(SSGX Origins) Let's make a Wipeout game! This time for real!

[Sausehuhn]

Oooh that's awesome. Some old-school flare there. So that's going to be a more traditional game then (design wise)? I like

Did you think about that one?

[Xpand]

That's yours? Or is it the model from the XL intro video? It's awesome! But I think it has to many polys...

[Sausehuhn]

It's from the intro.
If you're going for something similar to WOHD (or lower), I could imagine that the model is possible. Maybe with less details. It's the shape and the thrusters that give it the character

[Xpand]

Well, not exactly like wipeout HD, but close... More like Pure, but with better ships (detailwise).
Anyways, here are the Feisar's renders:
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/1906/feisarfront.jpg
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/6...arftbottom.jpg
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/2323/feisarrear.jpg
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/3...rrearspeed.jpg
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8214/feisarside.jpg
Tell me what you think!

[Rotational_aspect]

Not bad at all- the ship has a good colour scheme (the texture has no warping or stretching I can see) and the shape is getting there (the intake is really good).

Crits:

Nasty LCD font (the number eight)- get rid of it and research The Designers Republic and how they did things.

The pipe work I imagine could be done more efficently via a .tga texture with an alpha channel (to save polys in game).

Try to make the ship less 'boxy' (i.e. it looks like most angles are divisible by 45 degrees)- loosen it up!

Wireframes! (So we can see the meshflow and poly distribution)

Keep going!!!

[Xpand]

Not bad at all- the ship has a good colour scheme (the texture has no warping or stretching I can see) and the shape is getting there (the intake is really good).

Crits:

Nasty LCD font (the number eight)- get rid of it and research The Designers Republic and how they did things.

The pipe work I imagine could be done more efficently via a .tga texture with an alpha channel (to save polys in game).

Try to make the ship less 'boxy' (i.e. it looks like most angles are divisible by 45 degrees)- loosen it up!

Wireframes! (So we can see the meshflow and poly distribution)

Keep going!!!

Thanks!
Yeah, I put the LCD "8" because I couldn't find how they did it... I think it's very similar, but without those white cuts...
About the pipes: This ship hasn't got half the polys of the average on Wipeout HD... But I guess I could make tubing coming out of the fuselage that way.
I have to add some more polys on the joints so it seems smoother...

I'll post wireframe tomorrow. I made this ship from a series of extrusions... I started it from a single box...

[Rotational_aspect]

If you want to pig out on crazy fonts try here:

http://www.searchfreefonts.com/categories/

Might be useful when all those neon signs need doing.....

[WolfKill01]

Looks awesome, xpand!! I really like where the design is headed.