Topic: OT : What should a Federation Mine Layer look like ?

[ModelsPlease]

Ok decided on the Fed ship and got permissions. Now mt only question for everyone is............

Would you rather have the ship basically look normal ?

or

Should I redo the saucer textures to give it a more amored appearance ?


-MP

I would think that you would want the model to look unique so definitely #2, especially if your going to combine the function of minelayer and sweeper in one ship, since in SFC the only sweeping method is the "runoverthemine" method. In fact if your willing to do a little meshwork, it would be fairly simple to add Choabam or reactive type armor in the form of tightly conforming boxes to the front of the hull.  Anyway only an idea.

Some examples of this:

Yeah great idea. 'Cept I can't mesh  , Do you think I could get away with trying to texture that armoour than mabye adding a 3d effect to it ? Or would that not do it justice ?

[Mackie]

ill see if i can bash together something :p

[Lord Schtupp]

Yeah great idea. 'Cept I can't mesh  , Do you think I could get away with trying to texture that armoour than mabye adding a 3d effect to it ? Or would that not do it justice ?

Sure I think texture only would look just fine, the M113 in the third pic is a good example. Im thinking that the additional armor would be dark bluish grey kind of color to contrast with the normal hull color, and the armor plates wold be thickest in the center-front of the saucer then get progessivly thinner farther out to the sides. So the top view of the saucer for example the armor belt would look like a blocky crescent shape. How about that?

What ship are you going to convert?

[ModelsPlease]

What ship are you going to convert?

I was going to use Firesouls FEDEX for the TOS and TMP ships.

ill see if i can bash together something :p

That would be cool Mackie, thanks.

In the meantiime I'll start experimenting with textures and take your advice on color/thickness/placement  and see hhow it turns out. I'll get a WIP up soon.

-MP

[USS Mariner]

Yeah great idea. 'Cept I can't mesh  , Do you think I could get away with trying to texture that armoour than mabye adding a 3d effect to it ? Or would that not do it justice ?

Sure I think texture only would look just fine, the M113 in the third pic is a good example. Im thinking that the additional armor would be dark bluish grey kind of color to contrast with the normal hull color, and the armor plates wold be thickest in the center-front of the saucer then get progessivly thinner farther out to the sides. So the top view of the saucer for example the armor belt would look like a blocky crescent shape. How about that?

What ship are you going to convert?

Actually, it might be better to have armour all around, as the mines might come in from the sides if they're targeting a heat or energy source, like the Romulan mines did in "Minefield."

[ModelsPlease]

In the meantiime I'll start experimenting with textures and take your advice on color/thickness/placement and see hhow it turns out. I'll get a WIP up soon.

-MP

MP ive got some good armour textures for various races that can be mixed together if you want even armoured windows

Sweet Bro, I'll try to get MSN working . If not just send 'em to my email.