[varsaigen]

A base built by pirates. The pirates scavaged battlefields and captured ships from the GTVA and the Shivans. The pirates incorperated what they found value in and constructed a base of operations. With the completion of their base, they plan to dominate the universe.

Any ideas on where any good textures could go would be helpful. This base is mostly a blend of terran and vasudan design/textures. I need to arm it and I'm debating on a shield. A fighterbay sounds like a good idea but I don't know where to put it. So, any ideas you guys can come up with would be helpful. Thanks!


Sorry for the huge pic.

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[Retsof]

I was going to make a pirate ship too, something like a few Feneri melded into one ship, but whoever made the HTL feneris was on crack.

[Snail]

A base built by pirates. The pirates scavaged battlefields and captured ships from the GTVA and the Shivans. The pirates incorperated what they found value in and constructed a base of operations. With the completion of their base, they plan to dominate the universe.

Whoa, whoa. Hold on. Pirates dominating the universe? Seriously, might want to rethink that.

Any ideas on where any good textures could go would be helpful. This base is mostly a blend of terran and vasudan design/textures. I need to arm it and I'm debating on a shield. A fighterbay sounds like a good idea but I don't know where to put it. So, any ideas you guys can come up with would be helpful. Thanks!

You might want to think about adding some more details and getting some better textures on that thing. The textures you're using now are very stretched, tiling them around the thing would be a better idea. Other stuff around (like comm towers and greebles) would help make it look more like a ship.

[varsaigen]

lol. But this base of mine gives me an idea. I should create a whole fleet of reskinned ships (pirate look) and custom models! =D For example, a brown loki for the pirate effect! 

[Snail]

Reskins hardly get much community attention anymore.

[varsaigen]

Whoa, whoa. Hold on. Pirates dominating the universe? Seriously, might want to rethink that.

Well, I was getting ideas off of the space pirates in Metroid Prime. They merged technology and basically used what they could to evolve technologically. Plus, they wanted the universe. =)

You might want to think about adding some more details and getting some better textures on that thing. The textures you're using now are very stretched, tiling them around the thing would be a better idea. Other stuff around (like comm towers and greebles) would help make it look more like a ship.

I could. I tried a few tiles, but couldn't find a good texture for them. If you have any in mind, please tell me. Thanks!
And the attachments, I would need to figure out what they looked like (please don't fetch pics for me. ) and where they would go. the rods in the middle I wanted to give the glowing effect to, like they led to a reactor. and the black on each rod could be a hallway or something.

Edit: so greebles are trenches like in the Death Star? Oo god thet looks painful... But, I can attempt a basic one...

[Retsof]

Greebles are pretty much random details to make the model look good.

[varsaigen]

ah. ok, so, random plating? I can do that. Just to plate the entire thing would take about... 1/2 an hour if I concentrate on it alone. I'll see what I can do! Thanks!

[Retsof]

But they are actually in the model, not textures.

[Colonol Dekker]

You thought about actually editing the textures? Ie cutting a few Zod plates and pasting them onto Terran tiles?© for that authentic scrapyard feel?

[varsaigen]

You thought about actually editing the textures? Ie cutting a few Zod plates and pasting them onto Terran tiles?© for that authentic scrapyard feel?

I thought about editing. But I wanted to see if I could use as many in-game textures as possible before editing the textures. and the scrapyard feel? Yeah, I had that in mind when I was choosing the textures. I must mention that the glowy lights on top (top is same as bottom) will be placement for beam turrets i think.

[Colonol Dekker]

You would only have to make one or two "joiner" textures. Then you could give it a two welded halves welded together look. Bigger ships leave bigger debris chunks too, so i'd imagine it'd be mostly orion and typhon debris (as a whole lot more typhons are scrapped )

[varsaigen]

You would only have to make one or two "joiner" textures. Then you could give it a two welded halves welded together look. Bigger ships leave bigger debris chunks too, so i'd imagine it'd be mostly orion and typhon debris (as a whole lot more typhons are scrapped )

Yeah, joiner textures are what I had in mind. Mainly to fix the problem I have on the outer ring, the top has a stretched texture. D: And the debris is a good idea. I dunno if Typhon debris would work?