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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Black Wolf on February 15, 2004, 10:45:26 am
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OK, just to establish - this isn't the new species from TI. Flipside does all of their stuff (and does an excellent job of it too). This is just something I did when I was trying to come up with a terran interceptor, but ... didn't. Instead I came up with this shape, and realized it seemed to fit the vague bill I'd come up with for another new species I'd wanted to do a fanfic about awhile back - the El Nathi.
The El Nathi are significantly behind the GTVA technologically, still relying primarily on projectile weapons, missiles and lasers (actual, modern day lasers that is, as opposed to FS lasers). They're only just beginning to experiment with plasma based weaponry.
Anyway, this ship (attatched) is the ENF Mantus (and no, that's not spelled wrong (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/mantus.html)) - a space superiority/scout fighter -
The first El Nathi ship ever encountered by the GTVA, the Mantus is, like all their vessels, significantly below those of the GTVA technologically. Seeming to combine the roles of scout and space superiority fighter, by El Nathi standards, the Mantus is both fast and manoeuvrable, though with a hull that leaves something to be desired. Its six main cannons allow the Mantus to fire quickly, but chew rapidly through its ammunition stores. By GTVA standards however, the Mantus is far too weak to be considered anything more than a class D threat, except to unarmed or civillian vessels.
I'm mainly interested in two things - whether the ship looks alien enough, and whether it looks primitive. I know the model is low poly - partially I was aiming for that, and partially I simply didn;t want to change the shape too much more - either wa, that's kinda just how it is :).
BTW, the pof works fairly well ingame if you want to have a play, but the game crashes when you call a support ship - I may look into fixing the dockpoint...eventually.
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Hey, I didn't ignore you. You just chose bad hosting. :p
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Well... Now's your chance :p
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I dunno, it looks good to me just looking at it in Model view.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Hey, I didn't ignore you. You just chose bad hosting. :p
:mad: HERETIC!:mad:
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I think it looks fantastic, very consistent with the description you've written up. For those too lazy, here's a shot of it:
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And the underneath:
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I'm trapped in Linux ATM, else I'd look, but I can't make out what I see there... In Setekh's first shot, which way is forward? Is it supposed to look like a life preserver? :confused:
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Originally posted by Shinobi
:mad: HERETIC!:mad:
He means swooh...not SG :D
Steaks shots are kinda topsy turvy - the first one is facing the right way (ie front towards the camera) but is upside down. the second one is actually the top, but with the front facing backwards. The pof is aligned correctly though, so MV'll show this stuff.
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hehe
Well, I like the look of it, specially the colour, makes you think they want to be Bentusi when they grow up, but in the best possible way ;)
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No offense, but it looks like it could have come from homewold, at least with those kind of textures... All that bright orange, uck... :p
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I really like the maping but, honetsly, that kind of design, very simple and slick, sounds more "advanced" than "primitive" to me.
On a side pont: I was quite happy with my Unx ship, but nobody will use it :(
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
Steaks shots are kinda topsy turvy - the first one is facing the right way (ie front towards the camera) but is upside down. the second one is actually the top, but with the front facing backwards. The pof is aligned correctly though, so MV'll show this stuff.
Sorry, I just had Aurora sitting around at the time. ;)
Venom, which ship did you mean? Have you got any pictures lying around?
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check my sig, but you should know it already, comes from, well, various dead campaigns :p
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Oh, you mean this?
(http://www.swooh.com/premium/venom/FS2files/unxtb.jpg)
It looks pretty cool. Hmm... *ponders*
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/nevermind/
yeah, that's the one.
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The orange isn't all that bright on the actual. If I ever get around to making a shinemap for it, it'll be very subtle, and the textures are alot darker than those pics show.
Glad ytou like the mapping, if not the design Venom - I'm more a texturer than a modeller anyway :). As for the Unx, we'd almost be able to poach it for TIs Aesir, given the colouration,. but the design is bit too far from Standard Aesir stuff (Which tend to be wide rather than tall). Overall though, it's probably because you provided only a signle ship, meaning the unx can pretty much only play that one role of secretive, hidden species, as opposed to active force in the FS universe. ost people who want new species want an active force, unfortunately. Though it is a wel;l made, and very alien looking ship.
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Yeah, that's Aurora's specular lighting kicking in.
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I should expand that species, that ship was pretty fun to make.