[starlord]

The renegade legion MOD for freespace and starshatter has been rather tranquil lately with a big thanks to troublesome RL (real life  ) issues.

However, the MOD is still here, and thanks to latest contributor enioch, we have an update to present:

Please meet (many thanks to him again) the terran overlord government ULTOR battleship:

Advice is eagerly awaited.

best regards.

mike.



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[Reprobator]

Awe-som-o !

Very smart ship!   

[Spoon]

Very nice!
(and no, nothing from me yet, still busy busy  )

[Enioch]

Here are some more renders, straight from the source.

The final color scheme will be...well, non-existant.  I think I'll stick to white shiny armor, kinda like the Axiom in WALL-E. Starlord seems to approve. But I'll bake occlusion maps on it and texture the greebles.

Ventral fin and aft part still VIP



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[Reprobator]

Hmmm white color should be very beautifull for this ship but after testing this color on some ship i did, i noticed that this color cause some very strong aliases!
If you manage to avoid it, i'd like to know how did you counter this effect 
If you don't mind.

[starlord]

I wonder: is it possible to upload JPEG files in the thread? I'm quite sure you'll like the renegade legion leviathan pics: the syracuse for instance is a beaut...

want me to post them?

[Enioch]

I recommend you upload the following, given that the rest are quite low-poly and, frankly, kinda fugly  (no offense to Brad, I know he said he was learning the ropes when he created them, but they're still kinda fugly, compared with the rest of the HTL goodyness out there):

Capital ships: Syracuse, Illustrius, Solstice and Hastati. Not the Ajax! The 'nacelles' on each side give me the frakking heebie-jeebies . When I'm done with the Ultor (in the far future, that is  ), I'll see if I can round them off a bit.

Fighters: Pretty much anything. The Fugio and Saxum are especially nice.

[The E]

Also, I would recommend using an external host for pictures, like photobucket or something. Attachments run the risk of getting deleted after a while.

[starlord]

enioch, you mean the illustrious (renegade destroyer class carrier) or the illustris (TOG battleship)?

[Getter Robo G]

Sorry to post bad news but the Leviathan model (Not Moya) is no longer for DL on MR's site and I cannot find it on my system. I wish I had uploaded it long ago when I first posted the pic. I think it was Starlord who told me it was R.L. related back then.

I will keep looking for it, but it's very possible it will have to be done from scratch. Pity, it just needed a retexture...

If it turns up I will upload it...


[EDIT]: Good news, not an hour ago I was looking through some RTS stuff to work on and it turned up, the original file.

grab it while you can.
http://www.4shared.com/file/117042743/6d306633/Leviathan_RL.html

[Enioch]

@starlord: IllustriOUs. Sorry for the typo...

@Getter: DL'ing now. I'll have a look.

EDIT: This what you're talking about? Hm. Interesting colors. And I like the back 'fins'. But the rest is still painfully low-poly, for a ship of this size (1300 tris). Hell, it's low even for a fighter. Building it from scratch might be a good idea. Still, thanks for pointing out its existance, Getter.

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[Colonol Dekker]

Alliance council must dieeeee. . .
Any mass effect inspiration?

[starlord]

Actually, I think that's a renegade carthage cruiser.

Not too fan of the gyger's alien surface though...

[Enioch]

I think he ripped the texture from the tabletop game (you know, the ship 'boxes'). Could this be the case?

And yeah, looks just like a Carthage.

[Enioch]

Update: New engine pods. Still WIP of course, with only the main panels modeled in. The detail greebling will be dome after I'm done with the engines.

Note the cut-out part in the aft view. This is where I'll put the main engine.

Haven't touched the ventral fin as yet. Gonna get to it during the week end.

As always, feedback is more than welcome

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[gevatter Lars]

The ship looks very good. I like the details.

[Aardwolf]

So what sort of armament will this thing have? Turrets, many? Or just big forward guns of some sort?

[Enioch]

Starlord, over to you.

[Enioch]

...Or maybe not 

@Aardwolf: In Renegade Legions, capital ships carry four kinds of weapons:

They've got turrets a la FS, which they mainly use against fighters.

They've got laser 'bays', which translate to a big broadside of simultaneous laser fire. Think 18th century ships-of-the-line. That's an anti-capital weapon.

They've got a limited number of missiles, used mainly to finish off a crippled enemy ship.

Finally, each capital ship has a 'spinal mount': a huge mass driver mounted on the 'spine' of the ship. This is the BIG gun.  It smashes through any armor and can cause massive amounts of damage, but due to its 'fixed' nature, it has a very limited field of fire.

@ everybody: Started work on the engines. The right one is an early draft, the left one is the proposed one. Feedback, please!

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[starlord]

Well in RL capital ship armaments consist of 4 weapon types (although some of them are constructed without one type of these weapons, the ultor has all).

-1: spinal mount: leviathans (capital ships) often mount one of those awesome weapons (although some put more the emphasis on laser bays). picture a huge mass driver around which the ship is built (spine) hurling huge projectiles (crowbars) at near light speed. there are 5 types of spinals from A (lightest, mounted on destroyers and escorts) to E (heaviest, mounted on battleships). the ultor accomodates a D class (the E was invented later, as the ultor is an ageing yet potent design.

-2: laser bays: the primary hitting power of a leviathan, laser bays consist of 10/25/50/100 laser cannon packs of various leviathan type calibres. the most powerful are mounted on the sides so that the leviathan may fire broadsides of huge power, although some are mounted on the aft and fore as well. each calibre has a different range and damage factor, respectively according to the length (first number in meters) and width (in centimeters) of the gennium-arsenic crystal powering the laser guns.
the ultor sports 4 bays of 100 37.5/25 lasers (the most potent), 2 on both sides; 6 25 bays of 37.5/5 lasers (2 left, right and aft); and 2 10 bays of 37.5/5 on the fore.

-3: capital missile system: many leviathans (though not all) are mounted with a capital missile system. the system launches swarm of capital ship missiles with different ranges and warhead yields (A to I type, with E being the strongest). the ultor comes with a D system allowing it 3 salvos of the second higest yield missiles). Those missiles are destroyable by the turret systems or interceptor fire.

-4: antimissile/interceptor turret systems. Defensive turrets containing various fighter calibre weaponry (lasers, EPCs, NPCs, TPPs, mass drivers, fighter class missiles... the ultor has a battleship class turret cover net.

Furthermore, like all leviathans, the ultor is shielded (highest flicker rate I.E: efficiency) and mounts maximum armour, as a battleship. also the ultor can embark 48 various fighters (8 squadrons of 6), and can transport 12 small combat craft (from gunboat to corvette class), along with a host of auxillary ships like boarding units or shuttles).

A real power house. And wait till you hear the specs of the shiva, the illustris or the overlord...

Finally, the ultor scores a potent 2.5Km in length