Okay, here's a link to the Miranda mod.WWW Link I think for my next ship I'm going to do two ships. Now that I semi-know how ModTool works, I think the ships will come faster... First I'm going to do an Oberth to replace your scout ship. Parallel to that I'm going to make my first cap ship model... But I don't know which one to do. So that's (kinda) up to you guys. So what'll it be? 4 choices; Excelsior, Nebula, Galaxy, or Akira. No, no sovereign for now. I know I couldn't hope to do as good a job as Major Stress did with his, so, what's the use(for now)?
Oh, and I've got my own ideas as to how the borg could work as a faction, but it would require some major gameplay changes, and might require the full set of mod tools...

Ezraeil

I vote excelsior  

Smiles... Couldnt agree more  

Sacrifice of Angels 2, title is from DS9....

I'm having a blast with the Miranda, thanks again for that. For improvements, I'd recommend moving the engine trail hardpoints to the area between the shuttle bays - that's where the Miranda's impulse engines are. Also, I think the little dome dealie under the roll bar should be glowing blue, not flat grey. Oh, and if you could put hardpoints on the torpedo launchers on the pod, that'd be awesome.

For the next one, I'd love either the Excelsior, Ambassador, or Galaxy.

Well, just got done modeling the Oberth, so now comes the hard part, the texturing... I think I'll start the Excelsior, Galaxy, and Nebula, because now that I know what I'm doing, the actual modeling takes no time at all (Plus the galaxy can be tweaked to a Nebula pretty easily).
Done, and done. Texturing is a little hard for me, because I have some serious color blindness issues (my first texture for the miranda was completely pink, and I had no idea until a friend told me...) so yeah, the more cool glow-y things I can put on the ships, the better. Now, are you looking to turn the miranda into a capital, or can you add more weapons to frigates? I've done very little with code, so I have no idea if you can. I'll make those changes and re-upload the model. Just let me know what you are up to, 'cause if you manage to make some cool torpedo effects, I'd love to add them to my own games...


Nova would be sweet... I'll have to look into that.

Yes, you can add multiple weapons to a frigate, just name the emitters "Weapon-1" instead of "Weapon-0", and add the weapon into the entity and it will work.

Very cool, looking forward to the next model

I just got done modding the entity file to make the weapons more resemble the Miranda. I changed the main weapon to Advent Beams and changed the color to a reddish orange. I like the advent beams better because the Kol's seem to be too thick and cover up the model too much. I don't know how many emitters are on the model so I just added an ability to resemble to photon torpedoes.
One question: What weapon effect do you think most resembles the photon torpedoes used by The federation. I figured missiles would work, but they're too small and not quite the right effect.
Awesome model by the way.

I'm assuming you set the torpedoes up as an ability? To get them to fire from the correct locations you would have to add correctly positioned\named ability emitters to the mesh

with my complete lack of any moding knowledge this is going to be a pretty bad explination but, ia m going to try anyways.

the Kol battleship has 3 forward facing heavy autocannons on its right side next to the hanger. The Battery fires 3 shots that are single slugs that looks about the same color as a photon torpedo. it might be a bit small, not sure if you can fix that.

Okay, I've fixed the thruster position, the glowing dome, made the model compatible with bloom effects, and added hardpoints for a second weapon and an ability to the torpedo tubes on the rollbar, so you can have your choice of torpedo types. I'm also looking into changing the graphics of one of the weapons to make it into a photon torpedo... I'm going to wait to release the updated version until later this afternoon/night to see if I can get some free time and (maybe) finish up the Oberth.

Oh, and in reference to this

The miranda has two Weapon-0 hardpoints at the phaser cannons, two Weapon-1 hardpoints on the rollbar, and one Ability-0 hardpoint on the rollbar.

I think I'm going to start modeling one of the caps today, so maybe I'll post some pics later.

Ezraeil

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