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Title: A few random WIPs
Post by: Axem on August 26, 2006, 06:07:11 pm
Just a few things, mostly new, I was playing around with. I'm still slowly working on my other unfinished stuff (uv mapping is so mind numbing :P), but I'd thought I'd get some opinions on these things.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/CivStation.jpg)
A small installation sorta inspired by Ragnar. Meant to be fairly low-key, just for cargo or resupply. 16 docking points for any ships to dock with, and 2 fighter bays (top and bottom holes).

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/CVF_Martel.jpg)
A sleek fighter meant to look fast. Atmospheric capable, but only has a small weapons loadout. 2 cannons plus a single missile bay. Perhaps for civilian use. This guy is also has a cockpit and is UV mapped. I started the texture awhile ago, but lost that in a hard drive crash.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/GTVA_Corvette.jpg)
GTVA Corvette. A broadsider, 2 beam cannons on each side, plus a large assortment of other turrets. Deck guns cover the top and bottom, so the only real problems are front and rear firing arcs.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/stealthy2.jpg)
And a stealthy ship. Not sure what I'm really going to do with him. Probably recon or superiority.
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: BS403 on August 26, 2006, 06:55:11 pm
 :yes: the corvette looks more vasudan to me
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Vengence on August 26, 2006, 07:05:17 pm
 :P He said GTVA as in 'the Terran and Vasudans'. Sleek :yes:
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: BS403 on August 26, 2006, 07:08:56 pm
oh yeah missed the v :nervous:
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Trivial Psychic on August 26, 2006, 08:18:14 pm
:yes: the corvette looks more vasudan to me
As a Vasudan craft, the blocky sections are too Terran.  So, either the Vasudans are starting to incorporate some Terran design features in their ships, or the Terrans are continuing to sleeken-up their designs, as with the Hecate, and this one is even more so.  Could be the successor to the Deimos.  The stealth ship is exceptionally cool.  Almost has a Swallow look to it.
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Scooby_Doo on August 26, 2006, 09:13:02 pm
Wow I really like the station.
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Dark Hunter on August 26, 2006, 10:48:57 pm
Hunter wishes Axem would finish the Lamia before starting new projects....


Still, all of those look good. I've tried playing around in Truespace and BLECH. :ick: Can't even make a simple sphere.... I'll stick to FREDding....
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: BS403 on August 26, 2006, 10:56:14 pm
Hunter wishes Axem would finish the Lamia before starting new projects....
I agree (plaese don't hurt me) :shaking:
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: PotzUK on August 27, 2006, 04:08:26 am
Still, all of those look good. I've tried playing around in Truespace and BLECH. :ick: Can't even make a simple sphere.... I'll stick to FREDding....

Ditto :)
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: bizzybody on August 27, 2006, 04:33:22 am
Still, all of those look good. I've tried playing around in Truespace and BLECH. :ick: Can't even make a simple sphere.... I'll stick to FREDding....

Click and hold the left button on the Primitives button, which most likely has a cube on it currently, drag up to the Sphere, let go and there's your sphere sitting at 0,0,1. Right click the button to set the initial parameters for the primitive.

trueSpace buttons have little (on higher resolutions _very_ little) triangles in the upper left, upper right or both corners. One in the upper right means that rightclicking the button will open some sort of panel that does stuff related to that function. One in the upper left means that holding the left mouse button will expand the button to show the rest of the tools.

Some of those rightclick panels will also open and close automatically as you change tools. Rightclicking will make (most of them) persistant, they stay open when you change off that tool.

As to why the user interface is so... odd... it's because trueSpace originally started life as an Amiga program. If you think tS 3.2 is limited, there's a page on some UK magazine site with trueSpace 1.0 for Windows to download free.
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: karajorma on August 27, 2006, 06:16:44 am
Hey. I don't think that's fair. Lightwave also started out as an Amiga program too :p
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Getter Robo G on August 27, 2006, 11:56:29 am
WOW!!!

  True please finish one at a time...  :D The waiting is killing us!

Station: cool BSG.  :lol:

The Sleek Fighter: Definately looks like a prowler from Farscape, but better as I think the show's fighters suck, just needs a bit more detail! (don't scream)

GTVA Corvette: Boom on the money, looks like a Vasudan heavy influence with some Terran connectors and guns.  :yes: (snatches it up)...

That stealth figher, I need it... I just need a single tail on the middle back end between the engine housings... (please gimmie! - 2 down, one ship to go  :nervous:)...  :yes:
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Col. Fishguts on August 27, 2006, 03:49:47 pm
:P He said GTVA as in 'the Terran and Vasudans'. Sleek :yes:

Yup, looks a lot like a next-gen hybrid design, as in incorporating elements from the Deimos and the Sobek.

Me likes a lot :yes:
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Axem on August 27, 2006, 07:36:37 pm
Don't worry about my other ships. I said I'm still working on them. ;) The Lamia and Cretheus are both nearly done. PCS doesn't want to convert the Lamia, so I have to go through it to find the offending geometry and fix it. :blah:

Anyhow, like Col. Fishguts said, the idea for the Corvette was a true Terran-Vasudan hybrid. Vasudan-esque shape, Terran greebles and weapons.

Robo: I'm a tad confused by what you mean. Do you mean something like this?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/stealthy3.jpg)
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Getter Robo G on August 27, 2006, 08:21:22 pm
Nah, I noticed a close enough similarity to a ship I need. I was goign fro a more traditional tail (f-16ish) would be good enough, but in actuality the ship I am aiming for is this:

mega spoiler now...
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/Star-Dragon/GetterDragonShip.jpg

Another ship on GW is close enough for this one:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/Star-Dragon/GetterArrowShip.jpg

Which means I just need the last one (and ironicly in the original series and the re-make they need to find this pilot as well lol!!!):
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/Star-Dragon/GetterPosidenShip.jpg

I'm about to do some testing for RoboQuack (if successful) that should carry over to this project.

ok, shutting up now!   ;7 
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Scooby_Doo on August 27, 2006, 09:20:06 pm
wow, those look like actual plastic toys
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Getter Robo G on August 27, 2006, 09:25:35 pm
Um... Cause they are.  :lol:

I figured it would be better to post those close up pics rather than frames from the anime...
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Kazan on August 28, 2006, 12:33:44 pm
i like

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/GTVA_Corvette.jpg)
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Goober5000 on August 29, 2006, 08:46:22 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/GTVA_Corvette.jpg)
GTVA Corvette. A broadsider, 2 beam cannons on each side, plus a large assortment of other turrets. Deck guns cover the top and bottom, so the only real problems are front and rear firing arcs.

Hmm.

(http://inferno.hard-light.net/RaynorHTL.jpg)
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: BS403 on August 29, 2006, 10:00:23 pm
strange
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Dark Hunter on August 29, 2006, 10:49:26 pm
It's a mini-Raynor! :P


That actually reminded me more of the Adv. Phobos from Inferno... if you colored it olive drab.
Title: Re: A few random WIPs
Post by: Nuke on August 30, 2006, 12:09:25 am
once again axem makes ships that totally kick ass. nice work.