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Much better!!!!! I like this one even more than the one in the other thread! Good Work!
Semper Fi, Carry On
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Now THAT'S a Tholian!
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Great job. I have yet to see a Tholian on TVbut they must be popular. Yes I live in a cave.
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Sounds cool dude, by KA tholians do you mean the weird stick like ones that look like a jumble of crystals?
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It's too short, atra. The thols had access to one hull type they could build alone. They linked 2x together to make a CA and 3-4x to make a BC/DN. If left as short as it seems in the pic, I fear they run the risk of just looking snub and silly like. I'd ask you to make them longer please, do the limo stretch.
Other than that, Please add some contrasting color. Perhaps red or yellow or both in the front and/or back for the impulse and weapon port... something to give more color than what it has now. Something to brighten it up. I was watching a home improvement show and the term they used was 'warmth'... Yeah, so they need a bit of 'warmth'. Hehe. I was focred to watch it with my wife!
At the very least, leave us with seperate textures for the front and back in case we want to change that part of the ship color w/o it affecting other parts of the mesh. Some modelers use one part of a texture in many places on a ship, so i hope that can be avoided in this circumstance.
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Atra, this just proves how damn lucky we all are that you decided to re-join us as a modeller. OMG!! That's beautiful!!
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50 meters tops I say atra.... You recall the exterior shot in The Tholian Web where the Thol ship passes in front of the Enterprise while the web was being constructed. The Tholian looked about 25-30 meters to me if not smaller...
Also I was thinking that the hull constuction should be like 50-50 metallic/crystal. Just a thought....
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i dont know why there is such a big discussion about the size of the ship.50m might be canon but thats true for the tos version.maybe the cristaline military ships are bigger. and 50m is damn small in game. so id vote for the 100-150 meters.
however, there is always the modelsize file in your models folder to influence ingame size. i dont see the problem here.
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Thol ships have no need for conventional shields due to the fact that the ship and its crew are quite literally a large crystal able to refract and redirect energy weapons that use light as a carrier. i.e. Phasers.
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Thol ships have no need for conventional shields due to the fact that the ship and its crew are quite literally a large crystal able to refract and redirect energy weapons that use light as a carrier. i.e. Phasers.
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If memory serves correctly, there was a book in the late 80's similar to Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestials, filled entirely with the then current races of the Star Trek universe.
The Tholians were shown to be slightly wider than humans but at least a foot shorter and shaped like a inverted 8 or 6 sided crystal with a head of multiple facets but similar structure. It went on to describe briefly that Thol ships are designed for the Tholian mindset of optimum efficency. There were no crew quarters since the Thols actually inserted themselves into "slots" like a child's hole and peg toy. Also it went into stating that Thols have no need for certain systems that we as Humans need. These were stellar cartography and human style navigation systems. This was due to the Thols shared the inbred stellar navigation ability of the Meadusans.
Here is one statement that the book made that I found to be quite understandable; Thol ships have no need for conventional shields due to the fact that the ship and its crew are quite literally a large crystal able to refract and redirect energy weapons that use light as a carrier. i.e. Phasers. This still makes them vunerable to most other weaponry with a keen weakness for missiles (hammer vs. crystal vase scenario) and disruptor fire, due to its effect on the molecules of an object.