Daily Mini-Ships

#81

Ghostscape - thanks dude! I may have posted it before, but regardless, each model takes about 90 minutes to 2 hours to design, model, unwrap and texture. That’s basically the only reason I am still sane!

About the model viewer, I saw a shading glitch on the front of one tread, so I think it may just be a special case bad normal calculation for the garaud shading, I’m not sure, but I saw some weirdness too.

Here is the wireframe for Friday's ship:

[img]http://adam.lastchancemedia.com/daily_mini_ships/010_asx-10_wire.gif[/img]

I’m gonna watch a movie and then finish 'er up. This ship is a VTOL APC, the back cuts away so that a ramp thing could drop down (if i had that many triangles :stuck_out_tongue: ). The huge external turbines and hooked nose were inspired by Serenity, a certain sexy Firefly-class transport…in fact the drop down cargo ramp isn’t dissimilar from Serenity’s either…shiiiiiit…

#82

Yeah, it’s a problem with their software renderer. I mean, it’s Java, what do you want :slight_smile:
ill check with the processing guys and see if it can be resolved.

Looking good, Adam, cant wait to see the texture.

#83

A VTOL dropship designed for arid environments.

That’s week two! I think I will work on some props and things next week, maybe get to that asteroid I’ve been wanting to make.

#84

lol, nice one! dig the colors. I have to watch firefly.

#85

ADAM DO SOME DEBRIS AND SPACE JUNK hehehehehe
The VTOL is one of the best ones. I like it

#86

From now on each day’s ship will be posted by midnight the morning of, or maybe slightly before I can manage it (like today!). So here is the ship for Monday, July 4th:

16 colors, thanks to being basically just brown.

I’ve updated all my ship posts with 50% gray backgrounds - while it doesn’t resemble space it does give a better indication of what color and brightness these ships are. Some of the ships have slightly darker backgrounds to help them stand out more, however (1, 2, 3, and 6). I didn’t want to re-do their textures, but I still want them to look okay posted. If anyone missed it before, here is the official Daily Mini Ships page:

Daily Mini Ships

Also, this week is props week! Thus the derelict space hulk. Expect asteroids and space debris before the week is out!

EDIT - I have revamped my portfolio site, the Mini Ships are available from there as well:

My Portfolio Site

#87

Some sort of guidance system/gate for Faster Than Light travel. Wormholes, hyperspace, whatever :stuck_out_tongue:

#88

Man this stuff just keeps getting better and better! :slight_smile: I never did get round to finishing the Gas Station I started, it went a bit pear shaped and I lost the urge to work on it… This stuff is still proving very inspriational though, so keep it up :slight_smile:

#89

these are awesome! really cool idea you have! i can really see these in a shoot em up like in radiant silver gun! sweet texturing skills! think i’ll keep an eye on this thread!

#90

hey bro these are really awesome

i like it alot!

:thumbsup:

ii see alot of post by Gameloft that looking to hire (they make the cellphone
games)

try it out maybe?

oh and btw,
i saw u added me to the msn but i never see u online :frowning:

#91

nice work adam!
i wan see more wire please :slight_smile:

#92

Thx everybody, I will be posting wires and “game size” image as part of the comp images from now on, but don’t expect anything TOO exciting, I mean 100 triangles is 100 triangles :wink:

Thx again!

PS - Lonewolf I have msg’d you a couple times but I must be missing you, must be that “other side of the globe” thing :stuck_out_tongue:

PPS - I think it might be because trillian has not released a MSN v7.0 plugin yet? That could be it anyways, i’m not really sure.

#93

Your traditional potato/brain-shaped asteroid, complete with some kind of i dunno lava or something, with some little straggler pieces. Texture was very rushed, probably about a billion colors in there, i dodged, i burned, i used blending modes. Jiminy!

#94

This reminds me of old school amiga days, when everything was limited, I love working in games but I hate it when every new game that comes out has to have all the latest technology crammed into it, what happened to just creating functional and fun graphics, and that is just what you have done. Keep up the great work this would make a great comp.

#95

Thanks Colin, I appreciate the kind words!

#96

now thats a good idea.

#97

Jah, I was thinking the same thing. These mini ships are lovely. I’d like to do a few myself

#98

Any word on the subject of the next comp?

#99

That’s so cool. I love them all!

#100

Thanks mathias, the alien linked in your sig is awesome!