Concept Work

[Atrocities]

These are just a concept for a new race.

http://www.astmod.com/concept/attack.BMP http://www.astmod.com/concept/attackm.BMP
http://www.astmod.com/concept/attack2.BMP http://www.astmod.com/concept/attack2m.BMP

Red is nice.

[ February 12, 2004, 05:00: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[PvK]

Looks good!

PvK

[Atrocities]

thanks.

[Katchoo]

Spiffy!

I like the blue scheme more myself since it shows off the etching on the top of the hull (wing joints) much better than the red models. Maybe they can be an offshoot Race for the Starwolf Clan?

[Atrocities]

I have not decided yet. The ship designs are an offshoot of the new Romulan ships I made for the STM mod, but this design was in play before I used a cusin of it for the Romulans. I just recolored it and spiffed it up a tad for something to do.

I am thinking about making another machine race. I am thinking of calling them the Centurions.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

very good ships.

but and i'm just asking, why do you almost always put wings on?

[Fyron]

Because they look cooler sometimes! Imagine what those ships would look like without wings... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[Paul1980au]

Without wings now there is an idea to pursue.

[Fyron]

These particular ships would look pretty silly without wings...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

yes, however, most of his ships have wings and i was wondering why.

[Kamog]

Maybe the wings are for taking off and landing on a planet with an atmosphere.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i just had a thought: how would you land on a planet with no atmosphere? it may actually be harder.

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
very good ships.

but and i'm just asking, why do you almost always put wings on? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"> Originally posted by Kamog:
Maybe the wings are for taking off and landing on a planet with an atmosphere. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"><font color=red>They are not wings!</font>

[ February 12, 2004, 07:54: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[primitive]

He’s baaack !!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Very nice AT. Love the red one (can never be to many colored shipsets)

[primitive]

Double post

[ February 12, 2004, 07:55: Message edited by: primitive ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
very good ships.

but and i'm just asking, why do you almost always put wings on? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"> Originally posted by Kamog:
Maybe the wings are for taking off and landing on a planet with an atmosphere. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"><font color=red>They are not wings!</font> </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">then what are they?

[Atrocities]

http://www.astmod.com/concept/CenturionPort.BMP http://www.astmod.com/concept/Centurion.BMP

[Atrocities]

Narf they are not wings.

[oleg]

Originally posted by Kamog:
Maybe the wings are for taking off and landing on a planet with an atmosphere. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">To radiate the exess heat from the reactor/engine - in space there is no other way to cool your ship and no energy source is 100% efficient.

All future spacecraft will have some sort of wing-shape structures. Just take a look on the NASA concept nuclear-powered probe for Jupiter/Saturn survey !

[Ragnarok]

Nice work, AT! I like the blue one the best; it just looks meaner then the red one does. And if it is going to be a machine race would be more fitting, IMO. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[gregebowman]

AT, I like those pictures. Keep to the red. I think we have enough gun-metal grey ships as it is.

[Atrocities]

http://www.astmod.com/concept/cen1.PNG http://www.astmod.com/concept/cen1m.PNG
http://www.astmod.com/concept/cen2.PNG http://www.astmod.com/concept/cen2m.PNG

[ February 12, 2004, 16:40: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Atrocities]

http://www.astmod.com/concept/cen1port.PNG
http://www.astmod.com/concept/cen2b.PNG http://www.astmod.com/concept/cen1bm.PNG
http://www.astmod.com/concept/cen2b.PNG http://www.astmod.com/concept/cen2bm.PNG

[ February 12, 2004, 16:40: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Fyron]

I suggest you just make 2 variations of the race, one red and one blue, so everybody is happy.

[Ragnarok]

I agree with Fyron. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

If you order the ships in numbers as </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">1 2
3 4</pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Then ship 3/4 (same one) I think the main capsule is a little small in relation to the rest of the ship. But I still like the ships very much. I look forward to the rest of the images.

[Atrocities]

That is a side effect of the resizing, when I render for real I will compensate.

[David E. Gervais]

Really nice ships AT, now, if the forward pod in your Last ships was a fighter that could detach it would be nifty. In fact, make copies of the pod and put 3-4 back to back as a fighter carrier.

Again, nice work. (hmmm, I still ave some rusty paint left over don't make them too shiny or I might spray them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ) LOL

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
Really nice ships AT, now, if the forward pod in your Last ships was a fighter that could detach it would be nifty. In fact, make copies of the pod and put 3-4 back to back as a fighter carrier.

Again, nice work. (hmmm, I still ave some rusty paint left over don't make them too shiny or I might spray them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ) LOL

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's what we need! Graffitti!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Can you imagine you're about to launch into battle, and some gangbanger has spray-painted your shiny ship with some gang slogan? Hey, I just had an idea. Maybe someone can mod that for a sabotage/espionage type of thing, in which morale can be affected by graffitti.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*when you eat your shipy's, do you eat the red ones Last?*

i like the red ones better.

[Katchoo]

Ya gotta use a lighter color so the details on the hull can stand out more.

How about pale yellows, light browns, or cammoflage greens?

David's idea for the Carrier sounds good aswell.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Atrocities]

The problem is the POD is actually the same size for all things, (The resizing of a ship made the pod smaller on one.) from the race through the largest ship. So I guess the larger the ship, the smaller the pod will look. (Although this one was by accident it did make me think.) Tenatively that is, as I really don't know if I will ever complete this set.


Right now it is all just very conceptual.

You know, robots building robots and such.