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Nice ship, i like the front view.

Killer Wolf wrote:

Nice ship, i like the front view.

Yes, looks very hornetty

Well Done Mandoman - you seem to have got Smoothing sorted out...

Thanks. I still have a few adjustments to make, but the thing is sure fun to tear-ass around in. I went to shake up a pirate cove, and the ball turrets blew the thing up before more than one pirate could get out of it, LOL!!

Here's another in development stage, called the SparrowHawk.

I have three models unfinished, but two may never be completed. This is the Scimitar, a ship smaller and faster than the standard Cobra Mark III, with a smaller hold but quite a fast ship. Energy stats are the same as the Cobby. Post release I intend to concentrate my efforst on producing at least one mission OXP and so ends my feeble attempt at ship making.

CaptSolo wrote:

I have three models unfinished, but two may never be completed. This is the Scimitar, a ship smaller and faster than the standard Cobra Mark III, with a smaller hold but quite a fast ship. Energy stats are the same as the Cobby. Post release I intend to concentrate my efforst on producing at least one mission OXP and so ends my feeble attempt at ship making.

I hear you there, Cap. I'm trying to put together a simple mission type oxp, and am so far falling on my face. I CAN'T stop making the ships, though. Dang if it isn't addictive. I just love it. I've basically stopped offering up any of my newer endeavours, simply because I would start flooding the market. I'm really into Flashers, and ball turrets at this time. The old timers are probably laughing at us behind our backs, but I can't help it.

mandoman wrote:

Here's another in development stage, called the SparrowHawk.

Call it Jack for short!

Fatleaf wrote:

mandoman wrote:

Here's another in development stage, called the SparrowHawk.

Call it Jack for short!

Interesting. I hadn't even heard of Jack Frake until I saw this post, and did a search. Are they good books?

mandoman wrote:

Fatleaf wrote:

mandoman wrote:

Here's another in development stage, called the SparrowHawk.

Call it Jack for short!

Interesting. I hadn't even heard of Jack Frake until I saw this post, and did a search. Are they good books?

I was referring to this Jack! Never heard of the other Jack!

is there an AI that could make it stagger drunkenly down the spacelanes? or make it ONLY carry liquor!

like the Scimitar, very nice and "core-shippy".

Regarding the scimitar, I think it would benefit greatly from highly-detailed greebling in the valleys behind the cockpit. And looking at the same area, is the model symmetrical - there appears to be one more line on the port side than the starboard?

Killer Wolf wrote:

is there an AI that could make it stagger drunkenly down the spacelanes? or make it ONLY carry liquor!

Making an NPC ship carry only one type of cargo requires only a shipdata entry.

As for the AI, I think modifying waypoint AI would be a good start.

Fatleaf wrote:

I was referring to this Jack! Never heard of the other Jack!

LOL!!! I never thought about him. Excellent actor, and what a cool series of movies, eh?

Wildeblood wrote:

Regarding the scimitar, I think it would benefit greatly from highly-detailed greebling in the valleys behind the cockpit. And looking at the same area, is the model symmetrical - there appears to be one more line on the port side than the starboard?

Greebling is a new one on me. Was just checking on that. Industrial Light and Magic referred to it as, "guts on the outside". The model is symmetrical. I think what you see may be caused by local illumination.