I design shipsets

[Lord Kodos]

For concept alone, your race gets an A. The fact that the images are cool, is just icing on the cake. Although, im afraid i agree it is a little to dark, but, considering other things, and that if im not mistaken, this is your first shipset, it is still VERY impressive.

[Hugh Manatee]

Thank you for the feedback. I plan to run them through Doga L3 and maybe make a few small modifications(lighten them up), and add some extra ship sizes, but my primary concern with doing that is how do I make Pics for the "Neo" sizes in between the exsisting sizes if the current number of vessels in the ship is directly relavent to the size... Ok eg. 1 vessel=escort 2=frigate, so what would a "corvet"(between esccort and frigate) be? and what about "scouts". My instinc to pull this off is to put a second type of mini vessel model in there to acount for the difference of size. what do you think? and...

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Originally posted by trooper:
but I'm quite surprised to see that there is no link between the different parts. I think you should make them closer or linked with pipes or something like that.

Just my opinion, keep on the good work !
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Oleg:
I think the idea is that each ship is a representive ov some "bee hive" attacking the enemy. The race should have psychic and/organic technology.

Yes Oleg has it right, they are telepathically connected, but perhaps a semi transparent ray of some sort, like a lightning bolt or like those little round glass static electricity thingies with the pinkish energy inside that make your hair stand up when you touch them. Can Doga L3 do this?

I don't suppose anybody knows where to get even more Doga parts than the ones Arocities posted in the "sticky" topic? I got those already and they're coming in handy, especially the "people parts".

[ March 03, 2003, 04:35: Message edited by: Hugh Manatee ]

[trooper]

Originally posted by Hugh Manatee:
Thank you for the feedback. I plan to run them through Doga L3 and maybe make a few small modifications(lighten them up), and add some extra ship sizes, but my primary concern with doing that is how do I make Pics for the "Neo" sizes in between the exsisting sizes if the current number of vessels in the ship is directly relavent to the size... Ok eg. 1 vessel=escort 2=frigate, so what would a "corvet"(between esccort and frigate) be? and what about "scouts". My instinc to pull this off is to put a second type of mini vessel model in there to acount for the difference of size. what do you think?

You have found the solution, create half-moskitos !

Yes Oleg has it right, they are telepathically connected, but perhaps a semi transparent ray of some sort, like a lightning bolt or like those little round glass static electricity thingies with the pinkish energy inside that make your hair stand up when you touch them. Can Doga L3 do this?

That's quite surprising but now I understand the idea. Energy beams is a good idea indeed, I think it's possible to create easely some kind of laser beams, using the texture options of Doga. It will be a bit harder to create realistic lightnings bolts, I would try to use a chain of tiny bright cylinders.

[mlmbd]

Hugh Manatee,

but perhaps a semi transparent ray of some sort, like a lightning bolt or like those little round glass static electricity thingies with the pinkish energy inside that make your hair stand up when you touch them. Can Doga L3 do this?

You can do something like that. The process is time consumming. So, if you really want a sphere with a bolt of lighting, let me know. I will PM you, or u/l a txt file. Of the process. The easiest way is to select a square part. Edit, add the color you want the bolt to be. In the 'Pallette Settings' window, select 'spark' or 'thunder' for 'color1' (70% - invert), 'color2' (80% - invert) and the 'bump' (80% - invert). Set the over all density to 100%. On the 'Material' tab select 'Free setting'. Set the sliders to: 'Difuse - 100%', 'Ambient - 100%', 'Brightness - 100%', 'Extent - 1%', 'Hue - 15% to 20% (depending on the color you want)', 'Reflection - 30%' and 'Transparency - 0%'. Select, OK. Now, 'file' "export as part". There you go!

Or, I could make one for you and send it to you. Either the plain 'lighting bolt' or the energy sphere!

Would you mind sending me a copy of one (or all) of the L-2's from your set? I would like to put them into L-3. If not, I understand!

Luck, with the lighting bolts!

mlmbd

[Hugh Manatee]

1046715797.zip

I don't mind at all, ^that's them, have fun.

EDIT: and I just figured out the effect I was looking for with the "lightning", I just made a few jagged lines and set the "emmission" slider all the way up. I gave it a slight lime greenish hue. I haven't put it in the shipset yet as I haven't converted them yet, so it might not look good in the final product, but I'm optimistic.

[ March 03, 2003, 19:35: Message edited by: Hugh Manatee ]

[mlmbd]

Hugh Manatee, Thanks for the zip. I am glad you found a way of making your part. I think it will work. I am optimistic, as well!

mlmbd

[Hugh Manatee]

No problem, but to tell the truth I haven't been working on the "Swarm" much lately, for the past few of days since I got L3 I'v been doing something else, well, interesting(I think it is anyway, I haven't seen it done elswhere like I'm doing it), the best way to explain is with this story:

One day in the terran empire, a field study was commissioned to study the Void in between star systems. An advanced science vessel was prepared with all the latest equipment, several scientist, and their families. One child of these reseachers, a young boy of 12 years, had always been taken with the notion of Pirates of ancient times, he couldn't know exactly what it's like to be a pirate, couldn't know the feel of fresh sea air billowing in the sails, but he could imagine. And imaginehe did, that's all he could do on the Research ship, there was one other "child", a cute 16 year old redheaded girl he had a crush on and he was terribly shy. He avoided her and just stayed in his room or went to a secluded part of the ship which was seldom visited, but had an excelent view, and imagined and drew little ships in a note book.

One day a bright light apeared all around the ship and it shook violently. Radiation detectors went off the scale and there was panic. The boy ran through the corridors of the ship looking for his parents but found them dead, tears of crimson running down there eyes from bursted blood vessels, he ran to find the girl but was starting to feel sick and fell. The girl found him, and managed to drag him to a shielded cryo-escape pod just big enough for one person where he would be "safe". he regained consiousness just in time to see the girl be consumed by the radiation, blood running from her eyes. Just then everything went white, and he was surrounded by ethereal creatures. "They" were the cause of the radiation, "They" saw the science ship and decided to investigate, but didn't realize the radiation they naturally gave off was harmful. "They" "altered" the boy, making him resistant to the radiation, and granting him the abillity to "Will" things into being with his mind. "They" were grief sticken at Their carelessness, for "They" were explorers too. "They" communicated this to him in an instant, along with the promis that They would do every thing in their power to make the boy happy, give him his own world, all his wishes they could grant they would, but they couldn't grant all his wishes. The boy realized that his familly and friends were dead, he saw his crush die saving him and he never got to say how he felt or even a simple good-bye. He was filled with rage, his instincs took over and the Temporal warping abilities he now had were manifested 1000 time more than the beings had anticipated, fueled by the boys big imagination he overwhelmed every being, warping their minds and enslaving them all in a fit of rage only a child is capable of. He was reborn then and he knew his destiny, using the enslaved population of the beings and the temporal manifestations of his imagination, he would be RODGER, PIRATE KING OF THE UNIVERSE

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