[Lynx]

The primary light fighter of the Kilrathi empire, the Darket:

[RangerKarl]

Are there any good pics of the Excalibur and the Dragon?

[Lynx]

Here's my favourite Kilrathi ship, the Sorthak. I forgot about this one when I said that the Vaktoth is the heaviest cat fighter; this one is classified as ultra-heavy; it's actually a cross between a fighter and a light corvette:

[gevatter Lars]

Damm it..some tech left open the patches again...will kill him when I got back!
(Joke don't take it to serious)

I think some of the guy over at CIC made it quite clear that the patches shouldn't be in there...
for my part...let them be there or not...I like both versions, but we should think about what people out there would like most...don't you think?

@Lynx
Thats nothing against you, your textures are superb.

[Lynx]

The hatches only look bad on the Vaktoth; I'd put them away, but  they are in sunken in in areas of the wing. It would look odd to have such an area on the flat wing just to have the same copperish texture on it. Perhaps Starman can eliminate those.

As for the sorthak. These fit perfectly here. And they are the same as in the original WC3 version, and no one complained about them there.

[gevatter Lars]

Well not about the textures this time but the weapon loadout...never heard that the Sorthak had only turrets.

PS: Never said anything about the textures ^_°

[IceFire]

Guys, those are EXCELLENT models and equally fitting textures!  The quality that has been spent into making those look good is amazing.

Well done!  Are those models converted and working in FreeSpace 2?

[Tolwyn]

of course... this screenshots has been taken directly from the game. Almost every ship we need is already in the game and working. Some need better textures, that is what Lynx is working at...

[gevatter Lars]

Well every WC3+4 ship...we still could need models for WC1+2

[IceFire]

BTW: Sorthak weaponry is one of the most messed up and badly reported in the game.  I'm pretty certain both CIC and the WC3 manual have it wrong.

What I remember learning was this:

4 Ion cannons fixed forwards
3 Meson cannons in a turret at the back (note: this was an awesome stream of firepower very dangerous)

Plus probably missiles or torpedoes.

[Lynx]

IIRC it has a backwards turret with two mesons; the main guns are somwhat different, they are not really turrets per se, but not fixed either. they can only move at a plane, so that the Sorthak can fire on targets to the left or right of it, but not directly above or under the ship. Here's a pic showing their firing angle

[IceFire]

Pretty sure it was three mesons in the back.  It was a massive stream of meson blasts, thats for sure.

The four front guns are ion cannons...they may target to the left and right because they have the same feature as the Excalibur does (in terms of game code) where the guns would track to a limited extent out the front (we've seen it in StarLancer as well).

I'm a WC trivia buff...when I was much much younger this stuff totally was my think.  I'd pour over the WC1 blueprints, the manuals, everything, most of that knowledge is still retained in my memory, be affraid

[Lynx]

Maybe. i think it had ions somewhere too. Now i have a reason to fire up WC3 again.

BTW are autofire-like guns incorporated already?

[Tolwyn]

perhaps you mean autotracking guns? I am pretty sure it is...

this reminds me, I should test the third primary weapon bank...

@Lynx: are you on ICQ from time to time? I have to discuss certain elements of the new main menu with you...

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Lynx
Maybe. i think it had ions somewhere too. Now i have a reason to fire up WC3 again.

BTW are autofire-like guns incorporated already?

Into the SCP code releases?  I'm not sure if they are or not.  But that would be an interesting addition.

As far as I know, only three ships in WC3 had that feature (Excalibur, Sorthak, and Bloodfang).

[Tolwyn]

hmm... not much activity in this forum during the last few days, which doesn't mean we have been lazy

Here is preview of our  Bhantkara-class carrier

[Woolie Wool]

Nice, but it's primitive design-wise and the orange-tan detail texture looks like it was ripped from the Colossus or from Doom.

[Lynx]

Don't blame us, blame the guys at Origin. They designed that thing for WC3 after all.

And this is probably as beautiful as a Bhantkara will ever get.

[Woolie Wool]

Yeah, there's no real way to break up those huge flat surfaces without royally screwing up the model.

[gevatter Lars]

Well I like ships with that look...they look more like real ships, because who will build pipes outside the hull (see B5 for excample).

The red stripes..well would like something maybe more chaotic triangle like, but this will do it also.