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Title: What is this place...why do I feel so...strange?
Post by: Unknown Target on January 02, 2006, 01:50:53 am
What I've been working on all night :)

This doesn't look familiar! UT, what are you trying to pull?! This should go into art!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/corridorsoutside.jpg)


Hey...have I seen these corridors somewhere?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/corridorsinside.jpg)


Now I get it!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/transparant.jpg)
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strange?
Post by: DaBrain on January 02, 2006, 03:47:07 am
Nice! That's really awesome.


Is that for a First-Person-Shooter?
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Col. Fishguts on January 02, 2006, 03:57:59 am
Aren't there a wee bit too many corridors and too few actual rooms ?
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Wanderer on January 02, 2006, 04:12:35 am
More rooms! But IMHO most of them should be storerooms or some sort of control or maintenance areas. Atleast in all of those (real life) naval vessels that i have been aboard crew quarters and such are generally cramped. And often the actual size of crew is far greater than the size of the crew designers had in mind...
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Nuke on January 02, 2006, 09:32:26 am
looks like a descent 2 level to me
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: BlackDove on January 02, 2006, 10:09:04 am
Those of us with "Super Secret" access know where that's from.

Anyway, looking...mighty fine so far. More rooms would be :yes: though.
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strange?
Post by: starfox on January 02, 2006, 10:51:54 am
Looks mighty neat  :nod:
*Imagines fighting of the Shivan Boarding Party & Heading to the escape pods...*

What is the crew compliment of the Fenris/Leviathan by the way ?
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Dave2040 on January 02, 2006, 12:08:56 pm
Those of us with "Super Secret" access know where that's from.

Anyway, looking...mighty fine so far. More rooms would be :yes: though.

I think "Super Secret" access would be a nice thingy o_o
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Unknown Target on January 02, 2006, 12:18:09 pm
Those of us with "Super Secret" access know where that's from.

Anyway, looking...mighty fine so far. More rooms would be :yes: though.

Um...mind telling me? :D

By the way, here we go; I'll be honest with you guys, I'm still figuring out how to do an FS2 elevator :D So for the time being, this deck is basically done. The reason you don't see a lot of store rooms and crap is because the entire front half, I've sectioned off for living quarters. The middle section is all for combat operations, while the back is all engines. How did I come across this? Well, A) It looks cool, and is easier for me, and B) The number of windows in each section gave me a clue; if you look, there's a lot of windows near the top of the middle section, where the bridge might be, almost none in the rear (engine section), and LOTS in the front; so people like to look outside, so there are the windows :D

Blue is docking pathways, red is living quarters and living hallways, brown is regular, green is service. :)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/UnknownTarget/corridorscolored.jpg)
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: BlackDove on January 02, 2006, 12:55:37 pm
Um...mind telling me? :D

Folder name from where video comes from.
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Taristin on January 02, 2006, 03:40:10 pm
The guy running through the halls? You think that all thehalls have the same shape in every ship?
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strange?
Post by: Flipside on January 02, 2006, 03:50:25 pm
Actually, I'm strangely reminded of the Jedi Temple.....

Still, nice architectural work there UT! :)
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Unknown Target on January 02, 2006, 04:34:46 pm
The guy running through the halls? You think that all thehalls have the same shape in every ship?

Well it's the only thing I could base it off of, so I had to use them.
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: FireCrack on January 02, 2006, 07:33:54 pm
I dont know about you, but i realy wouldnt like to have my room placed directly above a big photon beam cannon
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Unknown Target on January 02, 2006, 08:10:48 pm
...Which is why the cannon is about 3 decks down and encased in a self-contained compartment :)

And anyway, can someone just import this into Half Life 2 or something like that, so we can play around with it? :)
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Post by: FireCrack on January 03, 2006, 02:24:08 am
Well, i guess that depends on how big the device is...
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Post by: CP5670 on January 03, 2006, 03:51:21 am
Cool idea, but the hallways seem to be too wide compared to the sizes of the rooms, if I'm reading that diagram correctly.

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looks like a descent 2 level to me

It actually reminds me of level 18 in Descent 1. That had several areas that looked like the second picture in UT's first post.

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Well it's the only thing I could base it off of, so I had to use them.

There is also that big Riviera render, where you can see part of a hall:
http://www.descent-freespace.com/goodies/gallery/big/comdayalaa1814.jpg
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Galemp on January 04, 2006, 12:44:36 am
More rooms on those corridors. And for goodness sake, pay attention to the POF data and the textures; where the windows are, where the mechanical spaces might be, where the turret housings are, where the subsystems are located and what they might be represented as on the interior.

The Star Wars Incredible Cross-Sections are a good reference for something like this. What you're doing is essentially physical technobabble.
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: NGTM-1R on January 04, 2006, 06:22:00 am
The guy running through the halls? You think that all thehalls have the same shape in every ship?

It's a naval vessel, even if it's a spaceship. If they're not all the same, something's wrong.
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Unknown Target on January 04, 2006, 10:30:22 am
Um, yea, so, anyway, could someone convert this? I'd be able to get a better feel for what to do if I could walk through it :p
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: FireCrack on January 04, 2006, 02:42:20 pm
The guy running through the halls? You think that all thehalls have the same shape in every ship?

It's a naval vessel, even if it's a spaceship. If they're not all the same, something's wrong.

I dunnno, i'd think hallways with different uses would be different, for example, those hallways around personal quarters would be more traditional, whereas main halways with lots of traffic would be in the larger hexagon shape...
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Unknown Target on January 04, 2006, 09:40:03 pm
Would you like to be the one to voulonteer to find out exactly what ship the running animation was for? :p
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: FireCrack on January 04, 2006, 10:28:49 pm
While none of the other hallways visible in cutscenes, mainhalls, etc... mimic the one in the ST cutscene, the lighting and construction seems similar to that of the bar (dropped cutscene) it's quite a large bar, too large for a fenris. The only other terran warship, adn therefore the only ship that the bar would make sense in is the Orion.


So, the orion.


But that's just speculation, we can actualy see that atleast around the hangerbays orions tend to have squarish hallways.
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: aldo_14 on January 05, 2006, 11:49:04 am
IIRC the ref bible describes the name on the bar doors, so someone check that, eh? Also, worth bearing in mind that the hallway ani could be from an Arcadia installation....or even (not likely IMO, cos it's not in the script, but anyways....) cut from either the intro (run to interceptors) or from the cut cutscene with the Taranis' capture and destruction.
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Bobboau on January 06, 2006, 08:12:10 pm
I always thought that was for an Arcadia.

I think you should start by figureing out were all the major equipment would be modeling that in in some very simple way, then designing rooms and coradors to go around that.
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strang
Post by: Unknown Target on January 06, 2006, 10:04:31 pm
Yea, I'll probably be restarting a major part of this, with some architechtural sketches, object placements, etc. :) But it'll be on hold for a bit, as I have 3-4 other things (not including school :D) to be working on :D
Title: Re: What is this place...why do I feel so...strange?
Post by: Sandwich on January 10, 2006, 06:29:27 pm
Wow, talk about birnging back memories. You reminded me of my aborted corridor duplication project:

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