3D version of the unit reference pictures

[Robear]

The Minotaur looks like a little baby. :/



It's at least a bit more respectable when it's only compared to the smaller ships.



To be honest I'm not thrilled with how low-poly this one still looks. The whole hammerhead/bridge/main body sections probably just need to be remade, but, I still have finals, so I'm not doing anything about it right now. The ends of the wings, the engines, the neck, and the yamato cannon area are all fine, because they were based more on my drawing, while the bad parts were based more off the in-game model. So those parts still look like a game model rather than a real ship.

[Gradius]

I'm reminded of the Norad crash cinematic where a scourge was as big as that valkyrie you have there. :P

[Visions of Khas]

It seems there's a lot more detail you can bring into your piece if you so choose. But I think these will really shine when you texture your Minotaur model.

[Robear]

It seems there's a lot more detail you can bring into your piece if you so choose. But I think these will really shine when you texture [them].

I'm working on it. Textures/materials in Maya are not at all intuitive, but I'm learning slowly.

[Hawki]

Oh that's right Robear. Do a Dominion and KMC Wraith but not a UP one. Never mind the little guys or anything.

Still, snark aside, nice job. Like the look. Keep at it.

[Visions of Khas]

Textures/materials in Maya are not at all intuitive, but I'm learning slowly.

Tell me about it. I had some classes using Maya 3D and I absolutely hated the texture interface. Texturing itself is a whole lot of fun, it's just applying it to the model that sucks. You get used to it, though. I wish I remembered more about it than I do.

[Robear]

If I try to finish the 3D version of all the ships, they'll probably just be untextured models; I'm kind of giving up on texturing and lighting. There's no way, given how much trouble I've had so far with terran ships, that I could do a good job with curvy protoss stuff. I'm also just still having problems with Maya like getting shadows to work. You won't see any higher-resolution renders than this from me any time soon because at higher resolution you can tell that everything looks like crap.

[topsecret221]

Thank you at least for being a total badass

Good luck on any more future endeavors

[Robear]

I'm not done with awesome Starcraft projects yet, not by a long shot. :P Though I am recovering from the huge blow that Heart of the Swarm won't work in my current operating system... Mac OS 10.6 isn't going to be supported anymore, which seems crazy to me... I always loved that Blizzard games were accessible to the lowest common denominator, and you'd think a 3-year-old computer would be a-ok, but I guess not... Upgrading is probably only like, $20, so maybe I just will... But still, annoying.



Anyway, I do have something, a secret, super-awesome project that'll be coming out in the next week or two. So, look out for that.

[Freespace]

This looking good, Robear. Love to see such passion in fans of the game.