Idea - Ship/Station parts pack

[Prophet]

When creating new ships and stations it can often be very time consuming, modeling each part, arranging them, texturing etc.

Many other games have builders/creators with a library of parts to choose and you simply have to attach them. Pre made engines, weapons, wings, hulls all pre made.

Textures are another problem, when attempting to make a station that looks similar to the Teraton stations it can be very frustrating trying to mimic the unique colours and style of a pre-existing graphic.


My idea was to create a mesh pack with ship and station parts and some textures to make ship building fast, easy and fun.

I'm interested to see how much support this project would get and how many people would be interested. If anyone has any meshes that they would like to share and have them included it would be very much appreciated.

What file format would be useable by most modelers?
What image format is most widely useable?

[digdug]

This is a very good idea to let people with beginner modeling skills to make ships and expand the game !

What file format would be useable by most modelers?
What image format is most widely useable?

I think that the universal format is 3DS. nearly any software can import or export using that.

[Arisaya]

I might be releasing a texture pack soon... lots of the 'textures' are actually photographs, but in transcendence, they work quite well!

[Ttech]

I might be releasing a texture pack soon... lots of the 'textures' are actually photographs, but in transcendence, they work quite well!

Photographs?

Make sure you got licensing correct.

[Arisaya]

Umm... those are my photographs... (I'm releasing them under CC+accreditation, so do whatever you want with 'em, just give me due credit)