[Vengence]

Greetings HLT! Its time for me to start modding FS2 and I have some good models and ideas and all I need is a link to a tutorial and tools and I can go about learning everything myself. Btw, I have 3ds max 7, Maya 6, and Photoshop 7 and do these work with FS2?

Finally, I have this to show off:



It isn't related to FS2 in any way and I plan to completely remodel, reskin, and remake it in 3ds (it is in Maya 6 right now). I call it the "Hurricane - Class Heavy Cruiser"
This is an enourmas ship measuring 6km long (no, the measurement isn't inspired by the Colossus) and packing 11 HUGE turbo laser turrets, an 8 tube missile launcher, and 2 giant beam cannons mounted in the front. I'm 100% sure the Colossus can easily deck my Hurricane but I love this ship enough that I want to blow it up in FS2 or see it deck some NTF rebels or Shivans.

[StratComm]

Ah, Max 7.  There's a plugin for Max conversions to in-game format, but it unfortunately is only built up to Max 6.  If Styxx (the program's author) can compile it with the v7 SDK then that will work fine, but for now you have no way to export directly to a game-usable format.  Also, there are a few "standard" rules about making ships for this game; first and foremost, rotating turrets must be placed on the top or bottom of a ship (in Max, parallel to the x-y plane).  Other general rules are to watch the number of textures you use and to make generally clean and stable geometry.  Generally helpful pointers can be found in Karajorma's Freespace FAQ

Also, those turrets are huge.  That ship looks more like corvette-size in Freespace standards.

And of course,

[Vengence]

Thanks. Yep those turrets are enourmas and thats what makes it so powerful. But its not my right to challenge the FS ship designs but blame Homeworld 1 and 2 because the huge turret idea came from their ships, they had a Battlecruiser which had 2 giant ion cannon turrets and 4 smaller but still huge turrets. But thanks to the FSNA mod they have some people should understand because they must have HW2 to have played that mod. Well I can still wait for a v.7 exporter to come out, in the mean time I will enjoy FS2_Open.

[phreak]

we heart you.  please stay

[Vengence]

After what you said, I'm definately going to stay. Time now for some modding, table coding first and then adding models and then everything.

[Unknown Target]

Welcome to the FS community I probably should be the last one to chide someone about this, but it's spelled "Vengeance" with an A - unless you did that on purpose

Red X on the pic though

[Nuclear1]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
Red X on the pic though

Ditto. From what I'm hearing, I'm really missing out on something too.

But anyway, welcome to the community. Please enjoy your stay. We've only got a few rules:
1) Be nice, and we'll be nice back.
2) Give our resident Shivan Carl his daily lunch sacrifice.
3) Give our resident weapon of mass destruction (i.e. me) all your money, and I swear not to go off on you.

[Setekh]

Hey Vengence, welcome to HLP. I can't view the image either - if you mail it to setekh @ 3dap.com, I can upload it for you.

[BlackDove]

Originally posted by PhReAk
we heart you.  please stay

 So true.

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by PhReAk
we heart you.  please stay

Best. Welcome. Ever.

[Vengence]

Red X hmm, all I have to say is.... BLAME IMAGESHACK. And Unkown, you got me. I purposely misspelled my name to fool people and cause them to misspell too. And I must say, this is the best welcome I got from a modding community!

If this link doesn't work then I have no clue: http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/107/heavycruiser8ov.jpg

[Martinus]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon


Best. Welcome. Ever.

[color=66ff00]The HLP way:
Say hello and beam the eyebrows off them.


Welcome Vengence, for a comfortable start I recommend factor five million sunblock.
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[Ghost]

Originally posted by PhReAk
we heart you.  please stay

All that needs saying. Welcome to your new home. Excellent model, I must add.

[WeatherOp]

Welcome.

Trust me don't try to leave, these people are [wispers]CRAZY:dizzy:[/wispers].....Good they didn't hear me.

[Unknown Target]

I can see the model now - but could you give a 3/4ths view? It's hard to see the entire ship from this angle (for me, at least)

[Vengence]

Ok, better view coming up:



But that model was built for a different game. My new one is built for FS2:



But it is nowhere near done and I gotta find a way to get rid of some wierd edges. So far the polycount is 2500, I plan to go up to 10000 or at least 8000.

[Ghost]

That is most excellent from what I can see(for both models, actually). So you don't plan on POFing the first one, but you do want to do so for the 2nd? Hmmm... can you give us a description for what you want on the 2nd?

[Vengence]

For the sake of simplicity, I'd rather not code completely new weapons so I would use only beam cannons (also to make testing and implementing easier it will replace the colossus). For all 11 of its turrets (and all 22 barrels) will feature beam cannons and so will its two giant forward cannons. After I get used to the coding I will add custom sounds and effects to the beams. In my original concept, the ship's enourmas engines also make it quite speedy and it's only weakness is the absence of sufficient point defence weapons. However the original concept used 'turbo lasers' which is somewhat star warsy but with all 11 turrets coordinating their firepower on enemy targets makes dodging the laser blasts much harder especially with 8 freakin huge missiles chasing you.

[BlackDove]

Hmm, the boy has a moderate sense for the Hades.

[Vengence]

Unfortunately for me I underestimated the polies on the guns. Because of those barrels, the polygon meter jumped to 25000 and I havent even added the engines or the forward guns yet!