Post by: Captain Ron on March 15, 2004, 09:44:35 pm
This is the Dreadnaught version I will also release a Heavy Cruiser version as well
-enjoy!
Post by: Azel on March 15, 2004, 10:05:29 pm
I look foward to more shots
Capt...You are Damned GOOD!!!
Post by: ModelsPlease on March 16, 2004, 04:27:53 am
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Post by: Marauth on March 16, 2004, 05:06:04 am
Post by: starforce2 on March 16, 2004, 05:33:43 am
Post by: Kaenyne on March 16, 2004, 08:09:14 am
You're doing a fine job, Captain.
Already she's a vast improvement over the stock Excalibur.
Post by: Captain Ron on March 16, 2004, 09:29:58 am
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Aye 'tis cool, but 'tis no dreadnought ye got there boy. LOL Seriosuly though, there is a proper dreadnought version by Nightstorm called the Justice class, it was on Eras of War which should mean it'd be available on the SFU database. It has a torpedo pod and 2 nacelles coming out of the top of the saucer.
Nope could not find any model fitting that discription, you have a link or the actual model?
Post by: Rhaz on March 16, 2004, 09:30:55 am
Post by: Chrystoff on March 16, 2004, 10:31:14 am
Post by: Marauth on March 16, 2004, 11:50:16 am
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Aye 'tis cool, but 'tis no dreadnought ye got there boy. LOL Seriosuly though, there is a proper dreadnought version by Nightstorm called the Justice class, it was on Eras of War which should mean it'd be available on the SFU database. It has a torpedo pod and 2 nacelles coming out of the top of the saucer.
Nope could not find any model fitting that discription, you have a link or the actual model?
Aye, I got me the model itself on me HD, Eras of War has been down for ages and I don't know if the model is still hosted anywhere but I'll zip it up and send it to ya if ye give an email addy.
Post by: Captain Ron on March 16, 2004, 04:42:56 pm
If so I have it, it was released as a BB by Pneumonic81. That was the one I was redoing as a Excelsior styled texture and dropped it, was not coming out right.
Post by: Marauth on March 17, 2004, 12:20:04 am
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It isn't the Odyssey class Alternate Configuration is it in a fod.zip?
If so I have it, it was released as a BB by Pneumonic81. That was the one I was redoing as a Excelsior styled texture and dropped it, was not coming out right.
No.
LOL, seriously it's an Excalibur variant by Nightstorm, I've sent the .MOD files and the extra textures for the torpedo pod to your email.
Post by: Captain Ron on March 17, 2004, 01:36:04 am
And here is the WIP2 picture.
You can see the Bridge Deflector system clearly now and the forward spot light that will light the registry. The Engine support Pylons are done as well as the weapons pod on the rear.
Post by: starforce2 on March 17, 2004, 02:06:21 am
Post by: ModelsPlease on March 17, 2004, 02:55:42 am
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Post by: Captain Ron on March 17, 2004, 09:36:23 am
Post by: Captain Ron on March 17, 2004, 03:27:13 pm
Post by: Kaenyne on March 17, 2004, 03:46:24 pm
Gotta pic?
Post by: Captain Ron on March 17, 2004, 05:11:33 pm
Post by: Captain Ron on March 20, 2004, 03:07:28 am
Post by: Chrystoff on March 20, 2004, 07:47:51 am
Post by: starforce2 on March 20, 2004, 07:38:06 pm
Post by: Captain Ron on March 20, 2004, 09:35:19 pm
Post by: Captain Ron on March 21, 2004, 10:41:24 pm
The lower hull is done Pictures will follow in just a bit. This will be a 4-5 ships release, that will include a Spade Class, Excalibur Class (in a Dn, CA, AND BB versions) and a Updated Don Rosa Class. All these will be released at one time and in seperate downloads but I am not going to update as I finish each ship Like I have done in the past, so Patients will be needed here.
-GAFY?
Post by: Captain Ron on March 21, 2004, 11:01:47 pm
Post by: ModelsPlease on March 22, 2004, 01:32:42 am
Post by: Kaenyne on March 22, 2004, 08:21:02 am
The Spades is a neat kitbash.
And I'm glad to see you taking on the stock FCX. It's a great ship that needs your touch.
Post by: Captain Ron on March 22, 2004, 04:59:19 pm
Post by: Kaenyne on March 23, 2004, 08:34:15 am
Just a suggestion.
Post by: Kaenyne on March 24, 2004, 08:28:48 am
Post by: Captain Ron on March 25, 2004, 02:08:53 am
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Hmmmm...maybe you can do what you did with one of your Excelsiors and make three engines textures. One "main" textures and a couple of alternates. Then later if you want to include more, have another file of texture sets.
Just a suggestion.
Might just do that...
Don't know though as the first set is taking me a long time trying to figure it all out, so I don't know if I will have the patients it takes to do more than the first one I finish.
Post by: Captain Ron on March 25, 2004, 11:25:44 am
The Spades includes a few extra textures in it as well, as well as a updated engine rear cover. She is available in the retexture section as the Spades_Retexture on the second page here.
Little write up for the spades to give an idea of how to use her:
This ship is about 10% larger than a FCL, and has multiple textures available. The first is with one shuttle bay that can be used as an attack ship or long ranged scout. The second has two top opening bays that would allow it to be used as a troop ship with larger quater areas behind the bays. The last one is useful as a priorty cargo carrier and has three bays to allow rapid transfer of materials. This version can also be used as a shuttle carrier or escort carrier. The Spades classes most noticible feature is the over sized warp engines for greater speed, and the large torpedo launcher on the top.
enjoy!
-GAFY?
Post by: Chrystoff on March 25, 2004, 11:45:46 am
Post by: Kaenyne on March 25, 2004, 11:55:21 am
Tonight she will be in my fleet!
Post by: Captain Ron on March 26, 2004, 11:51:55 pm
The other two I was working on are more of a TMP style and they are all on the iffy list of completion right now, because of time restrainants.
Post by: ModelsPlease on March 27, 2004, 12:06:46 am
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Post by: Kaenyne on March 30, 2004, 10:18:24 am
I'm rather excited aboutt this ship.
Post by: Captain Ron on March 30, 2004, 10:35:16 am
Post by: Kaenyne on March 30, 2004, 10:45:57 am
It'll be great to have your advanced CA in-game!
Post by: Captain Ron on March 31, 2004, 03:59:38 am
So pictures and Download will be up tomorrow some time, I will post here when it is ready.
Post by: Kaenyne on March 31, 2004, 08:37:20 am
The U.S.S. Philadelphia is definately a "must have" starship!
Post by: Captain Ron on March 31, 2004, 06:02:03 pm
the CA version is now done and out hiding in the Downloads section. It has the simplier version of the Engine textures that the DN and BB will have. They will all be interchangable so one set will fit the other ships as well, for a mix and match. These versions will be in the DN download when it is finished, they will be without registries on them in the ALT directory. So there will be two more ships to come through this process, the BB will probably be next as all the finishings stuff will be with the DN version.
The ship can be found at the following link: Download!
ScreenShot:
Please don't forget to look through the other pages and sections, you never know what you might have missed.
-enjoy!
Post by: starforce2 on March 31, 2004, 08:19:31 pm
Post by: Captain Ron on April 01, 2004, 12:50:02 am
One got changed around as I was trying to fix some Mesh errors that were present in the ship. So they are both there but one has less errors in it that the other. I had done this when I first got Milkshape and pretty much was a learn as i go process so it is not one of the better meshes I have up for download.
Post by: ModelsPlease on April 01, 2004, 03:54:41 am
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Post by: starforce2 on April 01, 2004, 06:13:40 am
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Unreal yet again Captain Ron sir !!!!!! A magnificent ship.Ok now for the dumb question.....which one is the Ticonderoga kitbash ship retextured?
-MP
It's a Miranda saucer wioth 2 engeneering hulls from a connie connected by pylons and about 3 miranda torp pods plus the normal connie nack pods which you end up with 16 tubes. Basucily and uber dn. Though I wish someone would make a yamamoto out of it. *cough*hint*cough*
Post by: Kaenyne on April 01, 2004, 08:05:17 am
She's gorgeous and a VAST improvement (light years) over the stock model.
Post by: Captain Ron on April 02, 2004, 12:32:16 am
Post by: Kaenyne on April 02, 2004, 08:50:42 am
She's lookin' REAL good with those new engines!
She will be mine in a few hours.
I have to ask again ('cause I'm a pain that way), but do you have any plans to go back and do more textures on your Hickman?
And you know, you could do a real bang-up job on Mackie's Galahad, as I can plainly see from your Excalibur work...
Now back to the real subject...
Post by: Captain Ron on April 02, 2004, 09:03:20 pm
The Hickman is done I don't plan on going back to it at this time. The FCA, FCL, etc are all pretty much the same texture with different names. Since they are basically the same they will work on other ships using that style of engine, so they should be pretty much swapable already.
So still 2 two more Federation ships to go then they are done.
Post by: Kaenyne on April 02, 2004, 09:45:25 pm
I'm a patient guy!
Now to get that new Rosa!
Post by: Captain Ron on April 03, 2004, 03:37:17 am
The one at the top showing the whole ship is one of my favorite ones so far, for the completed ones. The one on the lower left I was testing out if I wanted the Picture styled windows I had on the Orginal Don Rosa again, I decided to stop that one but included it as it was in a releasable state. The bottom right show the ship with the ones from the CA version on it. There are 3-4 more still in the WIP process not shown here 2 of which are more TMP looking, they are not shown as I am not done with them yst and they still need work. It is also the easiest way of dropping one in the trash can if I don't like it with out someone going but that was the one I wanted for the ship.
Post by: Chrystoff on April 03, 2004, 07:57:08 am
Post by: Fury_of_a_Seraph on April 03, 2004, 10:01:47 am
Post by: Captain Ron on April 03, 2004, 03:43:03 pm
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I like the Nacelles of the Top, but the Bussard Collecters of the lower left.
See...
Everyone always has a favorite, and this is what I mean by it is usually a mix and match that makes it. That one is not on the list Fury_of_a_Seraph but you should be able to do it pretty easily as to get the TMP intake you just have to turn the red area gray.
Post by: Fury_of_a_Seraph on April 03, 2004, 04:49:18 pm
go with the top
Post by: Captain Ron on April 03, 2004, 09:56:19 pm
I finished the Last of the TNG looking ones and now have to finish up the TMP ones, all of which have the Black Buzzard collectors. I would have posted a WIP pic, but Mackies site seems to be down for me right now.
Post by: Captain Ron on April 04, 2004, 04:29:40 am
The Dreadnaught version is done though the rest of the Engines are not, still have all the TMP ones to finish. One of the TMP versions will go on the Battleship version of this ship and the rest will go into the Dns' Alt Directory. This means the Dns' ZIP will be about 8-9 megs big, sorry to all you 56kers, but that is the price to pay for have more textures than the model needs. It does add to the fleet though as now any single ship type can use different textures to increase the amount of times you can use that ship.
I will post Pics later as I need to sleep now, she got the registry U.S.S. Odyssey NCC - 37248.
So 3-4 more textures and it will all be released, then the Federation Door is closed.
(except for the one I still owe Mackie, but that may never get released)
PS: so when are you going to release all those Excelsior Variants Fury_of_a_Seraph
Post by: starforce2 on April 04, 2004, 09:05:09 am
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This means the Dns' ZIP will be about 8-9 megs big, sorry to all you 56kers, but that is the price to pay for have more textures than the model needs. It does add to the fleet though as now any single ship type can use different textures to increase the amount of times you can use that ship.
I
why not release the nacelle textures as addon packs? That way those who don't want/like them don't need to dl them.
Post by: Captain Ron on April 04, 2004, 12:50:01 pm
This is what the finished ship looks like:
it can be downloaded here!
-enjoy!
Post by: Captain Ron on April 04, 2004, 09:01:23 pm
man posted this in the morning and it is already almost on page 4
Post by: Chrystoff on April 04, 2004, 09:10:26 pm
Post by: ModelsPlease on April 05, 2004, 03:11:18 am
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Post by: Kaenyne on April 05, 2004, 08:32:42 am
Nice Nice Nice!
I really digging these ships!
Before I forget, Captain, did you mention you were planning at some point to do a retexture of Mackie's Explorer. And isn't she the Galahad Class? I'm a bit confused...
Post by: Captain Ron on April 05, 2004, 10:33:16 am
Post by: Marauth on April 05, 2004, 10:35:47 am
Post by: Kaenyne on April 05, 2004, 10:47:53 am
That clears it up.
Now I can't wait to see what the captain can do with this ship.
Judging by what I've seen with his interpretation of the Excalibur, she'll be breaktaking!
Post by: Captain Ron on April 05, 2004, 06:59:40 pm
Post by: Captain Ron on April 06, 2004, 02:54:49 am
WIP shot
so by next weekend all the Federation ships should be done and out.
Post by: Kaenyne on April 06, 2004, 09:46:48 am
Post by: Captain Ron on April 06, 2004, 10:05:38 am
Post by: Kaenyne on April 06, 2004, 10:24:58 am
Post by: Chrystoff on April 06, 2004, 01:43:49 pm
Post by: starforce2 on April 06, 2004, 02:25:52 pm
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the funny part is very few I believe are even looking through this thread any more. I will probably have to do a seperate thread for each of these ships once the last one is out, just so people know that they are available for download. It is something I noticed in the past that WIP thread for any ship are ignored after the first few looks if that is not a ship they wanted. Evan if there are 30 ships in that thread for download they will not see them or download them. Then once you place it in its own thread, all those people will then see the ships and if it interests them download them. There are exceptions to that though, there are some like KF who seems to go through every thread looking for ships these guys are the true collectors.
most likely people are ignoring the thread because like regular tmp, once you see the improvment you've made to that, you automaticly know what the rest of the variants will look like so people just sit around and wait for them to be released.
Post by: E_Look on April 06, 2004, 03:57:28 pm
But while I'm here, let me say I think the work on these ships is quite good and in this case, I don't say much because I usually don't like three-nacelled ships; they somehow don't do it for me aesthetically. But these last posted pix show a pretty nice model.
Post by: Captain Ron on April 06, 2004, 05:51:59 pm
Post by: Captain Ron on April 07, 2004, 02:02:56 am
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These will more than likily be the engines I release this ship with, I still have two more to lay out but no guarntees they make into the model. I also have 4 engines to do finishing work on so it will be a bit before this one is released. There are two version of the BB as well, the orginal file and a modified one by me. so after the engines get done I will have to do the pod and rescale everything on it. The texture was a 512 x 512 and used a small corner on it, I will make a better version covering more area and use that one instead.
WIP shot
so by next weekend all the Federation ships should be done and out.
Well looks like it will be longer than that, things are not going as well as I hoped. I found some errors as I was texturing the pod that will force me to redo the placement of the engines. Plus the pod itself is given some problems, I just deleted the file by accident so it is back to the begininng for the pod texture. so this ship is now delayed until I can find time again, work just picked up for the next 3 days and the holiday is coming up.
Post by: yeaterk on April 07, 2004, 02:06:40 am
Post by: Captain Ron on April 10, 2004, 04:03:47 am
the FBB UI in SFC 2/OP doesn't have enough Phaser mounts for it. misses it by one. I can use the Mirik BB as a subsititute for it but it means I will have to move some HPs around to make it work. My only other choice is to use the Starbase one and that really will cause me to have to move things around. My third option is to simple delete the forward phaser on the saucer and reposition the the first two side ones (lots of work even more so than moving HPs.
so it brings up the the point what was the standard fix that use to be done for these things?
Post by: Captain Ron on April 10, 2004, 03:42:01 pm
Well then the next question comes in, do I keep the UI federation or not?
if not then I will reHP it so it will use the Mirik UI, if Yes then I will reHP to use a starbase.
I will of coarse leave a HP.jpg in the file like I did with the others so you can match up the Hardpoints for the game.
Post by: Captain Ron on April 11, 2004, 12:18:03 am
Post by: Kaenyne on April 12, 2004, 08:29:41 am
Post by: Captain Ron on April 13, 2004, 01:42:12 am
Ok, so it is almost done now!
The HPs and DPs are done and all that is left is to make a pic to show the HP placement for the UI and it can be released. So it should be out as soon as I can find an hour to complete it, but definitly by the weekend. The readme will have text in it wit hte same information as the two jpegs as a backup.
and as with the rest of the advanced ships it has the 4 extra engine textures in the alt directory. This one also has two versions of the BB in it. The orginal as well as the one I modified in the picture above. As a Bonus I also put a CA version with the pod on it. All three share the same HP and DP info which now requires the FSB to make it work.
will post here when the Download is available, if I can still find this thread by then.
-GAFY?
Post by: Kaenyne on April 13, 2004, 08:17:54 am
Post by: Captain Ron on April 13, 2004, 08:54:01 am
Post by: Kaenyne on April 13, 2004, 09:01:07 am
Post by: Captain Ron on April 14, 2004, 12:17:58 am
Post by: Kaenyne on April 14, 2004, 08:36:01 am
Post by: Captain Ron on April 16, 2004, 12:15:21 am
Now drinking coffee as well just so I can stay up long enough to finish that BB, should be uploaded tomorrow.
Post by: Kaenyne on April 16, 2004, 08:35:56 am
Post by: Captain Ron on April 16, 2004, 12:29:19 pm
and that's it for me.
Post by: Kaenyne on April 16, 2004, 12:37:52 pm
Post by: Chrystoff on April 16, 2004, 12:53:40 pm
Quote:Thanks for putting so much effort into this. Know that your works are appreciated.
It is up and available now!
and that's it for me.
Post by: E_Look on April 16, 2004, 04:17:19 pm
Before you snooze, ahem... which site did you post it to??
Post by: Captain Ron on April 16, 2004, 04:40:52 pm
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HOLD IT!!
Before you snooze, ahem... which site did you post it to??
heh, heh, guess it does help to list a URL.
Federation Retextures it is listed as the Excalibur Class Battleship.
Post by: Captain Ron on April 16, 2004, 08:38:33 pm
off of page two already!?!
Post by: ModelsPlease on April 16, 2004, 09:32:25 pm
Thank you
-MP
Post by: Captain Ron on April 17, 2004, 01:38:12 am
(not going to let this one slip away so soon, not 5 released models in it)
Post by: Captain Ron on April 17, 2004, 10:30:42 pm
Post by: Captain Ron on April 18, 2004, 03:26:34 pm
There are 5 ships up available for download in this thread and 4 of them you can interchange the warp engine textures with.
Post by: ModelsPlease on April 18, 2004, 09:07:49 pm
Back up top.
Post by: Captain Ron on April 19, 2004, 12:45:04 am
Post by: ModelsPlease on April 19, 2004, 05:23:35 am
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Post by: Captain Ron on April 21, 2004, 11:57:32 pm
Post by: Captain Ron on April 23, 2004, 12:02:01 am