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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Su-tehp on July 22, 2002, 06:37:30 pm
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I've been wondering about this. While people seem to love designing new Terran mods, from fighters to corvettes and destroyer (and even new terran juggernauts), high-quality vasudan mods seem alot harder to find.
Specifically, I'm looking for maybe 2 new vasudan fighter mods and a new Vasudan corvette mod and a new Vasudan destroyer mod. I've seen some of the stuff at the inferno website (they've made a lot of pictures of new vasudan mods) but nothing there really knocked my socks off.
Just out of curiosity, is anyone working on making new Vasudan mods?
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Well I`m working on this :-
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/images/GVCv-Amset-Rounded.jpg)
and I plan to make a few more vasudan ships.
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needs better texturing
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Well, since the Eden Project is basically scrapped, I'm willing to let you have the GVF Heptu, the GVC Aten Mk2, and the GVC Tuket.
The Heptu is meant to be a complement to the Serapis (stronger, more powerful, but slower, but still performing space superiority tasks). For all purposes, it's the Vasudan equivalent of the Myrmidon.
Aten Mk2 is just a normal Aten with four extra turrets, and heavier armor. It wins against Cain cruisers most of the time, and occasionally against Rakshasas (not often tho).
The Tuket is a massively anticap cruiser (4 SVas beams, forward). It can beat Moloch corvettes, and Lilith's.
It's not that people want to focus on the Terrans so much, I think, as the difficulty of coming up with Vasudan designs that don't look like crap.
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Originally posted by Mad Bomber
It's not that people want to focus on the Terrans so much, I think, as the difficulty of coming up with Vasudan designs that don't look like crap.
Yeah, that's true enough, I suppose. The only Vasudan design I ever saw that really impressed me as being close to [v] quality work was the screenshot of the new Vasudan space superirity fighter on the BWO website.
Mad Bomber, yeah, I'd love to take a look at your new ships. let me know where I might be able to download them. Or, if you need to send them to me via e-mail, my addy is:
[email protected]
Karajoma, the overall shape of that pic seems...off. The overall thing to remember about making Vasudan ships is that there are more curves than sharp angles, gennerally speaking. The skin of your pic may say 'Vasudan' but the shape screams 'Terran'.
Just MHO. I understand it's a work in progress, but I wanted to let you know what I thought.
All the same, I'd like to see the rest of your work.
If anyone is interested, here is what I'd like to see included in my campaign: 2 new Vasudan fighter mods (one space superiority, one heavy assault), one new Vasudan corvette and one new Vasudan destroyer.
I don't ask for much, do I? ;)
Seriously, though, I DL'ed the FS Modding manual, but it's going to take me a LONG time to get enough skill to be good at it. Plus I have to get other software to be able to do the stuff I want.
So I just thought I'd ask if anyone was working on Vasudan mods.
While we're on the subject, what do you guys think are important principles to remember when building vasudan mods?
Here's my first one:
1) Basic design should have more curves than angles, otherwise the ship will look more Terran than Vasudan, despite the skin.
Anyone else?
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Looks like a Vasudan Star Destroyer
Beware!!! The Vasudan Parlimantery Emperial Star Destroyer is coming!!!........Or maybe not, if its a Freespace2 model, which I'm sure it is.
Okay everbody!!!! You can come out now!!!!
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Setekh rendered the Heptu at one point, i think it was a fire nebula or something, there was that fighter of Maeglamor's there too. I think.
Also, if you want, I'll also provide the GTB Kronus... two double-barreled turrets of fun, and it's bigger than the Ursa and Boar too, without being outlandish like Inferno's Notus. :D
I'm not at home atm, so I'll have to email you the ships later tonight. (assuming the thunderstorm doesnt get in the way)
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The funny thing is that everyone says that vasudan ships are really very smooth but look at the typhon. That ship is covered in spikes :)
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Not really covered, i mean it has those two on the bottom, and the curved ones near the bridge. And the front part if you count that. But it's not really covered. The vast majority of it is smooth or smooth-ish.
Also look at the Aten, and the Mentu. They're smooth in most places but have a few sharp edges to accentuate it.
That's the general Vasudan style.
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As the great prophet Setekh once said, "Respect Vasudan Design"
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1) Can I have the Heptu too, Mad Bomber? [email protected]
2) Vasudan assault fighter (Erinyes equivalent): Aldo's GVF Reshef (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/reciprocity/downloads/gvf_reshef.rar).
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feel free to use any of the Dark Breed ships, they could be used directly as they are as a Vasudan fighter\bomber
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Bobboau, where can we find the Dark Breed ships for DL?
(Something tells me I should already know this answer... :o )
Mad bomber, I just checked my e-mail, i got the mods. Thanks pal. I'll take a good look at them soon. I'll look at the GVF Reshef also. If Aldo made it, it HAS to be a quality mod.
EDIT: I just took a look at the GVF Reshef and my God, does that thing look cool! Thanks be to Aldo for designing ANOTHER quality fighter mod!
And because he posted the Reshef here for DL (I know I've said it before but I REALLY need to say it again), Sesquipedalian rocks!
Oh, crap, Sesq's stroked ego is causing his head to inflate to garguantuan proportions and is about to crush us all! RUN!
*runs for dear life* :D
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*Get's crushed* :(
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I am doing a Vasudan campaign as you probably know, if that counts. ;) And yeah, that Reshef looks really good. :nod:
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Aldo was making a friggin beautiful Vasudan transport awhile back - the GVT Apis - I don't know if it ever got finished though. I'd link to the thread the pic's on, but some dunce'd reply to it (it's from November 01 :( )
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i remember that, looked cool. everyone was saying it should have been a science cruiser.