Mini Race Needed!

[Lord Kodos]

I need a mini-shipset for the Csgith Plague. Who are the Csgith you ask? Well allow me to enlighten you to one of my more interesting creations.

Biology:The Csgith are a unique parasitic race. In their natural state they are about a foot in height. All Csgith posess 3 tentacles, 2 leaping arms, two large almond like eyes, and a mouth with razor sharp teeth. They bore a hole in another organism and take control of it. They then lay eggs which grow over time, eventually swelling the host organism into a large bulbous eggsack, which then bursts killing the original parasite, but giving birth to any number of Csgith, depending on the size of the host.
Society:Csgith society is geared towards one goal: the infestation of the universe and the spreading of the Csgith. Csgith laborers, others who have been infested, labor endlessly constructing countless boarding craft for the Csgith Plague. The entirety of the Csgith are ruled over by an enigmatic being known only as the Plague Lord.

Ever play Halo? Think kinda like the Flood.

"Now", you ask, "What is a Mini Shipset?"

Well basically I say Mini Shipset because the only images I NEED are:
Race Pic:The basic Parasite form of the Csgith.
Pop Pics:Infested Humanoids
Troop Infantry:Infested Humanoids

However if you want to go ahead and make a shipset go ahead all it would need would to be shpis(hell use the generic one) that are broken down, and filthy looking.

For some inspirational images, turn to:
http://halo.bungie.net/images/site/halo/concept/sketch_052.jpg
http://halo.bungie.net/images/site/halo/concept/sketch_051.jpg
http://halo.bungie.net/images/site/halo/concept/sketch_049.jpg
Ill have a crude, crude, crude 2d crummy drawing of the Parasite up here sometime tomorrow.

[trooper]

Maybe I could do it... Is there a deadline ?
I don't want to make you wait if you are in a hurry ( Working hard (and late), marriage to prepare, three PBW games running, etc, etc...)

Originally posted by Lord Kodos:
I need a mini-shipset for the Csgith Plague.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

[trooper]

Here is a preview pic I made for your race :

http://diesel2035.free.fr/csgith.jpg

Does it match your idea ?
Troops and pops look like mutant zombies, aren't they ?

Is it for a mod ? does your race use specific ships (mainly transport ships ?).

[Lord Kodos]

Its intended for the Csgith to be in LR mod. They use the racial trait Parasitic Race. Very nice image, but for the Csgith I was thinking of something distinctly less humanoid. Their entire bodymass is their "head" all limbs extend forth from it. Again, see that Flood.

Sorry I cant draw...it kind of looks like a horribly mutated Pac-Man.
The pointy things in the front of the tentacles are the Leaper Legs, and the squigles are Tentacles. Sorry they are so out of proportion, as I said, I cant draw. The teeth should be sharper and the whole bodies color should be one of filth and disease. Also this was done Last night at like 5 AM.
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1056575225.bmp]1056575225.bmp
Remember here people, this is a race that is a cancer. A sentient, malicious cancer, that nearly all sentient beings would rather commit suicide, then be afflicted with.

So for the infected, do your bizzare best! lol.

Population, and Infantry images should be infected Humanoids, and Race image should be the actual Csgith parasite. And if you do do ships, just think derilects. The Csgith take extremely poor care of their ships, after all, their ships serve only the purpose of ferrieng Parasites from one spot, to another. Ship to Ship combats only purpose for the Csgith is to lower an enemies shield, and then unleash parasites.

[Ragnarok]

Kodos, your image tag wasn't working properly. I took the liberty to fix it for you. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1056575225.bmp

[ June 25, 2003, 22:44: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

[Lord Kodos]

Thanks!

[trooper]

Ok, I've got a better idea of what you need now. I'll make a second attempt in a few hours...

Don't know what is the black "V" on the top, suppose it's the eyes ?

About the ships, does your race use only a few ship hulls ?

And again : what is your deadline ?

[Lord Kodos]

Yeah. for the most part its all out of proportion, but i do like the idea of the huge eyes.

Deadline:None. the main thing i need are the Troops, racepic and etc the rest can wait.

[henk brouwer]

Uhm I made a drawing of a monster not too long ago, it doesn't really fit the description but it looks somewhat simmilar to Kodos' example picture.

here's the link: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/h/e/henk/bloatharg.jpg.html

I could try and draw something that fits the description better. I'm no good at colouring though.

[ June 26, 2003, 10:29: Message edited by: henk brouwer ]

[Lord Kodos]

That looks good for like one of the Csgith egg-sacks. As for color:Filth.

The Csgith are supposed to be a truely revolting and disgusting race, that are considered to be hideious by nearly all cultures.

Of course, the Csgith are not supposed to be evil. They are simply doing what they need to do in order to survive:Reproduce. Of course in order to do this other sentients must die. mwuhahah! lol

[trooper]

csgith race pic, second attempt :

http://diesel2035.free.fr/csgith2.jpg

Final Version will have more bumps.

For the ships, maybe I'll make a standard pic, something looking like yellow mould, and I will make different Version of it by changing the size and the shape. Think it's useless to design carriers, drone... ?

[Lord Kodos]

Oooh. Very Very Nice ^__^. For Population make the images be Egg Sacks, Infantry are Infected Humanoids.

And yeah basically ships should be generic and have mold and goo on them. The ships should be banged up(as the Csgith dont bother repairing captured ships, after all Ships only serve to transport and spread the Csgith)

Maybe have goo leaking forth from the ships reactor coolant perhaps? Remember: Filth.

lol

[Lord Kodos]

just keeping this on first page.

[Lord Kodos]

http://halo.bungie.org/flood/

Just a little bit of helpfullness, and a bump.

[trooper]

Here is your race pic.
Tell me if it is Ok for you.

http://diesel2035.free.fr/csgith_race_portrait2.bmp

[Lord Kodos]

::DROOLS:: Hell yeah! lol. Thats realy great! thanks man!

[Ragnarok]

That is one awesome race portrait there Trooper! I like it alot. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Rojero]

My gosh your a freaking genius trooper...
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif You can make awesome pics, hehe from a Pac Man guy to a scary monster
hehe
Kudos!

[Erax]

Awesome, Trooper ! But won't it look scarier with green eyes instead of yellow ?

[trooper]

It would be easy to change...

[trooper]

http://diesel2035.free.fr/csgith/csgith_pop_big.bmp http://diesel2035.free.fr/csgith/csgith_pop_portrait.bmp http://diesel2035.free.fr/csgith/csgith_pop_mini.bmp
population (big) portrait mini

First attempt for the population pic. Don't know if it's what you were expecting.

[ July 12, 2003, 22:31: Message edited by: trooper ]

[Lord Kodos]

Nice images! But sadly, not what I want. For their Population it should be Infested Humanoids. Think Resident Evil, or simply look at those images of the Flood. ^__^ Or the POp could be an Egg-Sac which you can see something similer to in that image of the Flood.

[trooper]

here is a egg-sac for your pop pics.

http://diesel2035.free.fr/population128.bmp

http://diesel2035.free.fr/population36.bmp

http://diesel2035.free.fr/population20.bmp

[trooper]

Here is what I did for the infantry pic. I'm a bit lazy those days, so I took an existing pic and colorized it.

http://diesel2035.free.fr/csgith/csgith_mini_troopinfantry.bmp

http://diesel2035.free.fr/csgith/csgith_portrait_troopinfantry.bmp

Shall I continue with the ship pics ?

[Lord Kodos]

ooh. k. all very nice.

Yes! Continue! Continueeee!

^__^

[trooper]

Here is a sample pic for the ships (let's call it a destroyer) :

http://diesel2035.free.fr/images/csgith_portrait_destroyer.JPG http://diesel2035.free.fr/images/csgith_mini_destroyer.JPG

BTW, as this is a "limited" shipset, is there any ship size that you're not going to use (transports, carriers, drone, fighters...) ?

[trooper]

Back to school too, Lord Kodos ?

[ September 22, 2003, 20:58: Message edited by: trooper ]

[Lord Kodos]

Kick *** ship!

Yeah. Skool. It sucks.

Better then being infected by the Csgith...well not really, at least the Csgith infection has a definitive end. Skool can Last your entire life.

BTW: Skool=The horrible schools we have these days that teach nothing, save imorality and blind conformity.

[trooper]

And what about the ship/unit hulls list that has to be done (not at school, but few time to waste too...) ?

[Lord Kodos]

No drones, no fighters, no carriers all other neo-standard stuff, or if time limits it, just standard.

[trooper]

Here is what I did this week :

1064782422.zip (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1064782422.zip)

There no base picture at this time. Tell me what other graphics you need for this race...

[trooper]

BTW, do parasite race use colony ship or do they just invade occupied planets ?

[Lord Kodos]

They wouldent use it to colonise, but they would still board it and then use it to board something else. So yes, we need the image, just because they would board it ^__^.

[trooper]

Here is the missing pics : bases, shields, bigexplosion, colony ship.

1065071814.zip (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1065071814.zip)

I think my work is over now ?

[Lord Kodos]

Yep. ^__^. I think. I am pretty sure.

Thanks again. Great set ^__^. So gross. I really like the big explosion.

[Lord Kodos]

Ack! Wait. No. You need to make carriars, because carriars can still be boarded.

[trooper]

Mmmm... just a question : your race doesn't built ships ? they only capture the ships from other races ? In that case the ship pictures will remain the same (until they are refitted).

I Saw this morning on a different screen that there is a green halo around the big explosion pictures, I think it will not render well. I will correct that.

[ October 03, 2003, 07:02: Message edited by: trooper ]

[Lord Kodos]

They do build, occasionally, but mostly, they refit. ^__^.

[trooper]

And Last but not least, the carriers, revised bigexplosion, and main pictures :

1065300276.zip (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newuploads/1065300276.zip)

[Lord Kodos]

::does magical happy dance jig::

YAY!

[trooper]

Glad that my work could be useful to you. When do you think your mod will be ready ?