a BDZ in action

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2004-04-12 06:36pm

http://gallery.scifi-meshes.com/showpho ... photo=1686

Found this at Scifi-Meshes. Pretty cool.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-04-12 06:40pm

Meh, so-so, really...

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-04-12 07:48pm

I think it's kewl, but the fireballs need more of a blinding white or even bluish tint to them, say, make the color temperature 9KC instead of the apparent 1.5KC (flat white is about 9KC) fireball color.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-04-12 07:54pm

Strange it looks like its the whole continent of africa that is being BDZ

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2004-04-12 07:58pm

Montclam, why is Jolie wearing that uniform?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-04-12 08:00pm

It's her character in the upcoming film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-04-12 08:00pm

Pretty nice. I've been working on one of those myself, but I can't seem to find a good background planet, and my turbolaser blasts look craptastic.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-04-12 08:13pm

Looks good to me. I especially like the "The Price of Defiance" caption.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-04-12 08:15pm

Montcalm wrote:Strange it looks like its the whole continent of africa that is being BDZ

The visible coast looks like Africa, but there's a giant fireball where an ocean should be off in the lower right, which means that it's not Earth.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-04-13 02:21am

I'd like to see a veritable stream of green, but that's still a damn fine picture.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-04-13 05:37am

Impressive picture. The first BDZ I've seen.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-13 09:01am

I'd like to see multiple B-wing squadrons moving in just to make things interesting, but that's just me.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2004-04-13 09:11am

Comosicus wrote:Impressive picture. The first BDZ I've seen.

If you play Knights of the Old Republic, you see a version of the BDZ when one Sith battleship obliterates the surface of Taris. A tad underpowered compared to later Imperial methods, but still neat to watch the rain of turbolaser fire.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-04-13 09:24am

It's pretty but seriously for a BDZ I expect honestly a lot more in the way of explosions on the ground given what the ISD fires out.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-04-13 09:25am

Lagmonster wrote:
Comosicus wrote:Impressive picture. The first BDZ I've seen.
If you play Knights of the Old Republic, you see a version of the BDZ when one Sith battleship obliterates the surface of Taris. A tad underpowered compared to later Imperial methods, but still neat to watch the rain of turbolaser fire.

There will be some time until such a view (need a new computer for that).

EDIT: fixed typo

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-04-13 10:32am

Ghost Rider wrote:It's pretty but seriously for a BDZ I expect honestly a lot more in the way of explosions on the ground given what the ISD fires out.

well there's always episode III...... i hope......

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2004-04-13 01:38pm

Well it's nice, i guess

I expected a BDZ to be more...fireballish. I always thought it'd look something like what the Drej mothership did to Earth in Titan A.E, but without th whole planet exploding. Like cracks forming on the surface and jets of magma shooting spaceward, and a screen of fire turning the planet slowly coal black, then nothing but a lifeless cinder, like Apokalips from the DCU, with big jets of fire coming out

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-04-13 01:46pm

A BDZ is actually a lot less cartoonish than that.

Here's a fairly well-known example of a Victory-class Star Destroyer performing a Base Delta Zero:
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/cards/ ... ictory.jpg

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2004-04-13 01:55pm

Uh, Spanky, that showed a pic of a huge jet of fire shooting out of the planet's atmosphere

It was closer to what i said...

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-04-13 02:15pm

Perhaps. Your description seemed a bit more embellished, though...

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2004-04-13 02:22pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Perhaps. Your description seemed a bit more embellished, though...

Yeah, well then never read pulp sci-fi, they use more adjitives to describe a sucker punch than i used to describe a planet exploding

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-04-13 02:26pm

I have, actually.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2004-04-13 05:10pm

Its great! But I would have liked to see some more booms and fire.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2004-04-14 09:25am

Cool. But where are the cracking tectonic plates?

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-04-17 04:57am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Cool. But where are the cracking tectonic plates?

Anyway it looks like it just started. Not enough smoke and fireballs. Maybe they just layed a first barrage to wipe the surface and the crust craking volley should come later.

Lagmonster wrote:If you play Knights of the Old Republic, you see a version of the BDZ when one Sith battleship obliterates the surface of Taris. A tad underpowered compared to later Imperial methods, but still neat to watch the rain of turbolaser fire.

Actually I seem to remeber something simillar from the trailer.