[Bob-san]

nice....
 
3.1415926535897932384626433832795.../3.1415926535897932384626433832795... when its done texturing...

3.1415926535897932384626433832795/4 for now!

[Nuke]

have i ever said that was one sexy ship? well it is

[Raptor]

New pic of progress:


Now I know what you're all going to say...  I know it's currently very repetative and dull.  But once I get the whole hull plated I will vary the tone & brightness of the varied plates, plus add defects, scars etc.  Think of it currently being fresh out of the 'perfect finish' shipyard

Though despite going back to the cob in Lilith and editing the UV vertexes to get the UVmap to line up with the actual texture correctly, the bloody pixels (of the armour belts that follow the main ribs) still don't line up!   

GRG, this is the benefitt of honking huge UVmaps   Though I'm not looking forward to doing the plating on the bow.  Not only are the planes double angled, but they're large ones too, so any distortion will be noticible.  At least I'll have a little practice before I get there...

Oh, and Nuke, I've got two of your favoured turrets on this ship...

[Scooby_Doo]

You know this ship is starting to resemble something from B5's EA after the warlock.

[Raptor]

I know.  It's also been compared with the ISA Victory class too.

[Colonol Dekker]

The Hera was one of the first ten original mods worth getting IIRC.
It always made think of a transport corvette from the Federation. (starship troopers)
But it IS a sleek secksy new hades to be honest.

[Getter Robo G]

Was??? 

Raptor you release an alpha or something? Or is he just confusing Hera (Still WIP) with the Saturn (released)...

[Raptor]

Maybe.  The Saturn evolved into the Hera, so it might be easy to get them confused.

Anyway... more screenies!

I took this after, seeing how the Hera suffered against bombers, switched nine of her broadside pulse cannons for my new 'standard' flak gun.


Now THAT'S a flak screen!

Further development of the Hera's weapons to improve the anti-bomber abilities (primarily head on), have meant that half of the uber-long ranged plasma turrets have been moved and/or replaced, and the original two vulcan turrets upgraded (to keep the turret count the same rather than go over 100)  Thus she loses much of her long range anti-warship punch for better point defences.



There are now only six turrets above and below the central hull.  You can still see the texture for going around the forward most pair.  The middle turret of each trio is now a quad long ranged flak gun (same turret base, different barrels)

And this one shows the upper three vulcans.


I'm a little concerned that the upgraded vulcan turrets are 'too' big... (3x bigger than before)

I just wish the SCP Coders would insert a 'no shooting through hull' command line option, as they won't make that a default 'on' thing (game balance, apparently)

[Scooby_Doo]

I'll definetely agree with the shot through hull, a lot of my cap ships have that problem too.
Speaking of flak 

[Raptor]

I'll definetely agree with the shot through hull, a lot of my cap ships have that problem too.

So do quite a few retail ships in fact.

Speaking of flak 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Shodan_AI/booms.jpg

I see you had the same idea as I had once.  Use a shockwave effect (though I was thinking of using an old weapon effect) to create a new look for flak guns.  Mine was going to do almost no damage, but would generate EMP instead

How many guns were firing to achive that effect?  Any slowdown?  (10 on mine, no slowdown that I saw since I turned -fps off)

[Scooby_Doo]

EMP now that would be nasty 

Let's see there's 2 gilgameshes and 1 aurora (each has 2 flak turrets top/bottom). The one frigate is i think too far back to be launching.  I'm hazarding a guess just two turrets maybe 3 at most. As for speed, don't even bother looking at my framerates. Also theres several dual laser, dual tachyons firing at a good rate $Fire Wait: .5 and .75 respect.

[Raptor]

Hmm, I go away for the weekend and the thread goes all quiet...

Well, here's the work I did before I left:


The transitation from one texture to the other is almost perfect.  Just needs a slight shift of pixels.

I would have posted a second image showing the rest of the work (all the way back to abve the engines) but it looks like I'll have to go into the cob file again because there's a poly in that shot which is pure black... and shouldn't be so

[Depth_Charge]

Is there a figher bay for this warship?

[Raptor]

Is there a figher bay for this warship?

That enough of an answer for ya?

What you see here is the launch bay.  The hanger bay is actually located in the centre of the ship, filling the forward-mid two fifths (approx) of the ships core, from the bow all the way to the engineering section (were all the spars erupt)

There is also a docking bay on the ventral surface (between the lower engine spars) that is large enough to contain two Terran cruisers (Fenris or Aeolus hulls) side by side... just.

Haven't figured out what is wrong with the docking path (causes CTD if a ship tries to dock), but as you can see, the launch bay works just fine...

[Col. Fishguts]

Neat. I wasn't a big fan of the model in its naked untextured state. But I really like what you did with the maps

[Raptor]

Neat. I wasn't a big fan of the model in its naked untextured state. But I really like what you did with the maps

Neither was I to be fair.  But (sadly) there's a long way to go before it's fully textured.

[Raptor]

After a period of hibernation (due to me power-watching seasons 1-8 of Sg-1), The Hera has finally come out with a (slightly) new look.


Instead of having a sprinkling of small cutaways, I've now got a few large ones.


The redone dorsal turret array.


A closer look at the new inserts.  Only filled in the rows of lights on one so far...


Firing a volley of Titan missiles.  However the missiles are not behaving themselves.  They are supposed to be cluster warheads.  But when I add 'Spawn XXXX' to the weapon flags... they stop working.
Cue much fustration.   Espically since they were working at one point.

[Dark Hunter]

*Dark Hunter eagerly awaits the release of this ship*


This is what the Hades should have been!

[spartan_0214]

yea, c'mon release it already.........

\ducks incoming projectile

no, seriously, when're you planning on releasing???

[Raptor]

yea, c'mon release it already.........

\ducks incoming projectile

no, seriously, when're you planning on releasing???

When it's done.  When else?

Progress has been slowed due to having to replot all the deck lines, and the VLS missiles have been scrubbed for the time being (can't get the pesky things to work right... )

Might rework the turrets once more (on Ver3 now!)  as this ship can kill a fighter at 15kms...

Currently it's very deadly to hostile fighters, though that may be a result of the turrets firing through the hull.  I gave them the FOV's they would have if that were not the case (*cough*hint-to-coders*cough*)

Which would people perfer as far as deck lights go:  Random length and randomly lit, or regular length/pattern and randomly lit?