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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Rico on March 03, 2013, 11:28:09 pm
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A vasudan ship I've come up with today at work, started as a cruiser but thinking it'd do better as a corvette, especially considering the flight pod option. The ship is on the left with add-on pods options on the right (which slop in between the front pilons/wings.
Will do concept model when I get home in an hours home, posting for comments, this is an early concept.
Will explain more at home, angry at phone for screwing up posting this for the last half an hour :mad:
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Cool idea! More Vasudan capships are in great demand, and modular to boot. If I were to offer any advice (and it's for wa, way down the track) I'd suggest working up three separate pofs - one with no module (for others to add on later), one with the hangar and one with the non-hangar module. It's certainly possible to make modular stuff work (after a fashion) in mission (download my Deimos hat to get a bit of an idea of the basic sexping required) but (assuming no code changes) it'll never work as well in game as a single pof would, especially for things like turrets spread over two models, as looks to be the case here.
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Yeah your 'hat' is what gave me the idea, I was thinking of going about that way (having the 3 ships instead of using modules literally). Also the clean hull could be used as a light corvette or cruiser, so it gives options for mod makers.
I however will need help with getting the model game ready, mostly advice.
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is this going to be zod thunderbird 2
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is this going to be zod thunderbird 2
I guess someone could do that if they wanted, a warship version of the Triton, but I was thinking more like modern military where a chasis/vehicle is used as the basis of multiple varients to fulfill different roles.
Edit: on second though the warship Triton idea sounds rather cool.....
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'warship version of the triton' how dare you refer to thunderbird 2 like that
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Ok I've been playing in lightwave with the model and come up with the start of the main hull, it's still quite basic so don't expect too much yet, just trying to decide on the overall shape before digging deeper. Any ideas/thought/comments? :nervous:
Top left is the view from the top front and top bottom is from bottom front (obviously), sofar the overall shape is looking nice however the bottom is very flat. While that seems to be common on Vasudan smaller ships (Sobek/Mentu) I'm not certain about this. Also need to decide on what to put ontop, as I said suggestions very much welcome.
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Also need to decide on what to put ontop, as I said suggestions very much welcome.
It would use a vertical sponson with engines in the rear (both top and bottom).
Also- turrets.