thanks for the comments,
Raul Tabajara: a cnn blimp comes to mind, with a big ass projector on the side, giving a live feed of what it’s filming. Could be a nice touch to the scene, i’ll see if it fits in somewhere. I was planning to add lots of adds beside the freeway and on the buildings, so the CNN blimp would not do it wrong.
Been busy updating the engine aswell, will post a new image of it later today.
Cool stuff man, I think the space ship design os pretty sweet, and the over all concept is exciting and action packed. The ship looks really well thought out, all the components seem practical and areo-dynamic, and most imoportant, it looks cool. Keep up the good work. Alexi
Added more details to the engine. All thats left is the rear part, then they are finished. The Red / Blue lights have been added + the landinggear and an airfilter + fueltube.
Got a question for you, hope you can help me 
How do you go about texturing mechsmoothed models? when i do a UV map on the low-poly model and texture it, when it renders it and changed its smoothness to meshsmooth 2 the UV is ****ed up. When i UV map it at meshsmooth 2 there are just so many vertexes in my UV EDIT window it crashes/hangs my system for 10 minutes if i want to move/scale it 
And this is ONLY for one engine, what will my computer do when i’m starting the whole scene !? I thought it would be do-able on a AMB 64bit 3500+ ati x800pro 1024 dual layer ram…
I don’t get it, is there an easier way?
I also had to go from Brazil to Scanline (cause with brazil it takes 15 minutes to render just the engine arggg !! ) and i love Brazil
Anyway, here are the latest renders, didn’t do much on it cause of the problems above.
thanks!
I’m guessing you’re on 3DS Max? I don’t know squat about Max unfortunately, but usually there would be some sort of option to make the smoothing algorithm also smooth the UVs in the same way, thus making everything match at rendertime… but aside from that general thing, maybe another Maxer would have some more hands-on suggestions for where to find that option and switch it on…
thanks guys,
James: Thanks for the help, i found what i was doing wrong, i had the meshsmooth on the model already. In 3DSmax you need to add the UVmap modifier first, and then the meshsmooth modifier! Ohwell, another lesson learned.
Sorry about an accident! Hope you’ll gonna be OK. I like your consept and idea. There just one tiny problem. I’m affraid that the same idea (in this or another interpretation) will be one of the most popular during this challenge.
Don’t be offended. It appears to be that I have the same problem. Ha-ha.
Good luck anyway. I gonna keep an eye on this thread.
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