[Nico]

First, I need to know what verniers mean, then I'll think about it

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by neo_hermes
miniguns are a nice way to ruin the light infantry's day.

Miniguns are a very nice way to ruin everbodys day....especially if they use 30mm high-explosive, armour-piercing shells...with depleted uranium:devil:

[Nico]

hop, another pic, for no special reason, just because I wanted to:

[Sheepy]

need you any other reason, a damn good pic i might add, also ever thought of re-trying that outer space mod now you can use high poly models and all that jaxx?

[Nico]

Nah, don't want to start another soon-to-be-cancelled project.
Besides, OS is meant for newtonian physics, I was willing to forget about that point back then, but not anymore.

[Odyssey]

Originally posted by Nico
First, I need to know what verniers mean, then I'll think about it

[color=cc9900]I believe he means the directional thrusters on the sides.
And I like it, I like it a lot.[/color]

[mikhael]

Verniers are the vectored thrusters on the side pods and the top and bottom.

And you know, Venom, you could convert those ships for Iwar2.

[WMCoolmon]

Very nice ship design. I'm no 3D Guru, but IMHO it could use a bit more of a smooth front.

[Gloriano]

very nice again:)

[Nico]

Originally posted by mikhael
Verniers are the vectored thrusters on the side pods and the top and bottom.

And you know, Venom, you could convert those ships for Iwar2.

Ah, ok. Well I might modify them, but no way I'll do them round, that wouldn't fit with the design at all.

As for IWar2, no I can't, I can't use LW.

WMCoolmon: I don't want it to be more smoothed, my PC can't handle super high poly meshes. For medium and far shots, it's way enough the way it is now.

[Nico]

I have a question, but first, a pic:

That's the Wasp, a Vodian medium ( multirole ) fighter. A very old design of mine, redesigned after freespace came out ( basically, those damn Vasudan, beside having a similar name to my species, had also the exact same scale+sand colo scheme. I'm sure the Volition guys copied me ). So I already removed the scales back then, but now I need to find another color scheme, and I'm kind of short on ideas. I was thinking white + some other color, but I'm not sure. Suggestions?

side note 1 : the model will be redone, it might not be obvious there, but it's awful, and has way too many polygons
side note 2 : the brown thing on the nose is not the cockpit, as people often think. The cockpit is under the plate behind the brown thing. The brown thing... wait. The Brown Thing™ is a kind of visual device, a 360° camera if you want. The pilots helmet is linked to it, and he feels like there's no ship around him. Similar to the system on my Arms, but much more advanced.

[mikhael]

I like it, except the shape of the wings. Don't worry about Volition ripping off your idea for Vasudans. Andromeda ripped off one of my designs for the Nietchians.

For the colors, go with something like black and grey, or black and a royal blue IF you must you black. I'd like to see more Red/Grey stuff or more Blue/Orange stuff myself. Yellow/Black might be good too.

[Nico]

*Nah, not black. Those dudes have the same mindset as humans, they're not better, not worst. Black would make them look mean.
Besides, I already have given the black/grey colour scheme to the Grays.
I was thinking white/orange, what do you think?
*I don't like the wing too, that's one of the parts I wanna redo
*I'm still tweaking the materials and small details on the Wraith:

funilly enough, trying to get a mixing cell shading/real shading, I think I rarely came closer to photorealism before than with that pic when I really tried . How screwed is that?

[Taristin]

Have you tried a purple and grey color scheme for the alien thingy? I mean, I like it as it is, but purple/grey is good, Black/grey but you said no already, Grey/Green, Purple/green, if done right... etc.

*goes back to practicing in Max*

[Nico]

I'd like to avoid purple, it screams Covenant to me
yeah, I think I'll settle for orange+something. Orange, you don't see it that often, and it can be cool if it's not overdone.

[Taristin]

Orange and...?

Not too many colors work well with Orange.

Maybe Orange and grey/white? (Creamsicle!)

[Nico]

well yeah, I was thinking orange and white.

[Nico]

Taking a break from spaceships, I've started making a Vodian:

The mesh could probably use some refining, but it's gonna stay like that for now.

Background babling:
"First contact with the Vodians occurs in 2071, when a gigantic fleet enters Sol, fleeing the Mycoid threat.
Regardless of their strange physical appearance, they're very similar to humans. They have numerous spoken and written languages, various cultures, they value intellectual activities, arts and sports, enjoy music, have commercial activities based on money, and their IQ is equal to that of a human.
They seem to have evolved from some kind of apes, living in trees, and if they seem clumsy on flat ground, their agility in the air can't be contested by terrans. Because of this, they seem to have developped unmatched skills as pilots, which gave them a clear advantage during the war.
The Vodians are omnivorous mammals, give birth to one child at a time, after a 9 month long pregnancy. Twins and more exists.
They political systems [etc]"

[Stryke 9]

Damn you, Venom, nobody is allowed to be better than me! Nobody!!!


But, um, the alien... looks kinda like a slightly malevolent Pokemon. Between the outsize head and human body-type that looks like it's trying to look inhuman and failing rather than just going for it (a la Star Trek- don't go down that road, incidentially, regular people with funny heads make ****e aliens), it's a bit too cartoony to fit in the rather serious-looking context you've got going here.

Probably everything could be fixed by making the head more or less proportional to the body and either removing the extra pair of legs or giving the thing a physique that really makes it looks like they evolved with 'em and they have some biological function, rather than just being some doohickey tacked onto their form to make sure nobody mistakes them for people with funny skulls. And maybe some gills or excess orifices or something, I dunno, you see those sorts of things a lot on aliens these days so I'd imagine they're somehow desirable or something.

[Gloriano]

very cool:)