playable ships?

Discuss the Babylon 5 mod(s) for the Vega Strike Engine

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playable ships?

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are you going to have the vorlon and shawdow ships playable?
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Post by etheral walker »

yes, I'm working on their cockpits ;)
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I must admit i am curious as to how you will visualize the vorlon cockpits! The show never showed just how the vorlons used their ships, seeing as they were living. Heck the vorlons could have just floated about in an energy state while their ships did all the work. I look forward to seeing how you have it set up =)
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Argh wasn't logged in, that was me!
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Post by etheral walker »

a black organic thing with a gaseous glass. Try to imagine you are IN the eye of Sauron and you see trough it
http://www.daereth.diallink.net/movies/sauron.htm
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Post by Tain »

Sounds great! I was hoping for something unconventional for the first one ships, sounds like you are going to do just that =)
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Post by etheral walker »

yep, the last "design decision" I need to take is for the "cockpits" of capital ships. I did some tries with starwars like bridges, like this one, http://scifi3d.theforce.net/details.asp ... =8&key=302
but visibility is definitely too little, and vegastrike radar is definitely not good enough to allow the player driving a blind ship
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Post by etheral walker »

Maybe the bridge commander way will be the good, like that:
http://www.3dactionplanet.com/bridgecom ... /bc127.jpg
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yes, it seems bridge commander way is not too bad, this screen seems perfect
http://www.3dactionplanet.com/bridgecom ... ns/004.jpg
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Post by Tain »

I would think bridge commander style bridges would be a bit over the top poly wise. Also, would the VS engine support the tech required to have crew characters visible, not to mention animate them? May be too much for the engine at present. (not to mention a ton of extra work)
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