3D Model Showroom

Gibbon wrote:
Some of you might remember the grandfather of all space games (looks at ST) called ELITE.

Good project Gibbon, nostalgic - darn right, still play it now and then for light relief.

With regard to later comments: this was the first great space fighting and trading game, and ran on a BBC Micro. The ships were simple wireframe sprites, flat shaded.

So stop mocking peoples’ efforts, you dissing young wet-behind-the-ears plebs!

Timmy - shame on you - change your monicker to Timmy34M - thought it was your age and gave you too much cred - no longer will I take your comments literally.

Just watching a bit of snookah - someone can’t decide between the pink or the brown - reminds me of an old bad joke about a bisexual snookerist! rofl!

Arh, the “good old days”

Btw Gibbon this will be an Elite ship pack only or it will contain ships from Frontier too? points at Imperial Courier, Trader and Panther Clipper Frak I am so excited This pack will be too great to believe

This will be an ELITE ship pack only. Models i have so far are these

Adder
Anaconda
Cobra Mk. I
Cobra Mk.III
Coriolis Station
Fer de Lance
Krait
Moray Starboat
Python
Sidewinder
Thargoid Mothership + tharglets
Viper
Viper Interceptor

I’m still missing a bunch and hopefully these will be supplied to me for conversion…

concepting a new sort of capital ship for the Nomads this idea came to me. how do you like it?
i’d be ready to share, just pm me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dG-YvextU0

Awsome idea, but I think it would be more logic if the wings will fold for a reason, like cruising. You should do same thing with the other colonies’ ships if you got the idea of animating. I still cannot understand it right…

well, problem is i can’t trigger the animation via cruise right now. the plugins active in New Universe and FW:ToW were about to be released but there is unfortunately no more news on it. i have made a few animations for that purpose yet the triggering is what remains now.
however, when i once in far future start working on cutscenes for a custom storyline, they for sure will contain this one, too.

Gibbon wrote:
This will be an ELITE ship pack only. Models i have so far are these

Adder
Anaconda
Cobra Mk. I
Cobra Mk.III
Coriolis Station
Fer de Lance
Krait
Moray Starboat
Python
Sidewinder
Thargoid Mothership + tharglets
Viper
Viper Interceptor

I’m still missing a bunch and hopefully these will be supplied to me for conversion…

Asp Explorer, Constrictor, Gecko, Mamba, Transporter, Boa, Worm and Shuttle is missing but anyway good luck with this project

@ Kuze

I now have all those plus a few more

Not bad, Gisteron, it even looks better with the spikes folded than the original one.

thank you

StarTrader wrote:

Timmy - shame on you - change your monicker to Timmy34M - thought it was your age and gave you too much cred - no longer will I take your comments literally.

About time you nutter. I’ve been telling you all not to take much of what I say too seriously for a long time now. First PC I bought for myself was an Alienware Area51m, first of three before I started to build my own, as such, it spawned Timmy51m.

Gibbon wrote:
@ Kuze

I now have all those plus a few more

nice one. where did you (or the mesh author) get the inspiration from?

No clue where he got the mesh inspiration. We were wanting to break away from the vanilla precident on all of the house ships. After years of seeing Liberty (bird like models), Bretonian (fish like models), and whatnot… we wanted to do a change up and make ships that actually look high tech.

Regarding the texture, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with the wings. However, I wanted to do a texture similar to his “Vengeance” ship line but make the armor consist of plates similar to his original texture. Overall, I’m happy with it, I just need to get faster at this… it took over 20hrs to re-UV map and create the textures for it.

Off topic: Here is a picture of a “heavier” ship in this replacement line whose texture has not been redone (and is currently utilizing the liberty mat).

i didn’t even use any UV maps. too much time waste and with the program i use you can apply textures as procedural though rotate them, scale and strech them and translate them to any position you want.
if i want e.g. multiple rectangular shapes (on the model) to have the same symbol, i duplicate the material and later on in milkshape point to one and the same and the game does the rest just fine.
its cool that the ingame materials only define how they look like, not where on the model they should apply in which way.
however as a note i do all mat files manually… nonetheless its faster than UV mapping with the poor skills i have^^

We were wanting to break away from the vanilla precident on all of the house ships. After years of seeing Liberty (bird like models), Bretonian (fish like models), and whatnot… we wanted to do a change up and make ships that actually look high tech.

Agree. Vanilla FL is a nice thing, but it is old. After all the years the majority of the vanilla-based mods have the same ships with same design elements, but what looked so cool back in '03, looks odd nowadays. IMHO today ships like the ones in EVE or BL are much more modern and I strongly agree with you Forsaken, that they needs to be made more cutting edge and sophisticated.

BTW great ship. It is a scout or interceptor?

Good looking model, reminds me of a colonial viper with the tail cut off. I agree some new ‘vanilla’ designs should come through. Original ships are a bit old hat for my taste these days….(shuffles off back to his modding shed)

well, to me the vanilla designs still are totally great. i’d rather prefer some updates to them, such as mancer did (e.g. thinner wings on the defender), maybe some more detail and slickness. but the shapes are really good imo.