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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => The FreeSpace Port Upgrade => Topic started by: Snail on January 23, 2009, 10:33:19 am

Title: PVD Cobra
Post by: Snail on January 23, 2009, 10:33:19 am
Before I was born, master modder Dark made a superb reskin of the Imperial Star Destroyer (original mesh by Darth Maul). It looked pretty class and despite being painfully obvious a reskin of a Star Wars ship, was still quite cool.

So I was wondering, since the FSPort team have been upgrading and remaking old FS1 mods, would the PVD Cobra be anywhere on the list?
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Narvi on January 23, 2009, 10:53:36 am
The Imperial Star Destroyer as a PVN ship.

What.
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Snail on January 23, 2009, 11:02:21 am
An ISD reskinned to look Vasudan.

EDIT:

(http://www.wild666.freeserve.co.uk/Cobra%20pic.jpg)
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: General Battuta on January 23, 2009, 11:46:56 am
Wow, that's...oddly effective.
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Galemp on January 23, 2009, 12:42:43 pm
Er, no... I mean I like Dark's work, and I like what he did with it... and the idea of a dagger-shaped Vasudan destroyer is nice... but I'm certainly not going to work on it.
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Snail on January 23, 2009, 12:49:50 pm
If you think of it, it does look oddly like an upscaled Scarab.
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Narvi on January 23, 2009, 01:00:01 pm
This is unholy.

The bridge tower just doesn't fit.
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Snail on January 23, 2009, 01:06:38 pm
Quote from: Narvi on January 23, 2009, 01:00:01 pm
This is unholy.

The bridge tower just doesn't fit.
Agreed on that point.
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Droid803 on January 23, 2009, 05:24:42 pm
Typhon-ize the bridge, cut the terraces (or round them out a bit), and it could work pretty well, actually.
Essentially, gut the features that make it painfully obvious.
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Mongoose on January 24, 2009, 04:36:14 pm
It's kind of scary that it works so well even as-is.  Who knew?
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Terminator on March 05, 2009, 08:41:16 am
I've been able to locate Darth_Maul's original model and textures aswell as Dark's reskin. If needed I can send them to someone if you want to work on them a bit.
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Galemp on March 05, 2009, 01:49:12 pm
Quote from: Terminator on March 05, 2009, 08:41:16 am
Darth_Maul's original model and textures...

Did you know that these were done in the early days of FS1, where virtually no modeling had ever been done for the game? And that "Darth_Maul" came out of nowhere, dropped off those models, vanished back into nowhere, and was never heard from again? And that the models were compiled using Volition's BSPGen POF generator?
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Terminator on March 05, 2009, 03:21:35 pm
I stumbled on that knowledge last night when I was searching for the files. The link on the old VWatch archives didn't work so I had to sift through a few years of history on the HLP forums to find them.
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Snail on March 08, 2009, 02:55:49 pm
Quote from: Galemp on March 05, 2009, 01:49:12 pm
And that the models were compiled using Volition's BSPGen POF generator?
BSPGen? Interesting...
Title: Re: PVD Cobra
Post by: Black Wolf on March 11, 2009, 03:24:32 am
Quote from: Galemp on March 05, 2009, 01:49:12 pm
Quote from: Terminator on March 05, 2009, 08:41:16 am
Darth_Maul's original model and textures...

Did you know that these were done in the early days of FS1, where virtually no modeling had ever been done for the game? And that "Darth_Maul" came out of nowhere, dropped off those models, vanished back into nowhere, and was never heard from again? And that the models were compiled using Volition's BSPGen POF generator?

I always just assumed he was one of the [V] modellers who'd had some spare time one day. Real shame nobody did more with 'em back when they were new and awesome - it's amazing it's taken as long as it has and we're still so far away from any kind of SW in FS.