Topic: Taking a quick detour. A Lyran (Read 4853 times)

anduril · « **on:** March 25, 2003, 05:39:09 am »

Time to do something a bit easier and finally get around to making a new set of Lyran textures to replace the old 256x256's. This would be the "conjectural" Battleship. Of course everybody in the late 80's knew the all the races BB's would be conjectural right up to the point where ADB felt they could find a way to sell a module based on them. Then miraculously they would become less than conjectural.

Anyway I digress. I built this mesh a ways back and have been tinkering with different style disruptor mounts. I decided to go simple, no suprise there. The forward ones will probably look as they do here and the ones that will be on the two center warps will look a bit different. The mesh itself is a one piece seamless job and in it's nearly finished state still comes in a couple hundred polies less than the first.

CptSavage · « **Reply #1 on:** March 25, 2003, 05:40:55 am »

YOU??? DOING LYRANS???? THat's scary!

Rhaz · « **Reply #2 on:** March 25, 2003, 08:03:28 am »

Very cool.

Desty_Nova · « **Reply #3 on:** March 25, 2003, 11:41:47 am »

Dude, this is a superb model. I MUST have it when you're done! The internet is sorely lacking good non-Fed, Klink, and Rom models. BUT.....I have to ask: Where's the claws and tail??? Huh? HUH?!

I'm just kidding. I always thought those were incredibly silly and I still think it's funny that they put them on the SSD. Anyway awesome model. Kudos!

Praxis · « **Reply #4 on:** March 25, 2003, 12:06:59 pm »

Nice model

VERY nice

James Formo · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2003, 01:09:48 pm »

Yea it is a nice model. 1 piece is impressive. Must take a lot of planning to figure out how many polies you need to make the shape.

anduril · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2003, 01:31:39 pm »

It's not a matter of deciding how many polies James, it really depends on the model itself or what I plan on doing with it. The SFB Lyrans are very angular and are easy to do this way. I suppose the same could be said for the Kzinti, Hydrans, Tholians and pirates. In SFC2/OP having a one piece mesh really doesn't matter as long as you clean up unseen polies. For use in bridge commander the damage seems to work better with a solid mesh. In SFC if you want a shadowless .mod you have to chop the ship up anyways since the .mod format is basically useless when it comes to seeing the smoothing groups you so carefully make in Max, LW or whatever program you use. It's only made this way because I want to put them into BC as well as OP.

Quick update. I got started on the basic hull texture during the conference call this am.

I actually plan on doing the clan that had black ships but I'm not all that interested in looking thru my closet and finding the information on them at the moment. I have a few mini's that I carved out many years ago that are painted in that config so hopefully they'll show up in the inevitable search also.

Desty_Nova · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2003, 03:14:09 pm »

Good start on texturing there. I'm not up to speed on my Lyran counties, what county is that the symbol for?

It would be fun to se an LDR version of this too(it's conjectural anyway, so, why not?).

Marauth · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2003, 03:22:48 pm »

Kick-ass model man, well cool textures too, never really liked the SFB Lyrans - I preffered the TMP ones Thu11s made, this looks nice though.

Kieran Forester · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2003, 09:46:21 pm »

Quote:

I actually plan on doing the clan that had black ships but I'm not all that interested in looking thru my closet and finding the information on them at the moment. I have a few mini's that I carved out many years ago that are painted in that config so hopefully they'll show up in the inevitable search also.

Night Star County is the clan with the black ships. From Captain's Log #25, if you're interested - from the Lyran Painting Guide -

Night Star: Color bars are blue. Hull color is black, the only Lyran ships in this color. Night Star symbol is a blue disk with a white diamond. On these ships, the ESG's, tractors, and shuttle hatches are grey.

Hope this helps,

Rod O'neal · « **Reply #10 on:** March 25, 2003, 11:45:21 pm »

That's a nice, nice Lyran! One or two more conference calls and you should be through LOL

Desty_Nova · « **Reply #11 on:** March 27, 2003, 12:10:15 pm »

BUMP!

Any updates on this or the King Condor?

anduril · « **Reply #12 on:** March 28, 2003, 05:48:34 am »

I haven't gotten very far as work is busting my chops this week.

The textures on the sides of the warp engines are not coming along very well.

And thanks for the info Kieran. While looking for Lyran style writing on the web, which I haven't found yet, I came across yet another miniature site and the owner of it had some ships painted up in that clans colors too.

edited to update this pic.

anduril · « **Reply #13 on:** March 28, 2003, 07:52:06 am »

And it's Night Star Counterpart. A ways to go yet and a fair amount of texture tweakin.

Kieran Forester · « **Reply #14 on:** March 28, 2003, 08:48:33 am »

No problem, anduril. Both of the ships are gorgeous, by the way.

Desty_Nova · « **Reply #15 on:** March 28, 2003, 02:49:46 pm »

Anduril, if you go to www.starfleetgames.com, go to the miniatures, and then look at the paint guides for the Lyran minis, they have examples of Lyran writing. It's pretty clear, so you should be able to reproduce it from that. Anyway this is good so far, I really like the black version.

Pataflafla · « **Reply #16 on:** March 28, 2003, 10:52:40 pm »

That's pretty sweet! I'm diggin' the gold texture more than the gray paint job.

BTW, thanks for the hook up, Anduril. You the man!!

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anduril · « **Reply #17 on:** March 29, 2003, 08:50:06 pm »

updated the Night Star clan pic.

anduril · « **Reply #18 on:** March 30, 2003, 10:06:51 am »

The sfb lyran bb has 8 esg's and the sfc one has 6. Just an experiment adding the other two. Should they stay or should they go?

Started adding windows. Not sure how many I feel like putting on the ship but I look at them this way. Cats love round openings and they love to stare out windows. The determining factor will be how much mesh I feel like manipulating to get windows on the angled sides. They may just end up on the straight ones.

anduril · « **Reply #20 on:** March 31, 2003, 10:03:06 am »

This will probably be the last update on this ship.

I have to add a name and hull numbering sooner or later. The CA paint guide only gives a little info on that subject so I just may make something up.

A last question also. On the DN what the heck is the squarish extruded area that is along the bottom of the central pontoon. It is found at the back and wraps around the sides of the pontoon a bit. On the paint guide you can see vertical lines along the legnth of it.

Lord Schtupp · « **Reply #22 on:** March 31, 2003, 10:58:22 am »

Thats lookin real sharp Anduril!

The squarish extrusion at bottom of hull is the main kitty litter storge recepticle. Change often....

anduril · « **Reply #23 on:** March 31, 2003, 12:27:37 pm »

Aha! So it's basically one of those drawers like you find at the bottom of a bird cage. It can be extended out for easy evacuation of used litter into space.

Lord Schtupp · « **Reply #24 on:** March 31, 2003, 01:10:39 pm »

Exactly. This is how the infamous "Lyran Turd Belt" came into existence in their home system, forming an easily defensible perimeter that no enemy has yet been able to breach. It is quite formidable, and led to the development of the Federation "Lysol Deflector" in the latter half of the General War.

anduril · « **Reply #25 on:** April 01, 2003, 02:08:51 pm »

Ok so I lied about no more updates..

Mesh has had a few minor tweaks since I exported this to it's game directory.

Khalee · « **Reply #26 on:** April 05, 2003, 08:36:32 pm »

Has this been released yet?. Looks finished.

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