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Title: Something new..
Post by: c914 on May 17, 2004, 02:38:49 pm
Alien ship ( ther isn,t lot of them :p ).
(http://c914.republika.pl/ob/a1.JPG)
(http://c914.republika.pl/ob/a2.JPG)
(http://c914.republika.pl/ob/a3.JPG)
(http://c914.republika.pl/ob/a4.JPG)

Any sugestion? howi it looks?
And question anyone know how to create a new speacies in tables ( i know that there is an option in FSO ). I need full suport for ships tables ( new color  of ships in FRED )
Title: Something new..
Post by: karajorma on May 17, 2004, 02:41:19 pm
Impressive as usual c914. Your stuff gets better every time :)

One question though. What is it? Fighter, cruiser, destroyer?  :D
Title: Something new..
Post by: c914 on May 17, 2004, 02:43:44 pm
Big bad hevy armed destroyer:D  sieze over 3 km.
Title: Something new..
Post by: ShadowDrakken on May 17, 2004, 03:46:18 pm
on a 3km scale, I presume there is, at least technician foot trafic through the "wing" areas... this makes me feel that the shape is very inefficient for a destroyer class since it would make traveling between section of the ship a very very lengthy trip

as a fighter however, it's a nicer shape, especially for an interceptor type fighter that need to move quickly in a generally straight direction but still maintain some manuverability
Title: Something new..
Post by: Lightspeed on May 17, 2004, 05:24:23 pm
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Originally posted by c914
Big bad hevy armed destroyer:D  sieze over 3 km.


Oh, and 'light fighter' was the first thing to cross my mind when I saw this :rolleyes:
Title: Something new..
Post by: JarC on May 17, 2004, 06:36:25 pm
:lol: me too, was just wondering where the pilot would be seated when I read destroyer and 3Km....:wtf:
Title: Something new..
Post by: Knight Templar on May 17, 2004, 06:45:49 pm
Looks nice, but also like it needs a main body of sorts going down the x-axis.
Title: Something new..
Post by: Trivial Psychic on May 17, 2004, 11:35:42 pm
With the probes sticking out front, it was kinda reminiscent of the 3rdspace alien capital ships from Babylon 5... without the energy sphere.

Later!
Title: Something new..
Post by: Bobboau on May 18, 2004, 12:09:39 am
looks sort of like an alien design I once thought up for a "final chapter of freespace" campain, was going to be a cousen race of the Shivans that we make an alience with only to find out that they were the bad guys all along (and the reason why the shivans tryed to wipe us out)
but I got better ideas, and moved on
Title: Something new..
Post by: DaBrain on May 18, 2004, 04:05:27 am
Without the egdes on the wings, it could take part in Andromeda :)

Very cool design. (Even though I hate the series :) )


But I'd also say "add a cockpit, and make it a fighter".


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Originally posted by JarC
:lol: me too, was just wondering where the pilot would be seated when I read destroyer and 3Km....:wtf:


It's remote controlled :)

That's what the antennas are for.
Title: Something new..
Post by: Black Wolf on May 18, 2004, 05:40:59 am
It's a nice design, but would be a lot more alien as a fighter.

The key to making an alien race is the textures however. With the correct texture set and backstory, that could be made to look passably Terran or Vasudan, but with an unusual UVMap or a totally new set of tiles you could very well be onto a winner.
Title: Something new..
Post by: Lightspeed on May 18, 2004, 12:08:24 pm
Make it ancient. :)
Title: Something new..
Post by: Taristin on May 18, 2004, 01:27:35 pm
It looks more like a stationary gun embankment to me.
Title: Something new..
Post by: c914 on May 20, 2004, 03:19:32 am
Why most of you want to do fighters of my ships:doubt: :p
this ship will be destroyer:D :D  
And some new screens ( without turets )
(http://c914.republika.pl/ob/a5.JPG)
(http://c914.republika.pl/ob/a6.JPG)

and here is  fighter ( yep a real fighter :p ) Model is done, needs only texsture.
RF Scorpicus ( work name )
(http://c914.republika.pl/ob/f1.JPG)
(http://c914.republika.pl/ob/f2.JPG)
(http://c914.republika.pl/ob/f3.JPG)
Title: Something new..
Post by: karajorma on May 20, 2004, 04:18:06 am
Impressive as always C914 :)
Title: Something new..
Post by: GT-Keravnos on May 20, 2004, 04:26:44 am
Agreed upon!
Title: Something new..
Post by: Black Wolf on May 20, 2004, 06:10:31 am
Much better than my attempts at alien ships, and a good mix of unique while remaining mechanical looking (I mean, that's how most sentient species would make their ships, right?

Now... Textures :D
Title: Something new..
Post by: c914 on May 20, 2004, 06:22:59 am
Texstures..thats only easy to say. I think that i gona use change Vasudan and Shivan  texsture or mayby someone had non use alien skins;7
Title: Something new..
Post by: Black Wolf on May 20, 2004, 06:54:40 am
Argh... don't do that! It'll be really obvious and noticable... What sort of look are you thinking about? Organic ala the Vasudans, dark and semi mechanical like the shivans or fully Mechanical like the terrans? All three can be made to look equally alien don;t forget - people around here always seem to assume that Alien=Organic looking.
Title: Something new..
Post by: c914 on May 20, 2004, 02:26:16 pm
well ship looks like this with texstures:

(http://c914.republika.pl/ob/a7.JPG)
(http://c914.republika.pl/ob/a8.JPG)
(http://c914.republika.pl/ob/a9.JPG)
Title: Something new..
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on May 20, 2004, 03:10:43 pm
Are those the crappy ancient textures? Well, whatever they are, :ick:

Good Model, bad textures.
Title: Something new..
Post by: DaBrain on May 20, 2004, 03:24:56 pm
I think they'd work for the tentacles(?), but not for almost the whole model.

This makes it look smal somehow.


Try a darker, more solid map (armor-like), for the wings(?).
Title: Something new..
Post by: Flipside on May 20, 2004, 03:33:04 pm
UV it, you can do huge textures now, 2-3 2048 x 2048 textures would work well on that.....and one well textured UVd ship will always look better than a tiled one imho.

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Alien ship ( ther isn,t lot of them  ).


:nervous: ;)
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Post by: Sheepy on May 20, 2004, 04:28:46 pm
it also needs some colour variation, dominate blue is all good, but it needs spots of different colours, throw in some yellow or orange
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Post by: Knight Templar on May 20, 2004, 05:56:04 pm
But the idea of the textures is good methinks.
Title: Something new..
Post by: ShadowDrakken on May 20, 2004, 06:15:03 pm
looks like something out of Bab5 with that texture, lol :)
the texture sertainly helps it to feel bigger, however, the shape still doesn't seem effecient for that class of ship