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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: boewolf on January 17, 2004, 06:57:30 am

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: boewolf on January 17, 2004, 06:57:30 am

Many people have been upgrading the look of many ships.  So i thought i would try something simple.  I wanted to give the Meson bomb a new look.

(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/mesan/bomb.jpg)

(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/mesan/bomb2.jpg)

(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/mesan/bomb3.jpg)

(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/mesan/bomb4.jpg)

And yet another cheap texture job

(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/mesan/bombT.jpg)

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 17, 2004, 07:20:00 am

Oo, you've Vasudanised it

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: Gloriano on January 17, 2004, 08:29:17 am

nice model but those textures are vasudans and orginal meson is terran desing so terran textures fit better and it's need better texture job anyway:)

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 17, 2004, 08:32:22 am

I suppose you might aruge that the meson bomb is a joint development

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: karajorma on January 17, 2004, 08:36:08 am

I don't think this is a replacement for the meson bomb but it would work very well as a Vasudan version.

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: karajorma on January 17, 2004, 08:37:14 am

Quote

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I suppose you might aruge that the meson bomb is a joint development

Actually it's completely terran. Remember the vasudan pilot taking the mick in the mission it's first deployed?

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 17, 2004, 08:41:01 am

Yes, I do. I don't think you do :)

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: Taristin on January 17, 2004, 08:57:45 am

Ha... "This is a joint venture pilots!" :lol:

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: Gloriano on January 17, 2004, 09:02:29 am

what next maybe High poly Meson:D

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: karajorma on January 17, 2004, 10:59:33 am

Forgot about that bit :) Still it does look very terran. Perhaps the vasudans didn't like that :D

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 17, 2004, 12:05:40 pm

Well I was wondering, would the Vasudans actually go in for WMDs? I mean we know they don't really put much faith in sentry guns. Perhaps they've got a thing about honourable combat? Obviously they'd have to agree that meson bombs would be deployed if the Shivans threatened GTVA space, but maybe, like sentries, they'd feel inclined to leave that kind of research up the Terrans

Though I doubt they'd want to leave the Terrans to develop WMDs... even if they are allies

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: Gregster2k on January 17, 2004, 12:07:08 pm

Meson bomb? that thing looks more like the future of beam cannon technologies. a vasudan mjolnir, anyone?

resized it would also make one hell of a space installation center-hub

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: Ashrak on January 17, 2004, 12:09:23 pm

ooooh me likes smooth models :D

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 17, 2004, 12:10:11 pm

Hey wolf boy, slap some terran skins on it and see what happens

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: Starks on January 17, 2004, 12:54:07 pm

I wanna see a Shivanized Meson...

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: Bobboau on January 17, 2004, 02:13:04 pm

I don't like it, looks like some sort of nurb that's been booliened, with a sphere in the center.
looks nothing like the origonal

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: boewolf on January 17, 2004, 05:50:50 pm

well i never liked the origional.  to me it never had the robust look to be so destructive.  with only that little bit in the middle for an explosive charge it looked about the size of a helois.  and the helois didn't have anywhere near that kind of charge.

also only the brown highlights vasuden.  the blue centre and highlights are from the meson textures.  i would have just used them but i couldn't make them fit.  even in LithUvUnwrap (which i can't use).  so i extracted parts of it that i liked and used them.


will also make some changes to see what it looks like as an installation

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: aldo_14 on January 17, 2004, 06:06:01 pm

Size of a meson bomb = (w|h|l) 179 | 144 | 372

Even if the rest is just padding , the central core 'bomb' takes about a quarter of that... roughly 50 | 35 | 90 (fuzzy guess).  Which is bigger than Ursa, never mind a Helios.

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: boewolf on January 17, 2004, 06:07:02 pm

my bad.  but it still didn't look bulky enough

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: boewolf on January 18, 2004, 05:33:59 am

Gregster2k is this something like what you were thinking when you mentioned a station??

(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/install/install.jpg)

(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/install/install2.jpg)

(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/install/install3.jpg)

(http://users.ncable.com.au/gtbernaldo/pics/install/install4.jpg)

Title: upgraded or Mk II Meson
Post by: Gregster2k on January 19, 2004, 05:39:47 pm

LOL, YEAH!
hee hee. station looks...interesting...

gave me an idea though... lengthened a bit, the thing could be some new ship based on the Deimos corvette :) and theres a lil nozzle on front for a big beamer, too :)

but not now...anyway, as for the station idea...give it the Arcadia textures, add Arcadia-ish towers onto the center, and put a nice glowing red texture in the sphere (maybe even a Shivan texture?)... and it could be an SOC/GTVI command base :) -- grin*