Of jets and guns and fast planes Thread

Texturing work is starting

nice concept.

i like everything apart from the wings they seem to plain and basic compaired to the rest of the design

And you're going to export this model to FS2?

like the look of the wings from the rear shot, the way they curve into the body but otherwise they do look a bit unconvincing

but generally it looks good, cant wait to see it textured

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What do you mean DrZais? And thanks for the compliments all - and yes, it will be in Freespace 2, as the standard United States space fighter.

It'll kill the framerate with the fs-open gloss maps

its difficult to explain how it is but theres something about the current wing shape that dosent make sense to me.
the only thing i can suggest which may have no affect is to make the wing area larger and perhaps make it so it thins out towards the ends rather than just ending.
this picutre will probably be no help but hey:
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its probably just me, forget it

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I see what you mean, but I want to keep them flat out, like a World War II fighter, as opposed to a modern day jet fighter. I like the look of the older planes more, so this is one of the few times I'll tip my hat to looks instead of realism

I kept the end of the wings flat for the attachment of a missile, though. I'll look into modifying it.
And Bart, if you think this will kill FS's framerates, you haven't seen FS2Open recently

Anyway,
Had to redo the texture, but I've got the symettry down now What do you think?
(Any tips for sharpening it?)

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make the USAF logo clearer, and add some shiny bits :p

Shiny bits?

The wings. Is the difference between the wings and the body too much?

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Ohhh I thought these models were for throtle lust. The are still good though. Still want to see new models for throtle Lust.

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These look pretty cool. I especaially like the texturing job. What engine?

like it, but if you want realisem make the USAF logo smaller (in my opinon red white and blue are visually repunget) and add some warning details to the texture, i think i can already see some on the nose.

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Can't make it smaller now, the layers got screwed up on the texture
The engine is Freespace 2

Anyway, ya think it's proffessional enough?

Added some more detail, and showing off the detail that was already on the nose:

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God I love you

ah thats the stuff, i recon thats easily good enough espically for a high speed mod, youll be too worried about hitting something to pay too much attention to the outside of your or anyone elses ship.

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It's high speed, but I want it to be good enough so that if you just wanted to sit in space for a bit and look at your craft, it'd look cool. Sort of like how modern day jet sims are done.
You suppose it's good enough for that?

Hey, nice work, UnknownTarget.

I don't know much about aircrafts and what they're supposed to look like, so I'm just gonna say it looks cool. Good texture job as well

Thanks

And anyway, bottom is done. This means the entire external is done (minus UV map fixing on the nose), and I'm moving to the cockpit:

I'm taking a break for now, but this is where I'm at:

EDIT: Updated the picture a bit.

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