Hi everyone!
I'm stuck with a fanboy Wing Commander table-top project of mine, and I'm finally desperate enough to go ahead and annoy you with my most severe problem: I need good (hi-res) images of nothing less than all fighters, ships and bases appearing in WC2. I wouldn't complain if someone pointed me to some decent WC1 and/or Privateer models either, but let's have a look at the "requirements" first.
Let me say that the CIC's ship database is a great place to grab top-down views and "beauty shots" of every vessel I possibly need. It's just that those are in-game graphics which - of course - become pixelated when trying to size them up. And in fact, I need to size them up by 4-6 times their original size in order to put them to use in my little project. Since I'm neither a 3D, nor a 2D artist, I can't create my own models (like some people here can in a, gotta say that, most admirable way). I also lack the time to give Wings3D a try. (Okay, honestly, I did give it a try, but... well, we don't have to talk about it, do we? I didn't even manage to render at least one 3D model from the WC3D website.)
In a last-ditch effort, I tried to vectorize the ship images and running them through some Photoshop filters. As you can imagine, to no great avail. If you're daring enough, scroll down to the images below to see what I came up with. The result is... shall we say, "quite pop art" instead of "rather weird?" (Okay, so a wingnut should still recognize what's depicted, but that's not the point here.)
Now I won't ask for someone doing the dirty work for me - I know that's selfish, and besides, it's actually a lot of dirty work to be done. But maybe someone has already recreated at least some models true to WC2's look-and-feel...? Or maybe someone has an idea how I could put the old in-game pics to good use anyway? (I think I've almost googled myself to death by now.) I admit I'm clutching at straws at the moment, but any support whatsoever would be greatly appreciated! I've already put a lot of time and effort in this project, and that's why I'm getting a little bit frustrated right now.
Wow, I guess I could even use a cheer-up...
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Oh, right, here's for the fearless:
And that's how it could end up looking like (ignore my <irony>amazing</irony> hand-drawn ships and imagine top-down views of ships from WC2 instead):
I'm stuck with a fanboy Wing Commander table-top project of mine, and I'm finally desperate enough to go ahead and annoy you with my most severe problem: I need good (hi-res) images of nothing less than all fighters, ships and bases appearing in WC2. I wouldn't complain if someone pointed me to some decent WC1 and/or Privateer models either, but let's have a look at the "requirements" first.
Let me say that the CIC's ship database is a great place to grab top-down views and "beauty shots" of every vessel I possibly need. It's just that those are in-game graphics which - of course - become pixelated when trying to size them up. And in fact, I need to size them up by 4-6 times their original size in order to put them to use in my little project. Since I'm neither a 3D, nor a 2D artist, I can't create my own models (like some people here can in a, gotta say that, most admirable way). I also lack the time to give Wings3D a try. (Okay, honestly, I did give it a try, but... well, we don't have to talk about it, do we? I didn't even manage to render at least one 3D model from the WC3D website.)
In a last-ditch effort, I tried to vectorize the ship images and running them through some Photoshop filters. As you can imagine, to no great avail. If you're daring enough, scroll down to the images below to see what I came up with. The result is... shall we say, "quite pop art" instead of "rather weird?" (Okay, so a wingnut should still recognize what's depicted, but that's not the point here.)
Now I won't ask for someone doing the dirty work for me - I know that's selfish, and besides, it's actually a lot of dirty work to be done. But maybe someone has already recreated at least some models true to WC2's look-and-feel...? Or maybe someone has an idea how I could put the old in-game pics to good use anyway? (I think I've almost googled myself to death by now.) I admit I'm clutching at straws at the moment, but any support whatsoever would be greatly appreciated! I've already put a lot of time and effort in this project, and that's why I'm getting a little bit frustrated right now.
Wow, I guess I could even use a cheer-up...
.
.
.
.
.
Oh, right, here's for the fearless:
And that's how it could end up looking like (ignore my <irony>amazing</irony> hand-drawn ships and imagine top-down views of ships from WC2 instead):