The shipyards are open again, and the Red Fleet is getting another ship. I'm working on the Kara Class Rocket Cruiser. This ship is the next generation up from the Kresta I.
This is the first time I made the hull in 3DS Max by rouhing out a shape with polys and then applying the mesh smooth modifier. My previous hulls were made in Rhino 3.0 using NURBS curves. I am happy with the results, however the dimensions and hull curves are not exact. The modelling is finished and now the animation process remains. Here are some preview shots.



12-28-06: The unit is done, you can find it in the Completed Units forum.

Looks nice :) How many of these did you make anyway?

Yes! Yes! Yes!

err... I wanted to say, nice ship and stuff...

;)

How many of these did you make anyway?

I have eighteen ships listed in the downloads section, plus some aircraft and one or two land vehicles.

Another beauty of the seas.:thumbsup:

Excellent addition to the Red Fleet. I look forward to ...meeting them...

love it dude :love: great to see that the vinegar shipyards are still at work :)

Very nice job. Looks like you are becoming quite the modeler also.

Vingrjoe, lovely as always.
In a perfect world, I would buy up Take-Two, take the Civ III code and first thing make each tile twice as big, so you could make all your graphics twice as big, so we could all enjoy the detail you put into them.
I am always angry when I see your original model and then see how much is lost when the final graphic is shrunk down to the proper size for the existing engine and tile size.

But these are all truly beautiful.

vingrjoe, the ship constructor number one!

*bump* Saaaay... any news yet? :)

I haven't done any recent work on this...I have the AttackA, Death and possibly an AttackB animation to create yet. I wanted to get this done in December, but I got sidetracked because I am doing some testing with EJ's TCW scenario. I'm trying to see what will get the AI to engage in ASUW instead of using surface combatants solely for escort duty. I will try to get back to this project soon, though.

Wow...Man its been along time since I have been able to play Civ 3...and wow the community is WELL alive....

Anyways...Vingrjoe nice ship...do you have a link to a library that you have done?

Driveby', no link at the moment.

Actually, go to this link and type my name in the search, you'll get all the units I've uploaded to the newer file base.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=search

The ship is done. Here's the thread link:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=198796

Kara class reporting for duty comrade. Great job once again!