Alien Battleship WIP

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-08-14 03:19pm

Still kind of looks like a mish-mash...

dworkin · Post by **dworkin** » 2003-08-16 06:10am

Looks like something the Tandu (The BEMs in the Uplift books) would use. Just as dangerous to the crew as their enemies, but then the Tandu were nutters.

The Tandu were heavy users of probability travel (like the Dune 'traveling without moving' trick) which apparently needs wierd flanges and spikes to disperse excess probability and if the ship survives the jump it then has a few moments to blast the crap out of whoever it suprised. Most races don't use probability travel as there is a good chance of the ship exploding, going somewhere else or something equally dreadful.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-08-20 09:11pm

The first version reminds me of a Kra' Hen ship from Imperium Galactica II

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-08-20 10:19pm

It offends all my senses of asethics to have those three prongs be the front of the ship...

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-08-21 02:41am

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-08-21 04:09am

Excellent ship Shinova!

Shinova wrote:The front:

<SNIP>

Front? I see engine bells. 7 of em.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-08-21 04:15am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Excellent ship Shinova!

Shinova wrote:The front:

<SNIP>
Front? I see engine bells. 7 of em.

Those are guns, Einhander. Seven HUGE guns.

It is a battleship/dreadnaught after all.

EDIT: The ship's propelled by an inertia/massless drive.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-08-21 05:50am

Get some bump on those textures (a veeeery smal amount) and forget close up shos, unless you're going to detail the hull (as in, modelling the cell shapes, instead of using textures).
The glows could be toned down a tad, just enough for the whole ship to be seen better, they swamp the shapes too much.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-08-21 01:25pm

Warspite wrote:Get some bump on those textures (a veeeery smal amount) and forget close up shos, unless you're going to detail the hull (as in, modelling the cell shapes, instead of using textures).
The glows could be toned down a tad, just enough for the whole ship to be seen better, they swamp the shapes too much.

It has a bump.

Close up shots: I've gotten that commentary all around so I'll remember that one.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-08-21 01:31pm

Shinova wrote: It has a bump.

Ah, right... OK, now onto the lighting rig.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-08-21 03:07pm

Shinova, you just destroyed my eyeballs.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-08-21 04:54pm

kojikun wrote:Shinova, you just destroyed my eyeballs.

Yoiu're welcome.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-08-21 09:51pm

If I were an enemy gunner I wouldn't be able to look at it long enough to aim. It's a bit loud. But then it is an alien ship.