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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: HotSnoJ on May 23, 2003, 03:18:54 pm

Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: HotSnoJ on May 23, 2003, 03:18:54 pm
So what do you guys think?

1 HUGE POWERFUL beam cannon.
4 beam turrets for either anti-fighter or regular anti-capital ship.
3 Flak turrets.
1 missle turret.
1 laser turret.

Name:Haven't thought of one yet.
(http://swooh.com/peon/hotsnoj/beam-cruiser.png)
(http://swooh.com/peon/hotsnoj/beam-cruiser-side.png)
(http://swooh.com/peon/hotsnoj/beam-cruiser-top.png)

Retexturing is a given, but I want to know what you think of the design.
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on May 23, 2003, 03:21:27 pm
:yes:

Huge cannon-ships are what modelling is all about.
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Knight Templar on May 23, 2003, 05:43:38 pm
Unless you want it as a vulnerability, I'd put a aaaf one the front of the bottom white fin.

and you finally got FS2?

EDIT: Make the main cannon the only anti-ship. The others only aaaf.
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: TrashMan on May 23, 2003, 05:47:50 pm
Nice.....very nice

But the Cobra is better:
1 BFGreen
4 Cyclops launchers
3 fighter killers
2 Light Ion Cannons
4 Terran huge turret
7 terran turret
7 standard flak
8 aaaf
..................................
Title: Re: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Edwin on May 23, 2003, 06:38:17 pm
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Originally posted by HotSnoJ

Name:Haven't thought of one yet.


how about, "the big chunky thing with a few BIGASS guns."
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Shrike on May 23, 2003, 07:11:19 pm
The GTC Cyclops would be rather appropriate.  Too bad it's a bomb.
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Knight Templar on May 23, 2003, 09:19:40 pm
how about Steropes or Arges (Names of specific Cyclopses)
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Nuke on May 24, 2003, 01:07:43 am
im sure a valhalla could reduce it to a cinder with one shot.

valhalla loadout:

2 happy death beams
5 flash beam cannons
6 laser cannons
2 big a$$ flak guns
6 anti-fighter stinger missile launchers
4 fatman nuke launchers
2 meson torpedo launchers :eek:

needless to say, 3 of them iced a sathanas in a couple munites.
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Cyber Phoenix on May 24, 2003, 02:53:52 am
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Originally posted by Nuke
im sure a valhalla could reduce it to a cinder with one shot.

valhalla loadout:

...

needless to say, 3 of them iced a sathanas in a couple munites.


:eek2::eek2:

By the way the ship looks good but seems that it's design to work in packs...
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: HotSnoJ on May 24, 2003, 04:43:55 am
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Unless you want it as a vulnerability, I'd put a aaaf one the front of the bottom white fin.

and you finally got FS2?

EDIT: Make the main cannon the only anti-ship. The others only aaaf.

Good idea. I didn't load this ship out to the max 'cuz when I usally make a capital ship I put too many turrets on it. But since this is the response I'm getting I'll put MORE on! ;7

And yes I do have FS2 now (YA). I finished the main campiagn a few days ago. WOW what a great game! :D

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By the way the ship looks good but seems that it's design to work in packs...

I designed it that way. Also thinking of putting shields one it ;7
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on May 24, 2003, 04:47:32 am
How big is it?
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: HotSnoJ on May 24, 2003, 05:09:31 am
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
How big is it?

Couldn't tell ya. I thinking 200-300 m though.
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on May 24, 2003, 05:13:13 am
Hmm, the Lev is 253m, and I think it should be a bit smaller, if it's meant to hunt in packs.
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: karajorma on May 24, 2003, 06:07:33 am
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Originally posted by HotSnoJ
Good idea. I didn't load this ship out to the max 'cuz when I usally make a capital ship I put too many turrets on it. But since this is the response I'm getting I'll put MORE on! ;7


I'd ignore that kind of response to be honest. For a size of around 300m that ship is over-gunned if anything.
 Besides any fool can make a ship capable of killing everything. It's not hard. Don't turn a good ship into a stupidly overpowered one just to win a pissing contest.

As for the design itself I quite like it. I'd be tempted to either shorten that big fin or taper it a little. I like that dinky little turret on the top too (I take it you know you'll have to make it point straight up when you convert to a pof though).
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Black Wolf on May 24, 2003, 09:48:30 am
No offense, but why oh why do people around here feel the need to texture at random? Your main hull is in Deimos style, the fins look life Triton textures, and there are  what appears to be either Orion or Arcadia texs on that bump up the top. The overall effect is to give it a mismatched, scrappy look.

Some texture sets can be mixed (Collossus and Hecate, Orion and Arcadia) some cannot (Deimos and Triton). :ick
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: HotSnoJ on May 24, 2003, 09:58:28 am
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
No offense, but why oh why do people around here feel the need to texture at random? Your main hull is in Deimos style, the fins look life Triton textures, and there are  what appears to be either Orion or Arcadia texs on that bump up the top. The overall effect is to give it a mismatched, scrappy look.

Some texture sets can be mixed (Collossus and Hecate, Orion and Arcadia) some cannot (Deimos and Triton). :ick

Listen to me, "I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO PROPERLY TEXTURE ANYTHING!"
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: karajorma on May 24, 2003, 10:57:42 am
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Originally posted by HotSnoJ

Listen to me, "I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO PROPERLY TEXTURE ANYTHING!"


You and 3/4 of the rest of us :lol:

That said Black Wolf does make a good point in that even as a bad texturer you should be able to see that some textures just don't belong together :)

It's sort of like the difference between not knowing how to paint your living room and not knowing that purple with pink spots is a bad choice :)
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: HotSnoJ on May 24, 2003, 12:36:39 pm
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Originally posted by karajorma


You and 3/4 of the rest of us :lol:

That said Black Wolf does make a good point in that even as a bad texturer you should be able to see that some textures just don't belong together :)

It's sort of like the difference between not knowing how to paint your living room and not knowing that purple with pink spots is a bad choice :)


I guess thats true. I'll rephrase it.

Listen to me, "I HAVE NO ABILITY TO MATCH TEXTURES!"
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on May 24, 2003, 12:39:04 pm
It looks all right to me.

The mis-matching of textures suggest it was cobbled together, and so would make an excellent pirates' vessel.
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: SKYNET-011 on May 24, 2003, 05:44:28 pm
I don't see anything wrong with the textures, except for the 'fins' on the back.

Great model:yes:
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: diamondgeezer on May 24, 2003, 06:19:34 pm
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Originally posted by Nuke
needless to say, 3 of them iced a sathanas in a couple munites.

But then so can a Fenris armed with Pellestrom's Mega Beam :blah:
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Anaz on May 24, 2003, 06:28:19 pm
actually, about 20 fenris can destroy a sath in pretty short order, as long as they stay out of the way of those front beams...
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: HotSnoJ on May 24, 2003, 08:44:00 pm
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Originally posted by SKYNET-011
I don't see anything wrong with the textures, except for the 'fins' on the back.

Great model:yes:


Dude those are engines, not fins.
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Nuke on May 27, 2003, 04:40:38 pm
the valhalla is about 530 meters long, designed to work in packs, and i know how to texture things. as another note, anyone with some photoshop skillz can make their own tile textures. of course the valhala is a corvette, not a criuser (too much firepower :thepimp: )
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: Starks on May 27, 2003, 05:16:52 pm
Call it the GTXBe Cyclops...

(Who would win? Gorgon Cannon from Derelict or this new mobile mjolnir?)
Title: (WIP) beam cruiser
Post by: SKYNET-011 on May 27, 2003, 07:49:28 pm
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Originally posted by HotSnoJ


Dude those are engines, not fins.


Oh...

The textures on the ENGINES. :p