canada would you rather have the shield ability be a full restore or a rapid restore?
if rapid should it be interuptable as in damage will stop the ability?

Hmmm I like the sound of the rapid restore as well as interruptable. We'll see how well that works for us

ok i will procede with work

pending canadaman's final approval i have tweaked the destroyers mesh cause it looked to similar i have changed some key features and made it look thicker and raised all of the armor plates

my first attempt at a long sword took 2 1/2 hours

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=605686bd4bb2786143503573c6faf58e

I actually was about to ask that of you

ok good also somthiogn im going to be messing with is the fleet formation i wuld like to get that mass effect instead of it being uniformed

hope u guys dont mind but, what program do u use to take those models or sketches into .xsi models for games?

xsi 6 modtools

During the whole Longsword weapon arguement, I realized something else. Longswords are really fucking big. It said they're like the size of a Boeing 747. And so compared to most UNSC ships (All cept maybe big cruisers and caps) they'd be pretty big. So, maybe we shouldn't do the whole Sins squad thing and infact make each Longsword it's own individual fighter, or at most put a squadron of 2-3. Since they'd be a lot more visible, and much bigger, it'd just seem odd to have flights of 5-7.

Also, since Keyes is appearantly giving Longswords limited missiles, I thought I should mention a Longsword has 4 anti-fighter missiles, but if you're seperating them to Bomber Longswords and Fighter Longswords, I'd recomend giving the fighter variant like, 10 anti-fighter missiles. I mean lets face it, if they aint lugging around other munitions like bombs and anti-cap missiles, they can fit a lot more then 4 fighter to fighter missiles.

I don't think that they are quite as big as a Boeing 747 (you see one crash on the arc). However we don't know how big the fighters in sins are, so I think that the squads are fine. It is going to be hell to code individual missiles. (I think)

alright, thanks captian

Well Aridias, the Longswords ingame don't ever look that big, but we've never really gotten good looks at them, they've allways been god knows how high in the air. The only time we got a good look at one was on the first Halo, and that thing easily had the wing spand of a Boeing 747, and I prolly shoulda phrased that better. It said it had the wingspan of a 747 but was about half the length, which it seemed like compared to the Flood. I also looked at a size chat and it'd prolly take 15-20 longswords to cover up a frigate. You could prolly carry a total of 4 Longswords in a frigate, maybe 20 in a halcyon and the like. And they do show up against the ships.

Say, a Kol is the size of a Halcyon, then a Longsword would be double, maybe triple the size of a TEC fighter. So having them work in squads might feel clunky ingame. I mean imagine having a single unit with 5 ships half the size of a Cobalt flying in formation, just wouldn't seem right.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/Fiender/HaloScale.png Compare the Longsword to the frigate, and Halcyon.

Actually Colt, you can wlk around on one in the Halo 3 level, The Ark

Really? Sweet. Was it still the same size or did they scale it down? I'm guessing they scaled it down since putting a ship with the wingspan of a Boeing 747 on their map would seem a bit.... excessive.

can anyone link me the best possible halo mod out there so i can try it out... and other mods?

my msn is [email protected]

can anyone tell how to get a Google Sketch up into SOFTIMAGE XSI?

lol all the ships in this link are sketchup and I think the CCS is mine

so your only sticking with UNSC and Covie? anyways, how do we get to do the beta test?

the mod isnt ready yet please be patient and wait till we announce the beta testing.

CanadaMan777 will quietly notify the chosen beta testers

Which is pretty easy to guess who'll they'll be, considering he's stated it's an open beta. <.<

thanks all_under_heaven i was not informed of that detail. but anyway please stop asking for the moment your requests are noted and we thank you but please try to be patient and constructive during the wait.

also we have just discussed it being open its still a while tille we finish the first phase

What are you guys doing with the mod now, anyways? I mean..... before it was just, when atleast some of the UNSC ships were done (Frigate, destroyer, marathon, halcyon) were done, you were gonna release a sort of mini-alpha mod. Is that changed or what?