A question to SEV beta testers

dogscoff · #1 June 2nd, 2005, 05:19 AM

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Imperator Fyron said:
I am still waiting for the space cows with plasma udders.

Obligatory Texrak Battlecow image posting:

David E. Gervais · #2 June 2nd, 2005, 07:24 AM

Nice pic dogscoff, but don't you think the guns need a second 'strap' to help keep the barrel aligned? As is I think the the guns would eventually hang low in the front. Also there should be a horizontal strap around the front breast of the 'worthogish-bovine' to help keep the guns in place after the recoil.

then again, if everything is weightless in space it might not need more straps at all, you could also be using 'velcro' to hold it in place, hard to tell from this angle.

Oh well, it's still a nice pic, and if you chop off the head it would make a nice race portrait.

Cheers!

El_Phil · #3 June 2nd, 2005, 09:50 AM

Maybe weightless but there's still reaction. Newton's 3rd law and all that. So unless the guns fire zero kinetic energy rounds there will be recoil, hence the need for more straps.

El Phil waits patiently for this physics to be torn apart

Gandalf Parker · #4 June 2nd, 2005, 10:09 AM

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Obligatory Texrak Battlecow image posting

Thats mean. I will never think of that race the same again. The scarey orc-looking head will come up and I will remember that the body I could never see is some moo-cow

Gandalf Parker

Iron Giant · #5 June 2nd, 2005, 11:33 AM

Woot! More screenshots for SEIV! It looks like even the ship designs are getting more attention than they did in Starfury.

One by one over the last 2 years every single video/computer game I've looked forward to has built me up, then dropped me like a rock. Its been brutal to be me. I used to have a video game addiction, now I can't even work up enough interest to play a game when I have time to play one. Its SO depressing... Save me SE5!!!

dogscoff · #6 June 2nd, 2005, 12:46 PM

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Nice pic dogscoff, but don't you think the guns need a second 'strap' to help keep the barrel aligned? As is I think the the guns would eventually hang low in the front. Also there should be a horizontal strap around the front breast of the 'worthogish-bovine' to help keep the guns in place after the recoil.

Who said they were guns? They're mustard dispensers. And the strap is just for show- they are kept in place by magnets, kind of like those window-washy-gizmos, where you put one half on the outside of the glass, then move it about with a magnet on the inside...

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Oh well, it's still a nice pic, and if you chop off the head it would make a nice race portrait.

Indeed it does. Or, to put it another way, the head did make a nice portrait until I stuck a body on it...

Ed Kolis · #7 June 2nd, 2005, 01:58 PM

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Gandalf Parker said:
Thats mean. I will never think of that race the same again. The scarey orc-looking head will come up and I will remember that the body I could never see is some moo-cow

What, you never read the race description? They ARE cows!

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The Texrak are a quad-pedal species that exists in great herds. They are a strongly pack oriented society and never venture far from their family. They spend most of their life time grazing the vast plains of their homeworld. They have an average lifespan of 30 years.

narf poit chez BOOM · #8 June 2nd, 2005, 02:23 PM

What did you make that in?

Gandalf Parker · #9 June 2nd, 2005, 02:53 PM

Admittedly I rarely read the descripts. But that stil wouldnt have put "cows" in my impression from that head. Maybe hogs, or something rhinocerous looking. Still it is a great picture

dogscoff · #10 June 2nd, 2005, 03:29 PM

Narf: Hand drawn in Paintshop Pro, if memory serves correctly. (although the head, obviously, is cut&pasted from the game's files)

Didn't even use my artpad & pen for that one either, I'm pretty sure it was a mouse job. I also did ones for the Zynarra and Bobrobans - http://www.dogscoff.co.uk/propresp.htm