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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Scooby_Doo on October 15, 2007, 07:34:26 pm
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Based on this sketch
(http://www.wcnews.com/newestshots/full/Con_Longbow_s.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Shodan_AI/bow1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Shodan_AI/bow2.jpg)
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Good work!
Now, start working on the others! :p
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Nice, but a little fat.
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don't like the cockpit, aside from that looks good.
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Nice. Now, being the quasi-perma-n00b I am, this IS supposed to be a bomber, right?
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Correct spartan.
If you mean the sketch, blame EA http://www.wcnews.com/news/2930 (http://www.wcnews.com/news/2930)
For mine the cockpit will be much smaller in size, at 40 meters it's more like flying a 747.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Shodan_AI/bow3.jpg)
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Could I assume that from the inside of the cockpit, it will be transparent, but from the outside it will be opaque? I've always loved that idea.
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I just made the hull transparent to show the cockpit layout might be like.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Shodan_AI/bow4.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Shodan_AI/bow5.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Shodan_AI/bow6.jpg)
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Wow, looking great.
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I just made the hull transparent to show the cockpit layout might be like.
Bummer. Nice ship, though.
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BTW this would be a pilotible gunship not a bomber.
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Hark, do I hear Auto Turrets?
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I dunno. I like it alot, but call me crazy, but I think I like the rounded nacelles of the sketch better than the current square-ish ones. And....shouldn't it fly like a 747? :p
BTW this would be a pilotible gunship not a bomber.
Why? The Longbow is a bomber in WC3.
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Hades is possibly going after FS-classifications with his remark (where bombers don't have that heavy turrets, nor are that large) - but seeing that it is based on Wing Commander, "bomber" should still be the correct description (as long as you don't import it into the FS-timeline, that is).
Oh and the Longbow still was a bomber in WC4 - it didn't cease to be at the end of WC3 ;) .
About the model itself - hmm, I'm not quite as enthusiastic with this as with most of your other models, but still it looks well, and the idea seems interesting :) .
From it's looks, it somehow reminds of the bow of a WC1 Venture Slanted onto an enlargened Longbow rear-section... Nothing bad about that, but the whole thing is just a bit too boxy for my perception...
Compared to the drawing, I'd also say there should be an additional intake at the top after about one third of the length - where you have some tubes going around the edge of the broadening cross-section.
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Interesting. Yet there is something that bothers me..
I guess its the "wings". They look like they should be attached to a lot more maneuverable ship? Could be a bit shorter, IMO (to make them appear less functional).
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Yea I liked the round sketch better as well.
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Uh, the "wings" are pretty much the right scale if you're oriented on the original Longbow... I'd say you shouldn't measure a WC ship on FS classifications, castor.
And the rounded sketch doesn't really look good to me... it mostly looks like a badly deformed Vampire to me :nervous: .
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Yes Mav, I realize that the ship is not from FS universe.
I should have added that I was commenting it solely against my personal aesthetic views, outside of any specific setting.
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It's a bit blocky like the herc
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Shodan_AI/bow7.jpg)
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Boxy-licious.
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I like it but I flew a Longbow solo... (Mark I) ;7
Will this one have enhanced weaponry?
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Shodan_AI/bow8.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Shodan_AI/bow9.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Shodan_AI/bow10.jpg)
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Wow that things looks like a heavy truck compared to the other ships. It hasn't the elegance of other designs you made but it suits a bomber quite well.
Only thing I dislike about it are these two pipes that are going into the upper intakes.
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The ship and textures are awesome. But I miss the rounder nose of the original longbow. Because of that this model reminds me more as a planetary shuttle than a bomber which serve in direct battle (of course that's just my impression :) )
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It kinda does remind one about a shuttle but then the original Longbow was a R&R ship and by the time of WC3 it was used as a Bomberframe.
At least we see a Longbow in WCATV used as a R&R ship but Sabres and Broadswords beeing used as bombers.
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Put normal maps NOW !!! :p
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ooD yboocS <- Your name is backwards under the pilot's window. ;)