BSG Fleet (Download)

[Atrocities]

I posted some images I made a while back but never got around to showing any one over on SE.net. If you enjoy Battlestar Galactica, original series, then take a look. Here is the link. (http://www.spaceempires.net/home/ftopicp-6565.html#6565)

Opinions welcome.

[Xrati]

I posted on SE Net and feel that the battlestars are self contained ships and not fleet elements. They are their own escorts and project their firepower through the Vipers. To put them in SEIV you'll need to create ships as fleet elements. The second ship from the top appears to fit as a basic design of other fleet elements and support ships.

[Atrocities]

Thanks Xrati, that is a very good point. I don't know how I am going to tackle this one yet. I might just make a standard set and let people choose how they want to use the ships. Really the only way to use this set the way it is used in the shows is to create a mod for it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Nice play on the basic shape.

[Atrocities]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Nice play on the basic shape.



Actually those are ships that have already been designed. Not sure of the class names though.

[Xrati]

You could shorten the nose section and narrow mid section leaving the engines as need for ship class. So it would look like the 2nd pic, but with a smaller nose, thin mid section and whatever amount of engines you think would accommodate the class. Just like the Federation ships are all from a base concept of saucer section, main body (mid ship) section and warp nacelles.

In an actual concept of that fleet, I would think that the escorts would carry fighters that would act as the CAP while a strike force of Vipers was on an attack run. So all the ships in the fleet might have some capacity to launch or recover vipers for refuel or repair purposes.

[TurinTurambar]

I can see this fleet being usable in the Carrier Battles Mod, but not too many other places. Unless you just like the looks of the ships and wanna use them for your race of course. They certainly are beautiful and well made as usual!

What would be ideal of course, would be SJ writing a combination of Pirates and Nomads and CBM.

[Ed Kolis]

Ooh... yeah... nomads with carriers... fits BSG perfectly http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
SJ do it! Do it! Add pirates and nomads to CB! You know you want to! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Fyron]

Oh man... Nomad + Disposable Society... meep!

[Captain Kwok]

Just make sure you include those flying motorcycles for one of the troop vehicles...

...the super kids as infantry might work too.

[Atrocities]

More ships posted.

[Atrocities]

Fleet 1

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/uploads/396335-bsgfleet.PNG

[Urendi Maleldil]

Very cool looking. I can't wait to play against them and crush them into dust.

[ZeroAdunn]

Urendi Maleldil said:
I can't wait to play against them and crush them into dust.



So, is what you are saying is they would look better as dust? Harsh dude, harsh.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I like what you've done with them. Look kinda like missiles. Fast, sleek and yet heavy.

[General Woundwort]

Good work in varying from the original ship, especially without much else to go on.

AT couldn't really retire from making shipsets even if he tried. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Atrocities]

Colonial Fleet (http://www.astempire.net/NASY/nasy/BSG/BSG.htm) A work in progress if any one wants to take a look. Feed back is welcome, but please post it one SE.net. Thanks.

[Xrati]

It's a good start. I think you've captured the style of what would be a BSG fleet. I like it. Let us know when it's finished so we can download them. ( hurry! hurry! ) For Christmas maybe?

[ZeroAdunn]

So far, Thumbs Up. Except the race picture. I do not like the race pic.

[Atrocities]

I have replaced the Race picture. Will upload it in a bit.

[Atrocities]

I just wanted to see if I could make it.

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/uploads/397240-bsgnew.PNG

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Ooh, fast.

[Atrocities]

View the fighters (http://www.spaceempires.net/home/ftopicp-6748.html#6748)

http://www.astempire.net/display/bsg/bsgfg1.PNG

[sachmo]

NICE, AT!

[David E. Gervais]

Nice does not begin to express how I feel about your vipers...

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4883/vipersquadron018aj.th.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vipersquadron018aj.jpg)

O..M..G.. Stunning, Beautiful, Jaw-Dropping, Wonderful and.. since a picture is worth a thousand words, please accept this humble tribute to a master modeler.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Fyron]

Do you not like SEnet Image Gallery anymore?

[Atrocities]

That is most impressive David. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[David E. Gervais]

Hey AT, thanks for sending the galactica model,.. hmmm did you need an intro screen for the BSG Mod?..

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/2364/galacticamod18vl.th.jpg (http://img233.imageshack.us/my.php?image=galacticamod18vl.jpg)

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

P.S. I'll post the .png version on SE.net to make Fyron really happy. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Ed Kolis]

Hey Atrocities... check this out...

http://p212.ezboard.com/fnendowingsmiraifrm17.showMessage?topicID=1702.top ic

Looks like someone else is working on BSG models too, albeit for a different game... perhaps you two could collaborate? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

/me likes.

[spartan117]

hey, this is Spartanmk117 of the BSG: The second Cylon War mod for Starwars: Empire at War. This forum was brought to me from
ed kolis, for this i thank him. I am the only current operating member in my mod, seeing as it is only 2 months old.
I was thinking about forming an alliance or a "merge" in which we incorporate our members, models,ideas, and resources.
If you would consider a merge or even a friendly alliance, i would be dearly greatful, if not..than i understand.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Hi, welcome to the forums. Cheese?

[Atrocities]

The models I have made were made with DOGA. Although I can export them to x or even dxf format, I don't know if they can be edited by other programs. Ed is pretty smart about this, so if he could comment on any ideas, that would be great.

[Atrocities]

David that is very nice looking image. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Love the back ground art work. Simply beautiful.

[Ed Kolis]

Atrocities said:
The models I have made were made with DOGA. Although I can export them to x or even dxf format, I don't know if they can be edited by other programs. Ed is pretty smart about this, so if he could comment on any ideas, that would be great.



If you can export to .DXF, you should be able to open the models in Blender, which has boolean-operation and mesh-simplification tools. It also looks like Blender will preserve the multiple textures that you have placed on the multiple objects when you boolean-union them together, so you should be good to go! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

[StarDragon]

Hello new here. Had the demo long ago and rediscovered SE4Gold. Never knew there were mods so I guess I missed out on a lot.

As for your ships,I love them! Only question is are you doing "Classic" or "Neo BSG"? They are not mutually interchangeable, although I do enjoy both universes.

There are many designs on the web for "Classic", like the Tiger Destroyer and Juggernaught Fighter ect...

I look forward to seeing this finished.

Incidently, would it be possible to get a hold of some of those models in .cob format? Someone is making a Classic BSG mod and I would like to try to make some test conversions of your cap ships and fightes. (and try to make some neat pics for the SE4 displays).



P.S. If someone (like you Atrocities?) can PM me or start a new thread since the old Robotech ones are ancient, I have many Robotech models, like 6 types of Invid units (For the 2.0 MOD) since that is going slow I could make small .bmp's of them in action and plug them in right? Do I need to use DOGA to get the models themselves in game? Also How many Polygons are too much? (SDF-1 is around 6k, rest are 1-4k). I have a few of other anime models I'd love to learn how to get into game (Star Blazers/Gundam). I am NOT a modler myself, but I know quite a few.

[Fyron]

SEIV does not use any models, only static bitmaps. You can put as many polygons in your models as you want before you render the portraits. Some of Atrocities' models get over 10k polygons IIRC.

This will not be true for SEV, however.

[StarDragon]

Great news, thank you! I just discovered SE.net so I will be scouring the modding threads there also.

[Atrocities]

SE V ploygon counts will have to be as low as you can get them, preferrably below 500 per model with the lower being the objective goal.

[Suicide Junkie]

Reccommended poly count for Carrier Battles mod for SE5:
4

Particularily for infantry units and fighters, which I expect to be thrown around by the tens of thousands http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Phoenix-D]

For those SE5 might have the same "Cheat" starfury does, and render them as bitmaps, instead. It looks a bit weird but it works.

Starfury does it for missiles, not fighters, but the concept is the same..

[douglas]

So the pink swarm of tetrahedrons is fighting the blue swarm of tetrahedrons, and they're both throwing smaller green tetrahedrons at each other... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Ed Kolis]

Aack, the Khaak invasion! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Atrocities]

All I have to go on are dark screen caps and low light detail shots, but....

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/uploads/401069-bsgpeg.PNG

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Hey, looks good to me.

Just needs windows and glowy stuff.

[Atrocities]

I have updated the site with a few more new images. I hope to have the set completed sometime soon. Thanks for reading.

[Atrocities]

The set is now available for download. You can download it from the archives in the main SEIV Forum.

View The Set (http://www.astempire.net/NASY/nasy/BSG/BSG.htm) There is also a link to download the set on its web page.

Please report any bugs.

[Wolfman77]

Very nice. I like what you did with the space station-starbase. For not having alot of ships to build off of everything really fits together well.

[Black_Knyght]

Atrocities - <font color="gold"> YOU ARE THE MAN !!! </font>

That may well be your best work EVER. You managed to completely capture the perfect look and feel of <font color="blue"> Battlestar Galactica </font> . It amazes me that you even managed to get in there both the new Galactica AND the Pegasus.

Damn fine work !!!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

/me drools...

[Black_Knyght]

Hey all - I have somethin' here I did a while back ,when I first heard about Atrocities building the <font color="blue"> BSG </font> shipset.

Just for kicks I did up three different Race Portraits and the like for the upcoming set. Meant to offer them to Atrocities, but somehow just never got 'round to it.

Now, I don't mean to impune or intrude on Atrocities work in any way, after all it's a sight to behold. Just had some time on my hands and thought to add a little somethin' for anybody so inclined.

[Colonel]

Simply Awesome AT. Perfect feel of the show off that set.