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Re: New Ship WIP - The Hand
He said snowflake. While snowflakes have a 6-fold symmetry and this ship only has 5-fold symmetry, it still looks very much like a snowflake.

I'm from Switzerland, we have plenty of snow, therefore I AR EXPERT!

Whoa, you're from Switzerland?

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The Rangers pilot did have some rather weird deviations from the main plot of Babylon 5, and the infinitely embarrassing minefield scene that I've never been able to watch all the way through because I feel too sorry for the poor actress, but nice work on those ships!

 

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So, here we go, update time.  Sorry it took nearly a month to get back to this.  It took about another few hours of playing around in Max to get the right procedurals going and then to figure out how volume lights work (which is different than from what I remember using Maya; either way I'm not a lighting person). :( :p ;)

Well, here are the piccies.

Whoa! Very nice indeed!
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F**k me those look Fantastic. How much longer before the Hand Snowflake of Death is released?
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Re: New Ship WIP - The Hand
well technically, I'm not part of the Babylon Project team, and also, I'm using Max version 9, which unfortunately doesn't have a PCS plug-in available, so I would need to get in touch with someone that has Max 8, and then I just need to get the ship in-game and then set LODs, damage models, a weapons graphic, etc.  What you see in the screenshots is the main model along with some procedural textures applied (I need to bake them into the actual textures maps that will be used by the game), plus a volume light which I'm not really sure how to replicate in-game.  I would ideally like to try and release this in conjunction with TBP 3.4b that's just been announced, but I don't want to hold anyone up on that.

Depending on my success with getting the Hand ship to work in-game, I may consider doing a few more ships, such as the Streibs vessel, technomage shuttle, Walkers of Sigma 957 ship, Liandra, and a few others not previously mentioned.  However, most those ships are pretty obscure and thus difficult to use them in any real storyline, more like to just have the option of using them.
Deuternomy 22:11 explained:

Well there are many different speculations going on about this law about not mixing fibers and at least one explanation claims that it was a symbolic gesture designed to keep a pure sense of culture, people, and religion.  Seperation of crop  in the vinyard, mentioned in Dt. 22:9 and 22:10 seem to reaffirm this idea, though there may be other reasons as well.

And now, an excerpt from the Prayer of Mordecai, the Book of Esther Chapter C (New American Bible Official Catholic version).

Est C:5  You know all things.  You know, O Lord, that it was not out of insolence or pride or desire for fame that I acted thus in not bowing down to the proud Haman.  6  Gladly would I have kissed the soles of his feet for the salvation of Israel.  7  But I acted as I did so as not to place the honor of man above that of God.  I will not bow down to anyone but you, my Lord.  It is not out of pride that I am acting thus.

 

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Re: New Ship WIP - The Hand
Oh please do the Technomage Shuttle. I need it for a Crusade Based Campaign that Im planning.

The Technomage Shuttle is essential to the campaign...I cant start FREDing the campaign without it.
I Can Send you the Specs for the the TS...
And its not like the other first-ones ships from TBP 3.4 are any more obsure
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I'm kinda surprised that the shuttle was never done.  Seems to me it would be such an easy model.  Not that I know anything about modeling, but hey.

 

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He said snowflake. While snowflakes have a 6-fold symmetry and this ship only has 5-fold symmetry, it still looks very much like a snowflake.

I'm from Switzerland, we have plenty of snow, therefore I AR EXPERT!


Whoa, you're from Switzerland?

Jo hoi du schwyyzer!

Jo grüezi, esch länger här dass do no me Schwizer ome gsii send :)
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Re: New Ship WIP - The Hand
At long last! Would you mind if I wanted to use your model for my fanfic? I have the Hand forces as part of a bigger and much nastier conglomerate that reaches before the Vorlons and Shadows.

Anyway I have an untextured Liandra somewhere if you need a reference...

have you treid cross conversion just for testign in game purposes?

I use 3dX/DE for most things like c4d/.max/ conversions to some thing I can then  convert to .cob after reassigning textures and mesh checking etc...

 
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Re: New Ship WIP - The Hand
He said snowflake. While snowflakes have a 6-fold symmetry and this ship only has 5-fold symmetry, it still looks very much like a snowflake.

I'm from Switzerland, we have plenty of snow, therefore I AR EXPERT!


Whoa, you're from Switzerland?

Jo hoi du schwyyzer!

Jo grüezi, esch länger här dass do no me Schwizer ome gsii send :)

I bet this looks rather irritating to most readers, aber schiis druuf.
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Re: New Ship WIP - The Hand
The only annoying part is that Google Translator doesn't translate Finnish. apparently not important enough  jk

    |[===---(-         
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 =(||==)_
    ||_____|
 =(||==)
    ||                   
    |[===---(-                             

"Take my love. Take my land. Take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me. Take me out to the black, tell them I ain't comin' back. Burn the land boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me. There's no place I can be since I've found Serenity. But you can't take the sky from me." - Ballad of Serenity

 

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Re: New Ship WIP - The Hand
At long last! Would you mind if I wanted to use your model for my fanfic? I have the Hand forces as part of a bigger and much nastier conglomerate that reaches before the Vorlons and Shadows.

Anyway I have an untextured Liandra somewhere if you need a reference...

have you treid cross conversion just for testign in game purposes?

I use 3dX/DE for most things like c4d/.max/ conversions to some thing I can then  convert to .cob after reassigning textures and mesh checking etc...

 

I don't mind, but it might be a while before I sit down and try to work out a conversion into the FS2 engine.  the textures you see are just procedurals, though I'm sure I can bake them into a PS file.  As for the month of December, a lot of MOD-relates stuff is on hold as more urgent projects are currently in progress and need to be finished before the year is out (primarily, modeling and texturing a decent medium/high-res Sikorsky SH60 Seahawk for my father (X-MAS gift/Portfolio material), resume redux, and website redesign among other things)  :doubt:.  The moment the Seahawk is done, I'll be rushing to get the new web layout finished and uploaded (along with some new work).

If I do anything MOD related at all for this month and the next, it might just be new base models for TBP and SW:FOG.  I've at least two freighters in mind for SW:FOG, and will probably do the Technomage Shuttle as that'll take what, 30 minutes to model depending on how detailed it is? :p

One thing I do need for the Hand ship though would be proper implementation ingame from 3D Studio MAX (I have v9, though I'm sure that's not too big a jump from 8) as 1) I have no idea what the hell I'll be doing and 2), I need to develop a new effect for the Hand's weaponry.
Deuternomy 22:11 explained:

Well there are many different speculations going on about this law about not mixing fibers and at least one explanation claims that it was a symbolic gesture designed to keep a pure sense of culture, people, and religion.  Seperation of crop  in the vinyard, mentioned in Dt. 22:9 and 22:10 seem to reaffirm this idea, though there may be other reasons as well.

And now, an excerpt from the Prayer of Mordecai, the Book of Esther Chapter C (New American Bible Official Catholic version).

Est C:5  You know all things.  You know, O Lord, that it was not out of insolence or pride or desire for fame that I acted thus in not bowing down to the proud Haman.  6  Gladly would I have kissed the soles of his feet for the salvation of Israel.  7  But I acted as I did so as not to place the honor of man above that of God.  I will not bow down to anyone but you, my Lord.  It is not out of pride that I am acting thus.

 
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The only annoying part is that Google Translator doesn't translate Finnish. apparently not important enough  jk

You ignorant! It's swiss german.
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Re: New Ship WIP - The Hand
Doesn't translate the swiss language either :rolleyes:

    |[===---(-         
    ||
 =(||==)_
    ||_____|
 =(||==)
    ||                   
    |[===---(-                             

"Take my love. Take my land. Take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me. Take me out to the black, tell them I ain't comin' back. Burn the land boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me. There's no place I can be since I've found Serenity. But you can't take the sky from me." - Ballad of Serenity

 

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well, learn german!
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This is a thread about a B5 Model, not peoples' language skills. Let's not let this drift off-topic.

 
Re: New Ship WIP - The Hand
Even if you learn German, you wouldn't understand Swiss German ^^°
Hey ihr beide, da gseht mer wiedermal, wie chli die Welt doch isch.

The model btw is very impressive! Good work!  ;7
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You said: "hey you two, now you can see again how nice the world is"  :p

Question about the Hand: What kind of weapons to they use? Beams?
And by the way, nice model  :yes:
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If I remember correctly it was more of a big fast moving energy blob.  Might have even been guided.
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If I remember correctly it was more of a big fast moving energy blob.  Might have even been guided.

Yeah, it was a green energy bolt.
Deuternomy 22:11 explained:

Well there are many different speculations going on about this law about not mixing fibers and at least one explanation claims that it was a symbolic gesture designed to keep a pure sense of culture, people, and religion.  Seperation of crop  in the vinyard, mentioned in Dt. 22:9 and 22:10 seem to reaffirm this idea, though there may be other reasons as well.

And now, an excerpt from the Prayer of Mordecai, the Book of Esther Chapter C (New American Bible Official Catholic version).

Est C:5  You know all things.  You know, O Lord, that it was not out of insolence or pride or desire for fame that I acted thus in not bowing down to the proud Haman.  6  Gladly would I have kissed the soles of his feet for the salvation of Israel.  7  But I acted as I did so as not to place the honor of man above that of God.  I will not bow down to anyone but you, my Lord.  It is not out of pride that I am acting thus.