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Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Getter Robo G on October 02, 2004, 12:53:44 pm
Never really intended for FS2, Rescued and secured from Lar's model dump about 2 years ago.. Behold, the Shivan-Shadow hybrid SEPTERRA!
   
   Yeah I know the hud is messed up but I was testing a mod at the time and the HUD table is bugged (my fault)...  
   
(now someone turret and path it please) :D
(http://img17.exs.cx/img17/6176/septerra.jpg)
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Taristin on October 02, 2004, 12:57:24 pm
Using Aurora to auto turret and Auto Path is a-1 supar-dupar!!!
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Getter Robo G on October 02, 2004, 01:05:52 pm
It just crashed Aurora

  BTW it's one object over 2400 poly's no subobjects
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Grimloq on October 02, 2004, 01:57:00 pm
yikes... bad idea! for turrets they MUST be seperate subobjects, im 99% sure.

also, could we pleez get a better pic? i cant see...
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Kazan on October 02, 2004, 02:02:17 pm
turrets must have seperator subobjects

100% requirement
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Grimloq on October 02, 2004, 02:38:22 pm
yay! im so smart...

BTW, when making swinging turrets, when you make the barrels, do you combine them? or just group them together?
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Kazan on October 02, 2004, 03:04:03 pm
Code: [Select]

Ship
| - Turret01-base
|   |- Turret01-arms
|-Turret02-base
     |- Turret02-arms
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: karajorma on October 02, 2004, 03:10:11 pm
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Originally posted by Grimloq
yay! im so smart...

BTW, when making swinging turrets, when you make the barrels, do you combine them? or just group them together?


Group them. Follow my FAQ to the turretting tutorial for more help.
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: magatsu1 on October 02, 2004, 04:47:16 pm
a-like so:

(http://premium.uploadit.org/magatsu1/xyz.JPG)


let's see more piccys GRG.:)
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 02, 2004, 04:55:34 pm
It's a Super Star Destroyer turned Shivan...
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Unknown Target on October 02, 2004, 05:05:10 pm
Looks like a badly textured diamond to me.
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: StratComm on October 02, 2004, 05:09:46 pm
I see nothing either Shivan or Shadow in that design, sorry.  And the textures don't even give what's there justice.
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Taristin on October 02, 2004, 06:54:37 pm
It's barely textured. Looking at the image at night time, it's absolutely horrible. :shaking:

And it looks like a wedge. Or possibly that the LODs are incorrectly made, and all of them are being renderred. I can't tell. :ick:
Title: FYI
Post by: Getter Robo G on October 02, 2004, 08:00:52 pm
Lar's abandoned it, but it was mapped for textures (it is completely textured)... Just cause you don't apprecite my interpretation doesn't make it lless useable :P It's One lod.

   Besides this thing has one hell of a broad side (4 beam cannons above and below on each side) not to mention 3 dead forward bow ones. Only weak spot is directly behind...

(http://img15.exs.cx/img15/6406/Septerra.jpg)

(http://img15.exs.cx/img15/2325/SepterraDestroyer.jpg)
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Taristin on October 02, 2004, 08:10:09 pm
Ok. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and say that it's missing a custom UV mapping on those red chunky parts. But the streaking. That's a definate nono.

Also it looks like it's one of Ryx's nero's, only blockier, crossed with the zephyrus, and a wedge. Sorry to have to cross you for a second time, but it's a fugly model.

But don't take it to heart, since it is only my opinion.
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Ransom on October 02, 2004, 08:17:27 pm
The model looks pretty awful to me. And that big red texture with the black lines... looks like Spiderman's head mask thing.
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 02, 2004, 08:20:18 pm
It does need retexturing, most of it, but the model itself has promise.
Title: yuppers!
Post by: Getter Robo G on October 02, 2004, 09:22:41 pm
Actually it's just a piece of spidey's mask as main texture but remembr this was 2 years ago adn I still don't know much about textures...

   Oh I really don't care what other people think (besides it's not freespacey at all), I just like that kind of design cause it looks like something you's see for an evil anime type race.
Title: Re: FYI
Post by: Trivial Psychic on October 02, 2004, 10:20:49 pm
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Originally posted by Getter Robo G
(http://img15.exs.cx/img15/6406/Septerra.jpg)

Looks more like a giant semi-shivan Amazon drone.  All its missing is the "SHOOT ME" sign.
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Night Hammer on October 03, 2004, 12:53:15 am
Looks like itd be a ghost pirate ship or sumthin:wtf:........so what its been a long night
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 03, 2004, 01:01:33 am
Amazon Super Advanced, to train pilots to attack Shivan capital ships?
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: magatsu1 on October 03, 2004, 07:33:10 am
TSM modules for that.
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Swamp_Thing on October 03, 2004, 10:42:01 am
The best part of that shot is the Atheena icon...
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: TopAce on October 03, 2004, 11:05:11 am
I don't like those red wings. They do not make it look like Shivan.
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: gevatter Lars on October 04, 2004, 05:18:35 am
Can't belive that someone found that old thing and dig it up ^_^
About textures...yes it should get some good textures and the turrets shouldn't be part of the model so that they can rotade.
Its realy a very old model..nearly the first I have ever made.
Lets see if you can get it running with a nice UV map and turrets and other stuff.
About the turrets...in the original model each turret had 3 beams ^_^
It was an beamweapon overpowered ship.

Beside that it was never intendet to be anything FS...a just for fun design.
Reminds me that I still got a B5 Model of a custom ship somewhere...should ask the TBP guys if they want it...still the model us buggy as hell.
Title: Hey Lar's
Post by: Getter Robo G on October 04, 2004, 10:46:41 am
It's me Star Dragon... I was one of the first to DL your Model dump remember (the Saturn became a generic Gundam Whitebase)...

   I don't know if you remembered Demo Dragon but This was your Frigate model... 2 years ago I was messing with the idea of a robot mod based on 70's super robots and needed LIVING opponents, I think this looks nice..

(http://img85.exs.cx/img85/8629/DemoDragon.jpg)

Ready to eat you up!
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Taristin on October 04, 2004, 11:01:51 am
See? That mesh looks promising. :nod:
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: gevatter Lars on October 04, 2004, 11:22:22 am
If that was what I think it was its heavly changed...but still nice ^_^
About all the other old things...can't remeber what I put in that dump...most things I have deleted after that.
Title: He he
Post by: Getter Robo G on October 04, 2004, 12:11:54 pm
Absolutely NOTHING was physically changed (I never alter models remember).. It was simply replacing the texture maps you mapped out.

  Yeah like 90% of them I deleted cause I couldn't do anyhting with them at the time.  (they were in max format mostly & untextured).

  However there was lots of good stuff in there...

Let me see if I can find some more goodies in my old conversion attempt folders (I have like several WIP folders from over the years)
[Edit]

Were these your two?

Bismark
(http://img21.exs.cx/img21/996/Bismark.jpg)

and Dragoon?
(http://img21.exs.cx/img21/5605/CRDragoon.jpg)

of course this was a long time ago.. I had limited textures to choose from then
:D
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Galemp on October 04, 2004, 03:27:23 pm
what the hell?
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Taristin on October 04, 2004, 03:36:19 pm
I was thinking that. You said it. :p
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: gevatter Lars on October 04, 2004, 04:27:40 pm
Yup these wheir my designs...maybe you should post them without textures...I think they are to confusing ^_^
Compared to the Hellcat I did with Lynx and other Wing Commander models these are awfull...but its funny to see them again.
Title: hahaaha
Post by: Getter Robo G on October 04, 2004, 05:47:03 pm
So what are you saying something like "Only a mind touched by Vorlons can see the order in that chaos!"?

   If you think those are bad.... TRUST ME, it could have been much worse! :nod:

   No worries, I won't show those... But rememebr one of my better attempts (Gundam White base) : Lar's Saturn

(http://img32.exs.cx/img32/6089/WhiteBase.jpg)
If you seen the show I think you's agree there is a slight (but unintentional) similarity to one of the early designs.
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Eviscerator on October 04, 2004, 07:40:31 pm
Back on topic: I like the model alot. True the texturing needs a bit of work, but just because it is not shaped like a Shivan ship does not mean it is not good. You can always use it for another race.
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: mitac on October 04, 2004, 07:53:28 pm
The front part of that Septerra ship reminds me of a crossing between "Alien" and a D'Deridex Warbird, while the wings look like a fighter from one of the Wing Commander games (WC4?).
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: gevatter Lars on October 05, 2004, 06:32:17 pm
Saturn...can't even remeber that ship...made the Uranus..but Saturn...mh.
Beside that I found other stuff in a long not used folder while browsing my old stuff ...man the models are lowpoly...but interesting ideas...maybe I should do some modeling as soon as Wing Commander Saga and my real life dosn't consume my time.
Title: DEFIANTELY !!!
Post by: Getter Robo G on October 05, 2004, 08:00:59 pm
You had some wild designs back then. We canonly benifite if int eh future you have time to kick out a few more (or better yet if you found more stuff not released yet have ANOTHER MODEL DUMP) : LAR'S DUMP II! (The Sequel)

;)
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: gevatter Lars on October 06, 2004, 04:58:04 am
Since I don't know what was released in the first one their shurly would be some double...well maybe I can collect everything I have together and post it.
Title: Re: hahaaha
Post by: aldo_14 on October 06, 2004, 05:09:55 am
Quote


http://img85.exs.cx/img85/8629/DemoDragon.jpg
http://img32.exs.cx/img32/6089/WhiteBase.jpg

IIRC I dumped both of those in modeldump 2.  The 'dragon' was a Shivan ramming frigate I was working on for OtT called the Andhaka (I believe), the Saturn was a Sol destroyer for Reciprocity 2 ( a convuluted and long story) made primarily with Orion textures.
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: gevatter Lars on October 06, 2004, 07:22:40 am
Seams as if someone mixed up what models are done by who....well I think I have made the Worm shivan thing.
Title: Re: He he
Post by: magatsu1 on October 06, 2004, 09:10:30 am
Quote
Originally posted by Getter Robo G
(http://img21.exs.cx/img21/5605/CRDragoon.jpg)
of course this was a long time ago.. I had limited textures to choose from then
:D



*is gobsmacked*



not in the good sense.
Title: oops!
Post by: Getter Robo G on October 06, 2004, 09:39:21 am
Sorry Aldo after awhile I took every seperate dump last year and put them together in a folder calle (Old FS2 Model Dumps)....

  Props to Aldo for those two!

   As for the Worm and the Zecke, since people don't seem to like the spidey mask I won't show those two again (though I did post them, what 2 years ago as a texture test for a new race (though secretly they were for my Shivan-Shadow alliance)
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: Unknown Target on October 06, 2004, 11:11:09 am
http://img21.exs.cx/img21/5605/CRDragoon.jpg

My eyes felt funny/hurt the first time I looked at this. No joke. :D
Title: SD Septerra
Post by: TopAce on October 06, 2004, 12:03:00 pm
Quote
Originally disliked by some people:
http://img21.exs.cx/img21/5605/CRDragoon.jpg


With better texturing, it would be an excellent model.
Actually, it is a good model with poor texturing.
This post means no offence unlike some of the previous ones. :D