Strange Industries presents the latest in stealth technology: the Stiletto recon fighter.
With or without a cloaking device, this ship is one of the hardest craft to see. I've been flying one for a few days now, and I'm not still not entirely sure what it looks like.
By a stroke of enormous luck an image was captured against a bright planet (these things are nigh invisible in space):
Features:
1. All straight lines, meaning low radar visibility and reflection angle.
2. Slim profile.
3. Starfield camouflage. Against a starry background, it's almost like a cloaking device.
Sorry, I haven't done a cockpit yet. I would like to do a cockpit, but I don't know how different it is from doing a ship external.
I would like to do a ship for the Predator. I have some ideas that I need to work with. It needs to be bulky and imposing, but somehow more aerodynamic than the current one. Maybe I'll do some kind of flying-wing-esque design for it.
I haven't had much luck with the texture UV mapping. I guess I would need to somehow paint on the target itself, or at least paint reference points so that I could edit the texture better. I chose the starfield because I thought it would be the most stealthy, and also because my earlier attempts didn't quite look right
Very nice Nigel! Is there any way to use it as the Evoch?
Just had a thought:
Originally posted by Nigel_Strange
Starfield camouflage. Against a starry background, it's almost like a cloaking device.
Unless you actually activate a stealth device, won't it still show up on radar and as a target in other players' HUDs? If so then the camouflage paintwork doesn't really make any difference because other players can still target you.
I have one problem with your model Nigel. Engine looks bigger and disturbing your ship's appearance. Scale your ship as little bigger, would be look way better.
Disclaimer: the stealth features of the ship are largely imaginary. In MP, nobody else can see your personal ship models. In SP, the computer knows where you are, regardless of how stealthy your ship looks.
As for the ship engine issue, I don't know what to do about that. If it doesn't look like the one in the picture, then it has mysteriously changed from my computer to yours. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I do think it looks better, however, it's a bit large for a stealth fighter. On the other hand...who else is really going to see you in it?
Pfft, Have you taken a look at the B-2 recently?
Nice work.
-The race is not to the swift,
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise,
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all...
...For death is the destiny of every man;
the living should take this to heart...
I was thinking of the SR-71 or the F-117...anyway, it's not big enough for bombing (unless you fill up all 4 tubes with fulcrum torpedoes).
Now I really want to make a cockpit for it. However, when I loaded an example cockpit, I could not see it in my program, so I have no idea how to model a cockpit.
Originally posted by Nigel_Strange
I was thinking of the SR-71 or the F-117...
Yeah, I know. I was just trying to illustrate that just because something is big, doesn't mean it isn't stealthy!
-The race is not to the swift,
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise,
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all...
...For death is the destiny of every man;
the living should take this to heart...
['chuckle'] Btw, does it come with its own cockpit?
Cracks me up, too ...