[Goober5000]

Has anyone reskinned the Arcadia to look Shivan?  We're thinking of using such a mod in the Awakenings port.  I'd look on F2S, but it's down again.

[Knight Templar]

Vasudan, but not Shivan AFAIK.

[Black Wolf]

Never having played Awakenings I'm not aware of the precise reason you'd want such a mod, but wouldn't a standalone Shivan installation be more appropriate? The arcadia model doesn't look shivan by any stretch, and changing the textures would only change that very slightly.

[Goober5000]

In the Awakenings timeline, Outpost Riviera was captured by the Shivans (not destroyed) and transformed into the central hive for Shivan operations in T-V space.  We have to use the Arcadia in any case, but if we had Shivan textures for it it'd look pretty cool.

[Nico]

openen the arcadia pof in moedlview, and switch the maps. there's really nothing difficult doing your own reskin.

[Fineus]

I'm not sure completely switching would make sense - that'd imply that they rebuilt it and changed all the lights when they captured it... perhaps a vaguely borgish approach of having patches of Shivan texturing showing through against the terran design or something similar?

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
I'm not sure completely switching would make sense - that'd imply that they rebuilt it and changed all the lights when they captured it... perhaps a vaguely borgish approach of having patches of Shivan texturing showing through against the terran design or something similar?

Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking.

[Nico]

seeing the arcadia uses map tiling, that would look quite bad and obvious, unfortunately.

[Killfrenzy]

What's wrong with something like this:



Okay, I knocked it up in just under two minutes (cross referencing maps and stuff) but is this the sort of thing you mean Goob?

[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by Venom
seeing the arcadia uses map tiling, that would look quite bad and obvious, unfortunately.

Yeah. From what I can tell, you'd need to redo the mapping of the model...

[Fineus]

True... I suppose there's no idea answer... could just darken it up a bit - make it look like it's seen a lot of action...

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Killfrenzy
What's wrong with something like this:



Okay, I knocked it up in just under two minutes (cross referencing maps and stuff) but is this the sort of thing you mean Goob?

Pretty much. There'd need to be a better transition between Terran and Shivan textures, but that's more or less it.

[Unknown Target]

looks like a beat clone from HW:Cata

[Killfrenzy]

Well, that's just changing between existing textures. I think to get the effect you're after, you'd need to make new ones.

[magatsu1]

how about messin' around with the model (choppin' off some the edges etc) to make it look more battle damaged ?

[redsniper]

Hack off parts of it like magatsu said but also add some spikey Shivan growths or something, preferably where something has been cut off.

[Goober5000]

We can't really do that, because we'd need a custom ships.tbl for the new model.  Anything we use for Awakenings would have to be a retexture only.

[StratComm]

Not necessarily... If the modder is careful about how he does it, the remodeled Arcadia could work just like the original.  It would just take a lot of work to get just right.

[Starks]

Have the fuselage of a Moloch or Rhakshasa sticking out of the radar dish deck...

[Knight Templar]

We can't really do that, because we'd need a custom ships.tbl for the new model. Anything we use for Awakenings would have to be a retexture only.

Not to mention, why?