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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: gevatter Lars on July 07, 2003, 10:44:27 am
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I have been asked from some people to make a new ship for there Wing Commander RPG so they can better imagin what there main ship looks like and what it can do.
I have taken a look at theire discription (just words no drawings) and made this one.
The Picture show the MSS Light of Murada, a Battlecruiser. Its a mix of a cruiser and a carrier...similar to the Waterloo class cruisers of Wing Commander 2. Some kind of multipurpuse ship that can get into a battle and provide the rest of the fleet with descant firepower and a small fighter support. Like the TCS Midway its a stand alone battleship, but quite smaller and without that many fighters.
It's some kind of modern varation of the same basic design as the Waterloo, but during the Wing Commander Prophecy timeline. Its based on the Plunkett class cruiser and the Waterloo class cruiser mixed with the Wing Commander Prophecy stile of shipdesign.
And now here's the picture
(http://wingcenter.ufosnetwork.com/pics2/298.jpg)
I still need someone to texture it...hope that someone of the Wing Commander community can do it.
If anyone has commands post them. Beside that, what do you think is nessasary to give the ship a more movielike look.
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Jesus... that thing looks damn cool! And I can see you've done your WC research - the resemblance to the TCS Cerberus is kinda striking!
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yup, there's the "nose" of the plunket too.
nice ship :)
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Great job there. It fits in fairly well with what I know of the WC universe (Only the first and last games :D ).
How many polys/Any chance of a version appearing in FS2?
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Btw, your description of it sounds a lot like the Hades ( Wing Co secret ops, that's the ship the player is based on ). Excepted they call it a strike cruiser I think. Basically, it's a mix between... a cruiser and a carrier :p.
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I've always ovjected to WC ships being so simplistic, but guess you've proven me wrong
Good work man, very nice indeed
BTW, what the polycount on that thing?
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Hades class strike cruiser
The Hades class is a small cruiser for quick attacks behind enemy lines. It hasn't the firepower or the fighter completment to be a real threat to any bigger battleforce. (Even in WC:SO its was possible, but these bugs are just quite damn stupid ^__^ )
Vengance class Battlecruiser -> aka MSS Light of Murada
The Battlecruiser is a one man army like warship. Capable of deploying nearly as many fighters then a small carrier and still got the firepower to get into direct firefight with any known ship, maybe except the Vesuvius or a smaller fleet.
About the polycount..with all its turrets and stuff....10313.
If I you want a convertable version I have to redu the entire thing because of many intersection polys and such stuff....made it just to look good, not to be converted ^__^
If it will be in our mod...well first I have to redo it as mentiont above, then we have got the timeline problem.
But maybe it will be in there after all...I am thinking of making a second Campain out of the RPG. Problem is, there aren't many fights and I would need much more Wing Commander Prophcey ships (we are concentrating on Wing Commande 3+4 at the moment, because of our story)
Well how know, maybe it will be, maybe not. Time will show it.