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WOW....those ships are really amazing, idk to wat faction they belong to cause im too lazy to read lol, u guys mind posting all those ships in order with descriptions of what faction they belong to and what their specialty is...thanks!!! even thou u might not do it anyway!
ILL SAY IT AGAIN: GREAT WORK, KEEP IT UP
We are, of course, still alive. In fact, I'm happy to announce that we've been in touch with this forum's own Riess and Ammon-Ra, and are working towards including select works of theirs into the mod. That should be quite exciting as it develops.
Other than that, work progresses. The Ion frigate is undergoing texture and polish, and I feel confident enough to show off the penguin's model at this time.
Still not finalized, quite yet, but pretty damn cool I think.
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o.O that thing looks like it could kill an entire fleet all on its own just by looking at it, it looks really good guys and i rather like how you guys can turn your concept art into 3D models with such precision any ways great work guys and keep it up
I have survived yet another semester, and in the waning days of it found new purchase with modeling. Consequently, I have a few things to show you. The first you have seen before, but not in it's current form.
The second, you won't have seen but may find familiar if you have been with us long.
The third, you could possibly have seen before, but only very recently.
That's it for my models, but they astute of you may have seen a few things in that last that are hard to identify, but rather than make you squint at those tiny pixels, have a gander.
Models by Ammon Ra, concepts by Riess. They may yet see some modification before they get in the game, but not drastically. As soon as we run out of untextured finished models of our own, Avatar will slap some pretty textures on them and we'll have them in the game.
Addendum: We've put some stuff up in the studio forums for checking out. A selection of backstory readings for your critique, a very pretty and ongoing mapping effort, and some video of me at work.
Last edited by Siber; 14th Dec 08 at 11:43 PM.
Baroness: those look nice!
10% of life is what happens to you and 90% is what you DO about it
Baroness, while I appreciate the enthusiasm, this thread is for exhibition and recruitment for this mod alone, which those ships are not a part of. I'd appreciate it if you could take the request and screenshots to their own thread in the main Tanis Shipyards forum so this one can stay on topic and we can avoid any potential confusion. And, to answer your original question, any free texturers I have any sway over I would have already dragged into HW:@, so they'd all be no longer free. Not that it is a long list to begin with.
We continue this modeling frenzy.
Points of interest are the new stuff on the nose. Is it not delicious?
I once again found myself out of communication with the artist, needing input, wanting to model, and having a stack of old concepts that were waiting to be modeled. So.
Sometimes these things just happen, you know? I hope you enjoy this glimpse at a rather new design aesthetic.
Also, the previously linked video has become a video series, so if you feel like watching a model progress, you can.
Last edited by Siber; 20th Dec 08 at 4:20 AM.
In a marathon 20 hour texturing session or so (with brief breaks to catch catnaps and eat delicious foods), I bring to you the HW@ team's humble holiday offering: the LOD0 Higaaran Ion Frigate.
Once we get the firing animations ready to go, and maybe some LODs and so forth, you'll get a download. Happy holidays all!
Christmas Continues
It looks like a dieselpunk animé airship...
Fun fact: The ion cannon is a separate object, made so in order to tile the texture and make my life about a skillion times easier. You can see it when you hyperspace:
doh, the interior bits shoulda been culled before importing. You folks probably won't be able to see that same effect when you get a download
HAHA! yes at last someone who agrees with floating parts! they make texturing a lot more easier and this ship takes my breath away, great job! merry chrismas
OMG *drooling*
Just tested the version 0.0.2 and have to say that you guys did a great job.
The vaygr gunship bears resemblance to turanic technology - i.e. the engines have similar color (at least I think so).
The frigates (Ion and Assault) are looking great, the destroyer too, I just want to criticise one thing: The destroyers have red ions and red energy weapons, whereas the assault frigate features blue ion-pulse-hull-defense-side-mounted-ai-controlled-anti-fighter beams. (sorry, could not resist) Looks a bit displaced in contrast to all the red I think. But thats just my opinion.
Keep it on people. Looking forward to the remake of my favorite ship in HW1: Ion Array Friggy!
PS: Great that frigates are not gunfood anymore.
EDIT: Just noticed the "rudders" at the bigger ships - great idea!
Last edited by monolith; 30th Dec 08 at 1:04 PM.
Any update on the Ion Cannon Frigate yet?
There are still things to be done on it. Goblins, lower LODs, death events, and so on. We've decided it's more efficient if I finish up our fighters and get them ready for texturing before moving on to do that, so there will be a moderate delay before 0.0.3.0 is ready.
Okay, I understand.
Btw, yet another annoying question:
Have you already considered making ship icons? And if yes, will they look like this:
(Normal HW2 Style I would say) or will you use another style?
We hope to eventually rework the interface considerably, and doing so probably eliminate those icons entirely, so we haven't expended any effort on making them. However, that may be a long way off or in fact never happen, so if you are willing to make icons in that vein yourself, we'd be willing to try to put them in place. Because damn, that looks pretty cool.
Yes, of course you may use them. I now have an updated corvette icon and another one for the destroyer, but I am afraid to have to say that I didn´t manage to get them ingame so properly so far.
I will send you an Email with the icons so that I dont need to convert them to jpg making them loose their alpha channels.
EDIT: Okay, bad idea with the Email - the board refuses to give it to me
I could also post them on fileshack or something if you would prefer that...
Last edited by monolith; 2nd Jan 09 at 2:09 AM.
Not a lot to share recently, but the interceptor is, baring unforeseen disasters, mesh complete. I hope you all enjoy looking at it as much as I do.
That's one good looking fighter mesh.
A Brave New Homeworld. (◔ ◡ ◔ )
Hmmm... Mixed feelings on the interceptor concept, though this is really down to personal taste; it's much closer to the old Blade interceptor in appearance and design philosophy than the HW2 one, but then I've always found the old Kushan fighter designs rather unattractive compared to the sportier interceptor in the new game.
Looks great. The cockpit is a bit similar to the Taiidan interceptor, didn´t you write that this ship was a cooperation between the Hiigarans and the Republic of Taiidan?
That is correct, monolith, to the degree that both the Republican Taiidani and the Kushan will have acess to this ship.
#125
Great work guys. I love the cooperative spirit. Would you mind if I used the pics posted in this thread for a dedicated mod album at hwshots? Link in sig.
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Would we mind? I think we'd probably be completely overjoyed! Or at least, I'd be pretty pumped. I'm fairly certain Siber won't mind one bit either. We haven't heard from Adhira in a while (sadly), but I can't fathom why he'd complain. So in conclusion: rock out!
#127
You are aware the hwshots is open to all Modders for dedicated albums, right...?
#128
Ok, all pics in this thread added soo far. Damn it was easy, just tell Galler to brows http://forums.relicnews.com/showthre...=198445&page=1 (=2) (=3) and add all images linked.And a tiny bit of sorting.
Now, obviously the images might lack descriptions and such and at that point is where all the happy membas of the modding community are welcome to post comments and such.
http://www.homeworldshots.net/main.p...avId=xd4c7f661
Siber-when is this mod available for download?
and where can i get it
Homedax: Being able to do it ourselves is always cool, having someone else care enough to want to do it for us is even cooler.
HisDivineShadow: The 0.0.2.0 version, which contains the Vaygr gunship, and kushan corvette, destroyer, and assault frigate, is available on our modDB downloads page. When the next ship is all ready to go, we'll release 0.0.3.0 with a fair bit of fanfare.
Last edited by Siber; 9th Jan 09 at 1:52 PM.
#131
More hires pics, please...
Any specific requests, homedax? Ships, situations, ect, that you want a good look at? Or just anything as long as it's higher resolution.
#133
Anything you think look good and is a decent graphical representation of what your work is all about.
Also, I will sort the pics in the album into sub albums. In game screens is one thing, 3d-environment another and perhaps some Teaser shots or alike. Depends on what I have to work with.
A graphical representation of what we're about, eh? Tricky, that one.
I've registered, but am not seeing any sort of comment function. Am I missing something?Now, obviously the images might lack descriptions and such and at that point is where all the happy membas of the modding community are welcome to post comments and such.
#135
There is a collapsable sidebar
Add a comment is done by hitting:
above every single image view.
I gave you full rights to that album, meaning you can edit some more stuff in it
Umm, those images are not very clear on a grey background, must do something with 'em
That is the best interceptor i have ever seen........i dont care if the memories of hiigara want to do with the kushan race, but that interceptor would be a killer addon..........itssssssssssss freeegiiin awesome
Danny: Glad you like it. It'll be put out under our normal conditions, though I'm not sure how you'd fit it into the HW1 era of MoH.
In other news, it's not high resolution, but I offer you this screenshot for the weekend.
siber rather big fan of your models, they are very nice work, while im at it would like to thank you for participating in the occasianl discussion on the MOH mod thread, and on one more thought, thats the original HW1 kushan carrier right?
Yeah, it's the HW1 carrier. I doubled the size of the texture sheets, hit it with PSE's sharpen feature a few times, and fixed some texture discontinuities across the hull, as well as added in the chevron-shaped stripes that are part of our Higaaran fleet.
This carrier is serving as a placeholder while I design the new carrier (and while I chug away at textures and Siber chugs away at models and animated textures).
Someday we may spruce it up to snuff to serve as NPC eyecandy in singleplayer missions, but we might do away with it altogether since I dearly, dearly love the design and am not straying too far with the new version.
Firstly, I have for you a video offering, exhibiting some recently implemented visual effects and the Ion Cannon Frigate in action, doing what it does. Watch it here. I think it speaks for itself.
Homeworld:@ is about...Originally Posted by Homdax
...backgrounds that are not orange.
...Kushan with red ion beams.
More videos and screenshots will come in time. For now, I hope you enjoy.
PS:For folks who want to see the goods here before following links, some other selected screenshots follow.
In summary,
Last edited by Siber; 14th Jan 09 at 9:10 PM.
I really like that glow-effect you have going on the Ion-Cannon Frigates when they fire.
Nice picture
It was late, I had photoshop, and I noticed that the destroyer had a little face. What can I say?
We'll have a download for the ion frigate shortly. Don't worry, it's much cooler to play with than even in the video.
#144
Could I please have a close up of a firing frigate, some 3-400 pixels wide? I intend to use it as Album Intro shot, see the AFF album for comparison. No, that AFF one is not very good either, to wide...similar request made to Alex and the guys at AFF.
GREAT ships! Sadly, I don't have HW2, but the ships are very well done and fit with the old Kushan ships better than the actual HW2 ships I've seen.
Let's sail in this sea of charms
Let's drown underneath the stars
You just made my jaw drop when i say the ion cannons....... realease date?!!!!?!?!??!
These are great ships. Are you planning on making a mod for the other races in the games, e.g Turanic Raiders, Military Bentusi, Kadeshi? When you've finished this, of course.
Oh,John,no!: There will be a total of ten complete factions. Four will definately be playable, three will maybe be playable, and three will definately be NPC factions.
Danny: We'll have the Ion Frigate out ASAP. It is totally impossible to accurate predict the finish date of the mod given the volume of material incomplete, but we hope to have a UNH faction complete /soon/.
Thanks for the encouragement. Stick around a bit and we'll have something to actually -play- with. I promise.
Wow you guys have made a great deal of progress here with a difficult concept, congrats!
Concerning frigates: I felt like HW2 made a shoddy attempt at frigates; at least on the Hiigaran side. In HW1 they were right slow, even the destroyers could seemingly outrun them (annoying but realistic). However, they were quite strong, making them useful the whole game. In homeworld 2, they maintained the same characteristic lack of speed, but also lost a good bit of survivability. I found them to be useless beyond a staying tactic till I got BC's and DD's.
How do you plan to deal with frigates in this realm? Are they actually going to be useful like they were in HW 1 or are they going to be the first ships to die in any sizable battle...again?
Also, how are you planning to balance the Hiigaran ICF? Personally, I felt like in HW2 it was great againt....hmmm....carriers. Without strike craft. Otherwise it did a great job of dying and not hurting the enemy nearly enough. Will this version be armed with a main gun worthy of avoiding or will it actually have secondary batteries making it somewhat more useful?
In HW1 the destroyer was almost infinitesimally faster than the frigates (325 m/s speed compared to 315 for the assault frigate and 300 for the ion frigate).
We decided to build on this (for the Higaaran destroyer at least), so that the Higaaran destroyer is significantly quicker than their frigates. For the three sizes of capital ships (frigates, destroyers, and cruisers), we wanted each one to do something a little bit different.
To answer one of your questions directly: Ion Frigates mount the most powerful ion cannon in the Higaaran fleet, with greater range and damage than both destroyer and cruiser turrets. Ion Frigates are the best way to put heavy ion cannons in the field; they're the most efficient damage per dollar you'll get out of big ships. We're abandoning the rock-paper-scissors weapon damage almost entirely; if a weapon does 2500 damage to a frigate, it will do 2500 damage to a corvette and to a cruiser. This will cut down on the frigate-hate a lot.
Our ICFs haven't got any secondary guns, though, with every bit of internal space taken up by cooling systems and the reactor powering the mothership-class ion weapon. If a battlefleet focuses on them, they'll go down for sure, but their range means you can put them behind a wall of assault frigates (tougher frigates) or larger capital ships.
Destroyers are gonna be your fast raiding force. Capable of catching resourcers and armed with energy cannons they're mobile reserve forces. They also are tough and shooty enough to do just fine in a wall of battle.
Cruisers are the best way to put HP into the field. Their armament is certainly devastating, but they have the best HP per RU. One of these bad boys will hold out for a while, and they've got enough punch to be hard to ignore. They're also going to be the best at self-repair, just like in HW1.
Other factions will not adhere to this balancing scheme perfectly. We intend to have the Taiidani ships match the Higaaran pretty closely (like in HW1), but as you may have gathered from our Vaygr gunship, the new factions will be different.
Does that answer your questions?
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