post" in WC3D. I don't really think that the moveing runway sides is a good idea. Make some kind of a door for the hangar, but moveing those big sides just to close a piece...

Yes, thats Kilrah's Arrow also. Sorry, forgot that one. I'll be useing that one probably, but not sure yet. (depends on poly count, will check) Thats a good idea Lars, I just don't know how to do it exactly, and I'm not sure with wich program I can combine it later again. I gotta look into it...

Oookay, so heres half of a render. I experimeted with grass. I mean 3d looking grass, not just a photo of grass. This is mostly unnoticable on the render due to some error in the way I set up the scene, and the scale of the scene. But, the msot important part is, that we will NOT use VRay...

I'v taken a look at the modells you made. I'm missing the radar, it seems. The other meshes are OK, I can start working them. They'll need lots of textureing. Thats a: -Good thing, cause I need practice at drawing and mapping modells with my own textures, and I'm starting to enjoy it. It's like...

Hi there. Somehow this thead does not show up in the list, I only saw it as a Last Post in the main forum view. :S So far so good :D I don't really understand your problem with detail, you made lots of it with the thrusters and torpedo banks and windows. I like the largest armor plateing, but...