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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Taristin on August 15, 2004, 09:05:44 pm

Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Taristin on August 15, 2004, 09:05:44 pm: Remember this ship?

(http://3dap.com/hlp/hosted/14_year_war/Raa/myrmfighteroriginal.jpg)

Well...

(http://3dap.com/hlp/hosted/14_year_war/Raa/myrmfighter.jpg)

I did it! W00t. And all that.
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on August 15, 2004, 09:27:06 pm: Excellent... now texture it and sell it to the highest bidding project
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Liberator on August 16, 2004, 04:04:21 am: Please tell me it has two nacelles and you're not going to name it the Swarmer Mk.2. ;)

Nice BTW!
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Knight Templar on August 16, 2004, 05:05:47 am: I'd refine the nose to be more like your pick and less stubby/bulbous. :)
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: aldo_14 on August 16, 2004, 08:20:59 am: Nice ridges
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Taristin on August 16, 2004, 08:29:34 am: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
Please tell me it has two nacelles and you're not going to name it the Swarmer Mk.2. ;)

Nice BTW!

Sadly, I don't know what that's in reference to, but it is a single nacelle. Not that it'd be hard to run it through the symetry tool and make two, but I don't want to do that.
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Col. Fishguts on August 16, 2004, 09:01:13 am: I guess he's referring to the swarmer from Homeworld Clicky (http://well-of-souls.com/homeworld/hws/kadesh/swarmer.htm)

But don't make it symmetrical....asymmetrical = gooood
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Lightspeed on August 16, 2004, 09:11:13 am: Wheeee!

Me loves.
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Skippy on August 16, 2004, 02:05:27 pm: Cool :)
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Foxer on August 17, 2004, 02:29:41 pm: Very good! Very nice! Yeahh... I love it :).
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Gloriano on August 17, 2004, 02:34:18 pm: Very nice, now texture it :)

you could add some details there maybe
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Post by: Unknown Target on August 17, 2004, 03:00:33 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Col. Fishguts
I guess he's referring to the swarmer from Homeworld Clicky (http://well-of-souls.com/homeworld/hws/kadesh/swarmer.htm)

But don't make it symmetrical....asymmetrical = gooood

Asymetrical is more Terran, Vasudans generaly don't dablle in it
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Post by: Knight Templar on August 18, 2004, 02:31:26 am: Horus? Ma'at? Satis?
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Post by: Janos on August 18, 2004, 08:33:01 am: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
Horus? Ma'at? Satis?

Horus: Has the cockpit ooff-center, otherwise symmetrical.
Ma'at: OK, I'll give you that, but the asymmetric looks of it resemble those of naval ships. Or something. I got nothin'.
Satis: Huh?
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Post by: Taristin on August 18, 2004, 12:17:52 pm: Terrans love symmetry. It's big on almost everything they do. Only one Terran ship is assymetrical, and it's the ugliest behemoth in te fleet (Orion). SO I think your argument has no standing.

Besides, I'm keeping it as is. I like it. It's my mesh!:p
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Post by: pyro-manic on August 18, 2004, 01:21:26 pm: Awesome. I like it a lot - though it looks a bit off from your sketch at that angle. It needs to be flatter on the front, i.e. the tip of the nose needs to be lower down on the model (at th moment, the very front looks to be halfway up the cockpit, rather than below it). What's it going to be (assault fighter, bomber, etc)?
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Post by: Taristin on August 18, 2004, 01:28:28 pm: Assault fighter. With the latest beam technologies, Bombers are becoming lesser and lesser valuable. :doubt:
I realize that the front is off a bit, but textures will take care of it. And I'm happy enough witht he geometry. I just need to finish the UV mapping on it. Then start making the textures for it. I think I'll actually start on that tonight.
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Taristin on August 18, 2004, 09:06:01 pm: *bump*

Slight update. It's UV mapped, but now I have to texture it...
joy.

I've never mapped Vasudan ships before. I fear I'll screw it up verily...

Oh well...
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Lightspeed on August 18, 2004, 10:24:23 pm: If I can help you in any way, just call :)
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Sandwich on August 19, 2004, 12:07:33 am: :yes:
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Liberator on August 19, 2004, 12:37:16 am: Quote
Originally posted by Raa
Assault fighter. With the latest beam technologies, Bombers are becoming lesser and lesser valuable. :doubt:

It'd be the other way around wouldn't it? Bomber's would be more valuable, because they are the only things that can carry large enough ordinance to rapidly disarm the larger vessels(I'm thinking Sathanas here) before they rip the guts out of their opponents. They would just become more fighter-like in their performance. HMMM, that's got me thinking, wouldn't it be likely that bombers would be so focused on secondary loadouts and engine power that they wouldn't mount hoss guns like the Kayser or the Maxim due to the energy requirements?
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: aldo_14 on August 19, 2004, 07:57:58 am: Quote
Originally posted by Raa
*bump*

Slight update. It's UV mapped, but now I have to texture it...
joy.

I've never mapped Vasudan ships before. I fear I'll screw it up verily...

It's easier than terran ships... you don;t have to worry about things making sense, for one.
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Taristin on August 19, 2004, 08:47:14 am: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator

It'd be the other way around wouldn't it? Bomber's would be more valuable, because they are the only things that can carry large enough ordinance to rapidly disarm the larger vessels(I'm thinking Sathanas here) before they rip the guts out of their opponents. They would just become more fighter-like in their performance.

I meant in a traditional sense... Bombers wouldn't be used for destroying capital ships anymore, when ships are being armed with beam cannons. Bombers have a completely different role now, and will be less like bombers, and more like tactical heavy assault vehicles.
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: karajorma on August 19, 2004, 10:05:06 am: Quote
Originally posted by Raa

I meant in a traditional sense... Bombers wouldn't be used for destroying capital ships anymore, when ships are being armed with beam cannons. Bombers have a completely different role now, and will be less like bombers, and more like tactical heavy assault vehicles.

And we've come full circle with bombers returning to the role they had before FS1 :D

That's actually pretty realistic in terms of military history in many ways. :)

That said I don't buy it. Start producing more Helios's and the cap ship killing bomber isn't anywhere near obsolete.
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Post by: aldo_14 on August 19, 2004, 10:15:18 am: Just up the ante with better AAAf & Flak....

Then you can have the 2 distinct classes of bomber - the strike bomber, which takes out the defensive turrets & the weapons subsystems to clear the way for the assault bomber, which is slow but carries the big guns.

And the fighters, which either cover or attack bombers.
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Taristin on August 20, 2004, 08:46:13 am: *Still texturing*

I should probably be following the same texturing method as I did with Terran ships. Look for an image update in the next day or so...
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Setekh on August 20, 2004, 08:56:50 pm: Next day or so, eh? ;)
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Sandwich on August 22, 2004, 01:02:45 am: Yeah, eh? :p
Title: I actually made a ship from my concept art! Go me!
Post by: Taristin on August 22, 2004, 03:53:09 pm: ...Err. I haven't really been able to work on it in a while... Or anything else for that matter. It'll get done some time.