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Title: The Size of ships Post by: Peter on March 13, 2006, 12:01:31 am What do you guys think on the scale of the ships ?
Personally I think the scales of all ships are wrong most likely forged because of game/system limits at the time the game was made. I just made a few 3d ships and was planning to start a new one when I run into the scale issue. I 'quick en dirty' put together a dreadnought and scaled it up a bit, and it suddenly was giving me that: (quote from SC1) "The Ur-Quan Dreadnought, is the single most devastating ship in known space. Alternately termed "Planetary Siege Units," a single specimen of this feared ship has succeeded in subduing and enslaving entire worlds." Just curious how you guys think on it. some screenshots http://wbcelite.com/natfka/sc/dreadnought.jpg (http://wbcelite.com/natfka/sc/dreadnought.jpg) http://wbcelite.com/natfka/sc/attack.jpg (http://wbcelite.com/natfka/sc/attack.jpg) http://wbcelite.com/natfka/sc/attack2.jpg (http://wbcelite.com/natfka/sc/attack2.jpg) Title: Re: The Size of ships Post by: meep-eep on March 13, 2006, 12:18:13 am You don't need a big ship to lay siege to a planet, you just need big guns.
I like the models. You're planning to add textures lateron? Title: Re: The Size of ships Post by: Zeep-Eeep on March 13, 2006, 12:12:31 pm Nice pictures. Good work.
To answer your question, I try not to think about things like "scale" and "reality" and proper star positioning where UQM is concerned. I just enjoy all the 2D goodness of a great game. Title: Re: The Size of ships Post by: guesst on March 13, 2006, 04:25:08 pm You don't need a big ship to lay siege to a planet, you just need big guns. \I like the models. You're planning to add textures lateron? But you do need a big ship if you're carring a compliment of one man fighters. I think crew size would be a good determinant of scale if you insist of "fixing" it (not that it matters). Title: Re: The Size of ships Post by: Deus Siddis on March 13, 2006, 05:06:23 pm You don't know how big the pilots of those fighters are. They could be sentient death fleas from the other side of the galaxy.
Title: Re: The Size of ships Post by: Davey Yungblud on March 13, 2006, 07:27:13 pm Posted by: Deus_Siddis Posted on: Today at 05:06:23 pm: You don't know how big the pilots of those fighters are. They could be sentient death fleas from the other side of the galaxy.
I recall that in the original manual for the DOS version of SC1, there was a sketch of an Ur-Quan fighter pilot. Perhaps, the Ur-quan had subjegated a race of tiny tentacled people, as the sketch looked almost like a shrunken hybrid of an Ur-Quan and a VUX. Title: Re: The Size of ships Post by: Death 999 on March 13, 2006, 08:50:42 pm See
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