Pirate ship model - Developers

[b]Pirate ship model for shipwars[/b] [b]INTRO[/b] Hi all, I'm new here so please dont bite my head off if i done something wrong already :p Before i begin excuse my crappy english.. I'm here to present you all something small i have been working on last couple of days. Me and my brother love doing ship wars in gmod. So we both made our own ship and spent over 5 hours building it and stuff which is fun of course. But after a while when we where both ready we wanted some action and thats where the issue comes in. The problem with building your own complex contraptions and using them to battle eachother especially on water causes a shitload of lag which isn't exactly fun. So. I came up with the idea that prob over 9999,99.. people have already come up with but never actually finished. The idea was to make a low-poly Galion model made out of 7 seperate parts. Because there are only 7 parts the lag would be greatly reduced. So here it is. Complete with detailed collision model. Not much blabla and overkill details. just a simple good looking design with a neutral-ish wood texture which makes it possible to color it the way you want, same goes for the sails. So you can still personalize your vessle, but instead of completely building one from scratch i provide you with the basic model. And so i tested it all and it does its job well. I made a movie about a battle between two of these ships and will upload it soon :) [b]More information:[/b] - 7 parts: 2 types of masts, 4 types of sails, 1 hull - Detailed collision model - High quality textures yet not resource hungry! - Big ship, lots of room! - Texture can be changed in color by ingame color tool - Lag-free shipwars - Balcony that you can stand on! - Custom Galion design! I looked around the web for some existing designs then made my own version :) Ropes and smaller details for movie usage or stuff like that u must add yourself :p [b]Also, this is my first in-game model.[/b] [b]To do list:[/b] - Make 10 different sail designs - Maybe make a additional map(pack) - Cannon model maybe dunno - ... [b]Some screens.[/b] 3dsMax render [img]http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/1873/shippng.png[/img] [img]http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/189/ship3.jpg[/img] In gmod: [img]http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2783/ship4.jpg[/img] [img]http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/6593/ship5.jpg[/img] [img]http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/3230/ship6p.jpg[/img] [img]http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/5255/ship7.jpg[/img] [img]http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/185/ship8.jpg[/img] [b]DOWNLOAD[/b] [url=http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GDCOZD5C]Pirate Ship Model v 1.0[/url] Install and spawn instructions inside readme. As a newer version gets released older one will be deleted and replaced!

Looks good, but it lacks a lot of detail. It needs stuff like trim, dirt etc.

[QUOTE=~ZOMG;27098577]Looks good, but it lacks a lot of detail. It needs stuff like trim, dirt etc.[/QUOTE] Adding to much details destroys the very purpose of the model, it would cause lag :/ What do you mean with trim, dirt? You mean i should add more texture details? If yes, i can do that. Also, its still wip so might add a few more details here and there like ropes around the masts and such..

This looks really nice, but the sails really detract from the appearance by being so low-poly. What you should do instead is get rid of the masts and sails and suspend the whole thing by ropes from a zeppelin-style balloon to make it a pirate [i]airship[/i]. With all the polies you'll save, you could make a mighty smooth zeppelin.

The curve up the front of the ship looks off, the top should point forward more.

[QUOTE=FZE;27116263]This looks really nice, but the sails really detract from the appearance by being so low-poly. What you should do instead is get rid of the masts and sails and suspend the whole thing by ropes from a zeppelin-style balloon to make it a pirate [i]airship[/i]. With all the polies you'll save, you could make a mighty smooth zeppelin.[/QUOTE] lol haha thats brilliant actually. I might upload a seperate version for the air-battle fans ;) And about the sails, i forgot to give them a smoothing group, thats why they look low poly :p

Add 'Jiggle-Boned' sails for a cosmetic prop.

[QUOTE=Moja;27153482]Add 'Jiggle-Boned' sails for a cosmetic prop.[/QUOTE] Hes trying to make the most simple of simple pirate ship props, with a touch of good appearance. He doesn't [i]really[/i] need jiggle bones.

Could you please add a mediafire link? I would really love to use this model!

I think it looks very nice. Good work!