Ship size comparrision - A,B,P,X

Deleted User · Post by **Deleted User** » Sat, 10. Feb 07, 15:17

Very clear images, good stuff

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But is there bump mapping present ?,
it's just that the Octopus/Mako/Barracuda look a bit flat,
the Nova looks like it might have bumping though.

Player. · Post by **Player.** » Sat, 10. Feb 07, 18:53

The texures on these are the highest LOD so yes, guess it looks diffrent beacuse its not ingame

Xenon Fighters Added

dalin80 · Post by **dalin80** » Sat, 10. Feb 07, 19:08

never realised before how cheap a modelling job the lx was, turn the l over a tad and mirror bingo new ship.

Klyith · Post by **Klyith** » Mon, 12. Feb 07, 19:42

The great work continues!
A question: ships are to scale with the other ships in the same picture, but are they also to scale across pics? IE, if you stitched all of them together would the result still be true scale? It doesn't look like it, but I might be wrong.

Dave Toome wrote:But is there bump mapping present ?

It doesn't look like it to me either. The paranid nemmy definitely doesn't have it. I don't think the nova does either, it's just the style of texture combined with a high detail model.

The glow textures don't have any bloom either, so I think he's doing it with a modeling program.

dalin80 wrote:never realised before how cheap a modelling job the lx was, turn the l over a tad and mirror bingo new ship.

Cheap? That, my friend, is how modeling works in the game industry. Building every model up from scratch is way too much damn work. For a free "expansion", I'm pretty satisfied.

Arwan · Post by **Arwan** » Thu, 7. Jun 07, 06:39

now i want to see the rest of the races.. they look sweet. keep up the good work.

bubbafett · Post by **bubbafett** » Thu, 7. Jun 07, 07:04

Nice pictures, but they only show ship sizes in relation to each other. If you really want to show their size, include the spacesuit in the images.

Rumillion · Post by **Rumillion** » Fri, 17. Aug 07, 16:31

nice job. Didn't think the mako was as big as the barracuda...

Post by **Nanook** » Fri, 17. Aug 07, 19:05

Tenlar Scarflame wrote:I'd argue that the size of the Discoverer is due to the added fuel and engine space needed for it to go so fast.......

In the original two games, X-BTF and X-Tension, the different fighter 'classes' were explained to be older versus newer. I recall 'Betty' explaining how the new Elite was superseding the older Buster and even older Discoverer. The Elite, btw, was the predecessor to the Nova. And in scale, the X-T Disco was actually larger than the Elite. It's only since X2 that the ship classes have morphed into 'Light', 'Medium', and 'Heavy' fighters, although I think that some of Betty's descriptions still refer to the 'old vs new' categories.

ThommoHawk · Post by **ThommoHawk** » Sat, 18. Aug 07, 15:25

I first noticed something wierd about ship sizes when I docked an Eclipse and a Medusa at my new Yatch/Hyperion.....

the Eclipse is at least twice the size of the Medusa, yet has basically same storgage capacity - it looks like it should be able to have a cargo bay of at least 500 or something ...

Then when I docked an Orca at my PHQ which also had a Mammoth there, the Mammoth has the largest cargo space of all TL's yet it looks like a dwarf next to the Orca which has less space...

the scale of ships seem contradictory to their cargo capacity...

by the way, I really think the Eclipse is the ugliest ship in X3 - it looks like something baked in an oven which went wrong ... like a lumpy pasty or something (albiet a beutiful shiny, lumpy, ugly pasty...).

pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Sun, 19. Aug 07, 07:44

That's the first time I've heard the Eclipse compared to a pastry--most people think it looks like some sort of insect. (Insect pastries...ewww...).

Capt_Newbie · Post by **Capt_Newbie** » Thu, 3. Jan 08, 20:00

Wee typo with 'Centuar'

Carlo the Curious · Post by **Carlo the Curious** » Thu, 3. Jan 08, 20:09

Is it 'Bump Old Thread Week' or something?

Capt_Newbie · Post by **Capt_Newbie** » Thu, 3. Jan 08, 20:38

Does that come before or after 'Jump in with know-it-all comment Week'?

There was a typo. I should say nothing?

Post by **CBJ** » Thu, 3. Jan 08, 20:45

In an ancient thread, yes. The forum rules do ask you not to bump old threads. The only reason I'm not going to lock this is because it contains interesting stuff, most of which is still relevant.

Kari91 · Post by **Kari91** » Thu, 3. Jan 08, 20:57

Thanks for the pictures, they are good!

Capt_Newbie · Post by **Capt_Newbie** » Thu, 3. Jan 08, 21:36

Indeed they are. Any chance of the Teladi and Kha'ak models, Player, pretty please?

And sorry about the 'know-it-all' remark, Carlo. I came to the thread through the Player Guide stickies, so the age of the thread really didn't occur to me

em3e3 · Post by **em3e3** » Thu, 3. Jan 08, 21:38

Well, if everyone else is going to say something...

I still can't figure out how a pilot in the Boron Barracuda could actually see anything. It looks like the cockpit canopy is facing backwards! Nevertheless, I'd like to find a poster place and print out a high-res compilation of all the ships. Or even better, a movie screen with a squadron of Pirate Nova Raiders - Oooo, I just got chills!

ninjitsumonk · Post by **ninjitsumonk** » Fri, 4. Jan 08, 01:20

em3e3 wrote: I still can't figure out how a pilot in the Boron Barracuda could actually see anything. It looks like the cockpit canopy is facing backwards!

I though that's what the rear view mirrors were for.

Dark Pony · Post by **Dark Pony** » Fri, 4. Jan 08, 11:03

Note to the OP; please use another image host like photobucket.com. I just had to force quit firefox because of violent advertorial pop ups about some obvious malware which urged me again and again to scan my pc when I opened the Paranid ship pic (after having opened the Argon pic first). Imagevenue for the loss. They obviously abuse their clients by this kind of harmful spam. Find a better host mate. Seriously.

pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Fri, 4. Jan 08, 15:08

"Player" hasn't posted on the forums since last September--I doubt he's still monitoring this thread!

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Ship size comparrision - A,B,P,X