4.86 shiplist + Images

[Aeqvinox]

because AoMs orca is a now established shape that differs sufficiently from the bottlenose to give it a unique balancing compared to the BHGs other gunboat.

the concept i made as a revision is practicly a verticle design, too - heavier than the bottlenose - but not too different in shape to the bottlenose to justify a 2nd gunboat.

also AoMs quality of mesh and skinning works is very good on the current orca - just cause some ppl don t like the shape doesn t make a bad model.

Thanks Jinx for the reply.

What i'm trying to say, is that the current Orca model doesn't fit into the theme of BHG shipline. It's not that bad of a model, but it's not superb either. Your revision though, is simply amazing.

Entire BHG shipline [except Orca of course], the vanilla ships as well as the new ones, are trying to resemble, with the vertical flat shapes and fin/wing positioning, a fishy shape. The Orca however, is a boat. I don't know who and why wanted to break one of the most distinctive shiplines in the mod with this, but it's just obvious to me that it was a bad idea.

Now, i don't know what's going on out there in the dev-land, maybe you're busy and don't have enough time to attend to each and every idea because of other urgent matters. I just want to express my opinion.

Please take another look at this if you can. It's sad to see such great concepts like this go to waste.
Perhaps you could tinker with it a bit, to make it closer in size and profile to old Orca, and making it different enough from the Bottlenose so that Your Orca has a chance to be accepted.

Here's a quick concept i made, maybe it'll come in handy ?



It's longer, nearly as long as the old Orca, effectively making it almost twice as long as the Bottlenose.
It's broader, to depict the shape of a massive predator. Twice+ as fat as the Bottlenose.

Front profile similar in surface to old Orca.
Side profile larger than both Orca and Bottlenose, aka snac-magnet.
Top-down profile similar to old Orca; due to the wings it's broader, but shorter. Bottlenose in this comparision is tiny.

Red cockpit glow added to resemble the bloodthirsty eyes of the killer-whale ^^

Tell me what you think.