The Terrans
 

I don't know how many people know this, but I'm the one who came up with the original Terran shipset for SE4 (ducks flying shoe). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif I know, not exactly Humanity's finest moment. While I always liked the basic idea, I think the execution fell a little short of what I'd originally envisaged. I've trying to figure out how to manifest the idea in my head, and I think I may be on to something.
Presented for your viewing pleasure (?) is the new Terran Escort. There's still a bit of work to do on the forward section, and guns have yet to be added, but what say ye of the new design? Improvement, or not so much?

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...ran_Escort.jpg

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Wow, fantastic work! I rarely comment on pictures posted here, but this looks really, really great!

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That's an awesome piece of art! Are we by any chance going to see this as a model in SE5??!!??

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The metallic shiny texture and mirror effects are awesome, but it looks rather complicated for the 'low poly-count' engine that Starfury uses. From a design standpoint, the big 'wings' or 'shields' on either side are a mystery. And a major source of additional unnecesary polygons. This is a concern for a game that will sometimes have to model dozens or even hundreds of ships. Why not just go with a 'utilitarian' boxey design kinda like the MOO III human ships? Shouldn't humans have fairly simple ships? I liked the triangular 'imperial' shipset that Atrocities posted a few months ago. Nice, clean lines that sort-of resemble the Star Wars Imperial ships but not closely enough to look like a knock-off.

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Hm, and who told you that this model will be used in SE5? I think Tim has no right to publish his artwork for se5, unless Aaron allowed him to do it (nda and all this "secrecy of game development").

As for model - it's awesome. I think it will bring mirror effects into fashion (Last word of fashion was "glowiness"). Thumbs up!

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Re: the wings - I think they're supposed to be armor! Never thought of the original Terran set that way, but I like the "primitiveness" of it, with the visible components and armor! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
And maybe SE5 has a fancier render engine than SF does, or that's just a portrait image and the model used in combat will be much less detailed? (Though I highly doubt the former, else the fancier images would surely have been used on the three teaser images which involve starships http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif)

Anyway, great work!

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Looks great! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
The shiney, reflective translucent surfaces are very nice.

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Looking good. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Thanks, and yes, the 'wings' are armor. And why do Terran ships have to be primitive, hmmm? Anyway, you won't be seeing this shipset in SE5 I'm afraid, since A) I still haven't found a way of properly exporting to .X format, and B) Under the terms of the NDA, my posting it here disqualifies it from being included in SE5.

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But still, make the GD Set! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

And we all know about the NDA..... Don't they regulate the food industry or something. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Exporting to X is a real PITA and one that I do think will limit the number of ship sets put out for SE V. In compareson, I will wager that SEV will have far less fan made ship sets than SEIV because of the change to 3d ship models. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif