Still in WIP... this is something I modeled about 7 years ago fairly high poly, in fact I had to use the Multires modifier in 3DS MAX to get the vertex count low enough to export it. Just did this as a means of testing myself on the exporting process. Had tons of degenerated faces to work out.

The texture got screwed up a little by the multires plus my initial UV layout is just a rough one I threw together.

Took me about 5 hours to work out the UVs and degenerative polys.

I put in the Cry3 lighthouse as a scale reference as well as a human.

Going to try to refine the UVs and the texture over the next couple of days.

Comments and advice welcome.

The terrain is Mt St Helens, WA, USA.

Cleaned up the UVs a little, also found the original model I did 7 years ago. The lower poly version and just projected the high poly normals and maps onto it. Still some UV errors to work out, but it's moving along.

Cool! Is it a spaceship?

Thanks.

Yeah, it's an Artillery frigate.

good job! alot of modeling

Make a rendered scene in Max battling some other ships!

Here are renders I did several years ago in MAX.

http://daakusutepsu.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4xc0m1

http://daakusutepsu.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4xc12i

When I originally designed it, I wanted it to look like it was Anime style, so the second link is the cel shaded version.

The renders miss something. It doesn't look like the spaceships are actually in the scene but painted on top of it. Get a better background.

That was a procedural bg I made that would rotate around the ships when I moved the camera, so if I ever wanted to animate it, the bg would move accordingly. Regular backdrops just didn't work, that was why I came up with that.