concept by me but 1200 polies

nice one

I'd definitely use it

yeah same here very nice model u got going there chrono!

anyone care to mesh/skin?

i wanna try and skin it for fun if someone smeshes it!

tf im doing im going with the general syle of pipes and stuff its exactly 1000 polies
and im thinking of enclosing the piston thingys with like a box then using transperancy and making it a grate i dunno tell me what you guys think of this and any ideas on how to improve it

hmm i like the idea, but it's to... plain for me, needs a little more spice. not the TF that is.

pretty much finished with the TF unless you want other stuff changed on it 1100 polies

bashh you confused me were you saying the TF is to plain or the observatory?

pardon, i was saying that the observatory is too plain TF... is weird but kickass

then tell me what to add to make it better
here is where the grating will be on the TF all the pure white is going to be replaced with grating

*shrug i donno, but its just too plain

i like the TF tho the Obs is real fat at the base

im completely baffled on what to add on the observatory but i did make it taller to get rid of the fatty feel

Maybe make the dish bigger?

maybe make it a long thin pole with dish and it has a lil cable that connects to another lil PC thats placed beside it?

noooooo

nooo you ripped the idea of detail behind awesome grate-stuff from my head!!! /me wonders what animations could be done with thems buildings...

TF the pistons moving back and forth?
and the observatory the dish rotating?
and for the construction animation i was hoping it would be possible with the structure being dropped with the tubes not in the floor have them just laying around and when it gets constructed the tubes are plugged into the floor

i REALLY like the cable-toobs. both the models are fantaschtick!

Also, like i said. im not skinner number 1, but if you want any help, i would love to assist in anyway possible

make the dish of the obs so its not circular, that would be original

and it would be ugly as hell...

as it stands that obs is just a dish and a base, put something on it for the cabels to plug into... a monitor, keyboard, wings, or anything else, just something so it isn't just a base and a dish.

*twitch*




On the topic of the observatory, how about making the dish point diagonally upwards?
Like

will do good idea

ill animate if you assign the bones for me

Maybe a pointy thing in the middle of the dish, like a real one?

omg i get hte playboy channel now on my satillite

chrono what ever did u do ur the bomb

(not really i dont have that channel )

i just had a GREAT idea (at least i think so), make the dish as grating. haven't you ever seen those older satellite dishes that are about 8 feet across and made of some sort of black mesh? you should do something like that with this obs, and that way the two would fit together even better.

*watch computer go through the roof*

could be done in a good skin... but model wise, that polys would be ungodly @_o

not to mention a huge pain in the ****

nice one, looking forward to the whole thing

Polycount wouldn't be an issue at all;in fact, you could cut most of the polies off of the dish entirely.

Just use a masked transparency.

lol, what are you guys talking about? you dont have to change the model at all from how it is now, you just make the skin have a transparent background and you're done.

(though i would suggest changing the dish so it looks like there would be a support structure under the grating.)