High Quality Drayman Completed (June 13, 2005)

[ChrisReid]

Howard Day has wrapped up the finishing touches on his high quality Drayman model. The final gun tips have been fashioned, and the engines now pulse a reassuring glow. I'd love to see what it would be like to escort one of these things. His models require F-edge and at least Max6 to manipulate. You can grab the 2.5 meg zip here. Some earlier images of the transport are available here.

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Original update published on June 13, 2005

 

[Speradon]

Nice! It actually looks like it might be capable of doing damage to something! As always, I love Howie's stuff and look forward to the day he's inspired to build a Raptor and/or a Gratha

Keep it coming, man!

 

[ChrisReid]

Yeah, a Raptor would be great, but I really like the choice of ships that he's picked so far. The Salthi or Drayman wouldn't automatically be among the first choices for some, but he's done a remarkable job of giving much needed attention to these craft.

 

[Marc]

I hope I see the day when computers have the power to handle models of that caliber in games... I gess I can whait... what, 10 maybe 15 years give or take?

 

[Maj.Striker]

No way, I bet you don't have to wait three years at the most. I'm not sure but I would guess this model is only 20-30k polys. Most games can handle 8-10k right now without too much of a struggle. Heck using max specs and decent configuring you could probably use this model now...as long as there wasn't 4 or 5 of them around.

 

[Howard Day]

Actually, it's 51K polies. And the major killer on this mesh is the cargo load. All those little pipes. Craziness.
Anyhow, this is the last High-res model I'm going to create for a while - call it 6-7 months. I have "Other" projects I'm working on.
Glad you guys like it.

 

[AD]

So far all these high quality models look really great. Good work howard.

I always found the drayman to be kinda goofy looking in-game but here it actually looks cool.