[FireCrack]

balogna?

[StratComm]

ROFL

No, it's Bellona, a Roman goddess of War.

[Axem]

You ruined the name! Now its cursed forever!

[Nuke]

Originally posted by Mongoose

I was thinking more along the lines of Tolkien's Black Speech, unless he "borrowed" that specific word from Norwegian.  At any rate, that's enough off-topicness; that ship model is just awesome

tolkien took 90% of his ideas from norse mythos. middle earth for example is midgard in the viking tounge which is the world of men, as opposed to asgard, the wold of aeseir (sp?), or as we call them the norse gods (odin, thor, ect.). lord of the rings is like the bible, its all based on folk lore.

[CaptJosh]

aeseir (sp?)

Capitalize the A and drop the second E and you've got that word right.

[Nuke]

actually i think it vairies depending on which nordic language you speak, but yea ur right.

[CaptJosh]

I'm just going on what I've seen. I've not read Norse mythology in anything but English.

[WeatherOp]

Originally posted by Axem
Well, the ship is pretty much done now. I just have to do LODs and debris for it. My favourite part...

Then Truespacing it.

Anyhow I've finally decided on a name for her, and unfortunately, none your names were chosen. But BlackDove's suggestions put me in the direction of it, so yay him.

The name is...

It's not taken... right?

Ohh, like I said in that PM, TSing it is easy, allthough you will have to use Lith.

And BTW, what kind of  weapons will it have? 2 side firing Ter-Slash, one of each side, and an S-Green on front would suit it pretty well, for jumping in, laying a smack down with it's S-Green and leaving what evers chasing it, with a mouthfull of slash, taking out their primary beam cannons at the same time.

But, then again, it's your ship, so you could mount it with BF-Greens and it would still be right.

[Axem]

Like I said in my PM, Truespace ran over my dog.

But yeah, that's pretty much what I was going to go for. Just all TerSlashes. No SGreen's, they have a 45 second wait time. I want my beams! Especially with the new animated beam glows.

For now though, I'm gonna skip ahead and get it ingame for myself and tease you all with screenshots.

[Trivial Psychic]

Put a single Bgreen turret on the sloped section under the nose.

[FireCrack]

Originally posted by WeatherOp
laying a smack down with it's S-Green  

Ohh... now that belogna is cursed we can call it the GTCv Anomoly

[Nuke]

hey axem what version of truespace are you using?

[StratComm]

Originally posted by FireCrack

Originally posted by WeatherOp
laying a smack down with it's S-Green

Ohh... now that belogna is cursed we can call it the GTCv Anomoly [/B]

For this to work it's going to require a table mod.  A BGreen is probably too strong for a corvette, but the SGreen is a pathetic waste of a weapon slot, especially the weapon slot on a corvette's main gun.  You need something at about the power of a TerSlash but without the slash, which AFAIK does not exist in the tables.

[Fade Rathnik]

then put the RBC canon in there it refires faster doesn't it?

[WeatherOp]

Originally posted by StratComm


For this to work it's going to require a table mod.  A BGreen is probably too strong for a corvette, but the SGreen is a pathetic waste of a weapon slot, especially the weapon slot on a corvette's main gun.  You need something at about the power of a TerSlash but without the slash, which AFAIK does not exist in the tables.

Not really, when you mod the table anyways and give the S-green a 19 second fire wait.

It makes a good beam after you do that.

[Axem]

I'll probably include a modular table with either a modified TerSlash or SGreen. Or just make my own beam! LOMGWTFBBQGreen!

Edit

Nuke: I'm using TS3.2.

[Galemp]

Originally posted by Fade Rathnik
then put the RBC canon in there it refires faster doesn't it?

The Mjolnir beam is a strong as a BFGreen with a faster refire rate. Kinda overpowered.

I had a need for that sort of weapon, called it the MGreen. It's about as powerful as a VSlash while being line-of-sight. And green.

[WMCoolmon]

Or just include a modular table with a new beam...

I don't think one more beam will hit the weapons limit.

[Axem]

It's ingame!! WOOO!

But you can't see it yet.

There's a few visual problems with her. First, the nameplate is making everything behind it transparent. So its like it made a giant window in the hull, you can see right through it. All the nameplate is is just a subobject millimeters above the hull, and the texture itself is a tga with everything but the letters transparent.

Oh also, all of the single part turrets seems to have gotten their firing normals pointing right toward the center of the ship. Is this normal/alright/wtf?

And then there's this turret with an axis off in nowhere that I can go easily fix. But so far so good.

[StratComm]

Ah, the nameplate.  That means the textures are getting listed in the POF out of order (the nameplate should be last).  To do that in truespace, seperate off the nameplate geometry as a seperate object and glue it to the main hull, like you would any other subobject.  The only difference is that you should NOT add a light to the nameplate object, so that it gets folded in to the main LOD.  So in Trueview, it should look something like

Hull
-Hull_geo
-nameplate
-turret01
...

I think that will take care of it.

As for the normals, that's pretty much backwards.  They must point out if there's any hope of making it work correctly.  That can be fixed in PCS though.