05/28/2021 – All right, finished up with a blockout of the Kushan frigate. If the biggest lesson of the Achilles was texture early and often, the lesson of this frigate is shaping up to be ‘don’t start any project without orthographic views’. That said, click the image below to go to a p3d view of the frigate as it stands right now.
It’s wildly different quality as you go across the hull, with the finished airlock and turning jets, the nicely detailed bridge section, and the still ultra-rough rear.
The next steps will be finishing up the belly module block-in so that the hatches I’ve modeled but not actually positioned yet can be textured. The p3d has one, and only one, awkwardly placed on the left side of the belly module right now. I doubt they’ll be part of any kinds of animations in a Homeworld game, but part of the joy of starship design is adding in functional details. After that, those hatches and the dorsal antenna will get unwrapped and textured next week.
