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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Beowulf on January 01, 2004, 11:58:27 pm

Title: Suggestions?
Post by: Beowulf on January 01, 2004, 11:58:27 pm: New fighter of the day:

(http://nsys.web1000.com/images/04fighter01f.jpg)
(http://nsys.web1000.com/images/04fighter01fs.jpg)

Comments / thoughts / suggestions?

~Beowulf
Title: Suggestions?
Post by: Corsair114 on January 02, 2004, 01:49:11 am: Umm... hum. I'm not sure what to say. Looks alright, except perhaps for the giant guns. It looks a lot like an Ursa to me.
Title: Suggestions?
Post by: Beowulf on January 02, 2004, 02:57:24 am: (http://nsys.web1000.com/images/04fighter03fs.jpg)

smaller guns, touched up nose and stern, smaller on Y and Z axis.
Title: Suggestions?
Post by: karajorma on January 02, 2004, 02:59:33 am: I like it except for the square gun barrels. Round them off a little and you'll have quite a nice ship there.

Oh. While you're at it you might want to make it so the back half of the cockpit smoothly joins in with the rest of the ship cause I'm not so keen on the current buble look.

EDIT: I like the thinner version but both were pretty cool.
Title: Suggestions?
Post by: Beowulf on January 02, 2004, 07:47:10 am: Thanks. I actually agree with you but I was too lazy last night to upgrade the cockpit (which I made from scratch) and the cannon. My goal is to make this as polished as possible, as so far I really like where it is going. New pic in a couple hours.

~Beowulf
Title: Suggestions?
Post by: mnftg64 on January 02, 2004, 03:56:26 pm: thats really good. round guns would good. maybe you could liven up the cockpit a bit. I wouls have to play with the model myself to get what I'm thinkin (can't explain it) but with that model you could proble make it look really cool.

in short good job!
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Post by: magatsu1 on January 02, 2004, 04:27:32 pm: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma
I'm not so keen on the current buble look.

ever seen the canopy on an F16 ? Coolest canopy ever.

I think the model would look better with smaller engine pods.
Good nose shape BTW
Title: Suggestions?
Post by: karajorma on January 02, 2004, 04:51:50 pm: Actually the F16 is closer to what I was on about than this model. The cockpit meets the main body of the ship at a far steeper angle than it does on the F16.
Title: Suggestions?
Post by: Unknown Target on January 02, 2004, 05:26:54 pm: The canopy is a bit TOO bubbly. Look at an F-16, and you'll notice it has a dorsal spine running from the rear of the canopy aft to the tail.

And fix the engines. There has to be some continuity between the wings and the engines.
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Post by: Ghostavo on January 02, 2004, 07:17:06 pm: The middle part just looks to be too "in the top" compared to the side parts... it's like a medusa with 2 overgrown missile launchers.

If you take the engine/missile launchers parts what remains looks like a cool small fighter.

If you continue to do it the way it is I advise you to rename its class to bomber...

keep up the good work. :)
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Post by: Goober5000 on January 03, 2004, 12:11:13 am: I like the first pic better. It looks like a Medusa Mark II.
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Post by: karajorma on January 03, 2004, 04:46:21 am: It's definately a bomber not a fighter. But I kind of like the sleek look. It fits in with the whole Herc/Herc II sleekness.
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Post by: Janos on January 03, 2004, 09:49:00 am: Move the canopy towards the nose (Apollo), and make the main fuselage a bit bulkier. Make the gun/missile pods raise above the fuselage.
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Post by: magatsu1 on January 03, 2004, 10:52:46 am: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma
Actually the F16 is closer to what I was on about than this model. The cockpit meets the main body of the ship at a far steeper angle than it does on the F16.

I thought you meant Hurrican/ early Mustang stylee.:)
Title: Suggestions?
Post by: mikhael on January 03, 2004, 03:19:15 pm: Needs a better cockpit. Show me some three-view pics and a wireframe so we get a better idea of the shape.
Title: Suggestions?
Post by: Beowulf on January 03, 2004, 03:44:42 pm: What I've got so far:

(http://nsys.web1000.com/images/04fighter05fs.jpg)
(http://nsys.web1000.com/images/04fighter05f.jpg)
(http://nsys.web1000.com/images/04fighter05fb.jpg)

I like the cockpit now, so at this point I probably wont change it. The gun points could use a little work but I'm okay with them. The engines are my next step. They need to match in better with the rest of the ship.

~Beowulf

Edit: Should I get rid of the bottom extensions of the engines to counter balance the missile points and cockpit? I'm thinking yes....

BTW, I intentionally wanted this thing to be rather small, hence the large cockpit. It is meant to have a small secondary loadout and be fairly fast, hence the powerful engines.
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Post by: mnftg64 on January 03, 2004, 03:46:58 pm: wow, thats pretty impressive
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Post by: mikhael on January 03, 2004, 04:56:16 pm: I've changed my mind. I like it better now. I'm loving the big intake looking areas. Definitely drop the bottom part of the engines though.