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as a small christmas present i release the mod for you all to enjoy and toy around with during the holidays
the ships are for sale at their respective shipyards and they should even be used by the AI, if not please tell me
in my opinion the ships are not overpowered
if you develope your own mod and would like to use these ships just send me a pm or contact me otherwise
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the mod contains the following ships:
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The Teladi Raven - M6
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The Pirate Bloodfang - M4The Raven class corvette was developed by the Teladi military wing to offer protection and serve as a reconnaisance vessel after severe flaws in the Osprey's design were discovered. Unlike the usual Teladi design the Raven is also relatively fast.
Tsululuki Miolus, the Raven's inventor, is known to have made a fortune with it's design and is now living on Ianumas Zuras in a villa build out of pure Nvidium.
The Raven is fast, well armed and offers enough cargo space to transport even the biggest space weed harvests.
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The Paranid Charon Vanguard - M3The Bloodfang is a swift and deadly light fighter. Due to its versatility pirate clans have adopted it not long ago.
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The Paranid Charon - M3
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The Argon Drifter - (combat) TPThe Charon is a rare breed of an offensive fighter craft, it wields few guns but those few can pack quite a punch. The Paranid Military developed the Charon as a heavy offensive fighter which if deployed in numbers can even take apart larger vessels. The Argon Defense Ministry is in uproar about the Paranid's cunning and wit to build such a ship in secret and that the Argon Military has been caught of guard once again.
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The Aldrin Autumn Rain (M3+++)After realizing the need for a swift and secure shuttle the Argon commissioned the production of the Drifter Heavy Passenger Transport class. Due to its quite opulent shielding and armament the Drifter Shuttle can easily be regarded as a light corvette rather than a transport ship. It's great maneuverability and the protection it offers have won the Drifter a place in the hearts of many pilots.
Argon's Military High Command also made it a top priority that the new shuttle would be capable to fire boarding pods as to allow it to act as a fully fledged raiding unit for commando units who sometimes have to engage in guerilla warfare far behind enemy lines.
The Drifter was reportedly seen while performing in a wolf pack formation during test runs to take down even heavier targets. In that particular incident the "victim" destroyer, a Teladi Phoenix, was literally maimed by the heavy fire it was put under by three of the Drifter Shuttles whilst two others snug up behind the Phoenix's aft and fired their four, well placed boarding pods right into the command deck where the glorious argon special forces won just another victory in just another training excercise held together with the Boron Royal Fleet each yazura.
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The Aldrin Autumn Rain Raider (M3+++)
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credits:Shortly after loosing contact to Terran space the colonists of Aldrin developed a heavy strike fighter which would allow them to sleep peacefully at night. The Autumn Rain was born and soon became famous for its exploits during hostile AI raids in which it prooved itself under heavy fire.
It is most famous for saving the lives of thousands of inhabitants of the remote Mining Outpost GM-7HJ where it singlehandedly took out 3 AI corvettes and smiled while doing so.
Due to the harsh environment Aldrin offeres the ship had to be fitted with heavy shielding to withstand the space dust aswell as a fast engine which allows it to travel between Aldrin stations in no time.
After the lost Aldrin colonies were rediscovered and diplomatic aswell as trade connections were established the Autumn Rain was refitted to be able to use commonwealth weapons as to give it the ability to scout into deep space and survive on its own over prolonged periods.
It's vast shielding, incredible speed and manouverabilty might astonish the usual commonwealth pilot but so will the pricetag.
egosoft for their game and base textures
doubleshadow for his amazing x3 mod manager and dbox2
deadlyda for his tutorial
killjaeden for some tips and developement critique aswell as his tutorials
killerog for the mission director script which i bluntly modified
the whole spieleabend crew for being such a funky bunch
me, the magnificent JaySuS that is
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see and explore the rest of the thread to read about their creation aswell as nice pics from different stages of the creation process
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well well well well,
i always wanted to fly my ow ship in an x game since i never really like the awkward designs which were so fundamentally different from my beloved wing commander of old (with a few exception like the x2 teladi condor or osprey) and finally i had enough time on hand and the motivation to do so
hence i created the Teladi Raven,
i must admit that finding all the necessary info to create a ship is rather tideous, not much worse than in other games but still annoying, anyway, i finally, after about 24h of meddling and googling and forum craze, succeeded in most parts
here are two screenshots:
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5237/test3sh.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/3839/test2i.jpg
so far i have a working model with a blunt teladi plates texture, bump and specular map, two working turrets with 2 guns each, 10 main guns, a docking slot for up to one m3 fighter and 6 functioning engine emitters
the ship model has approximately 7000 polygons, together with the guns and turrets that sums up to 40k (lol)
i still need to create a final texture but depending on the performance of the model in zbrush that will be no problem
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stats atm:
M6
500 engine tunings for 306 max speed (to make upgrading the beast a bit more interesting and expensive)
2 double turrets
10 main guns
2000 cargo tunings up to 4000 (for lots of space weed)
1 external docking slot for a fighter up to M3
fires boarding pods (you know, i hate having my men drift through space never to reach their destination)
"The Raven class corvette was developed by the Teladi military wing to offer protection and serve as a reconnaisance vessel after severe flaws in the Osprey's design were discovered.
Its is fast, well armed and offers enough cargo space to transport even the biggest space weed harvests."
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questions:
1.
how are copyright issues usually handled in the x univers? im asking because as of now i have packed that ship in that 3 ship mod with the thanatos, normandy and lusca, is it common courtesy to ask for permission like in other games or is it more or less use and give credit around here?
2.
for glow maps, do i just put them into the "self illumination" slot of a 3dmax material?
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how do i import animated props like the radar dish? dbox2 always reports an error
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where do i find and how do i import items like those lights some ships have?
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why does dbox2 always export my scene files with a "1" keyframe whereas a "-1" would be needed?
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is there a way to add more passenger seats to my ship whilst retaining the ability to dock at any station and carry a fighter? (TPs cant carry fighters, M1s cant dock, TMs only have 5 seats if i remember correctly)
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any ideas, tips, help and so on regarding, stats, background, ingame placement, model, etc are welcome
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if this ship works out smoothely in the end (and 24h of mezzeling are reall not that crazy if i remember for example landscaping in fallout3) i will probably create some more ships... well if im not extremely busy opening fan mail and decorating my room with the bras i get in these mails that is of course
@deadlyDA if you read this,
do you know what happened to shadowtekDOTnet?