Ships and stuff

[Zarix]

Well, I haven't been playing Space Empires for almost 2 years now. I have been thinking to start 3d modeling again so SE4 shipset would be a good thing to start with. I have dug up few old ideas. (http://www.hut.fi/~kvlehton/ships.jpg) What is the one you think I should start working on? Maybe I will join a PBW game when I get this done.

[Raging Deadstar]

Now they are cool.

I'm incredibly drawn to both ships on the left. Very unique stuff, I haven't seen many shipsets anything like those http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[TerranC]

I like the top left one; looks very sophisticated.

[kerensky]

I like the two on the left and the bottom right one. Very cool looking ships.

[AgentZero]

I'd have to say the top left would be my favourite, followed by bottom left. I'd say larger versions of the top right could get very interesting as well...

[Kamog]

I like the top left one as well. Very original and unusual-looking design! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Ragnarok-X]

Wow, all are pretty awesome. I like the top both, especially the left one. I dont like the bottom left one, it looks to me like a heart and i dont like that as a spaceship.

[Raging Deadstar]

Ragnarok-X said:
Wow, all are pretty awesome. I like the top both, especially the left one. I dont like the bottom left one, it looks to me like a heart and i dont like that as a spaceship.



A Hippy shipset! "We Come In peace! No, Really!"

[Zarix]

Thanks for the comments everyone. Here (http://www.hut.fi/~kvlehton/ships2.jpg) are some more pics developed from the metallic looking ship. They turned out pretty good but are there too much details in them? After all 128*128 is not very large area.

[Captain Kwok]

The last set of ships is nice, although you may want to add some sort of glowy colour thing where their "mouths" are. Moray / Pov-Ray?

[Gandalf Parker]

I think all 4 of the original pic were worthy of being turned into a complete set.

The heart looking one even. It might be built up around some organic, diplomatic, sickeningly peace-corp race that the war-mongers would simply love to stumble across.
Maybe as one of the single-system AIs. After all, we have SO MANY available now but there are still some extreme variants we can fill in so everything doesnt feel the same. Hmmm a cuddly-bunny race whose survival is based on high-population, high spread, and colonizing nearly everything.
Can they fire colored eggs at us? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif (j/k)

[Ed Kolis]

They look like something out of S!SG... go for it! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Zarix]

Making ships seems to be more fun then I remembered. I made a less friendly looking version of the heart ship.
http://www.hut.fi/~kvlehton/ships3.jpg

[Zarix]

I have used only Pov-Ray when making these. I like to handcode stuff.

[XenoTheMorph]

All of these prototypes are interesting, though for the original 4 the lower right is quite 'conventional' http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

I like your expansion for the machine ships and the less transparent killer heart ship is nice http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif , would it still be possible to have an 'inside' slightly visible in it though?

Well done! Your ships have lots of promise. It is a shame that they look to high poly for SEV http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Fyron]

Zarix said:
Making ships seems to be more fun then I remembered. I made a less friendly looking version of the heart ship.

Very nice. This needs a shipset developed! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[kerensky]

For the metallic shipset (the one you've expanded on), maybe you could add some variation across the hulls in the form of different shadings or features, unless that is how you want them to look. Just a thought.

[Fyron]

Oh and Zarix, now that you have returned, any chance of updating your Image Mod mirror?

http://koti.mbnet.fi/lehtkl/imagemod.htm

[Zarix]

Imperator Fyron said:
Oh and Zarix, now that you have returned, any chance of updating your Image Mod mirror?




It is now updated. I hope I got the versions right. Planetpack 11c should be the latest?

[Fyron]

Did you not update the links? I didn't see any changes. All of the currently listed files are outdated, and the Events pack is missing. The latest versions are on:

http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/MM/SE4/imagemod/

Also, you might want to update the listing of mirrors, also based on the mirros linked to by that same page.

[Zarix]

I did update it. Are you sure you aren't looking a browser history copy? I checked the page in my schools computer and it shows the new one.

[Fyron]

Ah, there it goes. Silly me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Hmm... where did you get planet pack 11c? I only see 11b on the rest of the mirrors?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Like the ships.

[CovertJaguar]

Very nice. Don't much like the green one, but the rest have potential. Like the new transparent one. Perhaps could be another energy race for Fyron's Adamant Mod.

[Atrocities]

I really like the less friendly Heart ship design. Looks just mean as hell.

[Zarix]

Imperator Fyron said:
Hmm... where did you get planet pack 11c? I only see 11b on the rest of the mirrors?



In SJ's miror it reads Planet v11 B but the downloads are planetpack11c.rar, planetpack11c.zip and planetpack10to11c.zip. Version C has more planets them B so I took it.