[Roanoke]

...add a FS Modder with some time, 3DS Max and a load of polys:






turret close-ups:
Ion/Beam Cannons
General Big Guns

Still very much a WIP. Requires Engione nozels, some detailing and a major tidy up. I fancy doing some proper (ie; effective) weapons for the two large rotating turrets.

[pyro-manic]

Looking good

I take it you're going to add some point defence turrets as well? Either that or yuo're going to have to make those big guns very effective against small ships. Though I don't suppose they were that good in HW, they killed fighters in a shot or two if they actually hit (IIRC).

Excellent work though - make sure the textures look good

[Roanoke]

Guess I'll have to add point defence turrets. I fancy giving it shields too. Just for a laugh more than anything.

The big guns (I hope) will be like an alternative to beams. They're not going to be standard FS blob turrets, more like the HW-Cataclysm turrets.

[pyro-manic]

Yeah, some kind of heavy projectile would be cool. For point defence, just dot some Prometheus turrets around it.

Actually, this would be really good for that "alien ship" I'm looking for in that other thread. Any chance?

[Jetmech Jr.]

It might just be me, but it looks way to...smooth.

[Roanoke]

Originally posted by pyro-manic
Actually, this would be really good for that "alien ship" I'm looking for in that other thread. Any chance?

might take a while to texture this beast.....

Originally posted by Jetmech Jr.
It might just be me, but it looks way too...smooth

it's using smooth shading at the moment.

[Jetmech Jr.]

oh, well, since I know nothing about modelling, this info comes as no real surprise to me, I guess. Good work, by the way. Dunno why, but I always liked the Skaal-Tel...

[Liberator]

I wonder if it would work in HW...

[Grimloq]

im sorry, but i hate it... >_<

homeworld ships can NOT be smoothed. hiigaran ships sometimes have a few curves, but they are overall quite angular.

tis a good piece of modelling, but it killed the spirit of the skaal-tel.

[c914]

oversmoothed homeworld ship...NO. boxy homeworld ship with details YES:)

[Roanoke]

 it's not that smooth. All I've done is round off a couple o' edges.

[Grimloq]

its still enough to kill the poor ship...

[Roanoke]

Bah!

On the plus side, I've got the weapons sound effects ready to use.

[Carl]

just make the corners sharper. there are bunches on ways to smooth things in Max, hopefully you used one of the ways where you can just change the tension by entering a higher or lower number. try it at twice as sharp as you have it at now.

[Rampage]

Ahem!  Didn't someone already make a FS2 variant of the Taiidani Destroyer?  (I didn't do it...)

I think it's a cruiser named the Hyperion.

[Carl]

Originally posted by Rampage
Ahem!  Didn't someone already make a FS2 variant of the Taiidani Destroyer?

Roanoke had one too few i's, you had one too many. it's Tiidan, with two i's.

[NGTM-1R]

Originally posted by Carl


Roanoke had one too few i's, you had one too many. it's Tiidan, with two i's.

The plural is Taiidani.

[Carl]

it isn't plural though.

[Thorn]

Do you want a job?

[Roanoke]

Originally posted by Thorn
Do you want a job?

who me ?

I think it's the front end, where the nose is recessed. The rest isn't all that different. Gonna see what I can do about reshaping the frent end.