My Starfighter Designs

Sardaukar · Post by **Sardaukar** » 2002-11-28 10:22pm

I've been designing a lot of spaceships over the past couple of years and am planning to stick them into a comic I'm working on, and I though tI'd like you guys to have a look at a few of them and tell me what you think.

I've rendered them with a cellshader system so they just look like line drawings, because I haven't bothered to do very detailed textures.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-28 10:31pm

The first one is the most realistic. Is that third one a drone?

Sardaukar · Post by **Sardaukar** » 2002-11-28 10:34pm

The first is the most thought out, that would explain it being realistic.
The third just doesn't have any windows. I thought it would make it look more alien/mysterious

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2002-11-28 11:34pm

I like them. The scound one loks like a hull hybrod of the T-65 X-Wing & IG-2000.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2002-11-28 11:51pm

The first one is pretty good, looks like something they'd stick in some game no one would ever play, but looks damn near impressive. The second one I don't like as much and the third one confuses me. It's probly larger than I think.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2002-11-28 11:58pm

They look kinda flimsy to me. Funky though.

Sardaukar · Post by **Sardaukar** » 2002-11-29 12:04am

The second one is an unarmed scout, so it's not too interesting.
Third IS bigger than the others. #1 & #2 are ~11m long. I think the third is twice that, but I don't remember exactly, I'm at work so I can't check the scaling of the models.

They are all flimsy looking because I designed them with shield generators (and coolness) in mind. I tried to re-design the fuselage on the first one into a single piece, but it looked boring.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2002-11-29 12:14am

The first design reminds me of the R-Wing from Starfox.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2002-11-29 04:50am

The third one looks really flimsy... It just doesn't look like those little struts would be able to hold it together.

The first one looks great. Reminds me of an Arwing, from Starfox.

The second one is kinda eh, you know what I mean? Maybe make that wing thicker, it looks a bit flimsy, and the prongs look overly long.

Sardaukar · Post by **Sardaukar** » 2002-11-29 05:30am

Unsurprisingly the Arwing was the inspiration for the first one

The prongs on the second one are supposed to be some kind of high-powered sensors. It's a scout

the third one is supposed to twist around a lot, firing weapons and engines all over the place. I could make the joints sturdier, but it wouldn't look as sleek

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-11-29 08:49am

the first one is not the most realistic one in my oppinion. or what´s your argument for these weird wings. they dont serve any purpose in space and dont look like they could keep the ship in the air in atmosphere.

the other two are logic though.

2: minimum surface to get hit by enemy fire, exhaust and guns far away from the pilots capsule to avoid the enormous heat coming from exhaust and guns.

3: again, guns and exahaust far away, and the inner "wings" can serve to protect the pilot capsule from enemy fire from the sides.

give nr. 3 some cool textures and make an animation with it twisting around and fiering in all thinkable directions. it´l be a damn cool ship.

number one surely looks cool, but if you give nr. 3 the same amount of detail it´ll look even cooler and it will make more sense too.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2002-11-29 03:29pm

I thought the second one looked kinda like a E-Wing

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2002-11-29 07:57pm

They look very nice, good work

However, it looks like you're planning to impliment the Tie Fighter's paper thin hull

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-11-29 08:07pm

I like the first two. The middle one is my favorite. Its a scout huh? That suits my personal interest. If I was a some sort of space pilot Id like to fly a recon ship.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-11-29 11:20pm

They all look pretty good. Now, I'd like to now their dimensions, an aranment to get a better idea of what they're like.

The first one is probably a starfighter, like that of the X-wing, weapon and size-wise.

The second one looks like a short-range fighter.

The third one looks like a drone.

Sardaukar · Post by **Sardaukar** » 2002-11-29 11:31pm

I'll make a website to show off some more of these (and other) ships I've designed, with stats and stuff.

Thanks for the opinions guys, I guess this is pretty much the right group of people to show this kind of stuff to!

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-11-30 11:19am

yeah. are you planning to animate them?
huge amounts of fighters, lasers and gigantic explosions, that sort of stuff?

Sardaukar · Post by **Sardaukar** » 2002-12-01 07:58pm

I'd really like to, but I don't have enough free time to do the geometry, textures, IK, particle effects and animation for everything I make, so I've just been doing geometry because that's what I enjoy the most.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-12-01 09:08pm

which programms do you use?

Sardaukar · Post by **Sardaukar** » 2002-12-01 09:25pm

3ds Max 5 and Photoshop 7 (when I bother to do textures). So everything is in .max format.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-12-05 09:13am

hey, max 5.

yeah, time sucks. it shouldn´t be passing by that quickly.

God Emperor · Post by **God Emperor** » 2002-12-06 06:35pm

i like the third one best, heavy fire power automated fighter