Katchoo's Shipset Thread (aka the ungodly slow DoGa guy).

[Katchoo]

True to form, i've had a sudden cange of mind and have posted some of the Neo-Standard ships on the Preview Page!

Why? The Worldship came out spiffy keen and I couldn't hold it back

See the link for the Psycho Trapper Preview Page below in my signature.

[TerranC]

Howdidya...

Ohmygaw...

Huminahumina...

How the heck did you make the worldship?!

[Ragnarok]

That is one awesome looking worldship! Nice work Katchoo, I can understand why you couldn't resist posting that.

The worldship, dreadnaught heavy, and carriers are my favorite ships of the whole set. Excellent work, Katchoo!

[Katchoo]

Thanks guys

The Worldship was made using Bryce. Somehow using DoGa and its poor sphere generating abilities wouldn't have looked good.

Now lets all convince Fyron to use Worldships in his Adamant Mod so we can all get good milage out of the picture

[Fyron]

Now lets all convince Fyron to use Worldships in his Adamant Mod so we can all get good milage out of the picture

Would be the first such effort... *runs away to Adamant Mod thread*

[dogscoff]

Ok Katchoo. I'm hoping to blitz my current graphical obligations this weekend, so you might get a picture or three then=-)

I was reading your descriptions down there, and it seems you missed out the neo-standard troop sizes. They give you a bit more range, and allow you go from single humanoid to giant sea-monster a little more smoothly

For example, would you want the infantry to be a single flying slaver in search of a host (ie the race pic)?

I was thinking more along the lines of the inantry pic being the "thin humanoid alien" you described (I was thinking an armed human, but a "grey" would also work) with a zombie-like expression and a slaver perched very visibly on top of the head.

For small troop you could use a Hulkish creature, since most shipsets equate small troop with a light tank or one-man mecha. Big, ugly, surly-looking and relying more on natural weaponry than technological ones.

For medium troop you'd have a larger creature. Maybe some sort of rhinocerous-size/ shape with some armour and weapons mounted on its back. At this scale, the slaver would probably be only just visible on top of the host, but by now the player would get the idea and assume it was there.

Large troop could be some kind of T-rex beastie. Big teeth etc, maybe a few armaments and/or cybernetics.

That leaves huge troop for your giant monster. Which sounds to me like an excuse to spend all night watching my entire rubber-Godzilla flick collection back to back. (I'd still like to know why Rodan sounds like a jet engine when he flies)

[ July 02, 2003, 09:54: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[Raging Deadstar]

That worldship is amazing!!! i'm impressed!

The dreadnought's look great too! I eagerly await the final few additions for this race