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Show off your Sins model (pick a page)

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Think of this thread as something similar to conceptships.blogspot.com for the Sins community. Basically, a way for the community to share what they have created whether it makes it into a mod or not.

At a minimum post a screen shot of your model in blender, xsi, 3d object converter, etc or in game. If you have a name for your ship or story behind it, even better.

We are looking forward to seeing what you have created! :)    

Interested in importing your models into Sins?

Visit http://soase.weebly.com/modeling.html (thanks myfist0)
The soase.weebly is a compilation of many of the hard to find topics created by many experienced soase modders and extensively added to by myfist0. Check it out, you won't be disappointed.


From the beginning of this thread IskatuMesk has wow'd us with his models and ultimately released a video of his creations in Sins of a Solar Empire. This particular model was my favorite in the beginning and still stands out.

SivCorp looking to stretch new ideas from existing models managed to create several menancing models including the fantastic Vasari version seen here: (Vasari Flagship Sonar Kal'd used in the Distant Stars Mod)

 

It's my thread so a few of my stuff...

     Mass Effect Textures 

 

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Reply #726 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Ryat, reply 725

Quoting SIN-Imperium, reply 723

The idea is was inspired by the H.M.S. Campbeltown attack of WWII fame (Google it you youngsters!).

Being an avid student of WWII, I enjoyed that article very much, thank you. Even if I am a youngster (you are my father's age )

Yes Luke...you know it is true...I am your father!  My adopted father was a Pacific B-25 gunship pilot and had a library on WWII. I read the story of the Campbeltown as a pre-teen and it was impressive.  Good to know history.

FYI--those three models I posted a pic of are only 6400 tris--all three combined.  Wow really great models Thoumsin. Ochin Horosho!

Reply #727 from Sins Forums Top

i like WWII i am adding amodified version of a F4U Corsair to the tec for myself when i finish my aldar mod which i need to start working on again


Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #728 from Sins Forums Top

Slowly getting back on track...

 

New Xy ship. It seems episode 2, if I get that far, will probably be Xy.

Reply #729 from Sins Forums Top

Nice--I like this one.

Reply #730 from Sins Forums Top

anybody have ides for some ship i ran out and here is what they kondof have to like the one up front :)

Reply #731 from Sins Forums Top

As I thought, the HMS Campbeltown was involved in the St. Nazaire Raid that took out the only port the Tirpitz could use on the French coast. I remember conducting that raid in one of the Medal of Honor games.

Reply #732 from Sins Forums Top

Iskatu... that vessel looks amazing. Not only does it flow and just look absolutely awesome, but it has this design which really does look alien. I dunno. It looks like something less than intuitive for an engineer to design. Love it.

Reply #733 from Sins Forums Top

A few screen shots I took today working on a new patch...

 

Reply #734 from Sins Forums Top

AI went crazy building capital ships here...

6 Ventrue Scourge (Siege), 4 Ragnarok Scourge (Carrier), 1 Invictus Scourge (Battle) and 1 Enslavor Scourge (Colony)! Plus a shiiit ton of frigates!

Reply #735 from Sins Forums Top

The latest model for the Xin done, the Elite Battleship:

Armaments: 20 missile launchers, 1 main plasma gun, 6 rapid-fire point defense batteries, swarmer drones
Defenses: A Lot

Designated Fleet Role: Kicking Space Ass.

Reply #736 from Sins Forums Top

Nothing new to show for the past while... depression kills modeling quite dandily. I'll show you one of the Xy flagships that's currently ingame, though.

 

It has no stats or anything yet, but... yeah. If I get them playable, this will be a ship to watch out for.

Reply #737 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting IskatuMesk, reply 736
Nothing new to show for the past while... depression kills modeling quite dandily. I'll show you one of the Xy flagships that's currently ingame, though.

 It has no stats or anything yet, but... yeah. If I get them playable, this will be a ship to watch out for.

As usual, hang in there your work is stunning. Your fan, .....Bison.....

Reply #739 from Sins Forums Top

Want to add your own planet textures... Look no further thanks to file'o'soft!

Optimized and new planet textures (download) using file'o'soft's planet object. This mesh may be used with nearly any texture that has a 2:1 ratio such as this earth example texture:

Current planet packages:

  • Optimized Sins Planets - Textures reduced from 5.3 meg to 2.7 meg utilizing more of the available texture space.
  • Sol Planets - Planets and Textures from our own solar system. The earth texture has rather dark seas, but is otherwise very good. Texture sizes range from 2.7 meg to 1.3 meg.

* These are just the mesh and textures packages. While the optimized sins planets will work as is the Sol planets will need to be wired up still with either existing Planet entities or new Planet entities (i.e. this is a modding resource and NOT a mod). *

 

Reply #740 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting IskatuMesk, reply 702
Never used/heard of lathe or rail before. Everything I ever attempted with curves before turned out terrible.

I created the base hull for this with mass FFD boxes on a sphere and went from there....

People seem to like my organic shape models... low poly and soft curve... in wings3d, you have a simple tool called "magnet"... and it work like real magnet... in place of a lot of bla-bla-bla, simply look at the following video :

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRhgsLWgHsI

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLdPWnX5tQ

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3E1KZ8ZhE8 ( this one is very interesting, it show various magnet effect on a single model )

Magnet don't add poly, only deform the original mesh... Vorlon ship posted up by Tobi and the Minbari ship i have made for him use these magnet system... pretty sure that 3DS max and other software have the magnet thing too, maybe hidden somewhere ( in wings3d, it appear in menu only in expert mode )...

I cannot imagine what model IskatuMesh will create if he was knowing all function/plug-in from his 3D software... actual result is already wonderful !!!

About the Vorlon ship posted by Tobi, the interestin thing is not the model itself but the "blue area" who are producing light... light are not only casted on the model but on nearby model too ( can create projector by example )... the ship is in fact two mesh, blue section using the sins sun FX shader via a particule file... it is possible to make moving part, moving texture, stealth mode, etc ... using the various FX from sins...

I was long away due to real life but in around 2 week, i am back to school and will have plenty time for model/texture again...

Reply #741 from Sins Forums Top

Interesting. It's like some nature of sculpting. That would indeed be very useful for Undead or Phantom ships. I'll have to see if I can find a similar function in max.

Reply #742 from Sins Forums Top

Seem that 3DSmax don't have magnet... Poser use them, Lightwave use them, etc... but about "sculpting", i have found something who is very similar to it in 3DS max... video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKPLrXyvAeA ... it is called "paint deformation"... it don't change the amount of poly when you use it...

Reply #743 from Sins Forums Top

Its very difficult to use "paint sculpting" effectively unless you have a digital pen, and if you do, then there are far better tools to do 3D sculpting, like ZBrush.

You can, for example, create a base mesh in your 3D app like Max or Maya, then export it into ZBrush, subdivide it there to a few million polygons, do whatever sculpting you want and then remesh/export it back into your 3D app for UV mapping etc.

Although you can also auto-UV map in ZBrush, but then you can't edit the textures in a 2D app like Photoshop.

Reply #744 from Sins Forums Top

Well, I can't UV or texture anyway, so I'm not too worried about that. Last time I tried Zbrush, though, it gave me a hernia. I couldn't even figure out how to place Zspheres, and that was after watching video tutorials. Blargh.

Definitely don't have a digital pen or anything like that.

Reply #745 from Sins Forums Top

Then I'm afraid you'll going to have to stick to more conventional methods of modeling. 3D sculpting cannot really be done without a digital pen, since you need that pressure control function.

And yes, ZBrush without a digital pen equals digital hernia, that's true. ;)

Reply #746 from Sins Forums Top

I simply use soft selection on vertex editing to get the same effect.

 

Simple.

Reply #747 from Sins Forums Top

Another mash up creation...... 

 

The Kol 3.0 LRM edition.

 

Reply #748 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting SivCorp, reply 747
Another mash up creation...... 

 

The Kol 3.0 LRM edition.

 

Reduced 55%Original 1024 x 768

 

nice. wouldn't mind seeing a pic of it in game though :p assuming you rig it and whatnot.  (and if you do, will you be releasing it?)

Reply #749 from Sins Forums Top

If I do get them in game and rigged.  I will release them.

 

They may be implemented in the Distant Stars mod too.  The Vas one I'm making will be released in there, and the others possibly too.

 

Or I may just make a Capship replacement mod ;)

Reply #750 from Sins Forums Top

Some minor updates to the Gaverrah as I try to remember how to model again. Added forward Beam coverage and cleaned up a few spots. Making those forward beam drivers was ten times as stupidly difficult as I had hoped it would be, and they still don't look anywhere near what I wanted.

I expect insane amounts of beam clipping ingame from the weapons firing through the ship. Oh well... maybe one day a space RTS will come out that will be able to support these ships in full.

 

/edit

 

Some symmetry on the beam drivers...

Good God the edges.