GZ81 Naganata - ZeroG Supremacy Fighter

Xoliul

Fun project i've been doing for a few months in my spare time. I worked more on it then i had anticipated, but still didn't get as far as I wanted due to time constraints and shit happening.

I tried to make it not just another vehicle by itself, hence the scene in UDK. All realtime.

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More here: http://www.laurenscorijn.com/portfolio/gz81

This project definitely represents the best of my abilities (not that optimized though), so if anybody out there knows of a cool job that would fit my skills

Wahlgren

I came. Now add another ship that it can battle.

Also. New banner material. to much of the same old up there.

bluekangaroo

awesome

doeseph

Sweet. Looks like an F-Zero vehicle. Double Schweet.

blitz

looks very cool, like the shape and the details.

Sebeuroc

Very cool work, man. It feels reminiscent of Mass Effect (but maybe that's just the color scheme.)

gsokol

Slick. I dig them shapes.

ajr2764

Looking great, love the texture work on it.

haiddasalami

this looks sweet xoliul. Any chance for a video? Would love to see the effects in motion. Also is your sun based off Epic's procedural sky material? Think a subtle fresnel effect will help pop the ship out more rather than blending in. Also the guy that made a concept, just bookmarked his flickr page. Awesome stuff in there...

Xoliul

Hey thanks guys!
haidda: the sun is a lensflare (custom) combined with lightshafts on a Dominant Directional lights. Oh and the ship already has a subtle fresnel I'll look into a video, animating camera's and such is kinda annoying in UDK.

Snipergen

Ahh just fantastic as always sir. I love the scene you've put together, and the details on the ship are just right.

Also for the love of god put this guy finally in the banner!

polygoo

pretty awesome

Alberto Rdrgz

Fucking Tits Laurens, tits!

ae.

very awesome! great job!

haiddasalami

Xoliul wrote: »

Hey thanks guys!
haidda: the sun is a lensflare (custom) combined with lightshafts on a Dominant Directional lights. Oh and the ship already has a subtle fresnel I'll look into a video, animating camera's and such is kinda annoying in UDK.

O. Must play around the lensflare stuff. For one of the levels we're making I just reverse did what epic has and implemented some of my own stuff. I hate animating camera's though this really needs one :poly142:

bounchfx

I'd play that game

Xoliul

Thanks dudes, the nice comments mean a lot to me!

bounch: yeah man, a lot of stuff is there, I've even done some weapon effects already. I should find a coder to make some simple gameplay demo with it (or try it myself ). The animations on the ship look really cool, the airbrakes and flaps all move, it even has thrust vectoring.

fearian

I love shit like this. the design, the colours, fantastic! Seriously, get out of my head man!

Mio

very very nicely done man! both the texture and mesh looks great. love the metal looking and reflection!!!

PatJS

Wow, that looks really good! My only critique would be that the hard edge on the hull just behind the canopy looks really incongruous with the nice edges you have just behind and in front of it.

boyluya

Cool work Laurens!

Rapante

only thing that really sticks out for me as a typo nazi is the "Z" in GZ, it looks too much like a "2" I don't think it feels like a futuristic "Z". But that's the only "major" crit I have great work on the ship!

Conor

Gorgeous model and textures - but if it's a zero-g fighter I assume it operates in space, so it wouldn't need wings or air-intakes or wheels. I guess it could work like the shuttle - launched into space on a rocket and then lands itself, but then it still wouldn't have air-intakes and it would need a dirty big heat shield and a proper aerodynamic shape.

Yeah I know - sci-fi design is more about looking cool than actual functionality. :-)

JeremyRM

Haha yeah after pat pointed that out I agree, but man what a sweet model. Did you do any conceptualizing drawings or just go at it?

Xoliul

Hah Pat, you got me on that one. I should add a little crease in the normalmap there to fix it. I'ma try and do a little bit on it when I get time.

Rapante - yeah I agree man. That Wipeout Font I used for it was kinda dissapointing, no lowercase, no numbers, etc.. I should fix it up myself. Just didn't feel like messing with fonts too much.

Conor - hehe, agreed. It's really no Zero-G fighter if you look at the aerodynamics and everything, it doesn't even have directional thrusters. I just thought the name sounded cool together with dasnewten's "GZ81" designation I also really tried to make it look believable by using jetfighters as reference next to the Lego design.

Jeremy, I did a silly little paintover of the lego, painting away the stubs and sort of filing in a few gaps. Strayed from it a lot once I started doing the nose area, the lego design didn't really work there.

Anyway, I really want to try and do more because of the feedback i get here, a little cutscene "introducing" the ship, like the Gradius II intro. Hmm, if only I could multiply my time

mixeh

Wow can you explain briefly your process for modelling the main chasis, looks too detailed for me I wouldn't know where to begin!

Xoliul

Here's some WIPS, might give you an idea. It's sort of a 3D concepting I did here. Also I really focused very hard on getting a flow of surfaces in there and to get the polyflow as optimal as possible on them:

snow

Thanks for those WIP's Xoliul. I really hope you pick up some work, you deserve it with how giving to the community you are (and obviously your quality of work :P).

Shogun3d

Ahh nice you ended up finishing it! Looks sweet, textures are popping out really nicely!

d1ver

That's a damn solid piece! Great job, Xoliul!
Thank you - it's a been a late night feast for my eyes.)

Stinkfoot

Very nice, i'd have sex with it!

ScoobyDoofus

Super sexy space ship Xoliul! I don't think your UDK renders are currently doing this piece justice.

Xoliul

Hey Scooby, i can see what you mean, as I feel I can never get things as crisp and defined in UDK as in Max with my shader. It's mostly because of the lack of AA, the mipmapping, the texture compression and the lack of HDR reflections, all things that are very hard or impossible to work around.
Or do you mean lightingwise? I was thinking the red light might be a bit too strong. And maybe the spec could be stronger also...

ScoobyDoofus

Xoliul: Yeah, I agree with your assessment of the limitations of UDK and it playing a major role in making your piece look worse in that scene.

Lighting: I also think its because your ship is mostly backlit in both those frames. While that composition, with the star in the background, looks neat, it services the entire piece rather than helping to showcase your model. You could flip the camera around, show the lit side, and have colorful nebulae in the background to give you the same compositional support you get now w/ the star & planet.

SHEPEIRO

beautifull -
could be used for sub g gravity like small atmosphered moons perhaps artificial atmospheres etc which maybe less dense etc...
who cares not me... on the lighting front scoobs has got a point... perhaps some aviation style wing lights (turned off in combat) might help illuminate the matter... excuse my poor scribblings on your awsome images

Xoliul

Hey shep, scooby, thanks for the feedback. I agree that the current setup serves the whole more than the ship by itself. there's a few different ones on my site of course, but i don't like those as much as the two i posted.



I think it's coloring a bit too red in that one.

I will have to try the suggestions from your paintover though, Shep!