[niffiwan]

wut?  Chunky & primitive looking?



I think it's just you

[Flak]

I mean just the shape, it is sure not the pieces of junk those Nordera pillagers ever was.

[Darius]

I see the head and tail end of a taiidani with a splash of hiigaran body.

And the text position is definitely not changing. I did notice ships.tbl has a cockpit offset feature, maybe shifting it down a bit might help with visibility.

[qwadtep]

I feel sorry for Draco pilots now, though. That cockpit placement reminds me of the Valkyrie's sensor subsystem, except the sensors are your face. Suicide Kings are going to have a higher turnover rate than Simms.

[Mars]

It's beautiful.

EDIT:

Holy crap - it's huge! Not a problem in and of itself, but I think " the heavier Kentauroi" might not be so accurate.

[Phantom Hoover]

Huh? Aesaar was always going on about how much smaller its target profile was than the Kent while he was making it.

[Mars]

[Phantom Hoover]

AESAAR how many LIES have you told us

[Mars]

Although, playing with it a bit, I suspect the scale is to prevent it from being an all out cheat. The Draco she flies well.


Hey, did you release a HUD icon for it as well

[Phantom Hoover]

Note that the Draco's shield mesh is still going to be significantly narrower than the Kent's, since those wings at the side don't take damage and poke outside the shield.

[Aesaar]

I said it was about the size of an Uhlan.  Which it is.   Wings have the "carry no damage" flag as well, so they don't count.



And no, I think Esarai still has the HUD icon, but he didn't give it to me.

And the inspiration for the fighter came from this piece of concept art, from an old Homeworld redesign thread on Relicnews.

[crizza]

I'm once again in love with your designs

[Flak]

Oh I see, it is a Taiidan interceptor with the odd asymmetric side gun removed and made more streamlined.

[General Battuta]

No it isn't.

[MatthTheGeek]

ttuta wat.

Flak is talking about the concept art pic. It definitely is.

[crizza]

Yeah...this topic has not been posted in for almost five full months, but I'm pretty sure.
I know, people have a real life and so on, but is Aesaar still working on the ships or has he focused his attention to other projects?
For the record: It is not my intention so sound rude or demanding in any way, I'm just curious.

[Aesaar]

The Erebus/Raynor is in the BP SVN right now.  Public release is just being held up by me being too lazy to finish the debris and lods.  It'll happen, but not in October.  Got a bunch of schoolwork due at the start of November.

[crizza]

Thx for the information dude.
Good to know you're still working on them, but take your time, real life comes first 

[VPR]

Hi, noticed that the Draco model doesn't seem to be working with the current release using 3.7.2 RC3 and causes Fs2 to crash out on load up. I've attached a fs2_open log.

[attachment kidnapped by pirates]

[AdmiralRalwood]

The table files included with these downloads use a feature of deferred lighting builds not present in the normal releases. You don't need them with Blue Planet, though, since the Draco is present in the mod's tables already.