[SHIP] Terran Mole M6

puffneki · Post by **puffneki** » Tue, 4. May 10, 05:08

As promised, here's a new Terran ship: the Mole aka Grinder.

A few pics:

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http://puffneki.com/x3/previews/mole_01.jpg
http://puffneki.com/x3/previews/mole_02.jpg
http://puffneki.com/x3/previews/mole_03.jpg
http://puffneki.com/x3/previews/mole_04.jpg
http://puffneki.com/x3/previews/mole_05.jpg
http://puffneki.com/x3/previews/mole_06.jpg
http://puffneki.com/x3/previews/mole_07.jpg
http://puffneki.com/x3/previews/mole_08.jpg

Encyclopedia entry:

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This ship was designed by the Terran Military to do deep reconnaisance tasks with an ease. It's relatively fast, though it wasn't the primary aspect in the making of this ship. On the other hand, it's got plenty of shields to make it ideal for the job.

The Mole originally got it's name after it shape, though not long after its introduction in the Terran Military it earned a new name: The Grinder. Obviously it stick to it because of it unique, rotating nose.

Click the button to download.

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In the meantime I clicked the submit button instead of the preview, so this post went online prematurely. Anyways...

A few things to know:

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ship class: M6
max speed: 176
max shield: 5x200MJ
max steering: 8.8
power: 3250
hull: 51000
can dock up to 1 M3

To trigger the mission:

Your terran rank has to be at least Warrior of Io
Have to be in either Grand Exchange or Zyarth's Dominion
Have to have a Jumpdrive
...and maybe some balls, since X1000 complained in the Artellia topic that it's way to easy just to go somewhere with a truckload of money, and get an M6 in exchange. So, it's a bit more difficult this time.

This package also includes my previous ship, the Artellia Prototype.
Its topic can be viewed here

Okay, that's it. Have fun, and let me know if there's any problem with either of the ships.

Catra · Post by **Catra** » Tue, 4. May 10, 05:18

haha,
really cool ship and all, but all i could think of while looking at it was:

pills here!!!

draffutt · Post by **draffutt** » Tue, 4. May 10, 06:59

Cool looking ship

Vanguard3000 · Post by **Vanguard3000** » Tue, 4. May 10, 07:45

Excellent-looking ship. Why exactly did you decide to make the nose rotate?

MadMan983 · Post by **MadMan983** » Tue, 4. May 10, 08:19

awsome ship dude, but sadly i like the cadius ship pack more.

Sorkvild · Post by **Sorkvild** » Tue, 4. May 10, 08:20

Interesting design, kinda streamlined

Unserene · Post by **Unserene** » Tue, 4. May 10, 11:43

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvxe04wGmTw

lordmuck · Post by **lordmuck** » Tue, 4. May 10, 12:04

very nice model. good work

puffneki · Post by **puffneki** » Tue, 4. May 10, 14:04

Vanguard3000 wrote:Excellent-looking ship. Why exactly did you decide to make the nose rotate?

I was just curious whether it can be done, I guess. I mean, the whole ship was designed around this question. So I actually only found out that it can be done after I had finished all the modelling work.
That big, round nose would be pointless without it rotating anyways :)

Logain Abler · Post by **Logain Abler** » Tue, 4. May 10, 18:48

Hi puffneki,

Love the ship. Tried to install on a new game start and I get a completely white screen after load.

Looking at the mods folder there is no dat file. I tried to extract from the spk file and got a compression error.

Probably me but I thought I'd give you the heads up.

Running 2.6 with the latest X Plugin Manager and the game runs as normal if I remove the mod.

LA

cosmonautcocoon · Post by **cosmonautcocoon** » Tue, 4. May 10, 19:15

perfect T-T pleasseeee keep them comming!

Killjaeden · Post by **Killjaeden** » Tue, 4. May 10, 22:29

the holes in the frontpart that move, are they guns? If not, did you know that you could have made a giant gattling out of that?^^ It's not very difficult once you know how to implement&animate ships.

nice ship, just a little bit unusual design for terrans imo. texturing and model also seem quite good (ok the big seam on the bottom is a bit obvious), kudos to you^^

puffneki · Post by **puffneki** » Tue, 4. May 10, 22:47

Killjaeden wrote:the holes in the frontpart that move, are they guns?

Those holes are exactly what they look like: gun muzzles. And the lasers/beams/whatever are actually rotating together with them. So, yeah, I know it can be done, that was the whole point making it this way :) Although finding out how to do it to make it actually work in-game wasn't so obvious, for me atleast.

Logain Abler wrote:I tried to extract from the spk file and got a compression error

I opened it now in the SPK Explorer to make sure all the files are there, and there doesn't seem to be any problem. In fact, before I uploaded it, I deleted all the relevant files from my X3TC intallation dir, to be sure that all the necessary files go to the right place, and they did.

Try to delete it and redownload it, maybe the package got corrupted somehow during your first download attempt. If it still won't work, then I have no idea what could be wrong. Lets wait and see, maybe others will run into the same problem, and then I try to look into it.
I tested it with v2.6 and the bonus pack, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Logain Abler · Post by **Logain Abler** » Wed, 5. May 10, 09:46

Logain Abler wrote:I tried to extract from the spk file and got a compression error

puffneki wrote: I opened it now in the SPK Explorer to make sure all the files are there, and there doesn't seem to be any problem. In fact, before I uploaded it, I deleted all the relevant files from my X3TC intallation dir, to be sure that all the necessary files go to the right place, and they did.

Try to delete it and redownload it, maybe the package got corrupted somehow during your first download attempt. If it still won't work, then I have no idea what could be wrong. Lets wait and see, maybe others will run into the same problem, and then I try to look into it.
I tested it with v2.6 and the bonus pack, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks for checking, will re-download

LA

Killjaeden · Post by **Killjaeden** » Wed, 5. May 10, 09:55

And the lasers/beams/whatever are actually rotating together with them.

Ah ok^^ don't have time to test it myself.
What i meant was a gun that only moves when you are firing tho.

puffneki · Post by **puffneki** » Wed, 5. May 10, 15:10

Killjaeden wrote:What i meant was a gun that only moves when you are firing tho.

Oh, that...well, yeah, i was actually thinking about trying to make it to work like that, but than i realized that then i have to deal with the animation easing in when the rotation starts, and easing out, when it ends.
It wouldn't be too nice if it just suddenly started then stoped without any kind of transition.
So i dumped the idea.
But if you can direct me to a tutorial or something that deals with animations (and controlling them) in X3 then i'll try to make it work like that.[/quote]

Chobittsu · Post by **Chobittsu** » Wed, 26. May 10, 22:40

Are you good at ship mods?

nanoninja · Post by **nanoninja** » Sun, 21. Oct 12, 14:23

i have cadius ship pak and would like to use your ships aswell any chance you could post a non mod version thanks for your time

puffneki · Post by **puffneki** » Mon, 22. Oct 12, 18:07

i can't seem to find the source files for the ship, so the only thing i could do is to extract them from the cat file. hope it helps nonetheless.

it includes the Split Artellia as well.

http://puffneki.com/x3/shippack-extracted.zip

nanoninja · Post by **nanoninja** » Mon, 22. Oct 12, 18:33

brilliant thanks for that. I was pulling my hair out for two days trying to do that

much appreciated

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[SHIP] Terran Mole M6

[SHIP] Terran Mole M6