My Hull Concepts... (Monsters and Drones Too)

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My Hull Concepts... (Monsters and Drones Too)

#1 Post by Dart00_Tech »

I noticed that we only have 2 hull types. I was playing around a bit and put these together. If anyone wanted i could come out with some more designs.

As far as I know I can provide files in:
-DXF
-VRML
-Direct3D

Would any of these formats be useable?

If so, maybe we could use a bunch like these till we got more like we have now....it would at least give us distinguished hulls and keep you from going cross eyed at the Design page...

I also can add armaments if needed.

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Drones:

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#2 Post by Dart00_Tech »

Heres a whole view of most of them:

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#3 Post by Bigjoe5 »

Dart00_Tech wrote:I also can add armaments if needed.
I'm not in a position to comment on whether or not these models will be usable, but I do recall that there should be no visible weaponry on the surface of the hull.
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#4 Post by Dart00_Tech »

Bigjoe5 wrote:
Dart00_Tech wrote:I also can add armaments if needed.
I'm not in a position to comment on whether or not these models will be usable, but I do recall that there should be no visible weaponry on the surface of the hull.
Ya..im not really sure how to submit them so im just kinda doing them and tossing them here. I can provide the models on request. I was thinking maybe these could be used as temporary images/models untill pd finished them. Im actually having a lot of fun :).

As far as i know, im not equipping any weapons. Anything that "looks" like a weapon is probably a fuel tank, engine or intake. :wink:

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#5 Post by eleazar »

I'll take them as temps, and happily. :D

I don't know what the technical requirements for 3D are, i'm not a 3D artist, so the following refers to the 2D side.
Can you render these on transparent backgrounds, ideally saved as .PNG?
The current size of the big hull graphic varies, but is approximately 2000 px x 1000 px.

and make a thumbnail (256x256) version from a dramatic angle like this:
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We don't need hull view renders of space monsters since the player never uses them in the design screen.

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#6 Post by Dart00_Tech »

Ya I can do that. Whats the color bit depth? Let me finish all the hulls and assign my suggested hull names. You can mix and match and photoshop if you want from there.

The neat thing is these are REALLY 3D models and could still be used as temps when the 3D battle system gets worked if whoever is doing that will take a DXF,
VRML or Direct3D model.

Give me a few more days to finish all of them. There are A LOT of hulls in FO.

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#7 Post by eleazar »

Dart00_Tech wrote:Ya I can do that. Whats the color bit depth?...
No need to do more than 8 bits per channel. I.E. standard RGB.

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#8 Post by Dart00_Tech »

Before I make any more headway on this...I need to know if I got the hulls list right. These are all the hulls that need side views and "Epic" views correct? I also need to know if my classifications are correct cause each type will use a different texture I also need to know if my short description is correct.

Asteroid Based:
- Aggregate Asteroid Hull (Several large asteroids)
- Asteroid Hull (Average Size asteroid)
- Camouflage Asteroid Hull (Looks like exact Asteroid)
- Crystallized Asteroid Hull (Average size crystal hardened asteroid )
- Heavy Asteroid Hull (Gigantic asteroid)
- Mini-Asteroid Swarm (Has surrounding small asteroids)
- Scattered Asteroid Hull (Asteroid flag ship with surrounding asteroids)
- Small Asteroid Hull (Very small)
- Small Camouflage Asteroid Hull (Looks like a exact asteroid)

Bio Based:
- Bio-Adaptive Hull (Living hull with mind and body)
- Endomorphic Hull (Nonliving components)
- Endosymbiotic Hull (Suspends the crew in Cytoplasm)
- Organic Hull (Very basic)
- Protoplasmic Hull (Formed of Cytoplasm)
- Ravenous Hull (Raised off of blood)
- Static Multicellular Hull (Produced from multi-cellular castings)
- Symbiotic Hull (Lives in a symbiotic relationship with crew)

Energy Based:
- Compressed energy Hull (Very fast energy based hull)
- Fractal Energy hull (Many Fractal surfaces)
- Quantum Energy Hull (Magnifies Quantum energy)
- Solar Hull (Miniature sun flagship)

Robotic Based:
- Nano-Robotic Hull (Large and fast, self repairing)
- Robotic Hull (Completely automated)
- Sentient Hull (Self-aware flagship)

Speed Based:
- Spatial Flux Hull (Immense Speed)
- Trans-Spatial Hull (Very Immense Speed)

Size Based:
- Self-Gravitating Hull (Huge size)
- Titanic Hull (Extraordinarily large)
- Xentronium Hull (Constructed with Xentronium - small)

Standard Based:
- Basic Medium Hull
- Basic Small Hull
- Standard Hull

Other:
- Logistics Facilitator (Organizational Flagship)
- Colony Base Hull (Designed to colonize)

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#9 Post by utilae »

Other ideas for hull types:

Plant based hulls

Cute fluffy sheep like looking hulls :P

Exotic alien looking hulls

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#10 Post by Dart00_Tech »

utilae wrote:Other ideas for hull types:

Plant based hulls

Cute fluffy sheep like looking hulls :P

Exotic alien looking hulls
Im differently trying to make some alien hulls for the monsters.

Cufe fluffy sheep? Hmm...maybe.

What do you want? A flying salad? :D I think the plant ones are the Bio ones...

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#11 Post by Bigjoe5 »

IIRC, the plan was to make all of these hulls generic (i.e. one model per species):
Dart00_Tech wrote:Asteroid Based:
- Aggregate Asteroid Hull (Several large asteroids)
- Asteroid Hull (Average Size asteroid)
- Camouflage Asteroid Hull (Looks like exact Asteroid)
- Crystallized Asteroid Hull (Average size crystal hardened asteroid )
- Heavy Asteroid Hull (Gigantic asteroid)
- Mini-Asteroid Swarm (Has surrounding small asteroids)
- Scattered Asteroid Hull (Asteroid flag ship with surrounding asteroids)
- Small Asteroid Hull (Very small)
- Small Camouflage Asteroid Hull (Looks like a exact asteroid)

Bio Based:
- Bio-Adaptive Hull (Living hull with mind and body)
- Endomorphic Hull (Nonliving components)
- Endosymbiotic Hull (Suspends the crew in Cytoplasm)
- Organic Hull (Very basic)
- Protoplasmic Hull (Formed of Cytoplasm)
- Ravenous Hull (Raised off of blood)
- Static Multicellular Hull (Produced from multi-cellular castings)
- Symbiotic Hull (Lives in a symbiotic relationship with crew)

Energy Based:
- Compressed energy Hull (Very fast energy based hull)
- Fractal Energy hull (Many Fractal surfaces)
- Quantum Energy Hull (Magnifies Quantum energy)
- Solar Hull (Miniature sun flagship)
And all of these species-specific (for instance, the picture eleazar posted was of a Trith hull):
Robotic Based:
- Nano-Robotic Hull (Large and fast, self repairing)
- Robotic Hull (Completely automated)
- Sentient Hull (Self-aware flagship)

Speed Based:
- Spatial Flux Hull (Immense Speed)
- Trans-Spatial Hull (Very Immense Speed)

Size Based:
- Self-Gravitating Hull (Huge size)
- Titanic Hull (Extraordinarily large)
- Xentronium Hull (Constructed with Xentronium - small)

Standard Based:
- Basic Medium Hull
- Basic Small Hull
- Standard Hull

Other:
- Logistics Facilitator (Organizational Flagship)
- Colony Base Hull (Designed to colonize)
However, at this point, having species specific ship hull models is not at all a priority - in fact, it would be sort of pointless if they're just placeholders anyway, so yeah, I think one model per hull you mentioned should be fine.
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#12 Post by Dart00_Tech »

Yes i could crank out a specific ship for each species, but that's a "unbelievable" amount of time and my imagination only goes so far....

Heres a example of a Side View and Epic View with the requested Specs. How does this look?

186 polygons, double anti-aliasing. Light from the left at 45*s. Its the "Compressed Energy Hull". See how it shines and radiates "Energy". Its designed to be small, light and FAST! 8)

Epic View:

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Design Side View: http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/2717/testbig.png

Re-sized Transparent Design Side View: http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/2717/testbig.png

I think its looks pretty good. :) If this format is good ill finish the project and upload a .zip tomorrow.

I think ill use 2 different type of hull side views. The mid size ships and large ships will be the full length of window (like we have now) and the smaller designs will be a about 75% of full.

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#13 Post by Dart00_Tech »

Yay! I finally finished everything! 8)

I got all the ones in the list and some other space monsters. Let me know if you want anything redone or if you want me to do any more models. They came out really good and should work, esp in the 3D battle system once we get that together.

These should match the specs that you requested. The side views are interlaced while the small thumbnails are not. All graphics were rendered with triple anti-aliasing and are very smooth and clear.

Some of them you may need to adjust where the "slots" go to match the picture, but not by much i dont think.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Designs (Hotfile): http://hotfile.com/dl/146010231/94f010a ... s.zip.html

To celebrate (A Spatial Flux Cruiser being escorted by some Mark I's into a Shipyard):

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#14 Post by Adrian »

Yay! I finally finished everything!
Oh snap! Nice work!

They might be a bit simplistic compared to pd's designs, but i think it's great to have different hulls finally. This game could be more enjoyable if less things were left untouched until "perfect". For instance a lot of building designs (even if preliminary) have been made, and i'd like to see them in game. FreeOrion 1.0 might be years off, so having intermediate graphics is desirable i think.

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#15 Post by eleazar »

Yay! I finally finished everything!
Great, i'll commit the images later today...
Adrian wrote:This game could be more enjoyable if less things were left untouched until "perfect". For instance a lot of building designs (even if preliminary) have been made, and i'd like to see them in game. FreeOrion 1.0 might be years off, so having intermediate graphics is desirable i think.
I went through the building thread sometime last year and added about a dozen building icons.

If there are new ones, or ones i've missed feel free to start a thread (or add to the building thread) linking unused art to buildings without an icon.

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