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Offline Raptor

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The Other GTD Saturn; Raptor's version
Well, here it is, in early TS form.

Raptor's GTD Saturn.



The diffrent coloured areas around the engines and launchbay are there to show that there are additional polys there for extra texturing.

It currently stands at 587 polys.

Comments please.

Damm I'm pround of this.....
« Last Edit: October 12, 2003, 08:26:33 am by 914 »
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Hmmmm...Hades Mk. II

Change the name to GTD Hera, then you got something that could be the centre of a whole new campaign. (Silent Threat...but only better...)

I like it!

looks like a cross between...the Hades...and the whitestar from Babylon 5.

Keep it up!

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Better then sigma's version
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It's like a huge interceptor warhead. Any pics with the ship textured?
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Originally posted by Free Terran
Better then sigma's version


My GTD Saturn was my first self made capship. At the moment I'm making a complete new version of my Saturn.

But back to Raptors ship. I like it !! :yes:

 

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Sorry nothing against you but that my opinnium
and i hope you don't take it personal....right ?
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Sorry nothing against you but that my opinnium
and i hope you don't take it personal....right ?


No problem!!
I don't take it personal! :D

 

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Thats good ;)
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My GTD Saturn was my first self made capship. At the moment I'm making a complete new version of my Saturn.


Glad to hear it :) That's how you get better at this sort of thing :)
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'Yes! people like!'

I don't really want to change the name, But if Sigma wants Saturn, then I suppose this could become GTD Jupiter.....

WhiteStar? where?

I must admit, the Hades is one of the better looking V meshs, IMHO, but it was too big to use as a destroyer, and it lacked turrets.  There is also a bit of Iceni in the tail.

I have a reguned Hades ready to roll (44 turrets ;7 ), except something goes nuts when converting to POF :wtf:

It will become the centre for my campain, when it's done, though you may not see it until the end of chapter 2. After that, you will be based on one.

Must point out that there have been a couple of small changes at the stern, due to me re-thinking turret placement.

I've also built up the mounts for the forward guns, but I'm having second thoughts (again!)
Here's a pic:
http://www.angelfire.com/space2/raptorsnest/SaturnForGuns.html
The Large red block is standing in for a beam cannon, while the smaller piece is representing a heavy pulse cannon (there would be another underneath).  The idea was to have forward weapons fire simular to an B5 EA Destroyer. But......

As for texturing, thats a problem.  I try to follow the advice of others, selecting a single face and applying UVmapping to that face, but when I try, the system only lets me apply a UVmap to the whole ship.  Therefore, any texturing I attempt would look :ick:

I'm kind of hoping someone would be willing to setup the UVmapping. Once the faces have stand in textures, with correct UVmapping, I should be able to handle it from there.

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i'd change the arms and the engines, adding details and rounding them, the rest is  :yes:

 

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Looks Very Lego to me, especially the front part. Not a pad thing though. Deffinitly a second Hades, and I think Hera would sit it better, but whatever floats your boat.
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   Can you make turents from scratch? is it diffucult to place them on models and make them work and such. Main problem I have is that I can arm fighters/bombers no problem, but almost every cap ship model (ie the WHITESTAR) is one object (turrents non-existent or built it - not seperate). So when I make firing points for them they never work. If I had a cube can I make a turrent on each side firigng away from itself without and submodels? If I can figure this out I can get a lot of stuff armed in the next fewmonths ( I have a huge backlog of half finished ships...)

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this is just a post of some name suggestions:

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Original: GTD Hades
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Raptors: -GTD Hades Mk.II
              -GTD Hera (Queen of Gods)
              -GTD Ares (God of War)
              -GTD Mors (God of Death)
---

Other Greek god names can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/7371/greekgods.html

Good luck on texturing that sucker!

Or you could let an expert texture it for you.

(you could also let "Woo" have a look at it...he might be interested in making an add-on for Inferno...Hmmmm...)

Cor

 

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is that my white star, or is it yours?
it kinda looks like the one I made
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This 'greek gods' table ensures us that all names will have been captured when you review this thread. :)
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Originally posted by Star Dragon
Whatever you end up calling it I LIKES IT!!!


Thanks ;)

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Can you make turents from scratch? is it diffucult to place them on models and make them work and such.


Yep. I followed the tutorial within Karajorma 'Freespace Oracle' (Link in his sig). Thanks for that K!  This beast, when finished, will carry 68 turrets.

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Raptors: -GTD Hades Mk.II
-GTD Hera (Queen of Gods)
-GTD Ares (God of War)
-GTD Mors (God of Death)


'Hades Mk.II' - It is based on the Hades, I suppose
'Hera' - Wasn't there already a ship called this?
'Ares' - would be nice, but V took it for the 'uprated' Herc II
'Mors' - not sure were your coming from....

I went for 'Saturn' Since thats the Roman name for one of the Greek gods, I think.

I am also planing a New Terran corvette, the GTCv Mars (Roman name for Ares)

Surprised no one commented on the forward mount pic....

How does the community feel about ships which have large numbers of maps, most used in only a few places? To do this justice, it really needs to be very detailed.

Is there any expert texturer willing to have a crack at this?

I'd best go and make the rest of the turrets, and think about what detail I can add to the outer engines....

Suggestions?
« Last Edit: June 26, 2003, 07:01:49 am by 914 »
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She looks nice....

I think whoever said WhiteStar was probably thinking Victory (aka the Excalibur) destroyer which bears a very striking resemblance to the GTD Hades.

Looks great tho...texture her up and you have one mean looking destroyer :)
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Originally posted by Raptor
Yep. I followed the tutorial within Karajorma 'Freespace Oracle' (Link in his sig). Thanks for that K!  This beast, when finished, will carry 68 turrets.


Well I'm glad it proved useful to someone :) I had such a hard time learning how to make turrets when I had to learn that I wanted to make sure the next lot of newbie modellers didn't have to go through it :)
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Everybody is suffering with multi-part turrets for the first time. Altougth, my first 'simple turret' worked, only multi-part turrets caused me problems(but very much :))
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