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Offline TrashMan

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UFO Battleship
« on: January 16, 2009, 11:12:28 pm »
A quick concept for the general shape.

Is this thing supposed to land?

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2009, 11:17:40 pm »
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.

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2009, 11:25:47 pm »
Good.. I still got thousands of polygons left to burn :)   (4096 is the limit IIRC?)

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2009, 12:05:23 am »
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.

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2009, 01:32:57 am »
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.

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2009, 01:03:12 pm »
Can someone tell me the approximate length? I need some sense of scale.

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2009, 01:29:59 pm »
It should be about as long as the Bomber. I don't know if that helps.

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2009, 08:38:02 pm »
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.

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2009, 03:43:09 am »
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.

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2009, 09:53:05 am »
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.

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2009, 12:48:27 pm »
Plus we'd never get it on a map.

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2009, 02:05:06 pm »
Sooo..can I get a rough estimate of it's length in meters please?

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2009, 02:35:26 pm »
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.

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2009, 06:59:38 am »
Not going to happen -- even the Battleship needs to be launched from a Carrier UFO, for reasons relating to the FTL drive technology.

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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

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Re: UFO Battleship
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2009, 11:06:34 am »
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.