[Titan]

The things I miss when I get dragged to the mall.

[Kolgena]

Hmm. I still think that the cockpit should be mainly inside the fuselage, rather than almost completely on the surface. If you look at the Serapis for reference, it seems like that Vasudans like to put a cockpit in the body and give it a tiny window, rather than stick a guy completely in some tiny "blister" as mentioned before. Even doubling the depth of that cockpit would make it look loads comfier.

As for the normal map suggestion, I just didn't see how some parts of the bomber would look much different depending on usage of polies or mapping (side "wing" surface), but I guess if some people can't use normal maps, that's fine. I guess I was hoping that more polies could be used for more details, but looking at the bomber now, there isn't too much that can be added to it, so freeing up polies is a bit useless.

[Titan]

Yeah, make it extend back. It looks really wierd right now 

[blowfish]

Meh ... I like it.

[High Max]

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[Rodo]

Of course if the window is sticking out so far, it would definitely be a structural weakness in the ship and a shot there would basically ruin the bomber and its abilities, since its controller, aka the Vasudan would be gone quite fast.

[sarcasm]well Vasudans are known for being suicidal and kinda emo like...[/sarcasm]

[Rodo]

Something I've been wondering... what if the player get's transfered to the Psamtik and it chooses to fly the backa? will he mute to a Vasudan form?

[Commander Zane]

Of course if the window is sticking out so far, it would definitely be a structural weakness in the ship and a shot there would basically ruin the bomber and its abilities, since its controller, aka the Vasudan would be gone quite fast.

You know, this is the first time I've seen this brought up, why hasn't it been mentioned before even with the Retail model if it's the same canopy?

[Akalabeth Angel]

The cockpit looks great. Don't change it.

Reducing it to a mere window destroys any sense of scale.

What about the Tauret? It has a huge window too, if that's just a little viewport the thing becomes tiny.

The Serapis is not the Bakha. Vasudans are allowed to design their fighters a little different from model to model are they??

[-Norbert-]

The Starfury pilot stands instead of sits.

Granted the pilot is strapped in upright, but on the other hand in zero-g there is no such thing as standing or sitting in the first place

[Narvi]

This is less about realism than that the blister-design looks kinda off.

[Akalabeth Angel]

This is less about realism than that the blister-design looks kinda off.

What looks off?






Exact same cockpit. All the guy did is swap out the black glass for clear glass. If you don't like the design that's fine but its how Volition made the thing and I would not be in favour of changing classic designs to accommodate people's sense of realism or lack thereof. A few of the MVP ships have taken too many liberties to me as it is. Like what are those two big dumb pipes in the back of the Deimos all about???

[General Battuta]

Agreed, current cockpit is awesome.

[Nighteyes]

And remember guys, as Petrev said himself, its not completly finished yet, lets all be patient and see the final model when its ready (a bird has wispered in my ear that the cockpit will change a bit)

[Kie99]

I'd suggest you either offer a version with black glass, or a version with a terran pilot, in order to maintain continuity for Bearbaiting and High Noon.  Call it GVB Bakha #Terran and the FSURP team can integrate it.

[Herra Tohtori]

Oh.

Carry on then.

...the model, too.

[peterv]

I'd suggest you either offer a version with black glass, or a version with a terran pilot, in order to maintain continuity for Bearbaiting and High Noon.  Call it GVB Bakha #Terran and the FSURP team can integrate it.

This is the reason for the delay. I'm trying to add both the terran and vasudan cocpits to the same model and switch them with a texture replacement. There must be no mesh collisions, and still look cool. However, if i wont make it there'll be two versions, terran and vasudan cocpit.

[Commander Zane]

That'll be sweet, only problem is all the Vasudan fighters / bombers are going to need two versions, that'll probably be annoying on the campaign when it comes to editing them.

[Qent]

Yes, that sounds a bit too complicated to justify. I would say either make it black or just make him a Vasudan and don't worry about it.

[Woolie Wool]

The Starfury pilot stands instead of sits.

Granted the pilot is strapped in upright, but on the other hand in zero-g there is no such thing as standing or sitting in the first place

That doesn't make sense. A human being positioned on a horizontal surface with the thighs pointing out horizontally can be described as "seated" and a human being upright with feet flat against a floor can be described as "standing" even if they're strapped in that way. Standing and sitting are postures, and even if they're maintained artificially they're still postures.