SEV: Ship/race requests
 

I'd like to request someone create the Babylon5 Earth Alliance ship models. Well for that matter all of the Babylon5 ship types. Any one up for the challenge?

Re: SEV: Ship/race requests
 

I think it'll be a while before we see the kind of very high quality ship sets we eventually saw for SEIV appearing. In terms of complexity, SEIV was a big jump from SEIII and SEV looks like about as big a jump again.

I'm optimistic though - the earliest SEIV ships sets were geometic shapes with textures thrown over them or pictures culled from other games or sci-fi TV shows and we ended up getting ships sets that equally or in some cases surpassed the offical sets.

Re: SEV: Ship/race requests
 

Yes, I know the history of many of these ship sets for SEIV. But there are plenty of 3d models out there from modders that can be converted now for play. If I knew anything about 3d graphic art I'd do it my self. But the point of my post was to start the ball rolling for new race/models and not debate if this is to early to make these requests.

Re: SEV: Ship/race requests
 

Yes plenty of models, but many are in the polygon range of low thousands to tens of thousands. Most polys we would need or want for a SEV model is at most 1000 polys, and less than 500 would probably be better...

Converting existing models to lower poly is not an easy chore...from what I hear...I dont have any first hand experience...

Re: SEV: Ship/race requests
 

There are automatic algorithms to merge/cull extraneous polygons. They are usually pretty good, so only minimal hand-tuning would be needed for most cases.

Re: SEV: Ship/race requests
 

You could always ask the Galciv 2 modders if you can use theirs, I'm pretty sure they have some low polys

Re: SEV: Ship/race requests
 

battlestar Galactica shipset (yes only 2)
b5 shipset
starwars shipset
and if ya get lazy then ya work on a Startrek shipset http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

oh ya work on not only the mods but I would like to see some Scenarios other then the tutorial i think their was one other for the P&N mod and that was it.

Re: SEV: Ship/race requests
 

I would like to suggest shipsets based on the Superior Models "Starfleet Wars" line of miniatures. These were produced from the late 70's/early 80's until about 2000, and are now in production again under a new name:

Galactic Knights

Basically there are five fleets with distinctive designs (ok, one of the fleets shows heavy Star Wars Imperial entanglements) for ships ranging from fighters up through superdreadnoughts - even "tactical missiles" that would make dandy drones. I own examples of most of them and could supply digital photos to the enterprising modeller...

The old Starfire miniatures line might also make a suitable base for such a project, if anybody has a set (I don't).