Clavin12's Models/Concepts

[mrtwosheds]

Its a mine layer, its packed full of explosives, make it go bang big time, drive lots of them into your enemys base.

[iron maiden]

Good idea, pack 'em up with nukes and watch the fireworks!

[Clavin12]

Here's another ship fer the cp.

[iron maiden]

Looks good, keep up the good work.

[VSMIT]

It looks like you based it on the Cerberi Talon (or Hadean Zeus), but just bridged the forks.

Come up with something new.

[bb1]

Pod racer.

[iron maiden]

Mmh, know that you mention it.......

[Clavin12]

I actually based it kind of on a pod racer because I like the look of them.

[TheJamsh]

Reminded me of Hadean Zeus straight away.

[iron maiden]

Did not remind me of either because the ship went the other way, in that the two talons were engines.

[Clavin12]

Just for you Vsmit



And A picture of its UV unwrap. Is it good this way?



Why is it that bmp's take so much longer to upload than jpg's?

[iron maiden]

Um.......Clavin.........pardon my french but.....................


WHAT...............THE HELL...............IS THAT?!

[VSMIT]

Did not remind me of either because the ship went the other way, in that the two talons were engines.

Hey, man, what are you smoking?  Play FE again, then re-enter this conversation.

[iron maiden]

So VSMIT, what your saying is that I am pretty much stupid because I did not see Clavin's models for what you think it is? Do you have something against me seeing someones model differently? I simply got a different impression of the model when I first saw it and now see the resemblance now that I know which way it is susposed to go.

[Zero Angel]

Why is it that bmp's take so much longer to upload than jpg's?

BMP -- No algorithms to compress it, in other words it has a lot of unnecessary data. Think of trying to move furniture to a different location by moving the whole house. Its clumsy and inefficient. So it takes longer. Another way to look at it is if I were to say every number out loud "11111111111 000000000 110110110 110110110 110110110 110110110 110110110 110110110", it would take a lot of time.

PNG -- Uses 'lossless' compression in order to make the filesize small, and does not remove detail. Think of a moving truck where the furniture is efficiently packed, and stacked ontop of each other. Another way to look at it is if I were to say "1x11,0x10,110x18", its a lot quicker than saying each one and each zero -- if you knew how to convert those instructions into the long version (like in the bmp example) you save a lot of space (and breath) telling another person. That is sort of how compression works.

JPG -- Removes some detail in order to give a small filesize. Its sort of like squishing the furniture really really tightly together on the truck, to the point where the furniture becomes a little bit damaged, though you wont notice all the damage all over the furniture unless you look closely. JPEG takes a lot of shortcuts in order to make the file small so it downloads quickly, but the shortcuts it takes end up causing the image to develop artifacts (those little 'nose halos' that tend to gather around the edges of objects), the smaller you compress the image, the more noisy it gets.

GIF -- Uses a compression algorithm to remove unnecessary data, but only supports 256 colors and optimizes best for simple art (like these forum smilies) and not complex things like photos.

I hope my analogies were good enough.