[Vengence]

*cough sheridan becoming a god=realistic? couogh*
Sepereate argument i agree, SSD's are cool and i like the idea of fighters coming with hyperdrive, But i reckon SAAB is more likely than B5 to come about. Unless we really find hypergates then get star-raped by boneheads in which case i will eat Buckingham palace......

Ok, most of it then. I haven't seen all the episodes yet! And what is SAAB? I'm sure your not talking about the car manufacturer... I think....

In my non-FS storyline, a certain Humanity didn't find hypergates, they built them. Don't ask, storyline too big for one post and one topic.

[Colonol Dekker]

Space Above And Beyond....


HOO-RAH !
TC McQUEENS Nippleneck Led Squad, The dead in sapce five-eight !

[aldo_14]

Oh, ok. I remember that, All this hubbub about the new incarnation is makein me lose sight of the original, ( Erin Gray is still the best though, Wilma FTW)

I wasn't talking about the original, anyways.

[Colonol Dekker]

No Bizzybody was..........

Erin Grey still FTW, best Miniskirted pilot EVER.

[Getter Robo G]

Clraify... The Miniskirt was considered the "Sailormoon/2nd season" which, even by her own admission was "a travestry and like a stab in the back to her character."

The First Season, defined by most fans as the "Sexiest Cat Suit Era" showed off the character as strong of will and competence equal to the amount of tension her slim taut body was subjected to by the skin tight outfit...

   Oh there was a "bandage-like" accessory one could Lable a "skirt" but since it wasn't an essential part of the ensamble I only remembered it on retrospection...

Where's Barry Manalow when you need him, "MEMORIES!!!"   

[Vengence]

  Now topic is loosing its meaning. I might as well post this since its one of the jewels of my giant ships. I used an improvised skin so it'll be reskinned in due time. I call it: Meteor -class Battleship. Its huge at 14km long, 8km wide, and 4km tall at the largest points. I haven't added its final weapons yet but they are going to be seriously strong.

[Scooby_Doo]

It kinda resembles the old Ralari.  Btw drop the bumpy organic looking bumpmap/shinemap and replace it with tiles... it'll give a much more realistic paneling :-)

[Vengence]

Didn't I say it had an improvised skin? Thats what I meant. Also its UV mapping was choppy fast so not much effort on that part. And what is a Ralari??? I drew this ship's concept last year from scratch and imagination and built it.

[Scooby_Doo]

Actually my bad.. it's more like a Fralthi Mk 1 The nose section at least does.  As for the bumpmap...no biggie.. don't worry about it till you get the main texture to your liking.

I do like this one the best.  It says capital ship all over it.. especially what looks like a fighter bay in the middle.

[Colonol Dekker]

Gimme a cat WC3 Dreadnaught any time of the day

[Getter Robo G]

Ew.. Either style is fine, but hard sporty and HW2 bumpy do not mesh well on same model... 

Yeah I know these are temp... (still loving it though).

[Vengence]

Just finished on another non-FS and non-human ship. This ship was NOT inspired by the shivans. These ships may have horn looking things but its all symetrical and even and smooth, not hard, jagged, and spiky like Shivan ships. The only similarity is that this ship is black but that is to hide in space better. The front globe is the weapon and glows red to fire a single strong beam. The ship is corvette in size and has been given the misleading name of Dreadnought because the ship is terribly dreaded when there is lots of them. Other than that they aren't much of a threat alone.

Given my current lack of coding expertice I will simply have it replace the Moloch ingame for testing.



EDIT: Wow, I'm already done with the skin.

[Colonol Dekker]

Dreadnaught means "Fear None" (from dread and nought) But that ships is Very Very nice

[asyikarea51]

If I could, I'd take the Meteor and shove one really BIG beam cannon in the middle of those two finimajigs... xD

Script a mission in FRED, put an SSJ in front of it and then fly a Pegasus loaded with designator missiles...

and shout out, "DIE EUU (insert expletives here)!!!!!"

That red and black thingy gives me an idea for a mobile heavy RBC... maybe use it for node blockading and/or planetary bombardment?

[Getter Robo G]

Egads... The similarity is amazing.

The pommel end of my Sword, the Cockpit for a Tie Fighter, and powered by the Epicott Center?

  I approve!


(No offense was intended by the above  , though all the triangles in the middle take away from what appears to be a Gothic type  impression, the rear works with it though)

[Vengence]

Already ingame. The model is simple: 5 turret points [1: Big Beam Cannon, 2-5: SAAAs]

With all those beam AAAs its not easy getting close. Especially considering these Dreads travel in groups of 4 and more. If you get 12 on your hands not only will it hurt your system but it will shred your ship. However not even 16 of these ships (4 ships in 4 waves) even stood a chance against a Heavy Cruiser. But these Dreads are weakly armored, corvette sized, slightly underprotected, assault ships. Their good against fighters and when in groups can really hurt a destroyer. However they need something the size of a destroyer to even hurt a heavy cruiser.

[Trivial Psychic]

Re-skinned, that ship could also pass for a non-military Drakh science ship or something.

[Getter Robo G]

I was gonna ask if you were Psychic or something...

(nevermind...)   


Actually I was about to type 3rd space alien by mistake, but yeah I meant in my head Drahk...

Attack of the Organics!!! Looks great on the main beam, but the SAA? I'm not liking the extra white border on each side of the beams.  Is that your custom job?

[Colonol Dekker]

Looks like some Shivan/Rampant rabbit hybrid'odoom 

[Vengence]

I was gonna ask if you were Psychic or something...

(nevermind...)   


Actually I was about to type 3rd space alien by mistake, but yeah I meant in my head Drahk...

Attack of the Organics!!! Looks great on the main beam, but the SAA? I'm not liking the extra white border on each side of the beams.  Is that your custom job?

Dude, I have a Geforce 6800XT 256mb and a Athlon64 with DDR2 1024mb of RAM. Wouldn't it be obvious that I would be using the adveffect mediaVPs? Those have animated textures so that white border is actually a frame in the animation. But now that you mention it, I CAN create my own custom effects with a little effort.

I designed this ship before I even saw the Drahk in B5 so whatever similarity is completely by coincidence and like I said before, it only looks Shivan because of the colors. These alien ships are symmetric, smooth curved, spherical, and 'horned' not 'spiked'. The model difference is huge and the color difference is similar so thats really it. But still, this model barely took me 3 hours to put ingame meaning this is one of the fastest jobs I have done yet.