[knn]

I've just revived this thread. I have a few screenies:

My favourite, I forgot to restore the Ambience value after playing TBP, so you can't see the awful texturing in the dark, and it looks great

The Aurora unleashing one quarter of it's firepower

Does anyone feel like volunteering to do the textures?

[dan87uk]

dude...that looks so sweet, thats only 1/4 of it firepower?  have you got a screenie of it full firepower or it hitting something? you cud pit it in a match aganist a sathii or colossuss

[knn]

The main cannon is already enough to destroy the Sathanas. That pic is from a "mission" in which the Aurora destroys a Sathanas (since the Aurora hasn't got a Shield mesh but has shields, it does not take damage.) I'll make a mission with all the cannons firing straight at the same time.
And anyone who thinks the ship is too powerful for campaign use may be right, but the GTVA now has 80 Sathanii to deal with and the Aurora is supposed to be a ship from the 2380s or '90s.

[adwight]

It being too powerful could be a very good plot point, to the point where you could uses it's power against it.  But nonetheless, I think it's a flat out amazing ship.

[dan87uk]

ya, gtva would get over confident and then sumthin go wrong

[knn]

Well I guess the Shivans won't be bringing in Saths and Ravanas next time, but stg much more powerful, possibly shielded like the Lucy.

[pyro-manic]

What happened to Ryx and his destroyer? Haven't heard anything for a while now. I really liked that....

[Liberator]

Not to be a creep, but could you post a pic of the textured ship against a plain non-black background?  I can't tell but it looks like the texs are too tiled, that and something that far in the future screams for new textures and as beautiful as the untextured ship is, it needs a custom texture like the Leviathan, not tiles.

[Ryx]

Originally posted by pyro-manic
What happened to Ryx and his destroyer? Haven't heard anything for a while now. I really liked that....

It's on hold for a bit. I'm back to messing around with drawing textures (on UV templates) for a turret, between gaming and school, which is proving time-consuming, right now.

The school work is both fun and challenging, though.

[knn]

Originally posted by Liberator
Not to be a creep, but could you post a pic of the textured ship against a plain non-black background?  I can't tell but it looks like the texs are too tiled, that and something that far in the future screams for new textures and as beautiful as the untextured ship is, it needs a custom texture like the Leviathan, not tiles.

A) I can't draw textures
B) I'm not so good at texturing
C) That was a crash texturing to test the ship ingame, I said it was bad. And that's why I don't want to show you a textured version with a non-black bg.
D) It does need custom textures, but I can't make them.

[knn]

[T-Man]

*response to Knn's pcitures*

Now that's what i call frontal armaments!

Maybe a little overkill, but who cares!

[pyro-manic]

Bleh. Waaaaaay overkill. But that's just me.

It'd be far more efficient to just have one big beam, rather than lots of little emitters. And what's with the blue beams anyway? Terran beams are green. I neer understood why people changed that.

Also, your big beamglow is a different colour to the beam itself. Might want to fix that

[karajorma]

It depends on the strength of those beams. If they are all fairly weak then multiple emitters isn't a bad idea. It would take ages to knock them all out (as opposed to a single beam which can be killed by a single bomb)

[WeatherOp]

Now thats a nice destroyer. And think about if all front turrets, "except that main front cannon" were anti-fighter, anybody up for a suicide mission to destroy the main beam?

[neo_hermes]

*Wouldn't want to be Dogfighting inbetween Knn's Destroyer and anything it was up against*

[knn]

Originally posted by T-Man
*response to Knn's pcitures*

Now that's what i call frontal armaments!

Maybe a little overkill, but who cares!

My reason for making 11 primary cannons.

And think about if all front turrets, "except that main front cannon" were anti-fighter, anybody up for a suicide mission to destroy the main beam?

Those cannons have a radius of about 20m, so a fighter can fit in them comfortably.

It'd be far more efficient to just have one big beam, rather than lots of little emitters. And what's with the blue beams anyway? Terran beams are green. I neer understood why people changed that.

Look at the Archangel. It's one big raygun. It's not a bad design, but it's dominated by the huge (500m?) cannon. And the beams are white-blue because: green beams are old weak slow terran pbcs, while white-blue beams, apart from looking more powerful because of the intense white color, are new, powerful, advanced GTVA beams. The 10 smaller beams (GTVA Heavy Anti-Capital Beam) are comparable to the BFRed (life is 1/2 of the BFRed), while the big one (The GTVA Heavy Advanced Anti-Capital Beam) has a huge shield and hull damage, aimed at destroying shielded capital ships. Of course, this is quite unbalanced, so it will probably be changed.

[Taristin]

Bah! @ that last statement.

The little ones are basically BFReds? And the big one is meant to take down shielded caps? How many shielded caps have we seen? 1.

You're right, they are totaly unbalanced.

Or am I just biased because I hate these mega-death-uber-kill-all-ships?

[knn]

I knew someone would complain about the firepower.
You know, this is supposed to be 30 years in the future. And you have seen two shielded capital ships. The Aurora has shields.
The entire thing depends on the campaign it's put into. This is just a test version, you know, but I think the final version should be able to beat the Sathanas. Forget FS2 and put the Orion with beams into FS1 and you've got your mega-death-uber-kill-all-ship.

Oh, and the Shivan counterpart should be a giga-death-uber-kill-all-ship.

[NGTM-1R]

No, just a Gargant.