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Submitted By ACC-Yoshi on 12/01/29
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Remember my post awhile back about my Aircraft Carrier world? Yeah, well, it isn't working out so well. It looks nice, but the inner workings are too small to have fun in. The widest pathway can barely fit 2 buggies side by side. Therefore, I have decided to scrap the project, and start over.

The old carrier was created when I barely knew my way around Sketchup, and since then I have gained some new tricks. About a week ago, I created the body of the new carrier. It now has a complete outer hull, and basic tower, which will be improved, and an elevator. (nonfunctional)

After that, I worked on a fighter plane, inspired by the F-22 and some artists' conceptions of the mythical Aurora I found online.

I intend to make the pathways much larger, and provide plenty of room to run around in.

Here are some pictures:

The plane has a cockpit now! I won't be putting the planes on the carrier until they are in Unity, as the planes add a bunch of lag to it.

I have decided upon the name Pathfinder, named after the Earth expedition to Mars.

Comments and constructive criticism appreciated.

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                      Re: Aircraft Carrier 2.0
                      3 days - 9,416v
                      Posted 2012/02/01 - 2:21 GMT
                      At this point, the aircraft carrier looks really fat, at least from the angle you took the picture at. Besides that, it looks cool! Besides that, just try to keep the poly count as low as possible, that usually helps with lag. However, depending on how many jets you have, you should make them look prettier. Also, they look a bit impractical at this point. Where are the intake vents? There  are lots of  ways  to  keep the poly count low while still making the actual thing look really cool. For example, you can check the inside of the jet to see if sketchup automatically created some unneccesary faces inside the model (where no one can see them anyway), that happens all the time with me. Put some curves into the body of the jet, oh and it needs a cockpit as well...
                      besides that, nice job! sorry if this constructive criticism sounds blunt, but it kinda is, so you're just gonna have to deal with it. I'm too lazy to go back and make it sound polite...
                      see ya,
                      ffroggy
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