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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: karajorma on October 05, 2003, 12:03:15 pm

Title: And now for something somewhat different.
Post by: karajorma on October 05, 2003, 12:03:15 pm: Here's something I've been working on lately. It's a comms satalite for SoR. For a change here's my untextured version.

(http://swooh.com/peon/karajorma/Misc-Pics/Bl%3boackade%20WIP2.jpg)

(http://swooh.com/peon/karajorma/Misc-Pics/Bl%3boackade%20WIP1.jpg)

I think it's still missing something but I can't decide what yet.
Title: And now for something somewhat different.
Post by: Ryx on October 05, 2003, 12:49:01 pm: Stick more antennas(sp?) and stuff (perhaps "retro"-style solar paneles) on there. If Bobs dx8 stuff works, then polycount isn't quite the issue it used to be.

Anyway
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Post by: Knight Templar on October 05, 2003, 01:14:18 pm: My god.. that's a satellite and not a station? :eek:
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Post by: karajorma on October 05, 2003, 02:01:38 pm: It did actually start out as a station. I later abandoned it for about a year. When I needed a com sat I scavenged the bits to make this :)

I suppose I could make a version as a station :) I have little use for it though at the moment.
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Post by: StratComm on October 05, 2003, 02:09:03 pm: A dish. It's missing a dish. Give it one and you'll be in business. Since it's a sat of some kind, the dish would probably be underneath; take the bulb out from under the panels and rework the antenna thing on the bottom to be much smaller. That would help the satelite image vastly.
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Post by: Knight Templar on October 05, 2003, 02:12:36 pm: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma
It did actually start out as a station. I later abandoned it for about a year. When I needed a com sat I scavenged the bits to make this :)

I suppose I could make a version as a station :) I have little use for it though at the moment.

Could I have a night with it if you do?
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Post by: Hellbender on October 05, 2003, 02:14:25 pm: Reminds me of the Starlancer installations.
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Post by: magatsu1 on October 05, 2003, 03:38:06 pm: Quote
Originally posted by StratComm
A dish. It's missing a dish. Give it one and you'll be in business. Since it's a sat of some kind, the dish would probably be underneath; take the bulb out from under the panels and rework the antenna thing on the bottom to be much smaller. That would help the satelite image vastly.

that's what I thought when I saw it. Think "BT Tower" (if it's still there)
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Post by: karajorma on October 05, 2003, 04:12:08 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
Could I have a night with it if you do?

:) Why not :) Any idea on what you'd like to see done to it if I made it into a station?
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Post by: Knight Templar on October 05, 2003, 04:38:59 pm: Perhaps a Hangerbay, and maybe make the bottom platform above the ball look more like a place to dock to capital ships? And if you really wanted to, you could add maybe a tower or sommat to the top in the middle of those anntennaes and stuff, then put the anntennaes and some radar dishes on that. :D
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Post by: Jonathan_S47 on October 05, 2003, 09:33:30 pm: What type of satellite is it?
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Post by: Setekh on October 06, 2003, 05:25:21 am: That's nice, how big is it meant to be a commsat?
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Post by: Killfrenzy on October 06, 2003, 05:29:29 am: Quote
Originally posted by magatsu1
Think "BT Tower" (if it's still there)

It is.

At least, it was last time I looked! :D
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Post by: karajorma on October 06, 2003, 09:47:07 am: As a Communications satallite I was aiming for reasonably small. 20-30m or so in size. As a station I'm not sure yet.
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Post by: Jonathan_S47 on October 06, 2003, 10:23:21 pm: You may want to add a variety of antennas to the satallite. Like a dish type on the bottom and a TV like antenna on the top or side.
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Post by: Liberator on October 06, 2003, 11:40:45 pm: Add a directional Parabolic Dish and a very long general broadcast antenna(think of your favorite 50,000 watt torch).

Also, as an afterthought, in my area there are several old-style microwave booster antennas. I think they're used for military traffic. Something like that would look nifty.
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Post by: Unknown Target on October 07, 2003, 06:24:10 pm: I dunno...as a comsat it's great, but as a station...needs to be flatter, or have more bits sticking out (like the Arcadia's "wing")
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Post by: karajorma on October 12, 2003, 12:00:44 pm: Bumped!

Here are the latest improvements. It's by no means finished as there are sections that need detail. MindGames want the station for the campaign but I'll probably make this a public release or have it appear in the demo (and be public from then on) depending on how long it takes us to finish that off (Yes KT that means you get to play with it as soon as it's finished!)

I've added arms to act as fighter launching bays. There are currently 5 of them but I'll probably cut that number down to 3 and use the other two for docking capships. Anyway here are the pics.

(http://swooh.com/peon/karajorma/Misc-Pics/MGFighterBase04.jpg)

(http://swooh.com/peon/karajorma/Misc-Pics/MGFighterBase03.jpg)

I'll start on the dishes in a bit :)
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Post by: Sigma on October 12, 2003, 12:26:28 pm: WOW, great work! :yes:
I really like it!

How many polys?
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Post by: karajorma on October 12, 2003, 12:34:30 pm: Currently ~2400.

The satalite version has ~1400 cause it doesn't have the launch tubes.

As you may have guessed that means HT&L only :)
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Post by: Knight Templar on October 12, 2003, 01:50:46 pm: Lookin' good dude. Lemme know if it's goin' in the demo or not, of course.
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Post by: karajorma on October 12, 2003, 01:53:37 pm: If I finish it, it's going in the demo. The only issue is if I release it before the demo :)
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Post by: Knight Templar on October 12, 2003, 01:55:13 pm: Well.. don't worry about the demo being out before you release.. :nervous:
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Post by: karajorma on October 12, 2003, 01:59:42 pm: Having trouble with it or just not findig the time to work on it? You can catch on ICQ (If you're ever not marked away that is!) :)
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Post by: Knight Templar on October 12, 2003, 02:06:46 pm: I haven't really had the time to have trouble with it, much less have time to work on it. But, I might get some time to do some work tonight, provided I don't procrastinate the schoolwork too much.