[Nuke]

another pirate fighter, untextured:



designed it to work with bob's animation code, the missile bays wil open/close when selected/deselected.

model is actually based of of one of my early designs cept with extra miniguns this time

im gonna add a bit more detail after i uv map some  redundant stuff. im aiming for 3k polies, its ~2600 now

[Janos]

Why is the cockpit so huge, or is the ship really really small?

[Nuke]

i needed a ship other than my modified ulesses that could fit into a criuser's docking bay. the cockpit should be about the same size as the ulysses cockpit. save that long spike out the back this thing is about the same length of a ulysses. so yes, this is a very small ship yet suprisingly well armed for its size. ammo will be at a premium for it though. still not sure how its gonna dock for re-arm, it kinda has of stuff sticking out of it.

[Bobboau]

wow, gatling guns, imagine that

[TrashMan]

Cool..

Alltough you might wanna make that cockpit a tad smaller. It goes all the way to the bottom, and the missile launcher come out of hte the bottom.
Looks like the epilots is siting on the launcher..literary...

[mitac]

Originally posted by Bobboau
wow, gatling guns, imagine that

Yeah, but I wonder where the ammo is placed. There's obviously no room for it.

The cockpit looks to structured, with all those small window tiles. IMHO.

[Drew]

loose the window struts and go bubble

[Nuke]

all my other windows are bubbly, struts are the way to go this time. besides this cockpit would give you a better field of view than most. as for the missle bay being incredibly close to the pilot's ass,  well yea, i guess the pilot's seat sits right atop the bulkhead.

[bull$hit]
as for ammo storage, the thing uses 50mm caseless, with about 500 rounds per gun. i figure i could put a small tripple helical feed system in there and it would give you about 1500 rounds in all. rounds being caseless would be shorter than anything were familiar with and would take up less space.
[/bull$hit]

[mitac]

Well, you're the master-at-gatling-arms.

[Nuke]

indeed, and dont you forget it

[Col. Fishguts]

The cockpit struts are
If you intend to keep'em, struts that follow the bubble shape would look better IMHO.
Something like this: http://www.xwaupgrade.com/screenshots/ird/IRDExR.jpg

The triangulated look kinda ruins the look of the ship.

[Nuke]

your cockpit looks quite dull, mine on the other hand is teh pimp! :thepimp:

[Night Hammer]

not a fan of the cockpit, make it less  compundeye ish(you know flys n ****)

[Axem]

I think it'd be a bit better if the struts were thinner or something.

And only 1500 rounds? How long will it take for me to run out of ammo with this one? I should work on ammo conservation...

[Nuke]

about 93.75 seconds of continuous firing

[Trivial Psychic]

Originally posted by Nuke
another pirate fighter, untextured:

It looks more alien than something that's simply a pirate fighter.  In fact, it has a vaguely Minbari look to it, though that may be due to the blue color of it... which will be changed once its textured I expect.  However, if it were up to me to say what it is, it would be a fighter designed for the Inter-Stellar Alliance from B5, kind of a hybrid of EA and Minbari.

[Nuke]

yea its probibly the gayish pastels i used on the thing, only cause it contrasts with the wireframe color, thus alowwing better visibility when using pointedit tools. for  pirate fighters ive been using earthcolors, rusty metals,  flat shades of greys, and a small amount of vasudan bioarmor in some areas. kinda makes em look like they are pieced out of bits and pieces of random space junk.i want trying to ake it look alien, but rather make it look like some crazy desing that a pirate made on his own, perhaps the pirate in question bought it from fat tony's custom space ships

i think i miscalculated fire times for the guns, they would actually chew through their ammo supply (linked or single) in 31.25 seconds. i wouldnt venture too far from the rearm vessel.

[WeatherOp]

Originally posted by Nuke
i think i miscalculated fire times for the guns, they would actually chew through their ammo supply (linked or single) in 31.25 seconds. i wouldnt venture too far from the rearm vessel.

Make it run out of ammo in 10 seconds, and name the Weapon the
M1 Vulcan cannon.  6,000 rounds a minute is cool.

[BlackDove]

Hmm I'd really like this if it was nicely smoothed out.

I like this design, kinda original.

[Nuke]

i would seriously jack my fire rates if the engine supported tracering (that is rendering only one out of x number of shots). 16 rounds a second is suffitient for a 3 barreled 50mm cannon. my fastest gatlings crank out about 30 rnds a second, but those are the larger anti-capitol maniguns. in contrast a modern gau-8 avenger will crank out an easy 70 30mm rounds a second.

i havent set up smooth groups yet. i should be able to use multiple materials with different autofaucet settings. right now im busy uv mapping the ship, ive got 20 or so textures on it right now. each filling in for its own smoothgroup. i found that if you hold down the control  key while using the free hand select tool you can select an entire group (with a unique texture) in one click. i wish id known this from the start.