the Barge

[Jinx]

side by side ...

the current barge is a horizontal cylinder / tube that has a more pointy end - the revision is basicly a horizontal hexagonal tube with a blunt end. but regarding to length, volume and general dimensions, you can expect it to be as close as it gets.

as for the extrusions ...

well - firstly of course - a new barge wouldn t make it in till 4.87 ( that is a time when 90% of you have left the community anyway or when after the world has collapsed regarding to the aztec calender )

secondly - the very large control tower ( the wide thing in the rear ) would "fold" inwards and hug the hull when the ship goes cruise; the ramp of the hangar would retreat inwards.

i expect that in 4.87 - we d work on ships/mobs animation as a primary task ( as modellers ) cause we covered most ships anyway. - so that model is already build with separate mesh groups in mind.

about the ship looking zoner ...

i m sorry, but "come again?..." - not every ship i make is a zoner ship ( in fact - i made like 10 times more non zoner ships ) - but then - looks and perception are subjective and i cannot argue with them - so i won t.

anyway ... here are some "zoner" designs, i trust you don t find many similarities ( other than the use of vanilla textures - and you d also see that they are completely different to the barge )



and these 3 look similar to

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in general ...

this is mostly a "survey" to assess what ... or if people believe that the barge might be looked into - now that its public.

i d do the same if the necrosis suddenly turned public or the emperors flying palace or the leviathan. and you can be damn sure that we d also look into it if the keeper ships, scra ships, phantom ships turned public.

along with revising the visuals ( taste and design changes in time... and the time between the original import and now has been quite long ) whats sufficient then doesn t need to be sufficient now, hence revisions are necessary - and also keep the mod alive ( even if some people consider them redundant ) - but every revision of visuals renews something.





if there is a majority feeling that the old model is not only better - but also no change needs to be done .... no change WILL be done, cause devs are there to do stuff the community wants - and not to do their own thing and force the community to adjust.


*edit: the barge revision was actually modelled and hardpointed as a "stationary base" rather than a playership... but that was when the plan was to only have one flyable playerbarge on the server so having another one looking different would not have been a big deal, as they were supposed to be unique in design.

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