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Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: IPAndrews on January 06, 2004, 11:10:49 am
The Cylon Basestar is done. Yay!

(All textures by Maudib)

(http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/battstarg/pics/acrossthebow.jpg)

(http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/battstarg/pics/basestars.jpg)

(http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/battstarg/pics/flee.jpg)

(http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/battstarg/pics//nearmiss.jpg)

(http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/battstarg/pics/patrol.jpg)
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Unknown Target on January 06, 2004, 11:29:43 am
Ummm..."FortuneCity"
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: FreeTerran on January 06, 2004, 12:24:53 pm
yeah still didn't work :(
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Raptor on January 06, 2004, 12:42:11 pm
Sweet!:yes::cool:

But.. I think you need to repostion the engines on the Viper.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: aldo_14 on January 06, 2004, 12:48:19 pm
wheee!
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: karajorma on January 06, 2004, 12:56:18 pm
I just get the fortunecity thing too. Even on a cut and paste.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: IPAndrews on January 06, 2004, 01:07:57 pm
Oh well. You're not missing that much if I'm honest.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Raptor on January 06, 2004, 01:20:47 pm
Opphs! just noticed my (very silly) typo! I meant to say engineglows:rolleyes:
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: c914 on January 06, 2004, 01:49:00 pm
Looks nice :yes: ( mayby some others vievs near of station?? )Viper and Cylon fighteters to:D
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Ashrak on January 06, 2004, 02:01:32 pm
nice i loved Battlestar 2003 ;)
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: magatsu1 on January 06, 2004, 03:03:59 pm
I'm lovin' your work.

is it possible to make the engine glows white though ?
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: KARMA on January 06, 2004, 04:06:55 pm
:yes:
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 06, 2004, 05:31:19 pm
Hehe - looks like good stuff. I'll be grabbing that soon enough to have a play with the associated stuff in the 'working version' of the mod. :)

That's three so far, now we just need a decent Battlestar and we'll have the primary ships! :)
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Falcon on January 06, 2004, 05:44:06 pm
Thats nice! :D
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 07, 2004, 01:00:44 am
Great stuff
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: ZylonBane on January 09, 2004, 02:17:21 pm
Cool.

Too much specular on the Basestars though. Those things are nasty, grimy, greebled bastards. Not pretty shiny things!

(http://www.culttvman.com/assets/images-SFTV-2003/racylon03.JPG)
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 09, 2004, 03:29:05 pm
I run FS2 Vanilla when testing the BSG stuff as we're trying to retain compatibility with retail, so I don't use spec! :D
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: IPAndrews on January 09, 2004, 03:30:03 pm
I agree. Everything is too shiny but in particular the basestar. It looks like it's been waxed. I'll have to ask in the SCP forum how to reduce it.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 09, 2004, 03:33:29 pm
What about making our own shinemaps for it? I don't know how they work though....
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: IPAndrews on January 09, 2004, 03:41:01 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Killfrenzy
What about making our own shinemaps for it? I don't know how they work though....


Yes, thanks for that. :lol: Very helpful.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 09, 2004, 03:48:40 pm
Lightspeed knows. :p
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: magatsu1 on January 09, 2004, 04:07:52 pm
is that a beam next to the Vyper, 1st picture, or just a regular laser shot ?
(just curious)

does the basestar have it's launch bays aswell ?

"By your command"
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Flipside on January 09, 2004, 04:39:29 pm
Can't wait till the SCP get Bump Mapping working, that'll add to an already awesome model by about 800% :D
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: karajorma on January 09, 2004, 05:05:18 pm
And all of a sudden the links work for me. Looks damn cool :)
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: IPAndrews on January 09, 2004, 05:12:25 pm
Quote
Originally posted by magatsu1
is that a beam next to the Vyper, 1st picture, or just a regular laser shot? does the basestar have it's launch bays aswell ?


It's standard laser fire from one of the 80 point defence turrets. It does have two beam weapons called "mega pulsar cannons". That's what the funky looking thing on the top is. It takes about a minute to charge and fires a cheesy looking red beam.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 09, 2004, 06:08:54 pm
I thought it had a yellow tint to it? Or are we completely making this up? :D

BTW, I've just uploaded the new website:

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/battstarg
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: KARMA on January 09, 2004, 06:31:35 pm
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Originally posted by Killfrenzy
What about making our own shinemaps for it? I don't know how they work though....

shinemaps are very simple, the brighter the more reflective, so if you want low reflective maps just make a map of 1px x 1 px with a dark grey tone.
But it will be better to have custom shinemaps based on your own textures, they can generate an effect similar to bumpmap, you can even use the textures as shinemaps, and you can also force different shine colours.
or you can use a commandline with fs_open to reduce the shine effect, I don't remember the commands nor the parameters thought, but there should something in the readme
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Flaser on January 09, 2004, 07:39:51 pm
....and you can color the reflected light too.

A good example would be the Athena - it has these brownish-redish brass parts. When drawing a shinemap you could assign a yellowish color (brass) - so the reflecting parts of the ship will have a nice colored shine that gives character to the metal.

I've seen a really good Arcadia shinmap in that fashion.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 09, 2004, 07:50:12 pm
Guess I ought to download Lightspeed's and see what he's done. :)
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: IPAndrews on January 10, 2004, 01:38:27 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Killfrenzy
I thought it had a yellow tint to it? Or are we completely making this up? :D


I dunno. I haven't got a picture of the Basestar point defence guns firing. In reality the effect used is just a copy of the Raider weapon, which in itself is a bit rough around the edges. 2D effects are not my forte.

I was actually just going to post some screen shots of the weapons we need to this forum along with a thread saying "Someone please make me these" :). I'm wating until I get the DVDs next week so I can grab screen caps of the two weapons I don't have pictures of before doing it.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 10, 2004, 02:15:14 pm
I thought they looked alright so far....though I think the Colonial Laser Torpedoes had a slightly orange tint....
Title: If I remember right
Post by: Star Dragon on January 10, 2004, 04:31:29 pm
Laser torpedos had a Red core with a slight orange glow around it, and when fired they are as long as the Viper itself (Energy bolt lenth)

Galactica had same weapons but in the table the damage would be greater but teh visual effect the same.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 10, 2004, 04:38:33 pm
The Galactica has some kind of 'turbo laser' or whatever it's called mounted on it. It's not the same weapon, but something else.....IAN!!! :D
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Gloriano on January 11, 2004, 07:06:51 am
Wow,very nice:cool:
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: magatsu1 on January 11, 2004, 01:27:02 pm
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Originally posted by IPAndrews
cheesy


Glad to see your keeping true to the series then.

Just Kidding. I liked BSG !
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 12, 2004, 08:38:56 am
Oh hell yes! Cheese central! :D

None of that Sci-fi channel rubbish! We're using plastic sets and stock footage of model shots! :D

Throwing in particularly poor lines for good measure!
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: IPAndrews on January 12, 2004, 09:40:04 am
We're aiming for the full quattro formaggi as far as I'm concerned.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 12, 2004, 06:24:42 pm
Indeed. :)

But which four? :D
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: magatsu1 on January 13, 2004, 12:37:10 pm
maybe you could use those weird double faced singers as a squad logo. :p
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 13, 2004, 03:13:01 pm
Perhaps not.....:D

If we're being faithful, it's squadron colours, not names. :)
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: magatsu1 on January 13, 2004, 03:29:53 pm
they could be a fictonal elite squadron.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: IPAndrews on January 14, 2004, 05:02:09 am
Well I've got the song on mp3. It's quite catchy actually. "It don't matter where you are. It don't matter what you do! There's something always after YOOOOO!"
Title: just an idea
Post by: Star Dragon on January 14, 2004, 07:35:02 am
for a while now I've wanted to make a little segment with the rock version of the intro. You guys ever hear it? Every once in a while I boot it up...
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 14, 2004, 07:46:22 am
Eh? Come again?
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: magatsu1 on January 14, 2004, 05:05:25 pm
Quote
Originally posted by IPAndrews
Well I've got the song on mp3. It's quite catchy actually. "It don't matter where you are. It don't matter what you do! There's something always after YOOOOO!"


*chokes on his chicken burger*

I think Killfrenzy and IPANDREWS should updat their sigs BTW
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 15, 2004, 09:05:09 am
To what exactly?
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: IPAndrews on January 15, 2004, 10:15:48 am
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Originally posted by Killfrenzy
To what exactly?


He may be suggesting I remove "sole" from mine. Clearly he feels very strongly about this, as my name is in CAPITAL LETTERS.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 15, 2004, 10:38:46 am
Hehe - I think the caps lock just got stuck! :D
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: magatsu1 on January 15, 2004, 01:01:02 pm
NO!! THIS IS IMPORTANT DAMN IT!!

actually, I was knackered last night and wasn't really paying attention to my typing.
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 15, 2004, 03:24:12 pm
Ah yes....tiredness and trying to type.....try writing sci-fi at 5:30 in the morning after having not slept since the previous night! :D
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: magatsu1 on January 15, 2004, 03:40:07 pm
not to mention the added infulence of southern comfort and Miss Stella Artois...:cool:
Title: Cylon Basestar
Post by: Killfrenzy on January 15, 2004, 03:49:37 pm
Didn't have those at the time.....:D