Don't worry, I agree with every bit of your critique. I'm right now working on a surface bump map for nice chunks of hull plating, and I'm puttering with a UV map.
As for detail to express scale: My concept sketch is back up (near the top of this thread) as of 2 seconds from this post, and what I'm basically aiming for is a massive hyperspace gate.
Thanks for the critique :)
Edit: Oh, I just figured out the wings 3d UV mapper, after a year of pondering :) Texturing done, look above. Moving on to bump mapping... That will just need some clever use of photoshop to do.
As for detail to express scale: My concept sketch is back up (near the top of this thread) as of 2 seconds from this post, and what I'm basically aiming for is a massive hyperspace gate.
Thanks for the critique :)
Edit: Oh, I just figured out the wings 3d UV mapper, after a year of pondering :) Texturing done, look above. Moving on to bump mapping... That will just need some clever use of photoshop to do.