excellent models. i am an artist, but i do a lot of freehand, so learning how to create awesome skins for my models with paint prorams is something that i am trying to learn right now. that quality can make or break a game. the type of work that i have seen here is truly inspirational.

Thank you Blink, you are welcome

excellent as always, congratulations to you, frank.

ill buy them. tell me when they are done!

Nice new model! Thanks for the info. id has made many of my favorite games, but I didn't know they used Lightwave (I was referring to player created models like the one's of planet-quake.com).

I was expecting it to be around $3000, but it's only around $900! I'll have to start saving for it, I guess my bands new PA system can wait lol.

Well, if my new project goes well, then I'll probably be purchasing ALOT of your work for it. Since it's going to be 2.5D, I can use your models with NM at full quality

Maybe we can find some kind of trade?

I so wish I had your modeling and skinning talents .

Right now I'm trying to do a good texture for a futuristic racing vehicle I built (the model itself is okay), but my skins on it are not so good. I can't get that perfect cylindrical mapping like on your air converter, . It's always warped at the seams, top and bottom, or left and right, depending on which part of the model you're looking at.

Then again, you're using different software, so there's probably an "automatic cylindrical map" function in it.

@mrcode

if you use blender you can use a baked ambient map and the your shading at least will line up

@frank

sorry for cutting in on all the compliments to your great work.

xXxGuitar:
Thanks. I am looking forward to your 2.5D concept game. I would be happy to help. Actually I also thought about some kind of an 2.5D game for a possible project.

MrCode:
I think this is no talent - just work. Lightwave does cylindrical mapping but at the end I have to move and stretch uv-polygons manually. So there is still some work involved.

LoctClimate:
I am sure that Blender can do all that stuff as well. I once checked and liked it. A baked ambient map is a very good idea if you paint your textures later on. I use this technique for organic models. But for many other models I do it the other way around: I imagine this model in my head or on a paper and then I paint textures first. After that I start to model and uv-map the object. It is way more fun since I can apply textures right in the moment I am creating the mesh. It even saves time.

never thought of that, I might give it a try. the only other issue is that if you bake it, you can subdivide and get real normal maps, not the crappy plugin for gimp made ones. I'll have to give your idea a try tho sometime.