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Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: karajorma on October 06, 2002, 06:04:28 pm: (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/images/ShivanCorvette.jpg)

Here's my latest work. It started out as a shivan corvette (Since there is a shortage) but it's around 820 polys and as yet unturreted and unstablised (and judging from a quick test there are a lot of non-flat faces on it) so I think it would probably be better to make it a destroyer. If anyone has any ideas on how to improve it I`d like to hear them.
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Unknown Target on October 06, 2002, 06:06:30 pm: Looks like a fighter or bomber.
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: karajorma on October 06, 2002, 06:09:28 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Unkown Target
Looks like a fighter or bomber.

Most shivan ships look like fighters even the Sathanas :)
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Unknown Target on October 06, 2002, 06:12:11 pm: Actually, the Sath looks like a beetle.

BTW, that texture looks delicious. Strawberry :D
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: karajorma on October 06, 2002, 06:24:46 pm: It's not actually a texture. It's truespaces layered colours together with an image mask. I just put that on cause until I UV map it the textures look strange and distorted while this looks reasonably shivan :)

As for the sath I can see a small one as a heavy bomber :)
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Knight Templar on October 06, 2002, 06:53:00 pm: Su)(or for j00!
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: HeX on October 06, 2002, 07:01:59 pm: Beam Turret. Like the Mjolnir.
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Solatar on October 06, 2002, 07:29:19 pm: Take off the top two arms, and then shorten the conections from the bottom two to the body. Then you got yourself a kind of upside-down Manticore like thingy. It would be an awesome fighter. Remotely resembling the SF Chimera.
Title: Interesting...
Post by: Star Dragon on October 06, 2002, 08:24:40 pm: As stated before it looks more fighter/bomber like...
How about this, a shivan resupply ship? It's short, squat, mean looking, and heavily armored, medium armaments. Just an idea, but really like that design...
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: vadar_1 on October 06, 2002, 08:43:56 pm: It looks like its been floating derelict in space a couple million years too many.
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Knight Templar on October 06, 2002, 09:05:05 pm: Quote
Beam Turret. Like the Mjolnir.

looks like it could be one but i personally don't think the shivans should have RBC's. Doesn't fit.
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Bobboau on October 07, 2002, 01:12:33 am: well they have sentry turrets, how bout one with a beam on it, the only other thing this looks like would be a freighter, but that's a distant second
the claws are too thick and not farr enogh forward
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Knight Templar on October 07, 2002, 01:34:25 am: ph34r teh gheyness of Friends!
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Tiara on October 07, 2002, 02:24:22 am: Cruiser with 1 single big ass beam in the middle and some weaker ones on the "legs"!
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Knight Templar on October 07, 2002, 03:02:06 am: whateva!
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: karajorma on October 07, 2002, 03:50:18 am: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
mess wit it a bit, maybe get rid of one pair of claws, make the remaining pair go backwards and have spikes rising out of the back end going up. Then you might be able to say it's a corvette or w/e :nod:

That just makes it look like a shivan attempt at building the Enterprise
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/images/ShivanCorvette2.jpg)
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Nico on October 07, 2002, 04:19:01 am: this one looks cool.
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Black Wolf on October 07, 2002, 05:18:03 am: Oops, Double Post.
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Black Wolf on October 07, 2002, 05:20:40 am: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/images/ShivanCorvette2.jpg)

Meet the SCv Crayfish.:lol:
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Solatar on October 07, 2002, 05:21:49 am: That looks good, but try removing the top two instead of the bottom two.
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: karajorma on October 07, 2002, 05:25:22 am: You all prefer the second one? I only put it up cause I wanted to show that two arms didn`t look as good :D

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Originally posted by Hades
That looks good, but try removing the top two instead of the bottom two.

Okay. Here's a pic. Left to right, Two arms pointing backwards, Three arms pointing forwards and finally 3 arms pointing back.

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/images/ShivanCorvette3.jpg)

Since the arms aren`t glued on at this point I'll probably fix the geometry for the one I like best and then I can do some requests. :)
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: aldo_14 on October 07, 2002, 06:27:45 am: Looks a bit like a cross with a Sath and an Accordion.....

I think the arms are far too big... seeing as in most ships the 'arms' are solely weapons mounts, they seem a bit oversized here.
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: karajorma on October 07, 2002, 07:11:53 am: I'd have to make new arms cause the ones I`ve got really lose character if I make them smaller.

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/images/ShivanCorvette4.jpg)
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: RandomTiger on October 07, 2002, 07:14:28 am: Wow, great stuff there! :eek2:
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Stunaep on October 07, 2002, 08:17:21 am: last one looks butt-ugly.

The others look like a.... corvettes/cruisers are usually longer, so maybe a freighter or a supercap (gee, that quite a size difference).
Title: A Shivan Destroyer
Post by: Knight Templar on October 07, 2002, 06:19:29 pm: Look ! Over there! A bird! A plane! No... it's ......

Black Wolf?