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As long as you're working on the Battleship dock paths and such, could you give a look at the front antenna area? The texture there, as I think I've mentioned before, doesn't quite fit. Here's a link. Look right under the lower left bomber.
Now that I come to think of it, I think that it might be interesting to consider using one of Olmys' gametype mods. Especially the Dynamic Deathmatch. With permission of course
Last edited by Admiral Nelson; 21st Sep 07 at 6:20 PM.
I decided to put on my eye-patch and do some work on the concept frigate! Here are some juicy new renders:
"When the stars become choked by the dust of war..."
Beautiful!!!!
i am still in the process of moving atm so bear with me everyone.
*goes back to Packing boxes*
In my personal opinion, the Hiigarans are capital ship guys, the Vaygr are for strikecraft. In response to your discussion on the power of the Pirate Battleship, note two things. First: It is only super powerful if it has built ion and flack cannons. Second: The AI I have rarely uses those. My 2ยข is to have the Hiigarans have superfast, agile Frigates, while the Vaygr have a 'superfighter', a heavy bomber (NOT the PDS one for heaven's sake, I can't stand fighters firing Ion beams) that can silence the flack batteries while the rest of the Vaygr fleet moves in to overwhelm it. I liked the suggestion to lower the power of the battleship, but howabout low firepower but incredible hps? You know, a ship that would absorb enemy fire by the bucket load while the destroyers/ fighters finished the enemy off. Seems more like the pirates' style, don't you think? By the way, has anyone had the game crash while playing Pirate-on-pirate? Keep up the good work!
Everything has a reason.
Hi everyone i know its been about 2 months since i last posted.
but i have a good reason
for those of you who didn't know Nov 3rd i got married *yep i got hitched, crazy huh
and i am still settling into my new apt with my new wife *wow i am still getting used to that*
i will be contacting team members over the coming weeks and i am going to push for a bugfix and what i currently have on the burner release.
will update everyone as i get backup to speed.
Congratulations!
I do have updates for the concept ship! I should have the renders posted by next weekend!
Congratulations thunderbolt!
nice to hear from you again.
Hi everyone again, I've been kinda busy with life, like certain money issues as well as family health issues. all fixed (kinda) but glad to be back.
EDIT: Outrider, great model.
Floating upon stars.
Happy New year Pirate watchers
i was able to spend a few days tidying up the mods Moddb page.
(When they went to the newer look the control got reset to homer
i quickly through together some media and will be trying to get some of the screenshots i showed here uploaded.
feel free to take a peek
but now back to reorganizing
Happy new year Thunderbolt !
Couldn't wait for the new version of this mod
Keep the good work !
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! glad to be back people and not on my crashed comp im back with a fury!!! anyway im glad to see this is still going on i enjoyed the pirates 0.3 release and i cant wait for 0.4! im also letting you relic guys know that i have equipment to record voices, mod them add reverb and such cost me a penny or 2 but iv finaly got it working. if you need any help with audio im here to help. if not then ill just sit back with the rest of these fine folks with my jaw dropped till 0.4 is finaly released!
Last edited by TechOps101; 2nd Feb 08 at 2:56 PM.
Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed, knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.
WOW time really flies doesn't it?
sorry for a lack of updates but i have some personal news what will explain my absence.
My wife gave birth to my first child (a boy) this past Tuesday the 19th of February.
"Thunderbolt Jr." was born 7 lbs 10 oz and all tests show he is in perfect health.
i have been spending the last week and a half with my parents who are enjoying their new grandparent status. so i have not had access to the modding computer.
shortly after typing this message i will be taking it back home and will be updating the Moddb page with new and old screens.
feel free to spam me with pm's of congrats or hurry up and release the mod messages
*goes to packup the laptop*
gz Thunderbolt
The vaygr will rise once again!
Thunderbold Jr. will be a complete new and unforeseeable mission: congratulations and all the best to you all!
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congratulations!!! lol thats great. :-)
btw, if you need me do do anything, i'm still around (kindaish)
Thunderbolt, Word of the wise: Do all possible tests to Thunder Jr., make sure he's 100% healthy all around cause... well back when I was born they didn't test for more rare diseases and well I had one they didn't think all that common(and was only one bloody X-Ray to check) and well the end result isn't as good as it might have been if they picked it up earlier. Congrats and hope your family gets bigger and happier as the years go by.
Congratulations on having a life! Beleive me, it's 'a great achievement!
Mod update.
The harpoon and strike frigate are now 100% operational (they both still need textures) had some aiming problems with the harpoon beam and the strike frig anti fighter turrets.
the battleship hanger bug is patched for the moment
(Did a quick fix with CF hod ed since i don't have the original battleship file) it does not look right but ships dock and launch now.
EDIT: During father son bonding time i was able to ko all reported bugs except the AI related one. see To Do List
Also i went thru the to do list and thinned out the to do list a tad so you guys get a newer version sooner.
but now its time for some father son bonding
Last edited by Thunderbolt; 2nd Mar 08 at 4:04 PM.
congrats thunderbolt! i think we can all wait a little longer.
ps
thanks for the to do list, it gives us mortals something to look foward to
I've enjoyed this mod for a very long time. I really like the battleship.
However, the only thing about this mod (and every mod and even HW2 in general) that I can't stand is the unit cap.
I just launched an incredibly wonderful operation to capture my enemy's shipyard.
I defend the capture frigates for the few minutes it took, and when the blue bar finishes, "Our fleet is strong, leave it for salvage."
Any plans in the future to add the option to disable unit cap like other mods and original HW?
well i am currently working on putting in new build scripts that Couger8116 sent me so you can build from captured ships.
once i have had some time to experiment and tweak i think caps in general are going to be changed.
Being able to steal technology would be great, and seems to be the basis of pirating.
Would also be nice if there were some other NPC races floating about to steal tech from.
just a small update today
i put the to do list up on moddb under the mods feature section.
Link
if everyone can view the list through the link i might change the post to something else.
let me know what you all think.
Show sreens that there is new v 0.4?
its on my to do list
i plan on putting up photos of the assault frig and the harpoon in action. (texture less of course))
I see it, ohh colours....lol, looking at the reasarch reduction thing, the research scripts i sent you just messes everything up hehehe..... sorry
np luckily i have not copied the res scripts yet so i will just "Integrate" my updates to what you sent me ;D
Where is place of download nowz. filefront has it no more.
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Here is the download page at the Moddb
a news update.
i had a stroke of genius the other day and will be posting a new pirates challenge hopefully it will be more successful than the last one.
but as a small hint start thinking about non pirate ship designs
(no posts yet though
Edit: Hint Vgr and Hgn (unless you have an idea for a freighter)
Last edited by Thunderbolt; 23rd Mar 08 at 9:01 PM.
Lol, the last one :-) non pirate ship designs means anything at all right?
Myabe you could trade Barataria's Hammer with the FXMod team and get their Hiigaran Lightcruiser in return.
The Complex Scaver, Command Fortress, Research Station and Crew Station are good candidates for civillian ships.
Instead of weapons, make the Command Fortress an immobile strategic point that has to be protected. There was a minimod where you had to capture incoming carriers for RUs. Maybe work something like that in. Make it so this is part of a commercial trade route and un-armed ships are coming through all of the time.
10% of life is what happens to you and 90% is what you DO about it
OR make that apart of the contest first to come up with a new design. hell iv got some concepts on my backup harddrive from way back when before my first comp crashed. and i bet im not the only one holding back some unknown designs...
PS they incorporated the Mini mod allready but it does not entierly work proporly. atleast not for me. it wont let me capture the ships when they are flying though
@ TechOps101 Congratz you guessed it right
@ gthompsn i would prefer not two use the same ships that are practically used by every HW2 mod out there. but if anyone from other mods submits a ship i will gladly judge it as if it where new.
also i am currently tweaking the ships in the TH gametype so that when they blow up there is a nice amount of salvageable containers left behind. as a learn more about scripting i think i might tweak some things.
@ Couger8116The Non Pirate Ships i am looking for are mostly are freighters and transports. (at some point i want to model the freighters featured in the garden cinimatics of hw1 but i will examine anything
The Second Pirates Challenge
Support your Local Factions....
This second pirates Challange focuses on the Hiigarans and the Vagyr to help the mod stand apart from the many other ones out there. i am looking mainly for Designs for Fleet Command Ships for both races (small motherships) but will look at anything that fits in with the factions well.
Also i will be accepting concepts for non Pirate ships, i am looking for are mostly are freighters and transports. (at some point i want to model the freighters featured in the garden cinimatics of hw1 but i will examine anything
i am looking for unique designs so unless you work for another HW2 mod and would like to submit your ship i will gladly consider it.
modeling experience is not needed as the winning concepts will be put in-game by me.
Send your Entrys to hw2piratesmod@gmail.com
@Thunderbolt : completely understood. Just talking possibilities. What about some of the Kushan ships from HW1? I don't know of anyone working on them, but I'd imagine that a number of those ships could still be around, especially by groups like the pirates who would try to get as much use out of things that they could (they're pirates after all, so they probably don't have much in the way of an industrial base).
I always liked the Drone Frigate even though, in game, it was not all that useful ( remake with 20 drones using the hgn_probe hod could be set up to be in docking formation around it in a d20-type placement).
I think a modified version of the Kushan AssaultFrigate (stripped of most weapons), could provide a transport.
sweet thanks for answering that i did not know you had to blast them to pieces. oh and should they be ships that have allready been scripted, and textured or can they be concept designs with enough detail to show what goes where whats the nose and where the guns and engines go etc.
@ TechOps101
just concept art will work. worse case if something that is needed is not included i will contact and work with the designer.
i have no problem modeling stuff for ppl that dont have the ability to do so. (at somepoint i will do texturing unless someone wants to do it for me... er the mod
@ gthompsn
i would love to include some kushan and taiidan designs for both the hiig and vaygr but iam affraid of adding too many ships. i will probably add some for the pirates at a later date or have them as captureable map objects.
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i will edit the challange post and get it up on moddb after i get home from work (where iam at currently)
also their might be some development screenshots as well
@thunderbolt : how about a trade. I will D/L GIMP and do texturing for models you make. If GIMP can put those textures into a format CFHodEdit can use, I'll also import them. If not, I'll need you to get the textures in place. I can also do dockpaths, hardpoints, etc.
nice dude ill dig through my old concepts and re-design some badass looking transports!
The link at moddb is dead but they still have it on filefront. The bord wont let me post a url so just search for pirate mod.Where is place of download nowz. filefront has it no more.
just looked on moddb, the Bataraia's Hammer looks quite funky (in a godd way) :-) like the subs retexture
#91
nice to know your still plugging away at this mod thunderbolt mate.
were i a less busy man i would offer my hand(s) you have my MSN still i belive but i could allways be available for a bit of freelance here and there
i have been contacted by a person from http://www.strategyinformer.com asking if they could host the mod.
v0.3 is now mirrored Here
those subsystem textures where done last December when i went on vacation. i am glad that ppl like them, those who do not watch the moddb page can take a look.
Sporting: upgraded engines, a Build speed module, and fresh paint the Bataraia's Hammer is ready to take to the trade lanes and support the pirate fleet.Re textured subsystems
Overall view
Side View of the Engines and the Build Speed module (located under the Corvette Subsystem)
Better View of the Frigate Module
looks good.
sweet. im still trying to get a digital copy of the ship i have but so far its scanned really badly. if i can ill have one of my tech buddies scan it and re-draw it in photoshop.
ps im moving stateside to go to filmschool in a few weeks so i may be gone for a WHILE but ill try and had over what i have for ship designs.
OK im stateside and ready to go my home is finaly set and iv got my computers running (1 off the grid with all the stuff i dont want the world to touch including Homeworld 2 Mods) its just that the virus software i have sucks and untill i can get some $$ to update ill be shit out of luck and offline on teh computer i play H2 on. but IM BACK!
i am more than likely going to be away until after the relic open house due to RL taking up alot of my time
Me and the Mrs. will be attending this year so if any pirates mod fans are attending feel free to find us and say hi.
their is a chance that i might get something done if so i will post it when i get back.
Does anybody get this problem: It still costs 250RP to Hyperspace a raider destroyer even though it says its supposed to be free... i've researched the whole tech tree
@ Everyone
I just got back from the trip up to the relic open House.
Both me and my wife had a blast
during the Open House i ran thoughts by several HW2 and HW players and I have a general direction which i plan on going.
The coming release is going to be just bug squashing and the new subsystem textures you all saw, after that the face of the mod is going to change.
i will cover the details over the next few days while i get organized and unpacked.
@ jhtham
yes its a current bug which i will squash after i get some free time to work on the research tree.
Does this mod work with the Mac version of HW2? I must play this mod!!!
Great news everyone i am 90% done the new bug fix version i started working on after the open house.
after i tackle the research tree and hopefully no new bugs pop up we will have the new version of the mod !!!!!!!!!!
you guys will get the new Hammer, new subsystem textures and greatly accelerated salvaging operations. also a working battleship hanger
i am planning on releasing the version mid July or sooner if their are no new bugs. if there are any that are not on the to do list Here send them to me at HW2PiratesMod@gmail.com
i am waiting for my news post to get put on the moddb frontpage as i type
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