UFO Battleship

[TrashMan]

A quick concept for the general shape.

Is this thing supposed to land?

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[Winter]

A quick concept for the general shape.

Is this thing supposed to land?

I like it. And no, the Battleship is never supposed to land, it's purely a combat ship. Not sure yet if we're going to include any infantry on it, but regardless, any troops it needs to deploy can be air-dropped or shuttled down.

Regards,
Winter

[TrashMan]

Good.. I still got thousands of polygons left to burn    (4096 is the limit IIRC?)

[BTAxis]

Looks interesting. By the way, in case you hadn't caught on, we're also going to need a low-poly version for the geoscape. It's a good idea to keep that in mind when building the model.

[TrashMan]

An old habbit of mine is to make a low-poly model, and then add details, saving in several stages. That way I got several different LODs easily.

[TrashMan]

Can someone tell me the approximate length? I need some sense of scale.

[BTAxis]

It should be about as long as the Bomber. I don't know if that helps.

[Chriswriter90]

I like it.

For some reason though, whenever I think "Alien Battleship" I think something the size of an airship or earth battleship ship bristling with guns and engines and whatnot.

But your design is good to. I'd like to fly in it.

[Darkpriest667]

It is a space battleship my belief is that a "battleship" class spaceship would be very large.. possibly 400-1000 m in length and 50 to 100 m wide and 50 to 100 m deep. as large as a modern aircraft carrier or larger.

[Winter]

It is a space battleship my belief is that a "battleship" class spaceship would be very large.. possibly 400-1000 m in length and 50 to 100 m wide and 50 to 100 m deep. as large as a modern aircraft carrier or larger.

Not going to happen -- even the Battleship needs to be launched from a Carrier UFO, for reasons relating to the FTL drive technology.

Regards,
Winter

[BTAxis]

Plus we'd never get it on a map.

[TrashMan]

Sooo..can I get a rough estimate of it's length in meters please?

[BTAxis]

The Bomber is about 60 meters long (assuming one game space to be 1 square meter). So that's the sort of size you should aim for.

[Darkpriest667]

Not going to happen -- even the Battleship needs to be launched from a Carrier UFO, for reasons relating to the FTL drive technology.

Regards,
Winter

Again winter this is just a non realistic conclusion.. look at the size of a modern aircraft carrier or the size of the missouri class battle ship ... at least 400 meters long... 50 meters deep 25 to 50 meters wide... I was just pointing out what REAL ships in that class are... what you want to do is your business... however i was pointing out the facts.. Thankyou.. and i know about the carrier ufo.. which leads me to this question

How are you going to design a map for the carrier UFO ... its apparently a very large ship.. and therefor unmappable by your standards

[Zorlen]

How are you going to design a map for the carrier UFO ... its apparently a very large ship.. and therefor unmappable by your standards

As far as I understand, carrier UFO is somewhat specific type of UFO, second only to mothership. And I think its size thing would be handled somehow, e.g. splitting it into several maps or limiting the mission to FTL engine room only.