The Azorani Alliance has arrived!

Alpha Kodiak · #1 May 27th, 2002, 12:50 AM

The Azorani are a psychic race of traders who would rather stay out of trouble but are quite capable of defending themselves if necessary. Check them out here:

Azorani_10.ZIP

Let me know what you think of them. I've been very happy with their performance.

Captain Kwok · #2 May 27th, 2002, 06:19 AM

I like the shipset. It's interesting to see different shapes of ships from small to large sizes. I think the minis though should show a greater difference in size but that's just how I like it to be. I personally think the race portrait is excellent. Good job again.

Alpha Kodiak · #3 May 27th, 2002, 06:48 AM

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Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
I like the shipset. It's interesting to see different shapes of ships from small to large sizes. I think the minis though should show a greater difference in size but that's just how I like it to be. I personally think the race portrait is excellent. Good job again.

Thanks!

Good point on the sizes. It seems to me that the hardest to tell apart are the cruiser and battle cruiser. Maybe I can rescale the battle cruiser to be slightly larger without pushing it into the range of the battleship. Do you see other instances that need to be modified?

Let me know how the AI does. It may be a little slow getting going at the start, but if it has time to establish itself, it seems to develop quite nicely.

Captain Kwok · #4 May 27th, 2002, 07:17 AM

The ships are a little hard to tell apart - maybe even some slight colour changes to certain parts or the arrangement of engines can usually help.

About the sizes I was referring more to the size of the escort mini and such - it's almost as big as the dreadnought. Of course I'm just like that and would like to see it about 1/6th the area of a dreadnought - but that's my problem.

I'm don't usually play many long games - but I'm sure the AI is good since your reputation precedes you in that department.

Perhaps one day I will find the motivation to finish off my Geezoid fleet...

Alpha Kodiak · #5 May 28th, 2002, 06:20 PM

I tend to agree with you assessment. I will see what I can do. Thanks for the feedback!

Captain Kwok · #6 May 28th, 2002, 06:31 PM

No problem.

I think one of the best parts of the set is the different design of the smaller ships from the larger ones. It's a nice touch - and that it's not done in DOGA helps. I feel your shipsets tend to fit better with the original MM ones which is what I like - especially the race portrait.

Which program did you use to design the fleet?

Alpha Kodiak · #7 May 28th, 2002, 07:26 PM

I use POV-Ray and code the models in POV-Ray's scripting language.

Captain Kwok · #8 May 28th, 2002, 07:55 PM

I prefer to use Moray as my interface for POV-Ray - yuck - I would hate programming that stuff.

Mike - If my Star Mod idea gets off the ground would you be interested in perhaps designing one of the ship sets?

Alpha Kodiak · #9 May 28th, 2002, 08:41 PM

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Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
I prefer to use Moray as my interface for POV-Ray - yuck - I would hate programming that stuff.

Mike - If my Star Mod idea gets off the ground would you be interested in perhaps designing one of the ship sets?

You have to be a little off your rocker to like doing POV-Ray scripts (or a programmer - essentially the same thing.)

I would be up to designing a ship set for you. My turn around time isn't real fast, but I have a bLast working on them.

Captain Kwok · #10 May 28th, 2002, 08:56 PM

Great. Don't worry about time, there's no deadlines to meet.

This is just a quick pic I made in Moray of a Galaxy Class ship to give an idea of what I meant by custom made ships: Galaxy Class

Keep in mind there is no textures or that...but I thought it turned out well for a ten minute effort.