[Vertigo1]

np

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Originally posted by IceFire:
Sorry, but I have trouble believing that the Shivans designed and built the Sathanas to counter the Colossus.

Ontop of that, I have trouble believing that the Shivans would need to steal technology from anyone.

The Sathanas class as I figure it are fairly ancient.  The Lucifer probably even more ancient.

Anyways, not to discredit your modeling work. Its pretty good and it has some fairly nice lines!

[This message has been edited by IceFire (edited 12-03-2001).]

i agree with icefire, simply because of the large number of sathanasas seen in the game, anyone can logically say that either, these ships have been around for years, the shivan forces are far larger then anyone can imagine, and or that they are possibly an organic living organism that has technology built into it, or the above combined. but in anycase, the colossus was ment to deal with Lucifer class ships and below, not Lucy Part Duex EX aka the sathanas.

[Thorn]

 

Originally posted by MD-2389:
Gamma Drakonis not Gamma Drakonies.  

Its Gamma Draconis....

[CougEr]

whatever...
 re-20 years to build Colossus...
 I have  2 words for you all
 Temporal distortion

 in Gamma Draconis.
 

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Originally posted by KillMeNow:
couger - you seem to be quite good with lightwave so how you save a wireframe view in modeler as an image file???????

easy,   set up texture rendered view in  display option for all the vierwports you want to have : a) indipendent BKG and  b) indipendent zoom and center.
 then set up PSP to capture full frame.   Save as JPG. Go to PS. Save again for web at the right compression. As per view 35%. small enough to upload as full size.

 


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[Nephilim]

Um, the Collosus was a Vasudan idea (Remember good ol' Khonshu II?) and concept, but Terran made  

[CougEr]

Sorry Kill me,  re-reading your question, I can see that I missinterpreted.
 To save a wireframe view of a model as an image you can use the preview option  bottom right end of the screen and save as whatever... making sure that the display properties are set to wireframe and not textured  surface.
You might need Adobe Premier or any other desktop editing program to convert the saved avi to sequential frames and choose the frame you need. As I suspect Lightwave prerview does not save single frames.
But if it does, need I say any more?
 
Or, Option 2 (and this is the way I would most likely go because it offers more control of all lighting options). You can set up the Lightwave scene to render what you have and saved on the layout scene (view from camera). Remember to make a copy of your object and work with the copy as you'll need to unify the properties of all the poligons in to a single texture. The texture of the desired object should be set in property of that object to render only the outline. Basically that shows all the poligons. Make sure you have one flat color with no specularity and 100% diffusion as texture. Light it with a single distant light ( default).

The third Option is to , again render the LW scene but the camera properties will be set to wireframe as opposed to REALISTIC.

There you go, as per usual in Lightwave there is always more than one way to do something.

Regarding the speculation of Belzebu' and the Shivan Armada,  heheh I was only playing with the concept.
 
That will remain a quick model I made for the course  and I accept with enthusiasm all the critique made to it so far.
 It's great to get feed back.

CougEr
 

[CougEr]

8 posts away to my first century.
and no one out yet... this is a good game!


 
CougEr

[CougEr]

here it is a quick render of ess-7000
   


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[WarpStar]

Looks sweet.  The bottom part looks a little blocky, but it's not finished yet right?  

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[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by CougEr:
here it is a quick render of ess-7000
 

Planetary redeployment? How flipping big is that... thing?  

[CougEr]

ESS-7000 ? Big!  Very BIG!

  Aided by alien technology (HOMS TECHNOLOGY) the ESS 7000 project was commissioned by the Earth visitors, the HOMS when calculation of forthcoming probable impact with free celestial bodies started to refelect the vulnerable position of Earth in its current orbit around the sun. Mining for prime material, twelve C class planets nearby the sun solar system started immediately.  The construction of the ESS 7000 took over 20 years to complete.

Ultimately the function and purpose of ESS-7000 "Erthsustain" is to seek out "free space" in a newer solar system ready to accommodate the placement of the Earth.
A secret and ulterior plan of the Great Council of Twelve however reflects more the
Uno's Spiritual vocation.
To seek out every species and to co-ordinate the Final unification.
The Ancient ones is a group of very old Unos, a sub culture of the HOMS, and also  eight members of The Great Council of twelve, the main government body of the HOMS.
They have had, as the basic blocks of their religion and beliefs, a notion that all races and civilization in the known Universe originated from one place alone.
No matter how an where each species evolved and travelled to, they would all unify back to the origin one time.

Okay so... This is the basic preamble for a continuation of the Free Space story. One that if accepted by the Film Studios I'm dealing with at present, could see a new sci-fi TV series emerging  out of it.

Yeah...   I'm working on it!
 




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[Anduril]

20 years?!?!!? To build something with at least 10 times the volume of the Earth? Try 2000. Run some REAL labor calculations, and even if you assume every man, woman, and child is working at a professional level from birth to death, there is no way that that is possible.

[CougEr]

Unless you'd have alien technology (HOMS TECHNOLOGY).
Amazing, your reaction to that notion is perfect!
 I'm right on target then presenting the ohh, so important part following here.

extract from a treatment for the creenplay of episode 1, The Great Homs Story...

...Lead by a small group of those sobversive characters, as the  Homs Security Commission referred, now even larger masses where making their way to the only launch pods that were left unattended.

A few hours later a ragtag group of small craft in a convoy were exiting the system.
It was as if they let them go.
The working conditions and the human exploitation so clearly depicted in that report to the Security Commission  as probably the only favourable point towards any one who would now refuse to work on project ESS.
But it was too late to make a difference.
2 weeks later the proper classification code of 7000 was given to the project making it now ESS-7000, code name: "Earthsustain"

The only thing left was the long awaited anchoring of our planet to the two stationary frags.
That day would coincide with the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the visitors on Earth, The Homs.
The people left on Earth where not afraid of the discoloration of their sky or the constant overcast weather over their heads any more. They knew  the Homs did what they did in the interest of everyone.  Just like they fixed the OZONE layer, deplited so much that no one was able to go outside anymore without frying.
Or the green house effect, or the cure for AIDS and cancer and the prevention of that horrible pestilence discovered in all particles of hidrogens of our atmosphear.

Work by the Allied World States continued on Earth to repair the St. Andrews fault line with that incredible device made available by the HOMS.




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[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Anduril:
20 years?!?!!? To build something with at least 10 times the volume of the Earth? Try 2000. Run some REAL labor calculations, and even if you assume every man, woman, and child is working at a professional level from birth to death, there is no way that that is possible.

then youn can use nanobots.

[Vertigo1]

Geez!  You'd self-destruct before you could get any distance from it!  (It'd be funny if the ship self-destructed as well!  )

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its not a foot...  its the *******  Hand of Nod from Tiberian Sun  

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[NeoHunter]

Hand of NOD huh? Well, looks like the GDI managed to kick NOD off Earth after all.

But seriously, I think its a original model only a bit strange...

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[TDM/JM]

On ESS-7000:

Moving a planet with bigger-than-the-planet-sized-technology? Wouldn't it be easier to break the planet down to molecular or even Planck-scale components, build a big ark, drive it to a new system, and reconstitute the ark as the planet, again? If you've got the tech to build the thing you've drawn, you've got the tech to do sub-molecular desconstruction and reconstitution on a planetary scale -- and that would be simpler, more cost-efficient, less risky and less prone to failure.  

A.

 

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by TDM/JM:
On ESS-7000:

Moving a planet with bigger-than-the-planet-sized-technology? Wouldn't it be easier to break the planet down to molecular or even Planck-scale components, build a big ark, drive it to a new system, and reconstitute the ark as the planet, again? If you've got the tech to build the thing you've drawn, you've got the tech to do sub-molecular desconstruction and reconstitution on a planetary scale -- and that would be simpler, more cost-efficient, less risky and less prone to failure.    

A.

 

wouldn't it be simpler to move everything from the planet to a ship the same size?