Re: Finished with New Set the Saturian Commonwealt
 

Beautiful work! I think the transports would be better as warships, though...

Re: Finished with New Set the Saturian Commonwealt
 

I Use Anim8or www.anim8or.com It's free, and I have succeded in making a few models that worked in Starfury. Although the models need to be converted from .obj or .3ds to .x in some 'other' program. I think I used conv3ds.exe the file converter that comes with the DirectX SDK.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Finished with New Set the Saturian Commonwealt
 

I'll push Blender as always. I found it very powerful - plugins, scripting, ability to use external renderer, subsurfacing, boolean operations, some NURBS capabilities, a lot of tutorials and creative community. And native export to .X (in 2.36 at least). And free.
The only problem is interface. It's not a newbie friendly. But people who got accustomed with it told it's very comfortable to use.

edit: fixed links

Re: Finished with New Set the Saturian Commonwealth
 

You need to remove "http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/" from those links.

Re: Finished with New Set the Saturian Commonwealt
 

/me inserts random plug for Wings http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

edit: and Art of Illusion

Re: Finished with New Set the Saturian Commonwealt
 

I would praise this shipset again, but I fear It would be entering Double Figures the ammount of times I've done so. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Finished with New Set the Saturian Commonwealt
 

So I guess the next thing I need to do is come up with a back story. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

I should have the set ready for download by tonight.

Re: Finished with New Set the Saturian Commonwealt
 

I don't know guys, I just absolutely love looking at this set. I love the Transport image I posted. The detail that came out is just breath taking IMHO.

All humility aside, I have to say, except for the race portrait, this is indeed my best work to date.

It was a big honor for me to allow David to name the set.

I love how it came out. Now I wish I could do this more often. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Finished with New Set the Saturian Commonwealt
 

http://www.astmod.com/design/wcp.PNG http://www.astmod.com/design/wcm.PNG

Ok So I got board. Which one do you like better?

http://www.astmod.com/design/wcp2.PNG http://www.astmod.com/design/wcm2.PNG

Re: Finished with New Set the Saturian Commonwealt
 

Hmmm (reads manual on how to properly hijack thread)...

anyways, I too use wings 3d. Great program and all, but it does have it's shortcomings. Will be checking out the other programs you guys supplied when I get back on a computer I can download things on.

Thanks!