[karajorma]

Originally posted by Corhellion
Or keep it and make it a Typhon "Flagship Variant" (More bang for your buck! and it'd confuse the enemies)

MG would have a use for such a beast. We've simply been using the old Typhon model but I see no harm in giving Admiral Natenalik a varient as we repeatedly describe his flagship as being subtly different from the others

[TrashMan]

I have a normal Typhon model with severl more turrets (it's allready up for download), and I'm allmost done with this model (I'm currently in the process of making vasudan-like turrets for it).
I still havn't textured it, but if anyone is willing to give it a try, I'll send him the model.

Anyway, texturing the military Outpost is going slower than predicted (installations are a b**** to texture properly), so I will proly upload my last two models shortly...

[TrashMan]

LIGHTBRINGER AND LANCER UPLOADED!!!!

[Roanoke]

[Taristin]

Ok...

[NGTM-1R]

Pretty errors down there at the bow...

[Taristin]

Not errors. Modelview has a tendancy to make areas with of faces look like that from a distance. Try it on any ship when you zoom out.  I assure you it's all correct.

[NGTM-1R]

Well, then they're Modelview errors, so they're still errors. Just not errors in the model.

[Taristin]

Meh. It's not like I'm releasing this. So you can be as picky as you want. It's just for my own (mild) entertainment.

[Turambar]

hey, 3 days grace quote in your sig, i love the intro to that song

[Taristin]

Tis a good song.  This one and 'Just Like You'

[Turambar]

Drown's me favorite, and Let You Down

but thats all rather off-topic

yesm the typhon is very... smoothified

[Gregster2k]

Originally posted by Gregster2k
Personally, about that "heavy typhon" --- I don't mind the idea of variant/refit models of the same ship. Hold onto that. I've always liked variety --- it could in fact be called a Typhon T2 or something...the result of taking really really old Typhons and instead of scrapping them, spending the time to refit them.

Either that, or they are the result of producing Typhons in the modern age using modern manufacturing and design changes. The next-generation of the same ship.

Don't ever ditch a modified version of any canon ship. Heck, I've been waiting for people to start doing this --- just taking normal FS2 ships and tweaking them, so that individual ships in campaigns are unique in their own ways.

Such as Orions that are still classified as a GTD Orion class but are slightly longer for a carrier profile, or a shorter, cheaper, and stubbier (and faster!) Deimos for really light recon. I always hated how in sci fi militaries, all ships of the same class all look the same. One would think there'd be SOME variety. The only exception I've ever seen in sci fi from my experience is the USS Miranda-class starship in Star Trek --- the Federation DESIGNED that ship to be a modular package you slap the components for the mission you want on and away you go... combat, add extra launchers, science, more sensor arrays.

Point is people, don't debunk "new" ships just because they are VERY close to a canon ship. That can be a strength in of itself!

Apparently NO ONE paid any attention to what I said. THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH TRASHMAN'S "TYPHON 2" LOOKING LIKE A NORMAL TYPHON. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

*whips out plasma gun and starts shooting everyone who keeps saying it looks too much like a normal Typhon* IT SHOULD DANGIT! CUZ ITS A *VARIANT!* DUH! WE *NEED* VARIANTS! LOTS OF EM! GGGRRRRRRRRR! *blood drips from fingers*

*calms down* ... release it please?

[TrashMan]

I will... I will.....

[Woolie Wool]

I remember seeing a neat-looking Typhon reskin in the Mentu/Hatshepsut style. Maybe the Typhon II (call it the Echidna IMO) can use those textures.

[StratComm]

Nah, if anything it should use textures as close to the original Typhon textures as possible.  If the textures are changed drastically it will further detract from the fact that this is actually a different model, as it will remove one of the baseline methods of comparison.

And there is indeed no problem with a variant.  The problem is with making a copy of a ship and trying to pass it off as a new design.  I'd actually like to see a carrier variant or something, just to spice the game up.

[Gregster2k]

First off: "Typhon Mark II", "Typhon II", "Typhon 2", and "Typhon-R".
These are too generic and different to be recognizable as a *variant*. "Typhon-R" fits with existing recognizable conventions such as the Prometheus-R(etrofit), but "retrofit" means to add stuff AFTER something is manufactured. TrashMan's Typhon variant needs a name that stands out and shows that it's your average Typhon, just different.

Besides, the variant needs to be named something other than "Typhon 2" as someone else might want to make a Typhon 2 that is a larger step ahead of the existing Typhon than what TrashMan has created...so...here's a nice catchy one I've got for you people.

"Typhon-Ra"
I like this a LOT. It sounds cool and Vasudan-y, with a nice ring to it too. Picture it in a command transmission: "The GVD Sphinx*, a Typhon-Ra class destroyer is headed..." --- DEFINITELY fits well, doesn't it? Would kinda sound silly for Command to SAY "Mark II", "2", or "R" in a transmission. Of the three, I recommend this one hands-down.

Oh, and I can't say this is a problem really, but Raa might want his smooooooth Original Typhon to be called Typhon-Ra or something too. So IF TrashMan uses "Typhon-Ra", Raa can call his smooth one "Typhon-Raa" LOL



*GVD Sphinx is just the first example that came to mind. It means nothing.

[TrashMan]

Since this heavy Typhoon version (maby I'll add another fihgterbay on it's belly) is not needed for my chapter one, I'm in no hurry to texture it. (That, and some people think I suck at texturing vasudan ships anyway so I better get some practice)

[Trivial Psychic]

Originally posted by TrashMan
Since this heavy Typhoon version (maby I'll add another fihgterbay on it's belly) is not needed for my chapter one, I'm in no hurry to texture it. (That, and some people think I suck at texturing vasudan ships anyway so I better get some practice)

My opinion is to not put the fighterbay on the belly, but to add another of the tube-style that you've already got on there, on either side, just ahead of the "arms".  This would make it almost a carrier class, though it might require beefing up the forward hull a bit (which I suggested earlier I might add).

[TrashMan]

CRAP.....soimething is terribly wrong with my FS2...

I just finished playing Solar Wars, and after I removed the Sola Wars files (and the Inferno VP) and put back my own tbl files (ships, weapons) I started FRED to continue working on my campaign..

chrash...
I started FS2_Open.... chrash...

then I tried several outher builds of both FS2 and FRED - all chrashed!

Looks like I'll have to re-install the thing..AAAAAAAAAAGH¨!