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No, that was a different shape.
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Rather than remove the panel I just hid the faces. You can still see the out line of it but now you can see the structure underneath. I plan on adding more struts to the back and front portions, just didn't want to spend all the time doing it only to scrap it if no one liked it.


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me likes like that.
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me likes like that.

Me doesn't

Too much griders and the ships stop looking solid and ends up looking more like a unfinished construction project. I prefer it to be closer to hte original - solid armored block, but with interesting greebling stuff.
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me likes like that.

Me doesn't

Too much griders and the ships stop looking solid and ends up looking more like a unfinished construction project. I prefer it to be closer to hte original - solid armored block, but with interesting greebling stuff.

For once trash, I kind of agree

 

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Maybe a few small blob turrets for blowing away the stray asteroid.

So lose the armor panel or just reshape it?
Make smaller panels covering a few critical systems in the superstructure but leave the rest exposed?
Make it all solid?

Keep in mind this is a medical ship not meant to be on the front lines so It should look relatively weak. At the first sign of trouble the ships captain's first instinct should be to run.

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I think most parts of the ships should be exposed. Even armored plating should show up a few lights, IMO.
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Overall, I'm a a fan, though I think perhaps I wouldn't have gone with cylindrical connectors on the long axis. I guess I can kinda see why you did it, but the concept art makes it pretty clear that these are supposed to be squared off. Moreover, I think they kind of make it look a little small - like those areas are single man sized corridors rather than big thick connectors they are on a seven hundred metre long ship.

The engines are nice though, and the greebling overall seems appropriate. I particularly like the second version of the front brace - the central column it has now makes logical sense and gives it a look of solidity and strength, like a proper structural support (and I know, that'd be largely useless in space, but the aesthetics are, I think, important).
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Overall, I'm a a fan, though I think perhaps I wouldn't have gone with cylindrical connectors on the long axis. I guess I can kinda see why you did it, but the concept art makes it pretty clear that these are supposed to be squared off. Moreover, I think they kind of make it look a little small - like those areas are single man sized corridors rather than big thick connectors they are on a seven hundred metre long ship.

I have to disagree. If they were just tubes, you might be right, but with the bracing on each end I think it looks really great. It reminds me of old NASA concept art of space stations.
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I have to disagree. If they were just tubes, you might be right, but with the bracing on each end I think it looks really great. It reminds me of old NASA concept art of space stations.

Your right, I think I kind of had that theme running in the back of my mind when I did those sections. Any way I don't think I've shown it from this angle. You can see how it connects to the head better.


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This thread is for discussion of BrotherBryons WIPs rather than the role of the thing in a battle or why it has big guns etc. ;) Thread split and the other bit moved to general.

As for the cylinders, hey can you try adding some smaller pipe details around the outside faces running in parallel to the main tubes? I think that'd look pretty nice.
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As for the cylinders, hey can you try adding some smaller pipe details around the outside faces running in parallel to the main tubes? I think that'd look pretty nice.

Something like this?


By brotherbryon at 2008-11-09

Oh and the smaller tubes are large enough for a couple of people to walk through side by side.

Just out of curiosity what would be the polly budget for a ship this size. The additional tubes and struts pushed the current polly count well over 9000.
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The additional tubes and struts pushed the current polly count well over 9000.








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As for the cylinders, hey can you try adding some smaller pipe details around the outside faces running in parallel to the main tubes? I think that'd look pretty nice.

Something like this?

*SNIP*

Oh and the smaller tubes are large enough for a couple of people to walk through side by side.

Just out of curiosity what would be the polly budget for a ship this size. The additional tubes and struts pushed the current polly count well over 9000.

That looks good, just needs a few braces holding the main one and the side ones together :P
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I have to disagree. If they were just tubes, you might be right, but with the bracing on each end I think it looks really great. It reminds me of old NASA concept art of space stations.

I would have hoped space engineering would have advanced in 200 years. Having a ship made out of tubes and griders..it make it look REALLY old in FS terms. Like, pre- Great War.


I like the front, I like the end and the lower tube.

The upper tube not so much, but it's OK, the frontal connector grider thingy not at all.
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Damn how the hell do you type so well when you are drunk Colonol. I had to double check everything?


Eh, where?

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Eh, where?
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Sorry I was drunk when I posted that, it was a bad joke. It has been a while but I've seen you make a few drunken post. Those were well over a year ago though and I can't remember any specific examples.

Any way I've made more of the support arm solid and redesigned the armored plate. I'm still playing around with support struts for the smaller tubes running parallel to the main one but haven't liked anything yet.
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Well, for the small tubes, maybe you could make little access ports or control panels on the side, or maybe locking mechanism things.
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Greebles on the Hippocrates? I might have a go as well. :)
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