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Title: plane shapes in AH
Post by: Grayeagle on September 12, 2009, 12:18:40 AM: Yanno .. I gotta tell yas.. the new plane shapes look *great* :)

The Corsair really brings out how much game environments have changed since 'back in the day'
..the cowling is finally 'round' and the shape matches all the bends and curves.

Wtg art doods .. cant wait to see what the next 10 years are like!

-GE aka Frank
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: Waffle on September 12, 2009, 07:34:36 AM: thanks! :)
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: LLogann on September 12, 2009, 07:36:23 AM: TRUE!!!
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: thndregg on September 12, 2009, 09:53:23 AM: Waffle has extraordinary talent and patience for the asthetics of AH. It shows.
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: OOZ662 on September 12, 2009, 10:53:10 AM: Comparison shots of the F4U4 over a small airfield with one bomb, one DT, and rockets.

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff255/OOZ662/AH1_F4U4.jpg
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff255/OOZ662/AH2_F4U4.jpg
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: AirFlyer on September 12, 2009, 11:02:06 AM: Very True.

Now if only they would make my A6M pretty. :cry
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: The Fugitive on September 12, 2009, 11:07:02 AM: GE did a lot of the art for AW and other 3d art work.

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/GEart/109flt.jpg)

So a great artist pointing out how good a job HTC great artists are doing is saying something !

WTG HTC's art crew !!

Check out some more of Grey Eagle's Artwork (http://s138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/GEart/).
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: macleod01 on September 12, 2009, 04:48:02 PM: Quote from: The Fugitive on September 12, 2009, 11:07:02 AM
GE did a lot of the art for AW and other 3d art work.

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/GEart/109flt.jpg)

So a great artist pointing out how good a job HTC great artists are doing is saying something !

WTG HTC's art crew !!

Check out some more of Grey Eagle's Artwork (http://s138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/GEart/).

You on commission from GE or something? :P
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: crazyivan on September 12, 2009, 05:00:48 PM: (http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/GEart/darkhog.jpg)

Cool stuff GE! Really liked this one. :aok
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: The Fugitive on September 12, 2009, 10:07:45 PM: Quote from: macleod01 on September 12, 2009, 04:48:02 PM
You on commission from GE or something? :P

nawwww, just a fan :aok
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: Grayeagle on September 13, 2009, 01:41:53 AM: No commission required . . always been 'into' WW2 aviation and enjoy stuff that looks 'right' :)

Glad you like what I do doods ..
..*always* get a kick outta makin somethin look like it should :)

-GE aka Frank
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: trotter on September 13, 2009, 02:52:40 AM: Very good, gotta say AH outshines all similiar competition when it comes to physical aircraft shape, as compared to actual pictures.
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: macleod01 on September 13, 2009, 11:55:08 AM: Ok, the Commission thing was a joke, and GE, I love your art work. Its true that a great artist admiring HT's work is something. <S> To you both!
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: gatt on September 14, 2009, 03:57:04 AM: Quote from: Grayeagle on September 12, 2009, 12:18:40 AM
Yanno .. I gotta tell yas.. the new plane shapes look *great* :)

The Corsair really brings out how much game environments have changed since 'back in the day'
..the cowling is finally 'round' and the shape matches all the bends and curves.

Wtg art doods .. cant wait to see what the next 10 years are like!

-GE aka Frank

Lets hope the Macchis will be redone within the next 10 years :furious
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: pipz on September 14, 2009, 07:43:34 AM: Thats outstanding work!I recall seeing many of them in AW.I always thought Blood Dragon was cool as hell <G>
I agree the new planes look realy good.

Pipz
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: Rich46yo on September 14, 2009, 03:25:02 PM: Sometimes with the new graphics? When the sun is setting or rising over water? In the right plane? It does look beautiful. The graphics look great all the time, but sometimes they really just blow me away. :salute To all who wrote the code.
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: Grayeagle on September 15, 2009, 04:19:11 PM: You know I crack up every time I see that ME-109 image I did.

I did that my last days at CAD Institute ..in DOS 3d Studio .. on a cutting edge 486 .. at 800x600 res
..and it nearly choked the poor machine just rendering that.
I mean .. it was over 5 *thousand* polygons!! .. Holy Cow!!

Nowadays the hi res models I have seen in demo's have over a *trillion* polys in them (!!)
. . yet I still have to wonder ..why have a polygon smaller than a pixel in the rendered image.
It's wasted.
Also goes for detailing a shape that will never be seen (ie: Jane's cockpits, backside of their throttle quadrants etc)
I actually took their cockpit for the P-51D .. built a much better looking one that was *thousands* of polys less for AW4 prototype
just because the details were where a player would see them, not backsides or out of view.

There was so much I did that never saw the light of day .. just a shame all the way around.
The AW4 Mustang was my best ever .. I was so caught out by the shutdown I never thought to burn off copies of my latest stuff before walking out.. grrr.

Good news is .. I can build better now.

-GE aka Frank
Title: Re: plane shapes in AH
Post by: EskimoJoe on September 15, 2009, 04:36:54 PM: I have trouble drawing stick figures, you guys are great :)