Babylon 5 fanfleet (UPDATE-Liandra and EFOne + Scalechart)

X-14 · Post by **X-14** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:02 pm

I don't know, if you continue you the B5-Project with the new Shipmaker, but i like all ships from B5, that you have create. I say respect.

Mod Edit: User was warned for this post; great, I've not even been up an hour and I'm already giving out warnings. What a great start. -Arc.

Wicky_42 · Post by **Wicky_42** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:12 pm

March 2008?! Call the paladins, we've got a necro!

2500kgm3 · Post by **2500kgm3** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:50 pm

Wicky_42 wrote:March 2008?! Call the paladins, we've got a necro!

Something I am quite pleased of, for obvious reasons.

Right now, I am in the middle of some other projects, so I don't think I would be able to redo the b5 ships. However, with custom sections and features such as movement, it might be a really interesting task (rotating omega!) although it would imply basically drawing pixel by pixel every ship in a drawing software, getting sections built from the drawing in a coherent way, and getting them to fit as you wanted in the shipbuilder (which is in fact, the process I am using to build a next generation loricentii fleet) Lack of time and the fact other proyects have me captive just now make this proyect hard to afford proyect for me.

So I think I have to leave this in a Maybe. If someone else wants to take the honored duty of rebuilding b5ships with custom sprites, movement and propper coloured weapons, I encourage you to do so, and have no problems with it.

Isu · Post by **Isu** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:02 am

Wow... Repetition.... ahhh!! Did anyone else not notice the monstrous repetition in the ships? Of course, I'm not much of a B5 fan so I don't really know how much like the originals they look... But other than that i find them very good looking.

X-14 · Post by **X-14** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:09 am

Isu wrote:Wow... Repetition.... ahhh!! Did anyone else not notice the monstrous repetition in the ships? Of course, I'm not much of a B5 fan so I don't really know how much like the originals they look... But other than that i find them very good looking.

yes this is true. I have buy all DVD's of B5 an i way supriesed over the details from the ships. My favorit folk from B5 are the shadows.

2500kgm3 · Post by **2500kgm3** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:56 am

Isu wrote:Wow... Repetition.... ahhh!! Did anyone else not notice the monstrous repetition in the ships? Of course, I'm not much of a B5 fan so I don't really know how much like the originals they look... But other than that i find them very good looking.

I agree, repetition was one of my bigger faults. And it is more obvious in big ships, like in the Victory. I have no excuse for the victory's look but to say it was my first "big ship". I have never built ships bigger than the standard destroyers from the Earth Alliance, since I do not like "superweapons of mass ownage" That is my only defense in this case.

On the other ships... I thought some times it was recreating quite propperly the plating on the ship, and while repetition is very common on most ships, I always used only the sections I though were more fitting with the "feel" of the ship, and prioritized the ships shape and inner edges over the texture of the hull.

And I hate stretching, so I only stretched sections for antennae. No other section is enlarged or diminished from it's standard size. it is a pet peeve of mine. That made me use more sections than some people would have to cover the same space. And I wanted the pixel resolution to be the same in all ships. A section in a Victory is the same size of a section in a hyperion. Otherwise, they would look extremely ugly when side by side.

In short: I am guilty of a repetition crime. But back then I found it justified enough to consider it a minor problem.

And thanks for the compliment about them being very good looking.

Draco18s · Post by **Draco18s** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:18 pm

The shadow empire ships are impossible to discern against that black background. I do believe that there is a rule about making black ships.

Or at least post them with a different background.

BTW, feel free to use my trick if you wish to attempt a go at Babalon 5 itself.

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My post appears blank, but all of the text is here if I edit....
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Oh, buggered up the URL tag. Lol.

Wicky_42 · Post by **Wicky_42** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:03 pm

Draco18s wrote: BTW, feel free to use my trick if you wish to attempt a go at Babalon 5 itself.

That's genius Draco - been trying to work out how to to rotations in that plain! Of course, battledamage is going to look a bit screwy... Nice none the less.