Topic: Danube Class Runabout Where Are You? (Read 1893 times)

yakaspat · « **on:** April 04, 2004, 03:23:33 pm »

Aside from the Staryards model, I can't seem to find a nice detailed Danube Class anywhere. Ideas?

_Lance

atheorhaven · « **Reply #1 on:** April 04, 2004, 03:38:57 pm »

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Aside from the Staryards model, I can't seem to find a nice detailed Danube Class anywhere. Ideas?
_Lance

I don't know how detailed it is, but Kane has one up at his site, which currently a buddy of mine is hosting on his server.

http://thestation.webhop.net

See if it looks detailed enough, but it's not super hi-poly..

yakaspat · « **Reply #2 on:** April 04, 2004, 06:25:00 pm »

Thanks, I actually already have that one, too...I think it is the same from Staryards. There is a second one on that site, I think I'll check it out when I get home.

And, he's got a Type 8 Shuttle!!!!

Hey, Have you seen a Type 7 shuttle anywhere? The first TNG one?

*how many models can one cram on one's hard drive...we are getting close to finding out, ladies and gents*

Thanks,

Lance

E_Look · « **Reply #3 on:** April 04, 2004, 07:33:42 pm »

Dude, I hope you back 'em up or suffer what I did, loss due to HD crash. Fortunately, I did back them up, but unfortunately, whoa! dat dere's lotsa models to put back... it's been almost a year, I think, and i"m not done, yet!!!

yakaspat · « **Reply #4 on:** April 04, 2004, 08:59:46 pm »

It's nice to see I'm not the only one feverously collecting these files. I have both Lightwave and 3ds Max, but, to be honest, it takes so long for my lap top to actually pull up those file formats, that it makes just viewing them in the 3d environment is extremely annoying. Rendering them is not a problem, but, by the time I set up the lights, camera, background, render options, etc, I've already wasted 10 minutes of my time just to see the ship from a certain angle.

I've been using a program called Ultimate Unwrap3D, and, it opens both SOD and MOD formats, and allows full screen viewing. My system loves this too, I can spin the ship about and gaze at all its glory on the fly. Also, the advantage to collecting all these ships in MOD format is that, before, I had dozens of ship models in 3DS, MAX, LWO, and SOD format, each one requiring a different software app to open them, and, not all canon ships were available in those formats, much less all the fandom ones. By collecting all the SFC MOD files, I can now have literally every canon ship ever seen onscreen, AND have every single Franz Joseph, David Schmidt, Mastercomm, Star Station Aurora, ASDB, etc etc etc, all in a single, easy to use central archive.

Yippee!

Back to the point...I do have mine all backed up to. However, I've been backing them up in .ZIP format on a single CDRW. However, I'm now reaching 2 gigs worth of files (

), and, I may be forced to have more than one CDRW. Do you keep yours backed up on discs, if so, do you back them up zipped, or as-is? At this point, I'm afraid my zip archive will pull a Windows Mystery Corruption on me, as zip and rars sometimes do, and, I think perhaps it would be better to archive all these files individually. That way, if a file corrupts, I'll lose one ship, and not the entire collection.

Wow, I wrote a book!

Take Care,

Lance

E_Look · « **Reply #5 on:** April 04, 2004, 10:09:13 pm »

Well, I only get 'em if they're in the .mod format, as I (right!) intend to stick them in SFC1, EAW, OP, or SFC3. Then, when I'm sick of looking at a directory full of .zips and .rars of .mods and their textures, I burn them onto a CDROM. I "back" these up with Zip disks (oooh, the 250 Mb's are pretty good... 100's run out of room too fast!)

But I leave the model files themselves in the compressed formats, as decompressing them would really take up too much space.

yakaspat · « **Reply #6 on:** April 04, 2004, 11:18:39 pm »

Are SFC1, SFC2 files compatible with SFC3?

-Lance

Captain Ron · « **Reply #7 on:** April 05, 2004, 12:01:31 am »

No

SFC 3 ships will work in 2 as will SFC 1 ships.

SFC 3 ships need special files the other games did not need.
SFC 2 ships have light maps that SFC 1 doesn't have but can use 1 and 3 ships. Though 1 ships are very dark and 3 ships tend to be larger than the ships of the same class. SFC 3 ships usually have to be rescaled.
SFC 1 can not use any ships but ones for SFC 1

Khalee · « **Reply #8 on:** April 05, 2004, 12:34:31 am »

SFC 1 can use the ships from the other versions, theres just a bit more work to get them in.

Like striping out the light maps, going from bmp to pcx and I think they can be no bigger than 256X 256. But it can be done.

ModelsPlease · « **Reply #9 on:** April 05, 2004, 03:04:35 am »

I have 3 or 4 versions of the Danube and a few other shuttles,some are definately older models and could use to get new textures.But they're all cool in my book.
-MP

DarkMatrix · « **Reply #10 on:** April 05, 2004, 03:14:19 am »

you find
type 6 and type 9 and new tpye 11 over at the unimatrix site with lots more ships for your game also the deltaflyer is there too

DM

atheorhaven · « **Reply #13 on:** April 06, 2004, 06:05:30 pm »

Actually, SFC 1 will actually use BMP files if there are no PCX files present. I know this one through experience. (grin).

And it'll handle 512s usually.. but if the mesh has any mention of an illumination map in it anywhere, you're talking instant "crash to desktop". Again, that's from experience with playing with SFC 1 conversion projects.

ModelsPlease

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