Model Ticonderoga

[Sel]

Todays work.

Some more detailing, finished the basic shape.

Tommorows work, detailing the fuck out of this.

Obviously I have ignored various parts of the basic shape (sonar, rudder, propellers) because they'll be underwater, and never seen!

 

[absurdistof]

1)As for making it a playable model, I don't really have any intention of that, the decks are too open, and I don't really want to go to the trouble of making it work as a gameplay piece.

2) Sorry... Not yet!

3) I don't see why not, if I recall it just needs to be scaled down 16x for that?


Additionally, me and flame were joking around about something last night (I don't even remember), and the idea of a ship in a bottle came up, so expect one of those too lol.

A 1,000,000 poly(or triangle?) ship in a bottle WIN!

 

[Sel]

A 1,000,000 poly(or triangle?) ship in a bottle WIN!

This isn't the game model, and if I put it in a bottle it'd be a lot less than the actual game model

 

[Sel]

 

[Sel]

Started working on the low polys, starting with the turrets, then various important details (shit like lifesavers, doors, etc)

Anyway, if normal maps show up in source as well as they do in this render, then my high res model won't have been a waste of time, if not, it'll just have been practice.

 

[Sel]

Finished building the low poly, now I've just gotta UV it all.

Anyway here are the normal maps with automatic uvs!

The missile thing.

The 62CAL

The stuff above the hull

The hull

And every other smaller less important object.

 

[Sel]

Alright, so over the last few days I've finished UVing it all.

As it stands now it'll probably be 3 textures total, one for the body, one for the details, and one for the turrets, which I may or may not make more of.

As for the triangle counts, I'm looking at about 6000-6500 maybe more, maybe less, but I won't know for sure until I put it all back together, which comes after me finding a skinner to skin this.

Some of the detail geometry will need to be duplicated, some a lot more than once, so that's what's going to inflate it higher than the 5200 it's at now.

 

[jfhsilversurfer]

this model is incredible! great job

if finished ...
could you give the instructions on how to import into a TF2 map please?

lots of hard work went into its creation; amazing stuff

 

[absurdistof]

Oh my gawwwwwwwwwwwwd :O

Can't wait can't wait can't wait

 

[Sel]

if finished ...
could you give the instructions on how to import into a TF2 map please?

lots of hard work went into its creation; amazing stuff

I could, but I'm not exactly an expert on that, you'd probably be better off asking Acumen or someone with more experience in source.

Oh my gawwwwwwwwwwwwd :O

Can't wait can't wait can't wait

All it's really waiting on is a skinner, and until I find one to paint this thing, my hands are pretty much tied :[

 

[gamemaster1996]

Can you make a skybox version as the boat on granary can be pretty boring.

 

[Sel]

My skinner has began his incredible work on skinning my model

progress pics

 

[DaBeatzProject]

seriously?

 

[Engineer]

wtf? :facepalm:
I hope that this is a joke...

 

[Okrag]

That is going to be the final texture.

 

[Sel]

That is going to be the final texture.

Obviously.

 

[JoshuaC]

This is near final fyi. I'm not sure what more I could add, but I'm open to suggestions.

 

[Pocket]

I see. Actually pulling pranks on April 1 has no effect anymore, so you've bumped yours up a bit to see if it gets more of a reaction.

 

[grazr]

 

[JoshuaC]

Unicorns! That's what I can add!