Imagine a new WipEout team....

[ACE-FLO]

I was wondering if designing the Perengine crimson/silver feather effect in Paint Shop Pro with layers, then exporting the file as a merged image, either as a png or jpeg - into SketchUp, would work?

Anyone know if this possible? Andy? djKyoto? Mdhay? Mu5?

[Lance]

I was wondering if designing the Perengine crimson/silver feather effect ...

EEK. ACE-FLO has misquoted the quotation which was my quotation of myself! Well, he kinda sorta did, maybe.

[andy]

That should be able to be done. You can upload a jpeg or other picture format, and create a material in sketchup, which you should be able to mess around with so it fits to whatever polygon you want filled in. I've not really tried it myself though, mind you.

[Lance]

So that would be like wrapping a texture? Nice.

[Mu5]

Great fun when you learn how to do it

Yeah definately Paint shop pro will do the job Thats what I use to do all my image processing work. Its great using layers, especially when doing ship skins. Look forward to seeing it

[ACE-FLO]

Sorry Lance But that was confusing my poor, slightly groggy, brain I got it wrong didn't I? EEK indeed

[attempts to move on, swiftly ]

Andy, that's good news mate! I'm definitely gonna give this a shot! I was thinking of designing Pilot gear, like G-suits - which modern fighter pilots wear in order to keep them from passing out from excEssive G-Force! I have no clue where to start from! But not gonna let that stop me!

But first, I need to start...

[mdhay]

That should be able to be done. You can upload a jpeg or other picture format, and create a material in sketchup, which you should be able to mess around with so it fits to whatever polygon you want filled in. I've not really tried it myself though, mind you.

Yep, what Andy said.

[Mu5]

@Venom : Heres the first hit at the Volcano craft.. .

You had any time to do the side/front view?

I watched a few videos earlier tonight and was amazed at what some people have done with animations. I don't know if they used the free or the pro version; they weren't sayin'.

I read somewhere last night that you use a special render engine at the end of the modelling process to get a better end result with shadows etc. Maybe one of the Sketchup chaps can shed some light on it.

Ive still to check out Blender - I have seen some engine animations with tremendous particle effects on youtube. I will try and find the link.

This is my favourite Sketchup pic I think - Love the design

http://marrekie.deviantart.com/art/A...acer-133087308

If anybody has any other cool ones I would love to see them

[Lance]

Dayum. He did that in SketchUp? Mucho nice. I just made an elongated solid lozenge in SU earlier today. The distance between that and this rather polished image by marrekie is.... substantial.

[mdhay]

You can do animations in SketchUp, though I haven't tried.

[andy]

http://600v.deviantart.com/art/27030...over-117264910

I like this guy's stuff, he's got some hovering stuff too. He has the ability to make everything look retro. Most of his gallery is sketchup and he puts them through photoshop afterwards and it looks really cool.

I reckon it could be cool to have a slightly retro team.

[mdhay]

McLaren F1...

[XpanDrome2097]

@Venom : Heres the first hit at the Volcano craft.. .

Hey mate, infinite thanks....and....strange but....I like its gold finish !
designer_79, amazing work about the 3-D Tez Dharkan, I want to know the racing stats eheheh....
This thread has amazing teams....Tez-Dharkan, Geist, BoostAkira, the Dark Triakis....and many others, thanks to all again!

[Mu5]

Cool mate - It was just a quick model based on your top-down view

@Andy : Yeah I seen 600v's work before - his gallery is incredible

[mdhay]

I am pleased to announce that we at A.L.T.E.R.N. have a new Eliminator AG Craft, the FireFox [AG] is TT-Dt's Eliminator entry to the Racing leagues.

http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/alb...pictureid=1503

If you want to get a closer look at a specific part, let me know. ^_^

[ACE-FLO]

A.L.T.E.R.N have done it again, feast your sights and be prepared to witness a FX-400 revolution...

Mdhay has developed a unique looking ship, go and see! Awesome!

[abukii]

I love it!!

[Mu5]

Nice work mate

[djKyoto]

Hurrr.

[Mu5]

@MDHay - A view from the back would be good - can we get some missile's hanging off it also? I think it would be cool if the front was more narrow

More Dark Triakis love