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Title: GDI Kodiak
Post by: FraktuRe on June 19, 2009, 12:38:41 am
As I'm sure many of you know, the firefly and enterprise have been featured on BSG.

The GDI Kodiak had a nice little cameo in the finale of bsg too...
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e12/Cl1nt/Kodiak.jpg)

Here she is in the finale:
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e12/Cl1nt/gdiKodiak.jpg)

However, The Kodiak has in fact been in the fleet since the mini, and there was two of them!

(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e12/Cl1nt/kodiakbsg.jpg)

Not just out on the edge of the fleet, here she is next to the big G:
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e12/Cl1nt/kodiakbsg3.jpg)

One was blown to hell when cloud nine went up ;)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e12/Cl1nt/kodiakbsg2.jpg)

The pics aren't the greatest quality, but they don't lie. she's been there all along. There's numerous other shots of her that I couldn't be bothered capping right now, but she's in the fleet.

So the real question I'm asking here is, when do we see her in diaspora? :)


Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: ShadowGorrath on June 19, 2009, 01:16:03 am
No, don't. . . Even though it was used as background ships in BSG, the Kodiak belongs in C&C only.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: Lt.Cannonfodder on June 19, 2009, 05:07:31 am
I for one wouldn't mind seeing the Enterprise and Serenity. They are canon afterall  :p
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: karajorma on June 19, 2009, 05:12:37 am
Quote from: FraktuRe on June 19, 2009, 12:38:41 am
So the real question I'm asking here is, when do we see her in diaspora? :)

We haven't even got the BSG in Diaspora yet. So we're not going to fart about with easter eggs of that magnitude for quite a while.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: Dilmah G on June 19, 2009, 05:42:34 am
How the hell do people notice these things?
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: YIIMM on June 19, 2009, 07:22:40 am
While I didn't recognise it until a friend told me, I did notice it as a ship that I hadn't seen before/hadn't received that much foreground attention.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: General Battuta on June 19, 2009, 09:43:51 am
The Zoic explosions are so much better.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 19, 2009, 01:48:37 pm
So where are the Serenity and Enterprise?
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: StarSlayer on June 19, 2009, 01:55:06 pm
Quote from: colecampbell666 on June 19, 2009, 01:48:37 pm
So where are the Serenity and Enterprise?

In the show?  A firefly transport buzzes the doctor's office in the mini when Roslin is getting her diagnosis.  The 1701 is in the RTF somewhere.  Funny enough in Serenity the Colonial Defender is among the Reaver fleet when the crew is leaving Miranda.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 19, 2009, 02:01:27 pm
So that's why that looked familiar. I hadn't seen the mini for years.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: The E on June 19, 2009, 02:05:52 pm
And here, the images:
Serenity:
(http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu320/FabianW/ser.jpg)

Enterprise:
(http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu320/FabianW/enterprise-bsg.jpg)
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: karajorma on June 19, 2009, 03:40:38 pm
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the second one isn't Enterprise at all but simply one of the Flattops (http://darthmojo.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/flatop_rad.jpg) with poor lighting.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: General Battuta on June 19, 2009, 04:00:22 pm
How about that totally untextured Olympic Carrier-type in S4.5? Did we ever get an explanation on that? It kind of stood out in the TV broadcast, being luminous grey and all...
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: karajorma on June 19, 2009, 04:17:45 pm
I suspect that's exactly what it was.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: General Battuta on June 19, 2009, 06:52:28 pm
I more of meant an explanation of 'how it snuck through VFX'. I mean, that's a heck of a blooper!
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: FraktuRe on June 19, 2009, 09:21:45 pm
You'd be surprised how many errors I could spot in BSG over the years.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: Fish on June 19, 2009, 11:00:18 pm
There's a green screen visible out the window of Colonial One on New Caprica :p
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: FraktuRe on June 20, 2009, 08:49:08 am
A new one I spotted today, one of the top screens on the centre dradis console on the galactica has a windows XP login screen on it during the battle for new caprica.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 20, 2009, 09:11:34 am
Maybe that was an easter egg. That'd be a bit much.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: YIIMM on June 20, 2009, 10:23:44 am
I've no idea if this is an error or deliberate, but it still jarred me:

In Daybreak Pt 2
Spoiler:
just before Galactica is about to jump away, you see it in the same shot as the botanical cruiser, in such a way that it seems the cruiser's in the foreground. But then, Galactica veers off and you realise it was actually behind, making it look massive. First few seconds of this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPnemCzjfZ4)
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: josh_88 on June 20, 2009, 10:45:10 am
Quote from: YIIMM on June 20, 2009, 10:23:44 am
I've no idea if this is an error or deliberate, but it still jarred me:

well it is a botanical cruiser so its full of plants and such. imagine each one of those domes on it has full grown trees in it. gotta be large to create a realistic habitat for a big plant ecosystem.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: Angelus on June 20, 2009, 11:24:09 am
Quote from: FraktuRe on June 20, 2009, 08:49:08 am
A new one I spotted today, one of the top screens on the centre dradis console on the galactica has a windows XP login screen on it during the battle for new caprica.

No wonder the Cylons were able to hack Colonial computers so easily. :P
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: htnk on June 21, 2009, 02:33:57 pm
Going back to original topic...

I'm currently working on recreating detailed Kodiak model for C&C 3 mod so in case you decide to put it into the game I might be able to help.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: karajorma on June 21, 2009, 02:35:16 pm
How detailed? Feel free to post some pictures.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: htnk on June 21, 2009, 02:42:39 pm
It's still a work in progress and has no texture yet. But once finished it'll probably have the best level of detail you can get from all the in-game movies , promotional pictures, concept art and other official stuff (and I've collected a lot of it before even starting to work on the model). I'll post it here as soon as its done.

I've been looking for the original model for some time but it seems that its nowhere to be found :(
So I decided to make my own model ...
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: StarSlayer on June 21, 2009, 05:05:08 pm
Heh always liked the GDI equipment from Tiberian Sun.  Looked like it was all built by Caterpillar, especially the Titans and Wolverines.
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: FraktuRe on June 21, 2009, 09:10:38 pm
I am currently having a crack at a wolverine, but I'm still veryyyyyyyyy amateur in the modeling department, :P
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: Dave2040 on June 30, 2009, 09:37:24 am
This might help! :)

http://www.cybergooch.com/pages/tibsunarchive/tsa_main.htm
Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: htnk on June 30, 2009, 05:12:06 pm
Quote from: Dave2040 on June 30, 2009, 09:37:24 am
This might help! :)

http://www.cybergooch.com/pages/tibsunarchive/tsa_main.htm

Unfortunatelly the only render on this site where Kodiak appears is this one :

(http://www.cybergooch.com/images/tibsunarchive/montauk_02.jpg)

And it seems that the model is not even finished there (some parts lack texture).

EDIT: Actually it is finished. Looks exactly the same on ingame video. My mistake...

Title: Re: GDI Kodiak
Post by: Getter Robo G on July 04, 2009, 02:49:01 pm
It's pretty rare to get a hold of C&C modlers (for outside use) so please post it when you're done even if it's not convertable, for render useage possibly. :)