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"They are one of the most ruthless lifeforms in the cosmos"
The Doctor

I am offically announcing my personal mod for Freespace 2, Dalek Invasion. This mod will attempt to bring the Dalek race from the 50 year old TV series Doctor Who into the Freespace universe. At the moment i am working alone, mainly for the fact i want to learn the ways of modding of Freespace myself. This mod will probably take a long time to do as i am working on it myself.

What i want to do with this mod is bring in 3 fleets to the FS universe

1 Imperial Daleks
2 Renegade/Original Daleks
3 Cybermen(maybe)

Also going to start of with a small 5 mission campaign and see how that goes, as i have seen modders try and make 30 odd missions and they never get that far.

Storyline is still being worked on. I have also a few ideas for Dalek ships and for fighters and bombers. An idea that popped into my head was to use the daleks on their hoverbouts to act as fighters and swarm enemy ships, while Special weapon Daleks would be a form of bomber.

This is a personal project for me on how to get my own models into freespace 2, and brush up on my modelling, texturing and most importantly to learn. So far i have managed to get the Imperial Dalek shuttlecraft ingame. Yes the model is pretty basic but that is the offical design of the ship. i have also made variations of them to give the Daleks a proper fleet. Not sure how long it will take me as i am doing this by myself.

*UPDATE 11 sept* Video of Aggressor class in action against the UEF from Blueplanet. Video shows of crusier and custom weapons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n21W-5r6PGo

So here is the shuttle ingame, has subsystems etc


The Imperial Dalek cruiser, Aggressor class



So constructive feeback is welcome

[Lorric]

Oh, yes!

I very much wish you luck with this!

[starbug]

Thanks i'm going to need it!

[Lorric]

Thanks i'm going to need it!

You're welcome.

Yes, you'll need it. Especially the part where when you've finished you'll have to get away from the Daleks before they exterminate you, since you'll be no longer of any use to them.

[starbug]

Haha true, The biggest problem i am having and i pray to god the Dalek Supreme doesnt hear me lol   is that most of the tutorials for ship making, exporting texturing etc are for blender and its tough trying to figure out the 3ds max equivalents. Which is slowling down the process.

[starbug]

Well that's the Imperial Daleks now got a cruiser, Aggressor Class(see first post for pics). Based off the Imperial Shuttle. Yes it is basic in shape but i am keeping in line with the Daleks way of building as they have no concept of elegance or aesthetics, but it is based on functionality.

PS before anyone asks i wont be adding the Tardis, doesn't really have a role in the FS universe.

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Video of Cruiser in action added to first post http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n21W-5r6PGo

[Lorric]

Honestly, it doesn't feel right, this created ship of yours. Yes, the shuttle is like the real thing, but the Daleks seem to favour the saucer design for their actual spaceships:

http://www.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/dalek/spaceships/

[starbug]

Yeah but when i get to putting the renegade Daleks in, they will have the saucers. None of the Imperial Dalek ships seen are saucer shaped and the original concept art have the imperials designs boxy and sharp edges. I will be putting in Saucers but as i said they will be for the Renegade Dalek Faction.

[Lorric]

Alright. I don't know much about old Who. But the Daleks do fascinate me so I've looked into the old stuff a bit and only really seen the saucer design still there, so that's why it didn't feel right.

[starbug]

Yeah the dalek ship designs over the classic series has varied from story to story, the only story's to actually use the saucer design are dalek invasion of earth and death to the daleks. In rememberance I the daleks they went in a different direction for the imperial daleks. It's only been since the series returned in 2005 that the daleks had a consistent ship design, which i will be using for the renegade daleks.

[Scooby_Doo]

Well there goes the universe LOL

[starbug]

UPDATE 23/9/13: Been working on the title screen of the mod and heres a quick test shot


Also been working a dreadnaught class vessel, heres some work in progress shots, could do some feedback please.

[Lorric]

That's a niiiiice title screen!