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I dont know if anyone has done this or wants to but, How does a Mod- Pirate Starbridge sound? Slightly better then the Mod E Starbridge or the same with more speed? I don't have enough graphic skills to make it but i was wondering if anyone else would like to. (simply put LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE IT BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IT TO!)
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Originally posted by iaqua: **I dont know if anyone has done this or wants to but, How does a Mod- Pirate Starbridge sound? Slightly better then the Mod E Starbridge or the same with more speed? I don't have enough graphic skills to make it but i was wondering if anyone else would like to. (simply put LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE IT BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IT TO!)
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Originally posted by NSA man: **
Their are Pirate Starbridges. I can made a little pilot file?
Well i can easily get a Pirate Starbridge. Thanks for the offer but i was thinking of a entirly new ship. Like a Pirate Starbidge but modified to make it better with a slightly different graphics
I may get to makeing the spins monday.
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Originally posted by ArcAngel Counterstrike: ** I may get to makeing the spins monday.
WOW drool That is soooo awesome.. I'll be waiting and if you don't get around to it it s ok!
Yeah, I think alot of people have been thinking that a mod pirate starbridge would be cool... That was what I was planning on making as soon as my graphics skills are sufficient. I was also thinking of a RAGE Cruiser... Fusion Pulses batteries, Railguns, Wraith cannons, EWs, maybe a third engine for more speed. Basically, a Federation ship that doesn't suck.
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Eh, I still prefer the Pirate Starbridges without the Blaster graphics. Best looking Starbridges in the game.
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I took the time today to make the Mod Pirate Starbridge, so on my computer I have spďns and stuff, but when it comes to making plugins, I'm lost. The graphics are pretty good, so here's the link: (url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/ephrin/persondude/Mod_Pir_Starbridge.sit")Mod Pir. Starbridge(/url) And that has everything I've done, if anyone uses them include that they were my modifications to the ATMOS models in the readme. once again, everything is all out of order so you'll have to redo some numbers I think.
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Well. that saves me time.
A good service there, persondude.
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Here's a different target picture to play around with: (url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/ephrin/persondude/Target.sit")Target(/url).
Here's some more stuff to play around with:
The first one has a mixture of Civilian Mod Starbridge guns and Rebel Mod Starbridge guns, and the second one has just the Civilian guns. For the good quality pictures, you'll have to download the res-edit file (url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/ephrin/persondude/Ship.sit")here(/url).
more target pics, for those who are interested.
(url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/ephrin/persondude/NewTargets.sit")Here(/url)
I think thats just about all I'll do for this project. Unless I can get a good shipyard picture.
Why wasn't the Mod Pirate Starbridge in the game to begin with?
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Originally posted by persondude: **< snip>
they both look super cool to me i like the second picture. When somone makes the plug make sure you post a link here
That's awesome, persondude. What program did you use to make those rle8s? I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure strata can't do that. It looks like you took part of one and merged it with another. cool
It looks to me like he just used PhotoShop to combine the files using masks, but I may be wrong.
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Here is everything that I did, just so you won't have any further questions.
I took the Pirate Starbridge from the data, turned it into pict-based sprites, copied and pasted into a really old version of ClarisWorks, then did the same for the Rebel mod starbridge, put the two side by side, replaced the black backround of the rebel Starbridge with white, zoomed in on each of the 108 ship frames (400%), cut out everything except the guns, touched up a few spots, did a lasso on all the guns, pasted them over the pict-based pirate Starbridge sprites, zoomed in 400% to make sure they were in the right position, and then I had to make a mask. To do that I duplicated the Mod Pirate Starbridge sprites, put the two side by side, selected one of them, lightened it till the background was almost white, then filled it in totally black, then repeated several times to get the mask. Then I pasted both in Res-edit and used the neccesary programs to turn them back into rlë8 and rlëD.
For comm pictures, I took the original Pirate Starbridge comm pict, and then I put the civilian Mod Starbridge and Rebel Mod Starbridge next to it, carefully selected the guns, pasted them onto the Pirate Starbridge, and blended the edges to match, then, I added the white gun ends that were on the Rebel comm pict the same basic way. I then touched up what I had and posted it. (also done in ClarisWorks)
To make the target graphics, (The new ones, not the first one) I took an old target, enlarged it a few hundred percent, then I took the comm pict that I had just made, blacked out all the gradient around it, filled the enlarged target all black, filled all the blackened part of the comm pict with white, put a lasso around the whole thing, dragged it into the enlarged target, and then used Nova target generator on it. In the other ones I added more steps: rotate, then use target generator, or rotate and deform (to give the effect that it isn't rotated, it's actually on its side or something) then use target generator.
I also tried making a shipyard picture, but I couldn't get the guns to look as fake as the rest of the ship (the outfit pictures of guns are really, really, good quality). So it really looked like it was just pasted on. I won't even begin to go through the steps involved in that failure.
So that's just about it. You might be wondering how I figured all this out. Well, it's simple, when Nova was in development, they released movies, so I used my limited resorces to take ships out of the movies and arrange them into sprites for EVO, It was kinda wobbly, but the point is that it took dozens of attempts to get it right, and I learned all the techniques I use today in my 2D ship-part replacements.
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I can't do graphics, but I can do the resource. (url="http://"http://www.nztuatara.com/plugs.html")http://www.nztuatara.com/plugs.html(/url) to order.
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Originally posted by persondude: **Here is everything that I did, just so you won't have any further questions. <snip> So that's just about it. You might be wondering how I figured all this out. Well, it's simple, when Nova was in development, they released movies, so I used my limited resorces to take ships out of the movies and arrange them into sprites for EVO, It was kinda wobbly, but the point is that it took dozens of attempts to get it right, and I learned all the techniques I use today in my 2D ship-part replacements.
Y'know, QT did that with the first Manticore movie. It looked almost as awesome as the actual game model. O'course, it didn't have weapons glows. Yeah, he taught me that trick, too. It's been around since EVC, as far as I know. We used it once, in a plug we made... We gave the Emalgha antimatter technology -- and steroids. They were VERY cool. Ah, yes, the good old days.
I apologize for the nearly absolutely pointless post, just kinda reminiscing.
Back on topic, I really like the model, and I look forward to the plug. Finally, a Pirate Starbridge that's better than the Valk... Always did like Mod Starbridges better anyways... I'm really gonna like this ship.
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Originally posted by spacecowboy: **Back on topic, I really like the model, and I look forward to the plug. Finally, a Pirate Starbridge that's better than the Valk... Always did like Mod Starbridges better anyways... I'm really gonna like this ship.
Christ. I've been working on this a while, and I now have renewed respect for plugin developers, because this is hard! I'm persondude's brother, so I have rather easy access to all the pictures and stuff he produces. I'm making a plug that will have Classes C, D, and E, and they will only be available on Viking in the Tichel system.
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