Topic: The Curse of The Melak (TMP warbird) broken? (Read 4027 times)

Klingon Fanatic · « **on:** May 15, 2003, 09:05:55 pm »

Finally! The late TMP Era Romulan Melak Warbird from the RTS Game Star Trek: New Worlds Intro. Movie is nearly here! In that game a "prototype" D'deridex style warbird, RIS Melak, heads to the neutral zone to test the Shiva device, a powerful new weapon, and gets destroyed when it gets drawn into the gravity well of a planet that materialized behind it immediately after the Shiva device is tested.

There are many folks, such as myself, who believe that the Melak is a great candidate for the Warbirds that took out the Enterprise C in the TNG timeline. The Melak is afterall a paramount appproved design.

http://klingonfanatic.20m.com/images/melak_1.jpg

Azel was kind enough to not only attempt a Melak Warbird but to send me a copy of what he's managed to do so far. I in turn, offered to retexture this version using the stock D'deridex warbird textures from BC/SFC3 and posted these pics. It should be noted that he drew the original textures for this model himself; kudos to Azel for being so talented!

http://klingonfanatic.20m.com/images/melak_2.jpg

Neither Azel nor myself had access to the ST: New Worlds pics that Mackie, SovereignEmpire or DarkMatrix had previously made available at the time these in game shots were posted. I have since found my copies of ALL the available Melak screenshots and have sent them off to Azel. I believe that Azel intends to do a better version next with the additional pics I have sent.

http://klingonfanatic.20m.com/images/melak_3.jpg

At the present time, the models will need break models and lighting effects added to the Melak's he is making but he will need help with those tasks. There is some work to be done to make this model come to life. If you can help, please feel free contact either him or me. I also have the Melak pics handy for anybody else who might want to tackle this fine Romulan warbird.

For those folks keeping score at home, no Romulan Melak has successfully been built from scratch and made it into any of the SFC games since Maggot made his SFC1 kitbash from Noah Wallace's D'deridex. The latest version of the Melak I was aware of, Kleotol's version, did not survive the conversion process to .mod format. It appears that Azel maybe the first to actually break the "Curse of the Melak".

Reporting from the Klingon-Romulan Neutral Zone....

KF

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #1 on:** May 15, 2003, 10:51:43 pm »

First let me thank SovereignEmpire for bringing this ship to attention of the SFC community as well as Mackie and DarkMatrix for their efforts as well in making more Melak pics available.

Now for some comparison shots:

http://klingonfanatic.20m.com/images/melak_stnw1.jpg

My apologies for the poor picture quality, I saved these pics to MS Word document when I first saw the pics: Doh! The pics appear crisp and clear not faded out as seen here in the word document LOL!

http://klingonfanatic.20m.com/images/melak_stnw2.jpg

I have got to say the opening movie for ST: New Worlds is really awesome for a TMP era game.

KF

atheorhaven · « **Reply #2 on:** May 16, 2003, 01:14:29 am »

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At the present time, the models will need break models and lighting effects added to the Melak's he is making but he will need help with those tasks. There is some work to be done to make this model come to life. If you can help, please feel free contact either him or me. I also have the Melak pics handy for anybody else who might want to tackle this fine Romulan warbird.

As I've stated previously... I'm ready to help out with this one guys.. I hate seeing a ship never make it out of the gate.

Atolm, IM me? I'll help you with the breaks and the lighting if you wish..

Anthony_Scott · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2003, 08:19:06 pm »

Cool cool cool....can't wait!!!!!

Chris Jones · « **Reply #4 on:** May 16, 2003, 09:02:12 pm »

Bring it on baby - I like the look and the Enterprise C era tie-in

SovereignEmpire · « **Reply #5 on:** May 17, 2003, 11:23:07 am »

Ah, those are the movie pics I took. I think I still have them, I will try to repost them so we can get a better idea of how she looks. Me and KF have been waitin along time for this, I'm sure everyone else is too

SovereignEmpire · « **Reply #6 on:** May 17, 2003, 11:54:30 am »

I got some, but I had to post them at my website, on the Romulan Page.

Romulan Melak

Ducttapewonder · « **Reply #7 on:** May 17, 2003, 12:31:28 pm »

Hope to see this one soon

Been waiting a long time to blast it w/ the 1701-C

Anthony_Scott · « **Reply #8 on:** May 17, 2003, 07:41:39 pm »

bump again

Solid Snake · « **Reply #10 on:** May 18, 2003, 02:32:30 am »

Hora! someone is doing the melak!

i guess i can get rid of the one i started
http://www.geocities.com/lonewarrior001/melackpic.htm

EDIT: whoops, pic fixed.

E_Look · « **Reply #11 on:** May 18, 2003, 05:07:52 pm »

No! Yours looks fine, too!

Anthony_Scott · « **Reply #13 on:** May 18, 2003, 05:12:00 pm »

woo-hoo.....awright!!!!! A new rommie coming soon to a fleet engagemennt near you!

atheorhaven · « **Reply #14 on:** May 26, 2003, 05:02:26 am »

Had a bit of time (again at the expense of sleep) tonight after work to work a little more on this.. seeing as I fixed my own issue with Taldren.. I'll post my first IMG link for a very *very* long time here..

All that needs to do now is to darken a couple of illumination maps, and get v2 of the mesh mapped from Atolm, and then I think we're ready to release guys..

atheorhaven · « **Reply #15 on:** May 28, 2003, 02:38:26 am »

Okay.. it's up for download everyone... this is v1 because I'm still waiting on the new mesh from Atolm... but this (I think) effectively breaks the curse.

I so totally need to update the site again.. (sigh).. but here's the direct link to it for now:

http://www.themackiestuff.com/atheorhaven/html/userfiles/ships/trek/sfc2/Melak_RDN_TMP_v1.zip

Enjoy.. and v2 should be out soon.

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #16 on:** May 28, 2003, 06:54:05 am »

Thank you Atheorhaven and Atolm for bringing us the Melak v1. Truly an historic day! The curse is broken!!!

This is the first Melak made from the ground up to make it into SFC since Maggot did his kitbash of Noah Wallace's D'deridex over two years ago.

It appears that the warp engine symmetry on this Melak is more harmonious than previous attempts to bring this model to us.

It is my understanding that many Romulan engineers are hard at work fine- tuning this unmistakeable war machine...

Reporting live from the Klingon-Romulan Neutral zone,

KF

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