[RELEASE] Coluber CPV-9333 Pitviper (V.1.0.0)

[cbr]

armoured trader a bit lacking in the cargo department



Special camo to hunt around unsuspected thargoids.

[Diziet Sma]

armoured trader a bit lacking in the cargo department

Heh.. to be fair, trading was never the intended role..

Nice paintjobs! Mind if I add them to the 'Custom paint jobs' section of the wiki page?

[cbr]

Mind if I add them to the 'Custom paint jobs' section of the wiki page?

Sure

three paintjobs for the pitviper seems fitting.

The blue angel hunter not scared to show his colors

[Diziet Sma]

Mind if I add them to the 'Custom paint jobs' section of the wiki page?

Sure

Apologies for taking so long to get this done.. images now added to the wiki page.

[Cholmondely]

Just wondering: surely instead of pitching/yawing along two axes these ships should have a triangulated three axes of manoevurability?

And is there vocabulary which better describes what I'm trying to say?

[Cody]

And is there vocabulary which better describes what I'm trying to say?

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[Redspear]

Just wondering: surely instead of pitching/yawing along two axes these ships should have a triangulated three axes of manoevurability?

You wouldn't be assuming a non-fixed cockpit would you by any chance?
Or a similar three axes to be present in the make-up of the pilot perhaps?

[Cholmondely]

Just wondering: surely instead of pitching/yawing along two axes these ships should have a triangulated three axes of manoevurability?

You wouldn't be assuming a non-fixed cockpit would you by any chance?
Or a similar three axes to be present in the make-up of the pilot perhaps?

Nice one!

[Cholmondely]

...I have a finished model for the fast Coluber Queensnake-class courier freighter in my files. Unfortunately, wings3D on my imac always crashes whenever I try to create the UV map and also the python-script that transfers obj to dat does no longer work on my mac. So I've since given up. But if someone transfers the model and takes over the texturing, maybe the ship can actually make ist the Ooniverse after all. Let me know if you're interested, and I'll gladly send you a link from box.com to the Wings3D file with the model via PM.

The basic idea behind the Queensnake is a ship whose main characteristic is speed and a particularly economical and effective fuel injector and an average cargo capacity of 30 ct.

Here are three pictures of the model compared to a cargo container and a Cobra Mk III:







When we get the ship up and running together, I'll try to add an interesting background story and a custom HUD, but that for sure will take some time because I'm a bit busy with work at the moment.

Are you quite sure that this one is a Riredian Coluber?

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Coluber Pitviper: Notable features

In Riredian culture and religion the numbers 3, 6 and 9 are very meaningful and this has had great influence on the design. 
(Eg. the Pitviper Vindicator can carry 27 (3*9) missiles; has 9 energy banks; has 3 engines; etc.)

The Pitviper comes with its own specially Coluber-designed HUD. 
You will notice that following the Riredian prediliction for trinities, that the HUD is split into 3 sections from left to right. 
And that both left and right-hand sections are further split into 3 vertically. 
It is rumoured that Coluber's engineers spent many fruitless hours attempting to further subdivide the IFF Scanner to achieve a perfect trinity of trinities, but their efforts proved unavailing.

Looks more like a 2/4/8 catamaran to me! (Or possibly 2.5/5/10)

PitViper & HUD:

[Captain Beatnik]

Yes, I am even absolutely sure the Queen Snake is a true member of the coluber family of snakes. Look here: Queen Snake

And yes, i´m also absolutely sure the hull of the Queen Snake - other than the hull of the Pitviper - for the main part is not a typical insectoid design and also not influenced by the riredian culture. (Well, at least not much.)

As told, the Pitviper was the result of a joint-venture between Coluber Inc. and the riredian gouvernment who was intrested in the production of a new corvette-class warship for their navy.

This .oxp adds the powerful Coluber CPV-9333 "Pitviper" to the Ooniverse. ...
...This corvette-class combat vessel is the result of a joint venture between the Riredian Government and the Coluber Works and Shipyards Ltd. (The HQ of the company is located in the Riredi system in galaxy one and so they have very good connections to the lokal government.)
The ships hull can not deny to be a insektoid design and thus - to human eyes - the ship looks quite ugly.
In the Riredian culture and religion the numbers 3,6 and 9 are very meaningful and this circumstance had great influence on the design.(E.g. the vindicator can carry 27 = 3*9 missiles; 9 energy banks; 3 engines; etc.)
...

But this is not true for the coluber racers or the queen snake. These designs were made by Coluber inc. alone. But, of course, the commercialy very sucsessful piviper has left some clearly visible marks on design of the queen snake, i can´t deny that. Nevertheless, the queen snake is mainly a very fast cargohauler, not a designated combat vessel like the pitviper.