Protoss Airforce needs huge remodelling

[Wankey]

I can't believe Blizzard is going to resign to poor polish now that they've gone so far with Terran and Zerg.

I'm talking about the Protoss airforce, namely Phoenix, Void ray, Carrier and Mothership.

If you will compare, the models of Battlecruiser vs Carrier:

Battlecruiser:

Carrier:


You can easily see that BC is a vastly superior model. Without a doubt the carrier needs remodelling. You can even see the polygons making up its main struts.

Voidray model works because it original was a huge model, now resized fits the current higher polygon sets. You can still see a few modeling issues with the polygons in the back being way too angular.

But compare

to something like:

It looks very dated.

Mothership:


Raven:


Although the Mothership's model *may* look better, it is indeed not since it is vastly larger than the Raven. One may surmise since there will only be ONE mothership on the battlefield, they can easily remodel a new mothership model to have 3x that of the raven easily (it's simply 3 ravens on screen)

Phoenix

Viking


Again, the terran models look many times superior to the protoss models. They are much more detailed and have a much cleaner specular map to them.

With the latest batch of damage animations showing the carrier with the animation already in, I am quite afraid that they've resigned to the assumption that the carrier is good enough.

Interestingly, the Protoss is the race with the least units, yet they have the lowest polygon units whilst the Zerg is the race with the largest amount of units on screen and somehow they have the highest polygon units.

I may be a little premature in yelling out this problem, as beta is still a few days to weeks away and the previews we have seen from the latest Korean expos may be already months old. I hope for a better Protoss airforce to contend with the might of the Terran and Zerg.

[SCdude]

They should make every unit as detailed regardless of the units size, since they will all be scaled to different sizes in UMS maps (see W3).

[ArcherofAiur]

/signed

[mr. peasant]

Indeed, this would appear to be a problem. However, Blizzard has stated that they intend to continue working on the models right up until release. Assuming they have some vague timeline worked out, this can be taken to mean that the art team will only complete their work shortly before the game's release. This isn't too surprising if you consider that they work there full time and that the finalized graphics are not needed (nor a high priority) for open beta.

[GeeGee]

It's really all a matter of opinion but I personally think Terran looks worst, aesthetically speaking, than the other races at the moment. I'd say the Protoss look best out of all three.

[scorpio19]

Carrier:

http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com...1108829199.jpg

[Wankey]

GeeGee, you have missed the point of my post entirely. Terran are supposed to look worst since they are the most aesthetically displeasing race (well I'd have to say Zerg but Zerg has that natural feeling to it)

I'm speaking of the models, quality wise are not up to par with Terran / Zerg

[Aldrius]

...Personally I think the Phoenix is one of the best air-unit models in the game right now.

The Void Ray looks great too, and while the Mothership and the Carrier are kinda bleh, I think the Void Ray and Phoenix look AWESOME.

[Wankey]

I have to disagree, while the textures look alright, the models are a little weak (I can tell where the modeller went cheap in the Void ray (notice the part behind the two arrays in the back?)

Phoenix looks alright actually.

[Zabimaru]

http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com...1108829199.jpg

I have a horse skull in my room that looks quite a bit like that... how I got it? That’s a tale for another dark, stormy night. I’ve also got... other... things...

I love the design of the void ray, but it does look like it needs a touch up compared to the other races.