[IceFire]

Its not apocalyptic if thats what you want to know.  The GTVA has barely even seen the Shivans for 50 years....and the last encounter they had was miniscule.  So essentially the GTVA has been almost conflict free for 50+ years so stuff is pretty bright and shiny.  Advanced as hell and very efficient and clean.

Thunder, I'm sure your comments could be useful.  My document is not yet set in stone...so comments from everyone who see's it will be useful.

I'll be getting an internal setup shortly and permissions assigned.  Almost 90% sure it will be at the VWBB so get an account if you don't already have one...although if this becomes really community oriented we may have public discussion in more than one spot.

[Thorn]

If you want it just shout.. I have others....

[IceFire]

Its cool...but not exactly fitting of anything that I can think of...stylistically of the ships I have down.

[Alikchi]

A bit too heavily Terran? Angular?

[Thorn]

Hmm... I'll dig out some of my other ones.....

[IceFire]

Yeah...too angular for the smooth edged Terran ships of 80 years later GTVA.  Codedog suggests that the look im after be called almost "corporate" in style.

Weapons pods are visible on that ship as well...cool features...but not the internal, smooth edged idea im after.

[Raven2001]

Ah, now I know what kind of stuff you want... I'll work on something to see if you like it

Just wait a week or so

[aldo_14]

Smooth?

Is this close to it?




('tis a wee bit old - a few months I think -but I think this is me favourite )

Actually, I've nevr tried for anything 'shiny' before... mostly it's dark and had the utter **** battered out of it

[Black Wolf]

Jesus, Aldo. How many of these amazingly sweet ships do you have?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Black Wolf
Jesus, Aldo. How many of these amazingly sweet ships do you have?

um..lemme see.

Berserker, Ymir, Svalin, Alves (debatable), Deadelus, Aurora, Phoebus, Skadi.

'bout 8 IIRc, excluding a few capital ships as well.

[Silver_Scythe]

I can do weapons for yeah. Just tell me what you need.
Work have done already: Mass Driver (LONG range high mass high energy takeup fires every 10 seconds high damage)
Plasma HP-1 (Special issue  weapon only carried by very light ships. Very high fire rate quick energy drain medium damage, very dangerous {thats why only little ships can carry it, to balence it out unless you want a weapon that kills ships very quickly [including the player] }) Fusion cannon (VERY high damage slow shots, huge energy drain, leaves plasma trail {missile trail added to it}) Erm running out of room for the others. Well anyway I can do weapons.

[Alikchi]

Originally posted by aldo_14

'bout 8 IIRc, excluding a few capital ships as well.

Well..damn. >_<

[IceFire]

Silver_Scythe: I've got weapons covered...I am table manager for three projects

aldo: I would say that ship is the anti-thesis of the smooth look.  The guns are massivel exposed and so are the major components.  The smooth part is the cockpit/main body which is probably too smooth for my tastes as well (hard to please ).

That all being said...I LOVE the quality and attention to detail!  Well done!  Furthermore, you have captured the FreeSpace look perfectly

[aldo_14]

How's this one...










(bout 45 mins work I think...concept did look better IMO)

180 degres smoothing applied... I figure it'd sort of be Perseus replacement, but better armed.  The 2 things under the cockpit were s'posed to be laser pods, but I'm not sure if the version without looks better.....I'm just fiddling, but if I have an idea of the style I can tailor designs to meet the sort of operaitonal capabilities, etc, you want.

[Fineus]

I reckon you should keep the laser pods - the front neck/cockpit is really smooth so the extra detail of the pods adds a certain something (and makes it more "real"... the pods would take up that much space). Looks funky though

[IceFire]

Now your getting it!  Aldo...I'll PM you something to have a look at so you can perhaps start to get a good take on things...but thats definately the idea!

[an0n]

Its a Shadow Perseus.

[IceFire]

Yeah...we'll have to try and get that part out of it

[Fineus]

Seems simple enough - remove the spikes points and flatten them off a fair amount, straighten off the claw like spikes at the bottom of the ship....the rest should take care of itself (though it's hard to say without seeing it in game).

Oh, thread stuck.

[CODEDOG ND]

I'd say that is what the "corporate look should look like.


*Adds Aldo to ICQ List*