Inspiration

Post by **Kaelis** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:52 am

This is a place where we can post all kinds of sources of inspiration for BSF shipbuilding, detailing and section creation.

Heres my photobucket album with some random images: http://s275.photobucket.com/albums/jj31 ... spiration/

Heres a compilation of best looking (imo) bosses from Fraxy. Took me two hours to make... Thanks go to TheBlueEcho for pointing my attention to it. The image is big, but trust me, its worth it - some crazy stuff there.

Post away!

Danny420Dale · Post by **Danny420Dale** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:06 am

Those are some really hawt ships! Your photobucket has nice stuff too

Ethril · Post by **Ethril** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:28 am

Those Fraxy ships *MUST* be built in BSF. MUST.
If nobody does this, I will cry.

I'd do it but I don't know what their actual armaments are, having never heard of this "Fraxy" before. I'll take a few more looks at it to see if there's any neat hull shapes I can steal, though.

TheBlueEcho · Post by **TheBlueEcho** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:03 am

I can probaly list all the Weapons in Fraxy, if ya give me a minute.

And your welcome Kaelis.

wonderwhy-er · Post by **wonderwhy-er** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:43 am

TheBlueEcho wrote:I can probaly list all the Weapons in Fraxy, if ya give me a minute.
And your welcome Kaelis.

wah checked the fraxy. Looks good

Tough screen is small

TheBlueEcho · Post by **TheBlueEcho** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:47 am

wonderwhy-er wrote:
TheBlueEcho wrote:I can probaly list all the Weapons in Fraxy, if ya give me a minute.
And your welcome Kaelis.
wah checked the fraxy. Looks good Tough screen is small

Yeah... Unfortunatly thats where it fails at. If only it had a bigger screen...
My ships:

Hades · Post by **Hades** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:29 am

Is that bishop yours?

TheBlueEcho · Post by **TheBlueEcho** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:27 am

Bishop?

Hades · Post by **Hades** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:31 am

TheBlueEcho wrote:Bishop?

http://s275.photobucket.com/albums/jj31 ... l_mesh.jpg
From HomeWorld 2.

Post by **Kaelis** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:53 am

Oh, that. Nah, its not mine, dunno where i got it... 3d modelling forums i think. Ive got hundreds of inspirational sci-fi pics floating around on my hdd -.-

Although i did try my hand at highpoly remake of resource collector once, using the bishop as a style/detail reference, so it turned out very similar to these screens. The modelling was almost done, and then ive lost it due to hdd crash

TheBlueEcho · Post by **TheBlueEcho** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:55 am

Ethril wrote:I'd do it but I don't know what their actual armaments are...

Ethril · Post by **Ethril** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:39 pm

Ok then.
Let's see...
I'd say, without having played Fraxy, that the closest BSF counterpart to the Fraxy weapons would be as follows. Feel free to disagree.

Exploding Tank Piece = I dunno. Make that piece the parent of a bunch of really small pieces underneath it? Except that would probably blow up the ship it's attached to, as well.

Misc Red = Nanomatrix with custom range?
Misc Green = Booster? Our Booster makes them faster, not stronger, though. :\
Misc Purple = Deflector? It doesn't work quite the same way but it sounds similar.
Misc Blue doesn't have an equal, unless you count spawning powerups in the misc menu

Twin Vulcan = 2 pulse guns, or maybe a single gatpulse with lowered clip size. More accuracy.
Mini Vulcan = Pulse/Gatpulse, smaller clip.
Multi Vulcan = Can't really do this one. I'd say just a gatpulse with a firing arc of 50 or so, with a deviation of half that.
Cross-Vulcan = We can't really do this one either, but maybe Pulse, 360 arc+deviation, clipsize of 40 or so?
Aim Vulcan = Pulse, 360 firing arc, i dunno the default pulse turning speed so it might have to be lowered. More accuracy
Vulcan 2 = The description confuses me. Is it saying 2 volleys of 5 shots each, or 2 volleys that share 5 shots? I'll go with the former. We can't really do that, so how about a gatpulse with a 10 round clip?
Vulcan 1 = Pulse

Power Ball = I dunno. Driver? Plasma Torpedo?

Plasma Ring = Frosch, definitely. For the damage you could stick a plasma or driver in there with it, I guess.

Type 2 Laser = Megabeam.
Type 1 Laser = Mining Beam with extra damage.

Homing Laser = ...Missile with extra turning? Maybe?

Burner = Short range projectiles with high deviation and really fast fire speed? Maybe blasters?

Twin Bullet = 2 blasters
Bullet Small = Blaster with 2 shot clip and short (but not zero) firing speed
Bullet = Blaster with 2 shot clip.

Boosters = ...Thrusters even though they're mostly aesthetics? Maybe high acceleration + flanking AI.

Blade = Beamer with short range and high damage.

However, I am apparently an idiot, so I may be wrong.

Post by **Kaelis** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:31 pm

A few more:

These are early concepts from a game called Armada Online.

And, errr, why are you trying to remake Fraxy weapons for BSF, anyway?

Ethril · Post by **Ethril** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:17 am

Duh, so that we can remake Fraxy ships into BSF ships.
And then people can make BSF ships into Fraxy ships...

Soon we won't be able to tell the two games apart! :O

Normandy · Post by **Normandy** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:41 am

Usually I take my inspiration from the stock ships, making either what they lack or meshing them together.