Ship Ideas

[Badger]

Threading a Battlestar around the Discovery galaxy is hard enough from what I've heard, let alone a ship big enough to populate an entire system. Kinda nice idea, but I'd say more novel than anything, a l? Mars Flyer.

As for ship designs... hmm. I have been meaning to learn the ins and outs of ship modelling/skinning and implementation for Freelancer for a while. I've got the 3d part down, from quite a bit of experience with various incarnations of 3dsmax, my mental block at the moment is the actual designs. It's ok when you're just throwing ideas out from the top of your head, but the design styles in this game are quite unique.

I was planning on designing a few ships to fill certain gaps in the mod, for instance more House Faction Bombers and a Pirate Gunboat. I wanted to stay as close to the original styles as possible, without cutting-and-shutting parts together to make the bland, uninspired ship collages you see in other mods. There is a plethora of design ideas to work with, I'm just drawing blanks at the moment :0/

Here's a quick brainstorm I intended to work with, for example:

Bretonian Bomber
Theme: Fish/Aquarian, Style: 60's/70's sci-fi (think Captain Scarlet), Texture: Medieval armour/gothic building, muted browns/yellows/greens fish-like colouring, Characteristics: Fins/tail, bulbous front window (again, 60's/70's sci-fi submarine).

Hope that gives somebody some ideas to work with, I'll try and get round to doing something myself as soon as I get the time :0)

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