Startrek: Starfury resurrected!

[SamZaWild]

Originally posted by Exan:
I'm not quite happy for her design. I screwed in some point of while creating it and thus the engines may not be aligned properly.

True..True..That right engine (the right long pillar thing) needs to go a little bit left.

[Utopia321]

I disagree Sam the Nacelle is ok. Exan, that model is bangin! Erm.. I mean, it's cool.. Anywho, forget what I said about Armada 2 look here: www.armada2files.com there is alot of stuff we can use, I just found an Aegean Class ship with only 904+ polys. This isn't too much right?

Oh and for everyone making models I got a few links for you:

Starship Design Guidelines

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/design.htm

Starship Sizes

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/ar...ship_sizes.htm

Starship Size Table

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/ar...size_table.htm

Starship Scaling

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/scaling.htm

Wolf 359 Order of Battle (Fed)

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/wolf359.htm

Hopefully some or all of these links can help anyone with modelling to scale.
NOTE: These are all scaled seperately in there categories.

I threw in the Wolf 359 Order of Battle in case anyone wanted to try to make those models.

Instead of asking is 904+ too much, I really should ask what is the max?????

Thank you, hopefully I can use some of the 1500 poly or higher. But no higher than 2000 I think.

Daniel Rastellini
Startrek: Starfury Founder

[Exan]

I don't know the max but basically the more polygons the more time the computer needs to render the model. So if you have many high polygon ships flying in a same system it can slow the game.

The planets in Starfury have 1700 polygons and the Terran starbase has about 1000. My model, Excalibur has about 1600 and the Sovereign model in Armada 1 has about 1200 polygons.

I think starship polygons should be maxed about 1000-1500 or so.

[Utopia321]

Excellent, that means I can get to work on DLing Armada models as soon as possible. (I don't mean models ingame, but more like Fan made copies. It's legal to use those)

Keep up the good work everyone, i'll be in touch.

Daniel Rastellini
Startrek: Starfury Founder

[Utopia321]

I almost forgot the most important job of all! I need someone to hard points for the new ships!!!! If that doesn't get done we might as well use the old Starfury models.

[Utopia321]

Originally posted by DeadZone:
I suppose programming would be the best bit for me, seeing as all it involves is editing text files

Wow, it's been I while but I never noticed this post I'll put you down for Programming ASAP, sorry for the delay.

[Exan]

I'll do hardpoint data plus preliminary slot data for my ships. Naturally I also test how it looks in the game.

EDIT: Btw. If anyone's interested I have added Excalibur into the game.
Conducting weapon tests
Flying inside a nebula
It still needs better textures and little scaling.

[ June 20, 2004, 10:38: Message edited by: Exan ]