drop kick.

w00t, I can just see where I'm going to put doom rays on that omen

More great ships.Are there anyplans for the steamrunner class or am i just blind

You guys really like the steamrunner eh. We'll see. : )

-Brian

Do you have a release date?

All the modders r waitin for the 1.2 patch

AWESOME!!! Galciv developers here is the guy to create the new ships for expansion and updates!!!!

Spleeze you should explan to these new people. That you do not actually model these ships, you have taken them from other games that people have freely posted IE- SFC3, etc and just converted them so they will work with the Gal Civ2 engine.

Dont get me wrong i love what you r doin, but its good to put credit where credit is due

2 More great ships! Woot! Too bad on the starbases...but I can understand...Another race having them yuck haha.

thanks for the inclusion of the oiganal constitution class

yea, I nagged spleeze enough to add it

Spleeze you should explan to these new people. That you do not actually model these ships, you have taken them from other games that people have freely posted IE- SFC3, etc and just converted them so they will work with the Gal Civ2 engine. Dont get me wrong i love what you r doin, but its good to put credit where credit is due

I thought that he was making the models himself until a few weeks ago when he found a bunch of them pre-made. (The models that he was making before had WAY too many polygons though. over 260,000 triangles for the magella alone.

looking good.... dont really like these ships but they still look good.

I thought that he was making the models himself until a few weeks ago when he found a bunch of them pre-made. (The models that he was making before had WAY too many polygons though. over 260,000 triangles for the magella alone.

you maybe right (the excelsor model comes to mind 10hr+)

perhaps spleeze should clarify so we can remove this confusion

Here’s the scoop. None of the ships that I have released recently have been my own ship models. Sorry if I did not make myself clear.

I started this modding project by first building the ships from scratch and using existing high detail (production quality) models. I was spending countless hours hacking and slashing, rebuilding geometry, creating new textures, etc.

The oberth, shuttle, the original delta flyer, the Magallan, the Excelsior, and a Galaxy class (not posted) were created using this tedious process.

Then I ran into the SFC3 community, who has a huge collection of great ship models that were already game optimized (much better then I could do, for sure). I’ve extracted these ships from the SFC3 mod packages, made small adjustments and cleanup to the mesh, changed some textures, and applied a lighting pass in 3ds max. I’ve created a new set of textures for each ship (the composite of the old textures, and the lighting solution) and applied this new texture to the ship hulls. I then do a little tweaking to the map channels and disable the polygon shading. I then export as an X file, add a “_L” to the filename of all outputted textures, test in game, change some more lighting, test again, and then post here. I still need to finalize all the mount points on each model so they will act like standard GalCiv2 hulls (I’ve only added one or two mounts per model so far, just for testing).

I still need to come up with an elegant method of getting these models into the game as a proper mod, but I’ll figure something out.

So, by nature, I am not a game modeler, thus I would not be the best choice for someone like StarDock to hire as a model maker. Thanks for the thought though. : )

I hope this clears everything up, and I hope everyone is going to enjoy the work once the thing is finished. A lot of time goes into these.

Cheers!

-Brian

Thankx for the clearfication spleeze, and we do appreciate all your time and energy that is put into gettin these models galciv2 freindly

what was hard to understand in several threads there is refrence to him using ships from sfc3.He has modded them to fit in this game good work spleeze keep it up.Yes the steamrunner could be for my uber missile ships like it was in previous game a long range assault unit.Need tri cobalt torpeodoes now

I don't get it, why not release ships individualy or in a big pack instead of waiting for a full featured mod?

I can't wait for this to release, please release it asap!

Dude, I have GOT to have all of these. Hurry up 1.2!

Whether or not you find an elegant way to implement it as a mod, I would also like just the .x and ,png files also, if possible. I don't mind adding a few lines to the GC2Types.xml file to use them.

Agreed. I voted to have all these ships in "mod" form but that's just a personal preference. I can just as easily swing the "manual" method as well.

The thing is, I don't want a mod that only works for the Terran's, since I always play as my custom race, the Meese.
So I need the hulls to have S99 as the race designation so it does not matter which hull style I happen to choose.

I actually prefer the manual method of adding basic hulls into the GC2Types.xml file.

These hulls look fantastic, and I can't wait to implement them as a sixth hull style (or if that's not possible, then just as the generic style I suppose).

I am wondering, however, if you plan to take various parts of the models (the nacelles, saucers, etc.) and release them as jewelry. Well, provided that's feasible/practical with these models, of course.

Additionally, would I be right to remember you saying somewhere that you're only doing Federation ships, and not any other races? Either way, you're the man, of course; I'm just wondering.

Thanks in advance.

Moosetek13, i think i will implement the ships as the terran hull type, but you can still play as a custom race no problem. Just choose terran as your hull style.

Ahzi Dahaka. No I don’t think that I will do it that way. Started a new business the other week, and I really have no time at all anymore : ( hopefully I can get the current mod finished.

-Brian