SEV: Ship/race requests

[thorfrog]

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?

[Tim_Ward]

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.

[thorfrog]

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.

[Kana]

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...

[Will]

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.

[Spectarofdeath]

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

[Ironmanbc]

battlestar Galactica shipset (yes only 2)
b5 shipset
starwars shipset
and if ya get lazy then ya work on a Startrek shipset

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.

[Barnacle Bill]

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).