[Solatar]

Here is the GTB Apollyon bomber as seen in the fs1 intro cutscene. We will be using it in the TVWar later on, but for now I have done a beta version of it.

[Nico]

mmh...this ship has to be the one with the most different versions ever done by fans in any existing game

[Solatar]

Yeah, you're right. But the Apollo is a pretty good fighter. Its is almost perfectly balanced.

The Apollyon is more torpedo balanced. It carries weak primaries, and MAYBE a few turrets. But it also carries hella-powerful bombs to try and blow up those Vasudan warships.

[vadar_1]

I think he was being sarcastic... you changed like... one texture

[Solatar]

Actually, it took me about an hour. I played around with the lighting, I had to change th gun bank stuff on the .pof file, I had to keep switching from the concept on dexent-network to Paintshop Pro.

[Goober5000]

It's fine.  The red looks interesting.  Where are you putting all the gun mounts?

[diamondgeezer]

Could have at least made the cockpit a bit longer. I mean, I shouldn't be criticizing, since I have no texturing abilites what so ever, but still.

[Solatar]

I might try to make the cockpit a little bigger. I took out the front strut and colored the other one yellow.

Well, as you can see from where the gun mounts normally are, missile slots are going there. But where the missile mounts are there are three little cannons in the pics on Descent Network. Gun mounts are going here, but only two of them.

And no, I didn't just switch all the missiles to guns and vice versa. There is a missile slot where each of the three missiles are. A total of one gun bank and two missile.

[Nico]

Originally posted by vadar_1
I think he was being sarcastic... you changed like... one texture

no I wasn't. that so-called apollo bomber varient from the intro  has been made so many times I can't count them.

[Solatar]

Funny, this is the first one I've seen. When i asked you guys about this a while back nobody knew about one.

I though you meant the Apollo had been redone so many times. I saw one at the VWatch archives that had flames on it and had a "**** Happens" bumper sticker. I might put some of these, and some of my own into the MOD as bonus ships. Same properties, cool textures.

[aldo_14]

I think you need to darker the lighter bits... IIRC the cutscene model was all a fairly dark shade.  At the moment it looks odd, because one half seems to be dark and red, and another white and blue - which is pretty nasty contrast wise.

[IPAndrews]

Great. Now hit the NURBS button.

[Goober5000]

Yeah, aldo is right.  Make the cockpit and engine nacelles the same dark shade as the rest of it.

[Anaz]

Originally posted by IPAndrews
Great. Now hit the NURBS button.

LMAO!

[Goober5000]

NURBS?

[Nico]

Originally posted by aldo_14
I think you need to darker the lighter bits... IIRC the cutscene model was all a fairly dark shade.  At the moment it looks odd, because one half seems to be dark and red, and another white and blue - which is pretty nasty contrast wise.

don't forget the one in the intro isquite beaten up too.

[Tar-Palantir]

Are you going to have a co-pilot in it? The FS1 cutscene did - although he was dead. I can see him/her giving advice to the player etc.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Tar-Palantir
Are you going to have a co-pilot in it? The FS1 cutscene did - although he was dead. I can see him/her giving advice to the player etc.

For FREDders a two person bomber could be a godsend. No more having to protect, invulnerable or guardian the other fighters. You can just have the co-pilot do a lot of the extrainious chat

I hope we're going to be seeing lots of chatter from the co-pilot (better still make him a character who stays with Alpha from beginning to end of the campaign )

[Goober5000]

I don't know about that - I don't want a backseat driver yelling at me while I'm dogfighting...

[Hudzy]

I think it worked well in Starlancer with Moose sitting in the back.