Battlestar Galactica Viper

[Rich O Brien]

[SketchUpNoobie]

Incredible!

The only thing I notice is the glass on the cockpit. It looks kind of cartoony. I don't know, that might just be me.

Great model and render!

[unigami]

Wow...I had to duck when I saw that one! Great image!!!

[Rich O Brien]

@unknownuser said:

The only thing I notice is the glass on the cockpit. It looks kind of cartoony. I don't know, that might just be me.

No, you've a habit of pointing of my errors.

I've a habit of making them.

[numbthumb]

Slow down, Rich, this thing is going to burst out of the screen!

[derei]

The leading edge of the wings seems too flat... it will cause tremendous turbulence in a planet's atmosphere and i'm pretty sure it will crash and kill your pilot ... maybe you will round it a little

[Rich O Brien]

Just to be clear, this model was a .blend file I found a few months back. I'm currently testing a new Polycrunching/UV Mapping app that's kinda like Deep Exploration. So I dug this outta a HDD to test it.

The rest was left in the capable hands of Thea.

A straight up import of the exported Blender file in SketchUp was 79mb. But after some re-topology in £$%@~#Up it's below 40mb. Though it crashed about 6 times before I got it into SU.

This was for shits and giggles only.

[derei]

OMG ! Really large model! and it doesn't seems too complex. Maybe there are large textures ? Or is just raw model?

[Rich O Brien]

3.2mb of textures

The rest is raw geometry......lots of it

[tadema]

That's mental

[Rich O Brien]

Thanks for the comments.

I did try this on a nebula HDR I found but it didn't have a nice feel to it. In fact it look absolutely awful. So if anyone has a nice suggestion I'd like to hear it.

[boofredlay]

[michaliszissiou]

Hey
Nice one
So a blend file... UV mapped already? There's something wrong, noticeable on the wing. Texture stretching.

[Rich O Brien]

@unknownuser said:

So a blend file... UV mapped already?

Yeah