Post by: red_green on April 21, 2004, 10:36:23 pm
Post by: Rod O'neal on April 21, 2004, 11:42:27 pm
Post by: ModelsPlease on April 22, 2004, 03:27:45 am
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Great looking Hydran, man. Poor Hydrans really do need someone to update them a bit. Thanks for doing them.
Agreed. Perhaps even a few new designs may emerge.
Post by: Kaenyne on April 22, 2004, 09:02:46 am
Post by: red_green on April 22, 2004, 06:48:57 pm
I really enjoy doing original stuff cause there is more leeway with design and textures= more fun. I just need to convert this for SFC3 now.
gallery page
Post by: red_green on April 22, 2004, 08:59:02 pm
This ship shows my personal style perhaps more than any previous with the exception of my 1st ship ever, the USS Talisman. Just to give you some background and my personal perspective on modeling. Modeling can be approached from 2 main angles. As art in new designs and textures, as a form of expression, or it can be approached from the science angle. Which I believe is more of reproducing already existing ships, such as the Galaxy class for example. Skill wise reproducing existing designs to exactly the original schematics may in fact be harder then doing up ones own design. Of course kitbashing involves both viewpoints. Myself, I lean towards designing my own, though I got away from that after getting so much resistance to my 1st ship, which in hindsight I should have referred to as a new race rather then pawning it off as a federation ship. So I did up a few ships from FASA and other designs, but from here on out it will be mostly new designs extrapolated from existing races. Mainly secondary races which don't get as many releases as Feds, Klinks and Roms.
Ugh- just though of something eles to add to this mesh
Might be a few days.Gallery to see pic if other link is dead
Post by: red_green on April 23, 2004, 03:51:19 am
Download HMS Omen SFC3 version here
Post by: ModelsPlease on April 23, 2004, 04:42:54 am
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Post by: red_green on April 23, 2004, 03:14:54 pm
I am developing a battle cruiser. Thinking of calling it it the Scorpian class as it reminds me of one. Though That name doesn't sound Hydran. I used to name Hydran's by the shiplist in OP but I don't have it installed now. If someone could copy and paste the Hydran ship names quick that would be awesome.
Well hope my Pic host holds out for the weekend.
Omen d/l link
Post by: ModelsPlease on April 23, 2004, 05:49:47 pm
Hydran Ship Names
Stinger
Harrier
Hunter
Lancer
Traveler
Ranger
Cheyenne
Overlord
Paladin
Monarch
Ask and you shall recieve
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Post by: Kreeargh on April 23, 2004, 10:51:14 pm
Post by: Scorpion on April 23, 2004, 10:57:02 pm
Post by: red_green on April 24, 2004, 01:25:21 pm
NEW SHIP up for download. Its the HMS FF class Defender. Link below as well as pic from the host site. Thats 2 down.
Defender d/l link
Omen d/l link
Post by: ModelsPlease on April 24, 2004, 04:24:13 pm
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Post by: red_green on April 24, 2004, 10:43:51 pm
My pic host crapped out but you can see a preview pic at each individual d/l link below. Again the poly caount for the Stinger is rather high at 6700. But load times are still reasonable on my 800 mhz with only 128MB of memory. Due to the fact I only use 2 bitmaps. Stinger d/l
Defender d/l
[ Omen d/l
Enjoy. These ships all appear in the Klingon slots. I'd like to put together a mod that has the Hydrans in there own race slot. Then they can have there own music and weapon textures if thats possible. I could use help with it as I don't know how to
go about it and I know it can be time intensive as well. I like the Hydran colors. So many ships are green.
Post by: red_green on April 25, 2004, 03:49:51 am
I am putzing around with a mesh that used be be my Testament ship and now, well its evolving.This is preliminary and needs some work. It also is a bit different. I notice that the Hydrans I did up before were similar to each other. I want to add some variety between the different ship classes. Its easy to get carried away though
Preveiw it in the link below. No name yet and sorry only 1 view of it. Comments welcome, I know sometimes I been touchy in the past but you can rip this 1 as I reaaly am not to sure about it.
new Hydran wip-perhaps a fast cruiser?
Post by: ModelsPlease on April 25, 2004, 05:04:37 am
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Post by: red_green on April 26, 2004, 11:03:15 am
If all goes well, I will have 8 ships for the SFC3 Hydrans. Some will be updates to my original SFC2 versions, others will be comepletely new designs.
Stinger Battle Cruiser
Defender Frigate
Omen Battleship
Update: The STCD mod site added a new Hydran catagory for SFC3. Coolness. So these ships will be seen there along with the new ones I am working on
STCD mod host main page
Post by: starforce2 on April 26, 2004, 02:17:41 pm
Post by: Azel on April 26, 2004, 02:42:17 pm
BTW...was wondering if you wanted to workon a very small one ship project with me???
Post by: bbarr97 on April 26, 2004, 05:31:39 pm
Thanks
Post by: red_green on April 27, 2004, 12:44:41 pm
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R-G...Thats some awesome stuff mate!!!
BTW...was wondering if you wanted to workon a very small one ship project with me???
Thanks, say what does R-G mean?
AS far as the projext goes.Depends on if it requires new textures. Seeing as it takes me a long time to build base textures from scratch. I'd prefer something where the base textures are mapped already to some extent. I'll be in and out of town for the next few weeks, so I wouldn't be able to work on it steady. Plus I promised my Hydran ships would get done so I need to finish those up 1st.
Post by: red_green on April 27, 2004, 12:56:29 pm
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Are these ships available for SFC2?
Thanks
bbarr97, These ships will work in SFC2. Only the hard points are reversed. So the primaries become the heavies and visa versa. With Feds this may be an issue since we all know where the phaser mounts and photon tubes should be located.
With my Hydrans I think its not that much of an issue, seeing as the G2 phasers and Hellbores can go where ever I say as its a hypothytical design.
You may need to change the file name from say Stinger.MOD to Stinger.mod (note the mod in lower case in second file)
I am not certain but I believe one of the SFC games need the mod file in lower case. Perhaps that was SFC1. Just try it as it is, if it doesn't work, rename it. I can't test it, as I no longer have the game installed and my hard drive is too small to have all SFC versions loaded at once.
There are extra files that SFC2 does not need, but having them in the folder doesn't hurt anything.
Post by: red_green on April 29, 2004, 07:04:51 pm
Post by: red_green on May 01, 2004, 10:10:52 pm
The Warp drive tech is fron the Fed Defiant.Those rods in front are Hydran deflector rods. (I need a better tech name for them
)
Post by: Azel on May 01, 2004, 10:13:05 pm
How about calling them "Spacial destortion spires"
Post by: red_green on May 13, 2004, 01:38:48 pm
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AWESOME!!!
How about calling them "Spacial destortion spires"
SDS it is then. Thanks Azel. If I include that in the ship description I will credit the name to you in the readme.
I just got back from vaction and am not in the model swing yet. But I will get back to these Hydrans in a few.
Post by: Chris Jones on May 16, 2004, 12:41:07 pm
I must these are quite nice, I like the design. May I have permission to put them in my TNG Mod for OP? I would need to include them in the download.
Thanks -
Chris Jones
Post by: red_green on May 16, 2004, 10:23:52 pm
Yes by all means include them. Glad you like em. I should have the latest 2 ships up in a couple days. Thinking that they will both be destroyers at this point as I have another ship to fill the CL role. Great to hear that your updating your TNG mod. Looking forward to its release.
Post by: red_green on May 22, 2004, 09:55:52 pm
Get them below, there in no particular order. Enjoy!
HMS Eclipse DN class carrier
HMS Dragoon Heavy carrier CA hull
HMS Lancer DD hull destroyer leader
Hydran shuttle
HMS Defender FF class
HMS Stinger Battle Cruiser
HMS Omen Battle ship- but is specced as a DN for now
Here is my to do list. With those completed marked off
Gunship (PF)
Corvette
Frigate DONE
Frigate leader
Destroyer
Destroyer leader DONE
Light Cruiser
Light Carrier
Heavy Cruiser
Heavy Carrier DONE
Battlecruiser DONE
Dreadnought
Dreadnought Carrier DONE
Battleship DONE
Small Freighter
Large Freighter
Shuttle DONE
Tug
Starbase
Outpost
Listening Post
Drydock
Workbee
Post by: ModelsPlease on May 22, 2004, 10:33:20 pm
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Post by: E_Look on May 23, 2004, 12:35:52 am
I don't know why the fiddling with the firewall worked last time; it's not working this time. As you said, you know my e-mail. Could you send me the shuttle?
Funny though, the link for the Eclipse works, but from your other thread; could it be the way or locations they are linked to??
Thanks, and sorry!
Post by: red_green on May 26, 2004, 12:48:04 am
Here is a wip pic of a mine layer I am making. I started off thinking I was just going to do a version of the stock Hydran DD ship. Of course I thought it looked a bit plain for TNG era. Often the ship I am currently working on is my favorite. Simple cause its new to me and its like an empty canvas. This ship doesn't feel that way yet. Gets harder to keep trying to top the last one.
The idea behind this class will be to have no forward weapons. They all will be rear arcs. It will be fast and nimble e with a DD hull. IT will have reinforced rear shields. Increased hull size. Enough to have a level 3 tractor and 3 transporters. Equiped with level 3 thrusters. The whole idea is too overtake a ship from behind. speed past drop anti matter mine, fire rear facing weapons and hightail it, then circle and repeat. This method will get you killed in SFC2, but in SFC3 is quite effective with a nimble ship.
See you all after the holiday
HMS Citadel under heavy constuction
Post by: E_Look on May 26, 2004, 08:56:16 pm
Nope. After someone else having this problem too, I decided to make the addy easily readable again. I just hope there isn't a more efficient spam driven address harvester lurking about these forums.
Thanks for the trouble.