Making new ship images- need gfx help

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Arisaya
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mmm, well, title says it all...
what 3d program did you use george?
export settings and such would be nice.
atm, all i've got is a rough model and some sketches. (i can't even texture)

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Here are some (untextured) 3D models of 2 versions of the ship i whipped up in the last 20 mins

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I like the second one better.
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F50 wrote:I like the second one better.
yeah, the first i think is too similar in layout to the station.
this weekend i'll be making more models, including:
a teraton battlepod*
a teraton freighter
a teraton heavy defence ship
a teraton gunship
a teraton seige ship*

*these two ships are for the destructive chaos faction "teraton raiders" who go around attempting to destroy other teraton settlements. The seige ship is incredibly rare though.

also:

a commonwealth dreadnaught? (maybe)
a ringer cellship/gunship
a ringer superfreighter
a luminous light attack pod
a luminous heavy drone
a luminous drone destroyer
a luminous dreadnaught

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I've got plans for a ringer dreadnaught, but i don't know it it's doable.
I'll see what else i can come up with.
I'll see if i can post some concept art for the above ships (not garanteeing the ringer dreadnaught) tomm.
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What kind of help did you need with it? Texturing? I can probably help you in that area.

What kind of texture were you thinking? WHen you first posted this this I started to play around with the idea but forgot about it - I was playing with procedural textures in Blender to try and replicate something similar to the teraton station's mottly, multi colored bumpy thing and I think that is very possible.

This thread has all the lighting and camera positions:
http://www.neurohack.com/transcendence/ ... c.php?t=30

EDIT: I think a good way to differentiate the first design (which I like) might be to add struts connecting the outer pods - making a sort of triangle shape.
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some quick sketches:

commonwealth dreadnaught- based off of aquila design. armed with many light weapons, less armor than a CSC but more firepower.
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luminous destroyer
armed with a pair of heavy ion blasters. heavier armor and shields than normal luminous drones.
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luminous leviathan
armed with 4 omnidirectional ion blasters. Has its own version of luminous armor and a single type of shield (though it's quite powerful)
If you kill one, your fight still isn't over. It's scripted to send a large wave of assorted luminous craft after you.
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luminous heavy drone
armed with a single IM90 and heavy luminous armor and shields
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luminous pod
armed with an omnidirectional ion blaster and regular luminous armor
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ringer cellship
four flavors, each using the same image. all use diamond latice armor and a Mammoth 25. The variations in weapons are:
1)Zero Point cannon (modded)
2)Ares Archcannon
3)Korybdia Archcannon (modded)
4)omnidirection ion blaster
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ringer superfreighter
armed with a pair of ares archcannons and armored with diamond latice armor and a Mammoth 32. Comes with an escort of several cell ships to prevent exploiting. Also has an "on death" event causing Centaurions and cellships to pursue the player.
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teraton pod
armed with a lighter kytryn blaster varient and protected by light teraton bio plates, the teraton pod is used by the destructive chaos group teraton raiders which launch attacks on various stations.
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teraton superdefender
this ship can be seen gaurding teraton stations. It's armed with 6 full power kytryn blasters as well as a Korybdia Archcannon. It's well defended against plasma weapons.
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teraton freighter
a small ship seen both use as a friendly trader's ship or in use by looters who raid wrecks of teraton stations.
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teraton gunship
occasionally seen gaurding teraton stations, this ship is armed with a light kytryn blaster and a plasma drill.
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teraton seigeship
a behemoth used by the raiders to kill teraton superdefenders and stations. It's armed with two full power kytryn blasters for defence against small ships as well as a pair of seige cannons dealing massive amounts of thermonuclear damage (teraton armor that i've modded is weak against thermo). Seen rarely.
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OddBob wrote:What kind of help did you need with it? Texturing? I can probably help you in that area.

What kind of texture were you thinking? WHen you first posted this this I started to play around with the idea but forgot about it - I was playing with procedural textures in Blender to try and replicate something similar to the teraton station's mottly, multi colored bumpy thing and I think that is very possible.

This thread has all the lighting and camera positions:
http://www.neurohack.com/transcendence/ ... c.php?t=30

EDIT: I think a good way to differentiate the first design (which I like) might be to add struts connecting the outer pods - making a sort of triangle shape.
uh yeah, something kinda like that. the teraton things are more orangy green with red/orange veins running across them though.
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