Hi Seb

You have obviously put a lot of work into this model.

Is it available for download through the google 3D warehouse?

I would like to see it in Sketchup so I can evaluate it closer.

 

• You may want to smooth it down a bit, as there are many lines on the surface that doesn't seem to have a function.
• Also Sketchup has a habit of breaking surfaces up in irrational ways, when you extrude or scale stuff. This is seen e.g. if you take a square box and divide it into 3 equal slices and then scale the mid section of it up or down. The two boxes on the side rarely end up exact copies if each other. - A way to correct this could be by deleting lines on surfaces of the one copy and replacing them with lines matching the ones on the copy you want to keep. This will force Sketchup to make new faces that match the other copy.

 

I hope my ramblings are of any help. ;-)

 

All the best, Johnny

This is a really great design.  Hopefully we can see it zooming around Freestyle in the near future.

it looks great seb but... to me i think a sky MONSTER should just look more monsterous. As is, it just looks like a jet.

if any one wants me to i can put out all the different stages of the sky monster to show how it came to be

maybe it should look more like a blimp and rase like a balloon rather then tilt, this way we dont get a whole disaster like: Phew we got away! (gains alt by tilting)  OMG I FELL OUT! (gets shot and louses quarry)

 

NOOOOOOOOOOO

 

anyway its cool but it might not work as a carrier.

 

great job though!

 

hmm (tests html)

 

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better yet it could be a big airship like in those movies:the-castle-in-the-sky and nausica-and-the-valley-of-the-wind!

 

(if you dont know what im talking about, I mean a giant metal thing thats not very aerodinamic  but has lots of propellors!)

 

IT WOULD BE PERFECT!

My first Google Sketchup tutorial, so please be gentle... :)

You can find it on my youtube channel:

 

Have fun!

 

All the best, MacDane

fellow mars players feel free to speak your mind to me one this as i want to know what you think about it and possible ideas/ changes that could me made so i can still work on it to most of you likings as i will see what i can do depending on what you think  

the Sky Monster now has a crash deck due to the main body getting wider/fatter 

oh and if any one is wondering the green parts are the ramps

I think that it should look less jet like and more like some big hefty carrier, like the sea monster. 

here is the new front end i just did babag

sorry but its not done. needs 2 be better blended and textured

ok here is level 1 of the observation deck

it took me a while due to the fact i could not find a line to get rid of so i could start, i will now start on level two for you guys 

right to start things off here are some pics of the first level of the Sky Monster

this is the area under the ramp that leads you to the next level of the sky monster

the light green area are the ramps, and the light blue area is the 1st level of the observation dome at the front, more pics to follow

Cool!

 

I plan to have this hovering near the top of the Freestyle volcano in the next beta release.

I am sure there will be more feedback once I work with it a bit - but overall, great job!

 

-Aubrey

Cool idea Aubrey, but how far above it? If it is too far, only the buggy will be able to get to it.

its not done.

for those with blender here is the file so you can look at it

ok this is a pic of the slam deck ramp you use to enter or exit the Sky Monster

WOOT!

 

1.9.8 WILL HAVE A SKY MONSTER!!!

 

 

 

YAHOO!

(maybe it would look better if it had a "bigger belly")

 

less airodinamic=good excuse for not tilting

I can imagine it docking here!

 

 

sorry about the fire!

in the purpose of keeping this post near the top due to it, going to be put in the game i say

 

Look, I am at my wits end with this thing (I have been for a while, but I just had the most wonderful idea!)

 

Just to tell you how big the thing needs to be, and what it really looks like on the inside, I am willing to download you model, program it a little (auto pilot), and put an old model of the buggy into it. That's right, I am willing to let you know ow your thing will look. It should be less flat, and more thick, like my original concept design. In fact, I am half tempted to actually create my own "sky monster" using my conceptual design..... Yeah, I think I will do that, I have tuns of spare time. In fact, I will even give the model to you, though it takes blender.

I would just like to point out to you... The sphere that you are calling a viewing area? Yeah... first of all, it is a part of the main mesh, so Aubrey will (and this is assuming that he actually does accept the model), have issues with texturing it separately. You have placed it in such a way that I cannot select the whole thing, unless I do it one vertex at a time, and put it in a separate mesh to be textured. Also, it is infinitely thin, and has only ONE side, so either anything that touches it's edge will be sucked in, or will be sucked out.

 

 

Just letting you know, so that when you enter it, and your view deck is just a large sphere, not transparent, then sucks you clean out, you don't get mad.

Another FYI, Your model has numerous inverted faces, and because the mesh is most likely not symmetrical, I can't double-side everything. This means that many parts are see-through.

And.... The lower-outer floor is inverted too!

The entire lower floor, and ramp are inverted! Ok, look buddy, I can't get this to work, however I will show you one picture....

 

 

Ok, that is about the size you are wanting the whole thing to be (actually it is smaller), and the terrain in the background is about 4-2.5 times the size of freestyle.

 

 

Look, I hate to rain on your parade, but someone has to be the bad guy! And sadly, I am that someone.

ok i know it is big but that is that and i am sure there are ways to make it smaller, as you can make things bigger 

Ok, Sebby, as ice cold as Clubby is, he does have some points. The fact that there is no inner sphere in the viewing area is my fault, I kinda forgot about that and never mentioned anything of the sort to Seb. The fact that the faces are reversed is exactly the same as how it was on the Sea Monster. It is quite large, I already made Seb aware of the scale between the Buggy and Sky Monster. Heh, and the fact that you are making a Sea Monster model because you have TONS of free time is funny to me, Clubby. I get the "Too Busy" treatment very often from you.

It looks great.  Maybe it could replace the sea monster.  It could start out whare the current Sea Monster starts out and you could drive on in any vehicle.  You could take control of it and drive it accross the lava and then take off and fly it like an airplane.  It would have its own power and some kind of variable thrust control.  (maybe the + and - buttons).  It would have 2 levels like the sea monster and would be able to launch vehicles from its hangar bay.  Maybe it could slow down to let friendly vehicles on and the vehicles already inside could use their lasers to make sure no enemies get in.  Maybe if an enemy DID manae to somehow pass the hangar defenses, it could procede up a ramp to the cockpit and take control from the current pilot.  The Sky Monster would not be very manuverable, but it would be fast. 

 

Let me know what you think. 

ok Fly Club i did go and fix the front of it adding another sphere to the one already there, and as soon as i get the blender link for it back from spiffy i will post it, but for now here it the Sketch up one

here is a picture of what i did

Currently, having been inside it, I think the inside could be bigger

He is working on that oz.

Good job Seb.  It is looking great. I wish you luck on finishing the rest of it.

 

-KD

I think that the other sky monster on the right would be better (roomier, lower poly count).

 

Just round the joints out a bit id say.

mad seb but a huge icecream would be so much cooler

 

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