[Turnsky]

when/if people make some 'upgrades' to the [V] models, (see the HTL fenris for the ultimate example and it's texture set) i would suggest that the GTA line of capital ships get an optional set of military grey textures to keep in line with the color schemes of the fenris class, (so you'd have one set of clear textures to go with the original, the other, is military)

oh, and if somebody /does/ make a high-poly orion, please keep the overall design of it correct, it's not true to [V] if it diverts from it, now is it.. i know people are trying, and i respect that.

if people can point me to some tutorials on textures, i may be able to help out a little. :nods:

although, it'd be cool if somebody made a CG-quality version of a freespace vessel.. with textures to boot..

also, some animated "derelect" textures would be funky, you know, have the ship unlit, with some random lights flickering on and off on various areas on the ship.

[jdjtcagle]

I think the colors of the ships where not painted, tha would take too long.  It's just the color of the material they used

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by jdjtcagle
I think the colors of the ships where not painted, tha would take too long.  It's just the color of the material they used

*imagines a man with a paint-brush, standing before the colossus*

He might say "Look at the size of this thing". (For the Star Wars fans here)

[Sheepy]

red dwarf

[Liberator]

Originally posted by jdjtcagle
I think the colors of the ships where not painted, tha would take too long.  It's just the color of the material they used

Robots.  Hundreds of robotic pods with the sole purpose of painting the hull of nearly a billion cubic meter warship.  It's glorious, simply glorious!

[Knight Templar]

*wonders what material would make the Orion colour.

[Bobboau]

titanium aloy

[Liberator]

pure Titanium is white or very light gray so an alloy would be white, or very silver

All the FS2 ship are painted, probably with some kind of tinted monobonded super paint that reinforces some key system.

[Knight Templar]

Why don't they scratch when you ram into them then?

[Sheepy]

its very thick paint?!?

[Gregster2k]

Paint, shmaint. The Fenris looks the way it does because its made out of all the automobile scrap heaps that became obsolete in the infant days of the GTA

[TopAce]

*Imagines a grey GTD Orion*

[Star Dragon]

No more like mothballed naval fleets recycling the metal as personal vehicles are now almost completely made out of polymers.  Damn military contractors cutting corners, hey maybe that's why some ships have that rusted look eh? LOL...

[Jetmech Jr.]

Originally posted by Turnsky

oh, and if somebody /does/ make a high-poly orion, please keep the overall design of it correct, it's not true to [V] if it diverts from it, now is it.. i know people are trying, and i respect that.

So very true. Modders, take heed! Any who divert shall be smote, SMOTE I SAY!!!

So...Is anyone making a high poly Orion?

[Gregster2k]

Damn Star Dragon, LOL, that's what I was trying to think of, but I couldn't think of it, so I threw in automobiles to replace whatever I couldn't remember...so funny I missed the obvious entirely. Yeah, battleships. That's prolly what they did, too. Prolly dismantled all those obsolete aircraft carriers and made Fenrises by recycling the hull plating. Who knows. Either that, or the fenris was so early that it was designed to fly alongside real naval fleets as aerial support, and as such was given the same color scheme.

[Unidan]

Originally posted by Gregster2k
Damn Star Dragon, LOL, that's what I was trying to think of, but I couldn't think of it, so I threw in automobiles to replace whatever I couldn't remember...so funny I missed the obvious entirely. Yeah, battleships. That's prolly what they did, too. Prolly dismantled all those obsolete aircraft carriers and made Fenrises by recycling the hull plating. Who knows. Either that, or the fenris was so early that it was designed to fly alongside real naval fleets as aerial support, and as such was given the same color scheme.

I think you mean orbital support.. I can't see a fenris flying in atmosphere.. at all.

[Nico]

well no, Fenrises first started as boats, the where sailing, the someone though, hey, why not making them fly into space!
They just forgot to rename it Yamato.

[Flaser]

Ever heard of orbital bombardment? - no need to fly in the atmospehere, it's enough if the Harbingers do.

[Nico]

there's no need for a carrier fleet, then, if you drop super-nukes into the atmosphere

[Flaser]

...and guess what the Harbringer qualifies as?

:?