[Boomer]

If you want a name, how does GTCv Constantine sound?  

Looks great by the way.  Try adding the engines along the side below the mains.  Have them start protruding about 2\3 of the way back and stack 'em two engines high.  I think it would make it look more like a corvette than a destroyer\carrier\corvette hybrid.

[NGTM-1R]

If the name weren't already being used by Inferno, I'd suggest Phobos, since certain things about this design have made me think of it as a pre-Deimos corvette or prototype Deimos. Particularly the layout of the main battery and long, tall, but realitively thin hull flaring out at the upper rear...

[Col. Fishguts]

Originally posted by Axem

Looks Starship-Trooper-ish =

I like the clear yet detailed lines.......keep working on it please

[Cobra]

i like.

[AqueousShadow]

Axem, I swear you used those UV lights in your closet to grow these MODding skills, eh? Well, they're growing really quickly.

It does look like a fast ship. It also looks very cinematic...like it belongs in a movie somewhere...speeding some troops or VIP passengers through some danger. A fast transport ship.

Lookin' good

[phatosealpha]

GTCv Phaethon
GTCv Atalanta
GTCv Bellerophon

[Axem]

Thanks very much everyone.

I'm not going to touch the engines anymore. I like them in their odd high up position.

But take back what I said about no fighter bay.





(Sorry these don't look as nice, I just screenshoted Wings3D instead of giving them a full render)

Its not completely done yet, I still must add detail to the doors and hangar.

It'll use Bob's Animation code to swing the doors open when something wants to leave the fighter bay. The piers up there will be enough for small transports to dock with. And the front of the hangar is sloped so fighters won't have to do a real sharp dive.

[Cobra]

very nice.

[NGTM-1R]

So it just kind of ferries them into battle, dropship-style?

[FireCrack]

I was also thining of somthing similar but less "door like" somwhat inspired by the "ribs" that dont seem apperent on the new shots



Basicly the left column is side view and the right is a cross section of the bay door "plates". (last cross section looks the same as the one before)

If you played homeworld 2 it's kinda like how the vaygr heavy missile frigate's missile bay opens.

And yes i know it's unrealisticaly complicated but i tahught i'd post this anyways.

[Trivial Psychic]

Looks kinda like the FS1 briefing icon for freighters, though upside down.

[Nuke]

nice work axem. kinda has a humvee look to it

[Boomer]

Finally!  A Terran Corvette with a Fighterbay!  I'm not alone!!!

Oh, and if the name game still isn't resolved, stay the course.  There are 90 more moons where the first two came from:
GTCv Callisto
GTCv Iapetus
GTCv Io
GTCv Mimias
GTCv Titan
GTCv Miranda
GTCv Europa
GTCv Charon....

Need I go on?

[Axem]

Originally posted by FireCrack
I was also thining of somthing similar but less "door like" somwhat inspired by the "ribs" that dont seem apperent on the new shots



Basicly the left column is side view and the right is a cross section of the bay door "plates". (last cross section looks the same as the one before)

If you played homeworld 2 it's kinda like how the vaygr heavy missile frigate's missile bay opens.

And yes i know it's unrealisticaly complicated but i tahught i'd post this anyways.

GENIUS! Having the center of rotation far enough away mimics translation. So it's all theorically possible. Plus it would look so much better than having gull wing doors.

So something like this?







Boomer: Oooh, good idea. I'll have to go through a list of all the moons.

[Mongoose]

May I be the first to say that that sliding door is absolutely kickass.

[Boomer]

Holy.......

That is AWESOME!!!!!  


What kind of capacity are we talking about for the fighterbay here?  
Wow.....

[FireCrack]

Yeah, that's about what i was thinkin but making it more complicated so the sections "pop open" and "expand" so they fit over the previous section.

Too complex, just make them already all different sizes. And that is awesome may i add, good test of bobs animation code so he can get onto other things too!


From the looks of the size it looks like you could fit a whole fighter squadron (3 wings) in there.

[Blitzerland]

Fighter squadren consists of 12 wings, as evidenced by the first SOC loop.

[FireCrack]

The GTVA uses 3 wings per squadron as evidenced by the colossus cutscene.

[StratComm]

Originally posted by FireCrack
Yeah, that's about what i was thinkin but making it more complicated so the sections "pop open" and "expand" so they fit over the previous section.

Too complex, just make them already all different sizes. And that is awesome may i add, good test of bobs animation code so he can get onto other things too!


From the looks of the size it looks like you could fit a whole fighter squadron (3 wings) in there.

AFAIK Bob's code doesn't support translations.  The folding doors are doable, as would an "unrolling" design (like the Vasudan main hall barracks), the sliding ones are not.