[blowfish]

Some of you may remember...



It's ~25000 polygons (triangulated), and I now enter the not-fun stage, i.e. UV'ing and texturing

[Narvi]

What is it? An armed cargo box?

[blowfish]

I'm not entirely sure what to call it, though I have been calling it "refinery patform" for a while.  Its purpose is to separate and/or refine collected gases (you can't see them, but there are three docks for Zephyrus miners on the bottom).

[Narvi]

What's the scale here? It seems a bit small compared to other GTVA installations, if my guess is correct.

[blowfish]

What's the scale here? It seems a bit small compared to other GTVA installations, if my guess is correct.

Yeah.  IIRC it's ~800m square.  So each side is about the length of a Deimos.

[Snail]

Reminds me of one of the early mods, a gas platform by Sparky.


(BTW - Since when could SketchUp render loik that clay thing?)

[Hellstryker]

It's not rendered in SU.

[Tinman]

impressive  can't wait to see it in a mission 

[Snail]

It's not rendered in SU.

Didn't think so.

[Hellstryker]

It's not rendered in SU.

Didn't think so.

Of course this begs the question, what did he render it in 

[blowfish]

Blender

[Snail]

Blender

[Droid803]

Oooh nice. A space gas station

[Flipside]

Does someone come out in a spacesuit and clean the windows?

Seriously though, I like, except for the guns, if that thing is as big as a Deimos on each side, those cannon are probably larger than an Orions' main guns, whereas I would have thought a few anti-fighter weapons would be more appropriate?

[peterv]

Blowfish, finish this right now! 

[blowfish]

Does someone come out in a spacesuit and clean the windows?

Seriously though, I like, except for the guns, if that thing is as big as a Deimos on each side, those cannon are probably larger than an Orions' main guns, whereas I would have thought a few anti-fighter weapons would be more appropriate?

Not that turrets in FS follow any particular scale...

[Flipside]

True, but it always looks kind of odd having little pew-pew shots coming out of guns that are that size. It's not really a problem, still works, just a suggestion that they looked a wee bit big Something like a Gas refinery would be more likely to attacked by fighters than a cap-ship (I'm thinking pirate raids here, not in times of war), and, to my mind, would be more likely to have anti-fighter defences, but it's all down to personal choice in the end.

[blowfish]

TBH I'm not sure whether I'm going to mount modified blobs or flak on it, but you're right about how it is likely to be attacked.  In fact, one mission I have planned for it involves pirate raiders exactly

[Angelus]

Would be cool to have more then one texture for this station, to reflect it's age or something like that.
I mean, one texture could make the station look like it was build last week, one that tells ya "it's rusted, don't sneeze at it, 'cause it will fall apart", and one that's something in between.

Just an idea...

[Droid803]

Well, at least we'll have something to use as a small refueling depot now rather than just a Hippocrates or Faustus XD