[Liberator]

Actually, the texturing is quite good.

It just needs to be tweaked to fit in with the existing(canon) ship.  I would probably lean toward the green and gold like the Iceni.

[Epokai]

Any chance the good ol' modding community will get a chance at the GTD Saturn?? Please......

[pyro-manic]

This ship rawks! Texture-wise, something in very dark grey (almost black) with white details would be pretty sweet.

As for names, I'm fed up with Greek stuff - try some other civilizations! Or just use something that sounds cool...

GTD Belisaria
GTD Neptune (dunno if this has been used yet)
GTD Sumatra
GTD Constantinople
GTD Byzantium
GTD Andropov
GTD Hindenburg (although that's just asking for trouble... )
GTD Romulus/Remus
GTD Damocles
....
etc, etc. I was going to suggest an Aztec or Mayan name,  but I can't spell the damn thing - it began with a T...

[Epokai]

Originally posted by pyro-manic
GTD Damocles

Thats taken. Its a frigate mod, made by Ice Heart. Contact him at [email protected] (I think)

Originally posted by pyro-manic
GTD Hindenburg (although that's just asking for trouble... )

 You could have fun, making a campaign out of that.....

[pyro-manic]

*destroyer captain to helmsman*: "Take her in, ensign! Mooring pylon three. Steady now, we don't want to go in too fast.... I said not too fast , be careful.... No! don't go that close, you'll hit the - " BANG!!!

Wouldn't be a very long campaign, though...

[Epokai]

He he he. Oka fine. A Three mission campaign! The Maiden Voyage, the Escourt, The crash. But hey, a campaign is a campaign.

[pyro-manic]

Short, sweet, and all on fire....

[Anaz]

Originally posted by Raptor
Analazon:

blame it on truespace, not on me

[phreak]

Originally posted by pyro-manic


*destroyer captain to helmsman*: "Take her in, ensign! Mooring pylon three. Steady now, we don't want to go in too fast.... I said not too fast , be careful.... No! don't go that close, you'll hit the - " BANG!!!

Wouldn't be a very long campaign, though...

oh the humanity!!

[JC Denton]

Heh, well, at least it'd be amusing to script for.

Although I've never heard of a warship being named after an explosive passenger airship....

So, we'll christen it the GTD Saturn class.
Unless someone wants to name it GTD Eris or GTD Ikazuchi?

May I also suggest that you decrease the scaling on the textures?  In the screenshot I can vaguely see some pixelation in the maps.

And just out of curiousity, what was Saturn the God/Goddess of?

[Liberator]

I'm favoring:

GTD Hespera

Hespera is Goddess of Dusk, not truly warlike but it has a ring to it.

[Raptor]

'Lots a replies!'

I was thinking bluish textures originally, with greys and whites for details.  Gold and dark colours can be worked in easily.  Any pixelisation in the screenshots might be due to the fact that I halved the size of each picture, then combined into a single pic, with jpeg compression....

Anyway, the textures will be redone, from 256x256's to 512's at the least....

Just got to figure out how many decks there would be in 10m, 20m, 30m and 40m vertical faces....(how tall is a Vasudan, in Metric?)

I originally picked Saturn as I thought it was the name the Romans gave to the Greek god Posidon, but it seems not, according to here: http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/7371/greekgods.html(thanks Corhellion )

Analazon, sorry, it just seemed WAY of topic....

But now, the turrets are being a PAIN. I am begining to think that PCS just dosn't do turrets properly, its good for docks, conversion of cob-.pof, thrusters, paths and other stuff, but not turrets.  But modelview refuses to open the model, for a truely BIZZARE reason.  There are a couple of other weird bugs as well....

And yes, it will be released on the FS community....

[Sigma]

Raptor, don't change the name.
I'm going to rename my ship!

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Raptor
I originally picked Saturn as I thought it was the name the Romans gave to the Greek god Posidon, but it seems not, according to here: http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/7371/greekgods.html(thanks Corhellion )

I've never understood why everyon refers to their own favourite list of gods for each mythos rather than just going to The Encyclopedia Mythica which has all of them!

[Epokai]

Hey, what about the Arizona??? Or better yet The Hood. Yes. yes! I see it now! The Hood attacks a Shivan Super-Juggernaut, The Bismarck, and then....................

[Anaz]

Originally posted by karajorma


I've never understood why everyon refers to their own favourite list of gods for each mythos rather than just going to The Encyclopedia Mythica which has all of them!

you have to admit though...that table/definition is very handy

[Raptor]

Originally posted by Epokai
Hey, what about the Arizona??? Or better yet The Hood. Yes. yes! I see it now! The Hood attacks a Shivan Super-Juggernaut, The Bismarck, and then....................

You now, in the test mission I've created, I named the ship the GTD Hood, and it attacks a Sathanas....

Okay Sigma, Saturn Class Destroyer it is, and shall stay:cool:.  Unless there are strong objections....

Okay, two requests:

1) Is there anyone willing to help sort out the bugs in the turrets? Ie. find why, with a FOV of 20, the turret acts like the value was 180?

2) Someone willing to texture this beast? either I create the textures and send the lot, or 'you' use placeholders, then send it back, for texture fine tuning.

I'll also need someone to test convert another ship of mine (reguned Hades), because with me, the LODs are messed up, and I haven't a clue....

[Epokai]

I can possibly help with the turrets.

[JC Denton]

First off, I apologize for the bump.

Second, Raptor, take a looksee at this here, and tell me you still want to name it "Saturn."

Third, have you made any progress in these ten days?

[Ace]

Originally posted by Corhellion
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!

Cor

Actually that did look like the Hades MK2 I was planning on doing for an FS1 campaign... but this was before modeling was possible so I settled on a reskin.

Dark's reskin has an uncanny resemblance to the Hecate...

Anyway in the original design idea right under the front nose of the ship was a main gun, which once again oddly the B5 spin-off series had a ship named Excalibur with a gun similar to what I scripted in FS.

A lucifer beam fires, then the ship shuts down for 30 seconds. (Disabled the turrets and engines, also a lengthy sexpt to resume the damage the subsystem had before after 30 seconds)

It's actually kind of cool in a weird freaky way as to how at that time there were tons of things related to the ship in an odd way...