What once was going to be a small mod (and maybe a demo will be scaled as such) with only 6-10 ships and only the users imagination for fredding in the St universe has just exploded into a huge monster!!! I will never be able to inclue all these ships so it sems like RETAIL TREK will be broken down into chapters (total numbr unknown at teh moment).
Trying to keep some ideas secret still here are some general ideas I am kicking around with:
First chapter (skipping TOS except for cameos, but including all of TMP era ST 1-6, basicly Kirk Sulu time frame. I don't like ENTERPRISE enough to include it so it will be skipped, except for the NX01 itself as a museum piece. (sorry!)
Second chapter will be TNG/DS9/Voy era (really huge since this is Picard, Sisko, and Janeways time frame) and possibly may be broken down into smaller ones, unknow at this moment?
Chapter X will be Future Trek (Thing you have NEVER seem before with cameos from earlier chapters as needed). This is the timeframe of the Enterprise-F (Soulwolf class), The Wraith Class, and the Federation Cobra class fighter (of these three concept ships only Ent-F had been made AFAIK). I am unsure how this will develop but I got the beginnings of an idea, so I am keeping my mouth SHUT for once
One piece of news, we may have a new modling person, JDJTCAGLE, has agreed to try to turret some of our ship backlogs and this would take some pressure of OMNISCAPER
SO I will give him a model or two to see how it comes out.
OMNISCAPER, now the BIG question... the turrets themselves for ST ships. You are talking about phaser strips right? I was thinking tiny models like the small dish bowl beam turrets on Volition ships. But make them small and Invisible texture so they do not mar the beauty of teh models with ugly bumps on them! Will these be suitible for an arch of 45 to 180 degrees? I was thinking that these versions could be put all over the model in the likely places a phaser strip would be located (like I did for the ships I already armed as fighters with firing points, simply erase those and place the turrets in thier place)... Am I on the right track?
So this would be REALLY simple as you copy the beam turret object in Truespace and past them on the ships where we need them? If this would work satisfactory for Retail Trek, then please let me know ASAP and then I will send our new friend a model or two that's ready to see what he can do...
Later!
