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K'luth Ships (Wyvern, Reaper, Manticore, Carapace, Pincer) |
Kenny_Naboo
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From: LobsterTown
|  Posted: 2010-06-10 01:46
This ship was meant to be a concept for a dread. I didn't propose any specs.
That, to me, is best left to the devs.
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Draxcyn
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| Posted: 2010-06-10 02:02
oooh Shiny! 8D
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Light-of-Aurora
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From: NJ, USA
| Posted: 2010-06-10 10:28
Although I'm not sure whether you specified this, I think you had the side where the 'pincers' were facing designated as the front.
I was thinking it would look pretty awesome if the side with the 3 circular 'holes' was the back. I thought it might seem as if the ship is dragging tentacles behind it, with the 4 'mandibles' around a single 'mouth.'
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DiepLuc
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| Posted: 2010-06-10 10:43
Kenny, you have the talent to be DS designer 
This concept reminds me of GAIFEN, so it's ok for Kluth.
Keep in mind that Kluth ship needs to be small, so the hit box is not too big to avoid fire.
Looking forward to see your next concept. I'm your fan! 
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Kenny_Naboo
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From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2010-06-10 21:47
Version 3:
Updates:
- Completely redesigned wing pods with detailing
>>> no more engine pod appearance
>>> resembles a flat body insect with folded wings
>>> added extrusions and ridges
>>> "tubes" from pod to wing
- Redetailing of main body
>>> made the front "intake" smaller, changed to ovoid shape, resembling a cyclop eye
>>> additional ridges and extrusions on body
>>> Main body spines and fins redesigned with reduced poly count
EDIT: Added in additional details, and as Bardiche suggested... making the wings thicker for a beefier look.
- Made the wings thicker at the leading edge. Wing still tapers to a thin trailing edge
- Remodeled tail end for a more organic, K'luth look. No more "jet engine" port at the tail. Tail now tapers to a "stinger" end.
Main engine added... melded into the scorpion tail.
2 sub-engines at the bottom end, melded into the root of the ventral spines.
- Added more "tubings" from the wing pods to the wings.
Orthographic top view, just to get a sense of scaling/dimensions
And the rest of the perspective views.
[ This Message was edited by: Kenny_Naboo on 2010-06-11 04:27 ]
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Bardiche
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| Posted: 2010-06-10 22:22
Looks very Scorpion-like. If anything, though, I'd suggest thickening the arms a little; the pods are attached to the main body with very small arms, and given the fragility of K'Luth ships it seems a bit weird to construct/breed a ship that has such fragile-looking arms.
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Kenny_Naboo
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From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2010-06-11 00:19
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On 2010-06-10 22:22, Bardiche wrote:
Looks very Scorpion-like. If anything, though, I'd suggest thickening the arms a little; the pods are attached to the main body with very small arms, and given the fragility of K'Luth ships it seems a bit weird to construct/breed a ship that has such fragile-looking arms.
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Edited: as above, Ver 3.
Along with other little details.
This coming to the final version. So please keep your feedback coming.
Ultimately this is just a concept. Done in Blender, and most probably with lotsa n00b errors, and screwed up vertices and normals, along with a stupidly high poly count. 
I don't expect this to be taken up by the devs or otherwise. Just serves as practice for me. But if you're interested, just let me know and I'll put the Blender file up later, after my final iterations of it.
[ This Message was edited by: Kenny_Naboo on 2010-06-11 00:32 ]
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Tael
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| Posted: 2010-06-11 16:26
looks good but its still not organic enough, most of the current ships have smooth rounded lines, not sharp squared edges.
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NoBoDx
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| Posted: 2010-06-11 16:35
hm somehow this ship reminds me of the zerg-ships in starcraft
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| Posted: 2010-06-11 17:22
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looks good but its still not organic enough, most of the current ships have smooth rounded lines, not sharp squared edges.
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Red October
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| Posted: 2010-06-11 17:34
I am an little jealious that Kenny is getting alot of attention.
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Kenny_Naboo
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From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2010-06-11 20:02
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On 2010-06-11 16:26, Tael wrote:
looks good but its still not organic enough, most of the current ships have smooth rounded lines, not sharp squared edges.
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noted. However there's only so much I can do to make it less 'squarey'.
Already the poly count is sky high due to my use of spheres, cones, and torii, all stretched n warped to get the desired effect. Maybe it needs texturing. Unfortunately I haven't figured that one out yet.
Any Kluth hull textures for me?
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Shath
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| Posted: 2010-06-11 21:12
hmmm was this done on blender?
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| Posted: 2010-06-12 02:09
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On 2010-06-11 20:02, Kenny_Naboo wrote:
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On 2010-06-11 16:26, Tael wrote:
looks good but its still not organic enough, most of the current ships have smooth rounded lines, not sharp squared edges.
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noted. However there's only so much I can do to make it less 'squarey'.
Already the poly count is sky high due to my use of spheres, cones, and torii, all stretched n warped to get the desired effect. Maybe it needs texturing. Unfortunately I haven't figured that one out yet.
Any Kluth hull textures for me?
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Yeah, there is something you can do to smooth the surfaces. Won't let you know, though. And make your own textures.
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Kenny_Naboo
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From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2010-06-12 02:17
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On 2010-06-11 21:12, Shath wrote:
hmmm was this done on blender?
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Yes it was. Gonna get me a copy of 3DS Max next week n try that too.
I can't do much more to it except texture it. Too many polies already.
In fact I'm thinking of stripping it down some.
[ This Message was edited by: Kenny_Naboo on 2010-06-12 03:30 ]
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