only 2000?

ughkk... ok.

im just remembering that my battleship had over 2 million faces....

...And yet I thought it was too short! How many polys would it have been if it was bigger? 8O

Don't worry too much about details, General. As long as we can tell what the ship is meant to look like, then it is fine. Afterall, you can put all the detailling on the textures.

Is that 2000 polygons or 2000 triangles?
IE: polys as quads, pentas, hexas... or just tris?
(Yes. I did read what Skeeter said. I'm just asking for the programmer's confirmation... Please, no offense, Skeeter.)

2000 polys as far as Jig has said on the site so far.

The fewer polys there are, the faster that battles will run in the game - no matter how powerful your computer is.

2000 "3 sided" polygons.

Thank you for the confimation, Skeeter.

As y'all know I want to do a mod that starts slightly pre-warp. To do so, I need to make sure my models are within the limits... They tend to be in the 800 poly range... But those are mostly Quads (4-sided polys). If I triangulate them... Lets see... WHEW!!! The biggest is 1970 tris (3-sided). (The Dy-100 is only 390! )

By the way, Jig, I have improved the Vulcan D'kyr I sent you earlier. It's still not textured... I notice it's not on the ship list. Do you want it anyway? (Errrr... I *did* send you my collection of Vulcan ships... Didn't I??)

If you make any ships, ZDarby, then if you could send me a picture of the ship(s) or something, that would be brilliant.

Don't worry about hosting it, i'll sort all that out. If any ships are missing from the list then it is entirely my fault. I still haven't been told about the status of the Klingon, Romulan, or Dominion ships, which is why they still aren't posted yet.

Sorry for the double post, but I felt this was necessary.

I have posted an update to the shiplist - Dafedz has added 12 new classes of ship to the shiplist to balance things out better. Some classes of ship have also changed to different types.

Since I have only posted the Federation and Cardassian lists so far, only 7 of these classes are viewable, but the complete changes are:

Federation
SCOUT I - Hermes Class TECH 1
SCOUT II- Freedom Class TECH 5
HEAVY SCOUT - Centaur Class TECH 9

Klingon
DESTROYER IV - Fireblade Class TECH 10
BATTLE CRUISER IV - K't'inga Class TECH 11

Romulan
NONE

Cardassian
SCOUT I - Drexoran Class TECH 1
SCOUT II - Komax Class TECH 4
HEAVY SCOUT - Tra'Kor Class TECH 9
HEAVY DESTROYER I - Koronek Class TECH 4

Dominion
SCOUT I - Monitor Class TECH 0
SCOUT II - Cobra Class TECH 4
SCOUT III - Serpent Class TECH 9 (Upgrades from Probe ship 1 to Scout III - so it is in the shiplist TWICE)
ATTACK SHIP III - Vulture Class TECH 7
ATTACK SHIP IV - Darkwing Class TECH 10 (This was the Attack Ship III)
BATTLE CRUISER III - Corona Class TECH 8
BATTLE CRUISER IV - Aurora Class TECH 11 (This was the Battle Cruiser III)

You missed some.

FEDERATION
HEAVY DESTROYER I----Soyuz Class

ROMULAN
SCOUT I--------------R'Mor Class TECH 2
SCOUT II-------------D'Kor Class U/G TECH 5
HEAVY SCOUT--------R'Kovar Class U/G TECH 10
HEAVY DESTROYER---D'Xokra Class TECH 11

KLINGON
SURVEYOR I----------Vornak Class TECH 0
SURVEYOR II---------CharghwI Class TECH 4
SURVEYOR III--------ChelwI Class TECH 9

These replace the B'rel's, which are now the Klingon Scout ships I, II, and III...

The Dominion's Serpent class upgrade thing isn't right - I listed the Serpent twice by mistake - a typo. Sorry. This is how it should look (in the middle of the Dom shiplist)...

PROBE SHIP I----------Serpent Class TECH 0
PROBE SHIP II---------Viper Class TECH 6

SCOUT I----------------Monitor Class TECH 0
SCOUT II---------------Cobra Class U/G TECH 4
SCOUT III--------------Python Class U/G TECH 9

ATTACK SHIP I---------Chameleon Class T1 TECH 1
ATTACK SHIP II--------Oberon Class TECH 4
ATTACK SHIP III-------Vulture Class TECH 7
ATTACK SHIP IV--------Darkwing Class TECH 10

You updated the list since I made the post, didn't you?!

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Ok, i've added in the Klingon, Romulan, and Dominion shiplists, but that doesn't mean I know about the completion status of the models.

I also made a number of minor updates.

I don't think I've updated it since you posted - but if the version of the shiplist you had doesn't include those ships, then obviously I must have. I can't remember when or what version you had; if I sent you one it was certainly unfinished, in which case it explains the omission of the Romulan ships etc...

oh and BTW. The FULL shiplist and accompanying data can be found in this new thread:



http://botfii.armadafleetcommand.com/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1066

Yeah, you did send me a pre-release version; you hadn't added any Romulan ships to it.

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Come on then people! Does anyone want to have a go at making a model? There's plenty to choose from now!

im working on one already!

I know, but it would be nice if more people were having a go - the more modelers there are, the faster they will be completed!

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Eon_Janus has completed the Federation Yorkshire Class Transport III now. He won't be able to continue making more ships because he has exams coming up, however.

Thanks for your help, Janus. Your work is much appreciated.

Was designing it as a ent era klingon light scout but i supose can be anything.

Btw the spikes on wing ends are temp till i get some nacelles done. Oh and so far its only 150 polys hehe.

To be honest, I quite like those spikes, Skeeter.

You could keep them in as mid-wing Disruptors or something...

That would make the ship a bit different, yet keep it Klingon. I can't think of any Klingon ships with mid-wing Disruptors at the moment...

Sorta gone for a bit of bop for wings, and bit of vorcha for mid back section with bop warp engines and neck like bop.

bop warp engines gets around the nacelles hehe.

Weapons boost the polys up a bit tho to around 1300 ish polys. As weapons are 500ish polys each, i could have gone lower but there basic enough allready.



Hope you all like.

Yes very nice. I'd like to designate that as perhaps the Klingon Fireblade class Destroyer IV.

Can you do one or two more of similar shape and design, but smaller for the earlier Klingon Destroyers? I'd like to retain a common design lineage within the class types, so that Destroyers I to IV kind of retain the same design themes and attributes.

Yeah could give it a go making more, duno when i will ever find time to texture them all tho. Still got klingon base to finish off.

Well if you don't mind it being the Fireblade, Skeeter, i'll update my shiplist thread and add in the picture.

Of course, i'll keep it up-to-date with any updates you post.

You seem to have missed the romulan bird of prey i have done MoE.

I'm assuming you mean your TOS-era one?

What class do you want it to be? It could be:

SCIENCE SHIP I
-D'Raxinor Class TECH 0

SCOUT I
-R'Mor Class TECH 2

DESTROYER I
-D'Lokra Class TECH 1

Tech 2 would be early TOS, so it would work best as the Scout 1, but it's up to you.

Hmm i would say destroyer cos of the very powerful plasma torpedo in its time era, but scout could work as its a long range ship. Upto jig..

Ok, i've added it in as the Destroyer, but if Jig decides otherwise, i'll change it as necessary.

well, i left the uni for ever. wasn't enjoying it as i supoused i would. so, yesterday i completed a model of the London class TP. it is untextured yet, and i'm not planning to texture it anytime soon, so if you guys like the model and enjoy texturing, plz be my guests and do it (this is if you are going to use my model. if not, then feel free to ignore this post u^^)


the polygons in the image are not tripled, but when they are, the ship is at 260 polys. obviously, a very simple, very elemental attempt

I urge you to try texturing, grab a free trial or somit, like paint shop pro and have a go. Start with grey, then add a new layer add some details on to that layer, then new layer then more details etc etc.

Do some snap shots of ur model in flat shaded or wireframe mode do get the start of texture parts of models do the front, then middle then back.

Btw nice start on the model. Of course it could do with a more detailed mesh so you can up the detail with more polys to define shapes more, especially nacelles.

Keep going with it, and im sure it will look great once updated and textured.

Good Luck.

hmm...I see some ships I can do quickly...I think
constellation and excelsior..
oh btw, which version of the excelsior?
or should I do both?

Version?

Do you mean the Excelsior-Excelsior and the Enterprise-B-Excelsior?

Do both - if you want. Jig is gonna decide which models are best if we have multiple entries.

I've added in that you're making it, Fireball.

The Excelsior's done, we'll use the one I made for Ultimate Mod, I reckon it's decent enough..



Let's just concentrate on the models that we definitely haven't got, and still need. For the Fedz at least these are:

COLONY SHIP I - Conestoga Class
COLONY SHIP III - Quebec Class

TRANSPORT I - Phobos Class
TRANSPORT II - London Class (remake of BotF model)

SURVEYOR I - Icarus Class
SURVEYOR II - Oberth Class (remake of BotF model)
SURVEYOR III - Nova Class

SCOUT I - Hermes Class
HEAVY SCOUT - Sabre Class

FRIGATE II -Miranda Class (remake of BotF model)

HVY DEST. I - Constellation Class (remake of BotF model)
ESCORT -Defiant Class (remake of BotF model)

HVY CRUISER II - Nebula Class (remake of BotF model)

EXPLORER I - Ambassador Class (remake of BotF model)
EXPLORER II - Galaxy Class (remake of BotF model)
EXPLORER III -Sovereign Class (remake of BotF model)