http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2010/07/27/high-polycount-spaceship-blender/
My spaceship's polycount
I’ve been wondering what the polycount on my spaceship model is for quite some time. Today Morpheus (a member at sci-fi meshes – where I’ve posted a couple of renders of this model as a work in progress) asked my polycount and prompted me to act.
After a bit of Googling I found out that the polycount of my model was listed there all the time at the top right of the main Blender window. The Fa (short for faces) is the polycount. That means my spaceship has the whopping huge polycount of 75181, and it’s only going to go higher as I add more detail.
I’m away from home and can’t remember my Sci-Fi Meshes login so I’ll have to post and answer Morpheus’s question later.
I Googled around a bit to see it there were any other spaceship models out there with such a high count, and it turned out that there are. I just hope this is going to be OK for inclusion in the game.
Another member, Lennier1, mentioned that it looked like there was some influence from Firefly. And this sin’t the first time that my spaceship has been compared to the spaceship from the TV show – and one surprisingly good movie.
I thought I’d better go Googling for images of the Serenity (the spaceship from the show) to see if I had a problem. Here is the Serenity.
Hmmm, I don't see it.
It’s a fair usage low res image from Wikipedia before you call the show’s lawyers.
And here is my spaceship.
Hmm, maybe
There are, I must admit, some superficial similarities. Both spaceships have a vaguely triangular bridge/cockpit, both have thick mid sections and engines/thrusters out to the side on struts, but that’s about it. I don’t think there’s much of a resemblance at all.
Flattering though the comparison is, the Serenity is nice spaceship model.
