Modified Star Fighter

[kborak]

Looking good so far to me, but then agian the texturing is MY weakest point so Ill be bugging you for pointers I think.

[Major Diarrhia]

It doesn't look even remotely like the F-22 or any sort of modified modern fighter.

[kborak]

@ Major good considering that the story hes making it for is 150 years from now. It should only barely resemble something from today, but when I look at it I can see what his inspiration was,(although he told me soo.....) take the f-22 and then do you remember FireFly, those police ships that resemble fighters, I think he has a great melding of the two personally. Just my two cents.

[vividevolution]

I agree.
With a dash of the fighters from the movie "Stealth" thrown in for flavah!

[star_creations]

I love Flavah!

[kborak]

All the sudden I want to hear some old rap!

[Major Diarrhia]

Originally Posted by kborak

@ Major good considering that the story hes making it for is 150 years from now. It should only barely resemble something from today, but when I look at it I can see what his inspiration was,(although he told me soo.....) take the f-22 and then do you remember FireFly, those police ships that resemble fighters, I think he has a great melding of the two personally. Just my two cents.

My appologies, I completely forget to ask what the tech level was and didn't consider it might be taking place other than the near future. I had assumed the idea was the F-22 getting adapted for space combat through the infusion of alien tech, which might have resulted in an F-22 with gimbaled aerospike engines and maneuvering thruster ports. I didn't consider it might be a space fighter with design cues taken from the F-22.

[kborak]

hey major I didnt mean that to sound as if I was offended sorry if you took it that way.

[Monkey Boy]

Originally Posted by kborak

All the sudden I want to hear some old rap!

10 points to the person who can work out what it was I thought you said when i mis-read *this* post!

I posted a reply to that texture a while back, but it does not seem to be here, oh well, I'll try to remember what I said.....

I felt the texture looked a little too like the plane is covered with fabric - I once owned a pair of trousers with a similar texture.
I feel the plane would either have smooth panels with panel joins if it was made of titanium (for heat resistance) or have ablaitive armour - in which case it would have a somewhat ceramic texture.

The engine section, and around the engine section, I feel should be affected by heat, perhaps blued or purpled metal.

and the lines in the current texture should not criss-cross, but rather all be in the one alignment, like they were scarring from micro-meteoroids.

Don't worry about the ship's colour too much, as generally to a fighter, colour is less important than luminescience and reflectivity - particularly in space, where the mercury and gemini capsules were both black, but when seen from orbit were first spotted by other astonaughts from a distance as star-like points of light.



It is important to remember the future setting of the story - To be honest, if you look at how much fighters have changed in the last 50 years, there is every possibility that this design is actually *not modern enough*, who can tell what the next 150 years will bring?

[star_creations]

BIG THANKS TO Monkey Boy...

That helped ALLOT!....Thanks again bro.