Project My first Addon

[Zop]

Hello folks

I always wanted to have a ship capable of transporting a rover to explore the solar systems...and i am a fan of the starflight games...so i sat down and started creating my own addon

Im still at the noob stage and learning every day,but atleast i got my roughly textured preliminary shipmodel in game ,one animation working,flight characteristics still to be done...
I am still deciding what modeling tool i will use ...currently i started with anim8or ,then used blender...and now im into gmax (which is my favourite,because im familiar with 3dsmax5) .
As im not into programming my own dll at the moment im using spacecraft3.

edit: seems im to dumb to upload my image right....way too small

 

[Hielor]

Hmmm, I think the link on the image is broken, clicking the link pops up my own gallery here on the forums...

Looks good though!

 

[TSPenguin]

Moin.

This looks really interesting. What are the dimensions of that beast?

I took the liberty and fixed your image link so everyone can see it properly.

 

[Zop]

Well i took another screenshot with the dockingbay...as there is a XR2 docked...i would assume that my unnamed ship is about 220 m long ,100 m wide and has a height of around 30 m at the thickest point

 

[TSPenguin]

Fascinating!

The design of the nose reminds me of a hammerhead shark.

 

[Zop]

actually i borrowed the design from this old computer game cover...

Thats what i meant being a STARFLIGHT fan

---------- Post added 08-26-2009 at 05:20 PM ---------- Previous post was 08-25-2009 at 10:29 PM ----------

I am currently thinking of building a dropship-like vessel to be carried by the bigger explorer-ship.
The dropship will carry the rover down to the surface instead of landing that big thing of ship.
What do you guys think?

 

[TSPenguin]

Sounds like a reasonable plan.
Will that dropship be able to launch again? Leaving people alone on the surface of a planet is a mean thing to do, even if you give them a car
Will it dock at the dock you showed us previously? It would be awesome if it had it's own dock where it fits perfectly.

 

[n122vu]

Hmm. Am I missing something here? I don't see any images, or image placeholders...

I do see the sharks in TSPenguin's post.

 

[TSPenguin]

Hmm. Am I missing something here? I don't see any images, or image placeholders...

I do see the sharks in TSPenguin's post.

Try reloading the images manualy, reload the page, clear your cache, the usual.
There should be several images, some are even on this very server.

 

[n122vu]

Try reloading the images manualy, reload the page, clear your cache, the usual.
There should be several images, some are even on this very server.

Tried that, no luck. Closed and came back in, still no luck. Can't try at home later because I still can't get to OH or O-F from home without going through one of those crappy web proxy sites. Sent a note to my ISP again but still no luck.

Anyway, back to this thread - still no images. Can't load them manually because there are no links, no placeholders, not even a red x where the image should be. Puzzling.

 

[Hielor]

Tried that, no luck. Closed and came back in, still no luck. Can't try at home later because I still can't get to OH or O-F from home without going through one of those crappy web proxy sites. Sent a note to my ISP again but still no luck.

Anyway, back to this thread - still no images. Can't load them manually because there are no links, no placeholders, not even a red x where the image should be. Puzzling.

Same problem here.

 

[Zop]

Sounds like a reasonable plan.
Will that dropship be able to launch again? Leaving people alone on the surface of a planet is a mean thing to do, even if you give them a car
Will it dock at the dock you showed us previously? It would be awesome if it had it's own dock where it fits perfectly.

Of course it will be able to launch again would not be nice to leave part of the crew behind :lol:
Yes it will dock in its own bay,just like the car/rover will have its own bay in the dropship :hotcool:

i uploaded the pics to another source...are they viewable now?

 

[Oceanic]

pictures are visible now,

looks amazing! *thumbs up*

 

[Hielor]

Of course it will be able to launch again would not be nice to leave part of the crew behind :lol:
Yes it will dock in its own bay,just like the car/rover will have its own bay in the dropship :hotcool:

i uploaded the pics to another source...are they viewable now?

I can see it now -- looks good!

 

[n122vu]

Visible now for me also. Awesome looking ship!

You should call it....the Hammerhead....

 

[jedidia]

way to go for a first project! :speakcool:

 

[Zop]

small update...

dropship modelled , but not textured on approach to its dockingbay...

looks like dansteph will beat me for release with his mothership...

 

[PriestLizard]

Looking great!! If you can add some "immersion" aspects like O2 supply and all the stuff, it will be great fun to explore the solar system with that ship and its dropship

Oh and btw: any idea how this ship is build in space(LEO?) or how its launched?

 

[Zop]

Looking great!! If you can add some "immersion" aspects like O2 supply and all the stuff, it will be great fun to explore the solar system with that ship and its dropship

Oh and btw: any idea how this ship is build in space(LEO?) or how its launched?

Thanks

I thought of making all the assets (Mothership,dropship and the rover ) Ummu-compatible....but for that i will have to learn to code my own module...which could take awhile.
And as of yet i have no idea how this big ship was launched...you are welcome to think something up...or maybe build a homebase for it

 

[Sky Captain]

Thanks

I thought of making all the assets (Mothership,dropship and the rover ) Ummu-compatible....but for that i will have to learn to code my own module...which could take awhile.
And as of yet i have no idea how this big ship was launched...you are welcome to think something up...or maybe build a homebase for it

You can try to launch it on my gigantic Hercules rocket

[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4070"]Hercules super heavy launcher[/ame]