[GT-Keravnos]

Yep, theese are TERRA-iffic!

Especially that Gothry!

[GT-Keravnos]

@ all the crew, a happy new year!

@ Lynx, is there maybe, any chance of creating the "ORIGINAL" Bloodfang? Not that there is something wrong with the one you created and lighted, but still, there is something missing from the sky...

And a new year's gift to each and any other WC2 afficionado like myself...

http://www.blacklance.org/WC2/

(Yes, you need to be on-line to read it, but who cares?

The PDF manual of spec ops 1+2 curtesy of Replacement docs....

http://www.replacementdocs.com/docs/PC/Wing%20Commander%20II%20-%20Special%20Operations%20-%20Manual.pdf

(I know you must have it already, but it is for those unlucky few that dont'!)



And a happy new year!

[Lynx]

Here is the reworked version of the Concordia class fleet carriers, now in WC3 colors(WIP):

The Concordia-class fleet carrier has been the Confed mainstay carrier ever since the Kilrathi War started. With the first ship commissioned in 2633, these vessels were constructed specifically the counter the Kilrathi’s growing interest in using carriers for their own space navy. The Concordia-class was designed for mass production, and upon the outbreak of the war, Confed churned out as many of these carriers are possible in an attempt to catch up with Kilrathi shipbuilding. Eight Concordia-class carriers are commissioned every five years.

Reverting back to traditional aircraft carrier characteristics established during the seagoing navies of the old, the Concordia-class’s main offensive weaponry is her fighters. A single carrier can carry over 90 fighters and bombers. Concordia-class carriers are massive, heavily shielded and armored; but are rather weak on pure gun and missile firepower (which was the prime factor in them being classified as "medium carriers"). These carriers always relied on her fighter wing as her main striking power and her battle group of escorting capital ships for support.

Throughout the years, the Concordia-class has been modified and refitted to cope up with the new technologies of wartime; all existing carriers of the class are constructed with the latest in armor plating, phase shield generators, sensors, and defensive weaponry. Even with the introduction of fleet carrier derivatives such as “strike carriers”, “attack carriers”, and “dreadnoughts”, the Concordia-class still comprises the majority of the Confed carrier fleet. A single Concordia-class carrier is still more then a match for its most recent counterpart, the Kilrathi Bhantkara-class. On the other hand, as of 2669, Kilrathi fleet carrier counts outnumber Confed by at least 2 to 1.

   

[Nico]

You shouldn't give smoothing to this one.
Btw, I've seen the Jutland from Standout, I prefer their colour scheme, more, herm... joyful
Oh, and I'd like unrestricted access to the private forum

Sugestion: since it seems TGA alpha channel can be used, why not making the force field that closes the hangars?

[Lynx]

As said, it not entirely completed, someone else will add turrets and forcefield textures and other details like antennaes.

Yes Stanoff's ships are more colorful, but it also takse place in the WC2 era. I personally prefer the blue-grey WC3 paintjobs, they look more like Navy to me.

Yes smoothing would probably make it look less good, but even with smoothing it looks good enough(Depends on what our converter guy thinks which looks best) Now imagine that old lady Invincible with the proper shadows, metal shine, and glowing windows, forcefield textures and buzzard ramscoops.....as it will look when its finally ported to the FS engine.

[Anaz]

hey! I want my green concordia! that thing was teh cool!

*goes all reminicent about WC2...the first space shooter he played*

[Tolwyn]

you will have a blue colored Concordia, man

[Nico]

But we prefer green and red!!!!
Hmm, you could ask the Standout people the skins, the SCF Fred allows multiskin for a single pof, so people could make their own missions with the era colours they want .

[Tolwyn]

yeah, and we do not have enough men to do this

and neither Standoff would surely not allow to use their skins nor would we do this. Understand, each WC era has its own paintjob... if we would have more 2d artists we would surely work on skins for other era as well. But now, sacrifices are to be made

[Nico]

Why wouldn't they let you use theres? You've given the Jutland to them, and I suppose they let you borrow converted ships?
Why not a map exchange? They're already done, you don't need anybody to do anything, just a bit of good will on each side.

[Tolwyn]

there is no point in using the SAME maps as the other mod does. We want to have generic texture style, not a mix of ships from different mods mixed together.

[Nico]

I didn't ask you to put those in the campaign, I said for modders to make their own campaigns using the Saga VP files ( ala inferno ).
You know, like a bonus? No, obviously, you don't. Never mind

[Tolwyn]

ok, if you put it this way: the part of the agreement between this two mods is that we established a model exchange, BUT each mod has to use its own textures. There is no other way. Period.

Maybe later we 'll work on it. Icefire seems to have certan plans regarding a WC2 campaign

[Lightspeed]

Have you got the Jalthi yet? If so, i'd like some screenies

-edit-: oh and i'd change this "RELEASE: 2. HALF 2003"

[Tolwyn]

yeah, we are as always short handed

would you like... well, you know what I want to say, don't you?

Jalthi... well, we do have the model, but it lacks new textures, and since our 2d artist will leave the team for the next 6 months I would not count that the ship will be in the initial release.

[psych]

Lightspeed,

We have no Jalthi ready now. That is WC1-era ships and the focus of this mod is focused primary on Wing Commander 3, with a secondary WC4 role. Anything that is WC1 or WC2 is considered icing on the cake (but we'll have WC2 ships in upgraded WC3 style textures).

Reason why we aren't focusing our warships and fighters in WC1 and WC2 times or textures? That is the WC Standoff's job. They are better in that area then we are, and as a gesture of respect, we don't want to step in their toes. The WC Standoff crew are not bitter rivals with us, we are good friends who share a common bond in WC modding: they mod one part of the WC universe, we mod another part.

[gevatter Lars]

Well thats for now...I think we should later do the WC1+2 job as well. We are now focosing on WC3+4, cause our campains are set in this timeline....well my own is WC2+3

[Nico]

Only pb being you don't mod the same game and so in the end, well, we're screwed
I guess I'm not gonna see my drakhri anytime soon

[psych]

We have a Drakhri. It's been Lynxified.

[Lynx]

Originally posted by psych
We have a Drakhri. It's been Lynxified.

I don't know why, but this makes me think of the Borg.