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Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: TrashMan on January 16, 2005, 05:08:39 pm: Still in early stages...
(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/8273/VasCorv.jpg)
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: aldo_14 on January 16, 2005, 05:23:50 pm: Needs a wee bit more curvature on the sweep forward and also on the vertical axis IMO (and to flatten the edges, of course).

Looks a decent base design for one, though. (Defo needs a bit of vertical curve, looking at it again)
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: Taristin on January 16, 2005, 05:29:29 pm: Looks Terran to me. What are those extrusions along the top and bottom? Not a Vasudan feature... things don't generally stick out on Vasudan ships...
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: Drew on January 16, 2005, 05:29:34 pm: d***
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: aldo_14 on January 16, 2005, 05:37:34 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Raa
Looks Terran to me. What are those extrusions along the top and bottom? Not a Vasudan feature... things don't generally stick out on Vasudan ships...

Typhon.

You can have that sort of thing on Vasudan ships, I think. You just have to try and keep to a rule of never having edges meeting at ~90 degree angles, or it looks Terran.

For that... I'd thin the midsection and add a short-s-curve there, then flatten the edges (extrude and flatten, rather). That sticky-out bit at the top I'd recess the rear smoothly into the main hull, and add a recess to the still-sticky-out front. And also probably add a bit of a bulge around the engine section (top and rear).... it can be made Vasudan, I reckon.
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Post by: Unknown Target on January 16, 2005, 05:54:04 pm: When I clicked this, I was afraid of some Terran-looking concoction. And I was right :D :p

Seriously, needs a lot more skinny bits, curviness, and smoothness.
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: Taristin on January 16, 2005, 07:04:48 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14

Typhon.

Not really... :doubt:
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Post by: Grimloq on January 16, 2005, 08:23:02 pm: yes really, raa.

though im inclined to agree with you here.

forget making it vasudan, its too far-gone. make it SOC.
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Post by: Taristin on January 16, 2005, 10:05:29 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Grimloq
yes really, raa.

No. Not really. I just went over the Typhon. It has one section on it that's extruded, and even then, it's well integrated.
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: Grimloq on January 16, 2005, 10:45:31 pm: uuhh... pics, maybe? i dont think im talking about the same thing... >_>

[edit] OH! nvm, my bad, raa... im thinking of the wrong thing... *slaps self* that DOES look more terran.
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Post by: Black Wolf on January 17, 2005, 02:19:04 am: Quote
Originally posted by Raa
Looks Terran to me. What are those extrusions along the top and bottom? Not a Vasudan feature... things don't generally stick out on Vasudan ships...

Rear fins on the sobek do. :p

Though I agree with the general sentiment of the thread - this doesn't look Vasudan.
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: aldo_14 on January 17, 2005, 03:24:58 am: Quote
Originally posted by Raa

No. Not really. I just went over the Typhon. It has one section on it that's extruded, and even then, it's well integrated.

Well, yeah; I didn't say it was Vasudan as-is (it isn't), but it can be with editing and blending.
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Post by: Grimloq on January 17, 2005, 02:41:58 pm: no! make it SOC! it could be really cool as one!
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Post by: StratComm on January 17, 2005, 02:48:21 pm: No, don't make it "SOC". In fact, other than special paint-job fighters (of which there exists a mainline fleet variant) SOC ships should look just like an ordinary ship of the line. The idea that a covert ops organization would have unique ships is really stupid, because anyone that encounters them immediately knows who they are.

As for that ship, it really looks like a Higeran Frigate from Homeworld 2. Not necessarily a bad thing, but the design does not lend itself heavily to any species in Freespace.
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: FireCrack on January 17, 2005, 05:48:11 pm: Doesnt look vasudan.

Vasudan design ues lots of ovaloid domes, this model could be changed to make it more vasudan by making the front more like the sobek but the back has virtualy no hope.
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Post by: Grimloq on January 17, 2005, 06:08:37 pm: well, it just reminded me of that one ship... the SOC superdestroyer from inferno. you know... ocelot? bleh, cant remember.

thats why i said it should be SOC.

and yes, its stpid, but i mean, its just a game!
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Post by: c914 on January 18, 2005, 06:18:03 am: it could look vasudan if all edges were smoth and aft fins were bigger
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Post by: Lynx on January 18, 2005, 06:36:49 am: Quote
Originally posted by Grimloq
and yes, its stpid, but i mean, its just a game!

At least for me, a requirement for a game being fun is that the stuff making some phucking sense. But maybe that's just me.
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Post by: TrashMan on January 18, 2005, 09:22:06 am: This is just a very early basic model. I'm adding more detail to it, but it's gonna takea while..

LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth, Pirates, some FS2 campaigns I downloaded recently, my own campaign and real life (read - TESTS, TESTS!) have ganged up on my free time and sent it to intensive care in a comatose state....
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: Lightspeed on January 18, 2005, 10:13:53 am: As it is, it definately doesn't look Vasudan.
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Post by: NGTM-1R on January 18, 2005, 04:15:01 pm: Vasudan design with Terran influences, just as the Hecate is a Terran design with Vasudan influences...
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: Lightspeed on January 18, 2005, 05:35:05 pm: I don't see any Vasudan influence at all.

It somehow only reminds me of Star Trek.
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: Kie99 on January 19, 2005, 01:18:05 pm: Mentarlbek (Mentu, Warlock, Sobek) Maybe that could be a name
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: NGTM-1R on January 19, 2005, 04:04:49 pm: It's certainly not Terran. No Terran ship is curved like that. I can see bits of Hapshepshut in it, and the Mentu has projections on the upper surfaces of the hull and a notched bow.
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Post by: Jal-18 on January 19, 2005, 05:08:37 pm: Looks to me more like a curved Hiigaran Torpedo frigate.
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Post by: JudgeMental on January 19, 2005, 09:20:42 pm: Hmm, this looks a great deal like a concept ship I had for Star Trek...

Anyway, I think this basic idea could easily be modified to make an interesting Terran/Vasudan Fast Intercept Corvette. Starting with eliminating those bumps on the nose.
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Post by: Trivial Psychic on January 19, 2005, 09:35:35 pm: It does kina bare some resemblance to the Horus.
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Post by: Grimloq on January 19, 2005, 11:52:10 pm: i say scrap it... too much controversy.

or make it SCO ;) lol j/k...
Title: Vasudan Corvette?
Post by: TrashMan on January 20, 2005, 04:27:50 pm: I'm baaack... Alltough I really don't know how much work I will be a ble to do on that corvette....damn tests...stay tuned...