[SypheDMar]

I'm a fan of the curvy turrets.

[Aardwolf]

They look frail... fits in well with the Mentu

[The Dagger]

Love the turrets but I also agree with Black Wolf, the plates should be greener and a little more varied.
Keep up the good work! 

[Oddgrim]

Love the new Mentu; not sure about the curves barrels on multipart turrets.

R

Cheers, but the MP stays how they are.

If you don't own ndo2 you should, will make your life a lot easier. Creating very clean normal maps with it is very easy with a little practice.

I got it yesterday and played around with it, it shows promise but I'll need more practise with it to put the program to any good use c: Thanks for the info!

Looking pretty deadly. 

If we're in the nitpicking stage though, I'd say that that center seam needs work. Were i texturing I think I'd reduce the mirroring slightly to avoid having the seam run perfectly through the center like that, but then again I don't texture.

I'll save that bit (if needed) to the last depending on how the normals come out but for me it's not a big issue c:

It's gorgeous texturing, but if I could suggest two small colour changes - the main scale texture should probabyl have a little bit more green in it, like the original mentu texture, and that sky blue strip could probably be changed to one of the more traditional Vasudan glowy colours - more of a royal blue, or yellow.

But I have to reiterate - truly, truly amazing work here. I really hope you take another look at that Newet texture when you're done with this - a few more Vasudan models of this calibre would be incredibly welcome.

Thank you!, I added more green into the tilemap and it worked a bit better, as for the glowmaps yes I agree they need more work perhaps reduce teh intensity of the blue ones...

I'm a fan of the cuhttp://www.hard-light.net/forums/Smileys/HLP/biggrin.gifrvy turrets.

yay!

They look frail... fits in well with the Mentu

I'm sure a man (like yourself) apprciates this image then.

this turret was only made for fun and in no way this silly thing will be used

Love the turrets but I also agree with Black Wolf, the plates should be greener and a little more varied.
Keep up the good work! 

cheers! I have bonked on the plates a bit. c: How is your path progressing?

I'm about 90% done with the textures now, just doing straightening some of the more dodgy stuff in the machinery textures and adjustments. Soon I'll start on the debris models and texture and all that jazz, the turret rigging and other stuff has already been done earlier. 

[Cyborg17]

Beautiful!!!! I can't wait for the normal maps to be finished.

[Rga_Noris]

Great machiney bits.

[Trivial Psychic]

Have you considered my forward turret proposal?

[Rodo]

WOW.

you rock man, that is awesome.

[Alan Bolte]

Have you considered my forward turret proposal?

[Commander Zane]

Have you considered my forward turret proposal?

*Snip*

I was not expecting that.

Keep up the good work.

[Kolgena]

hahahahaha

Good work, looking good.

[Oddgrim]

Have you considered my forward turret proposal?

hahahah! I did NOT expect this. well done. 
As for the turret, I'll make a version with a forward single turret for beams, it's easy to do.

[Oddgrim]

Texturing complete! (aside for some tweaking on the turret areas and front that is )
Here are both models for comparison. Now moving on to debris and texture for that. c:

[SypheDMar]

That is hot! Just wondering (probably too late now to change even if it's not), are the turrets on the same place as retail?

[Oddgrim]

That is hot! Just wondering (probably too late now to change even if it's not), are the turrets on the same place as retail?

not at all, I have the turret spots in a separate layer c:

[Kolgena]

I wonder if changing all the blue glows to green would be possible. The original had greenish metal as a motif, so keeping some of that same feel might look nice.

Overall though, it's a very good model that is well into the nit-pick-until-perfect stage.

[Alan Bolte]

Oh, I see, you were basing your textures off of the latest MediaVPs Mentu. I tend to remember the original.

[mjn.mixael]

That is hot! Just wondering (probably too late now to change even if it's not), are the turrets on the same place as retail?

not at all, I have the turret spots in a separate layer c:

He means are the physical turrets in the same locations as the retail model... which they need to be as close as humanly possible.

[Droid803]

I wonder if changing all the blue glows to green would be possible. The original had greenish metal as a motif, so keeping some of that same feel might look nice.

I'll throw my support behind greenish.

[MatthTheGeek]

I'm not sure what you all mean by that, I don't see anything remotely green in the original.