Would you fly this ship in game?

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:29 pm

Hi guys,

I came across a 3d model of a ship today, which might be a nice addition to the game. Here's some views of it:

The good things about this ship is that it's free, and fairly low-poly (around 1140 I believe). Also, the location of the engines will make aligning the ship with the in-game engine exhaust effects easy, and the general shape of the cockpit will go well with both the default as the Max cockpit.

The bad things about it is that the model itself is not very elegantly designed and could use a bit of remolding, and the texture isn't the greatest in the world either.

This means that if I want to prepare it for EM, there would be quite a bit of work (and time) involved. I would had to retouch the model, redo the UVW map, and also redo the texture and maps.
I'd more than happily do this, but there would have to be a serious interest in the ship to justifiy the work involved.

So hence the question in the poll. Have a good look at the image, and let me know whether you like this particular design and you would actually fly it quite a lot, or you'd rather not.
Again, when looking at the image, please keep in mind that if the ship is going in, I will completely redo the texture, and also touch up the model itself. So it's (hopefully) going to look a little better than it does now.

Thanks for voting.

Edit:
If you have suggestions in regards to what you would like to see changed about the current design, feel free to drop them below. If they're not too complex I could implement them as I retouch the model.

[Edited on 12-25-2012 by Viper]

Post by **Marvin** » Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:32 pm

I don't mind the texture but the nose is too long when compared to the default cockpit. It would need to be shortened.

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:37 pm

I think the large portion in the front, which you probably see as the nose, is actually the cockpit glass. And the similar but much smaller portion behind that, is a second piece of glass I think. They're separated by some kind of bracket, like the cockpit of a 2-seat jet.

Post by **Marvin** » Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:40 pm

Yup. Also, the canopy lacks struts between the windscreen and quarterpanels seen in the default cockpit.

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:42 pm

Yeah, noted about the struts. The appearance of the nose could be shortened quite simply as well.

JimmyTheDeath · Post by **JimmyTheDeath** » Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:44 pm

would be cool to use it as a drone fighter.

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:46 pm

I don't think that is technically possible at this time. If it were introduced, it would be a player-side ship mod, like the SX3. That means that only the player using the mod would be able to see it.

Busch · Post by **Busch** » Wed Dec 26, 2012 1:02 am

I'll fly it, I'm a pilot....

Dagran · Post by **Dagran** » Wed Dec 26, 2012 4:24 am

Shades of the xwing and starfury fighters, good stuff.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Wed Dec 26, 2012 7:58 am

It looks cool, I might fly it if it would be available!....

capricorne693 · Post by **capricorne693** » Wed Dec 26, 2012 11:11 am

Yes my escort convoy!:):)

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Wed Dec 26, 2012 11:13 am

I had a somewhat closer look at the model in 3dsMax, and the amount of corrections it needs was even worse than I thought - it's indeed a slight mess lol. There's a lot of stuff you can't see on the image above that is not right - floating vertices, duplicate poly's all over the place. Tbh I was surprised I was able to export it into a DirectX mesh and test it in game.
So anyway I concluded that designing a completely new ship from scratch would definitely take less time than correcting this one. And it would have the benefit of getting it exactly the way you want it.

So I figured that's what I'm gonna do. I'll post a few images in the Community Project thread of which I'm gonna use one as main inspiration. We'll take it from there.

Frost N7 · Post by **Frost N7** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:43 am

it reminds me of the F-144 , possible a 2.0 version would be verry similar to this.

KingArthur · Post by **KingArthur** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:07 am

VIPER. Kind of Looks Like a Cross between a "X-WING FIGHTER" and a "BSG VIPER".

Viper · Post by **Viper** » Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:27 am

Yeah it does have quite a few similarities with a couple of familiar ships. Probably why it stood out to me in the first place.

Post by **DaveK** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:06 am

love it - voted for it