[The E]

Okay, I am going to say something very offensive right now.

**** FS1.

We are upgrading FS2. If this version does not fit your vision of FS1, feel free to make a new one.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Okay, I am going to say something very offensive right now.

**** FS1.

We are upgrading FS2. If this version does not fit your vision of FS1, feel free to make a new one.

This board and team is not called The FreeSpace Upgrade Project for nothing, pilot.

[Snail]

Angry The E is high octane nightmare fuel

[Rodo]

What? those are the best parts!, they break the monotony of the hull theme.

Or you want to have a fully UV'd model appearing to be tiled textured?

[SF-Junky]

So now, we have people complaining against a FS2-like look, and others complaining about a FS1-like mechanic look. Marvellous.

These parts look neither fs1-like nor fs2-like to me, to be honest. I also can't see how it would make the hull be monotone. The parts in fron of the bridge tower and between the engines look good without being monotone at all.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

So now, we have people complaining against a FS2-like look, and others complaining about a FS1-like mechanic look. Marvellous.

I can see why The E was pissed off.

[mjn.mixael]

Are.. you.. serious..

You want your old, completely covered in armor, all purprle/red textured, boring Typhon back? Go use retail. Seriously. Gray doesn't fit the color scheme? Are you mad?

Meh.. I don't need to defend anything. I know that those sort of mesh changes just aren't going to happen at this point.

[Mobius]

While I think the upgrade of the Arcadia should be blocky, I would like the upgraded Typhon to go a bit beyond the limit. The Typhon's Vasudan, ergo it's alien, and IMO justifies enhancements like those.

[Commander Zane]

Yeah it's not turning back, deal with it.

[Kolgena]

...what?

Rather have smooth hull than greebles? Whatever happened to your sense of rule of cool? Even in FSPort, it'll look better as is than with those rib portions covered up. (Now I will shamelessly insert a lobby to get the armor panels off the Leviathan jk.)

[Hades]

Personally, I think it looks fine. It holds the mechanical look it had in FS1 while taking some elements, namely the scales and gray parts, from the Aten, which has both, and no one complains about it being on it.

[Snail]

The fact is, this model eclipses the old one. By a world's margin. Scales/grey bits or no. And I'm probably one of the more vocal purists.

[NGTM-1R]

Gray doesn't fit the color scheme?

I don't care that gray doesn't fit the color scheme of the model. I care that it doesn't fit the color scheme of any other Vasudan ship we've ever seen.

[Snail]

Except the Hatshepsut of course

[Commander Zane]

A few people seem to be overlooking this detail:

All that needs doing is the textures, and I'm working on those myself.

[Mars]

I think it looks fine? I think it fits with FS1 Vasudan ships fine? I don't see what the problem is? Seriously - it's like complaining about the new Hecate because the old Hecate didn't have round turrets - it had more manly hexagonal turrets.

[Dragon]

Actually, the shape of retail turrets isn't really indicative of what they were supposed to look like, since IIRC, retail had an ridiculusly low limit on moving subobject polygons.

[Mars]

Actually, the shape of retail turrets isn't really indicative of what they were supposed to look like, since IIRC, retail had an ridiculusly low limit on moving subobject polygons.

My central point was more along the lines of - the feel of the ship has barely changed, and although the hull is "open" in a few places - it doesn't look unbelievable or bad at all. Those areas could well be heat sinks or something else.

[Dragon]

They do look a bit out of place, especially on a ship that's supposed to be very though and heavly armored.
FS2 style scales are worse though.

[Shivan Hunter]

I think they look fine. Between having the details and more of the same boring hull plating, I'll choose the details any day.