Premier's Babylon 5 Shipyard (1st Pack)

The sixth ship pack is available, its contents are as follows:

Centauri Republic Rutharian Class Fighter (Poly: 894/ Anim: FF Fighter)


Earth Alliance Artemis Class Frigate (Poly: 1079/ Anim: FF Carrier)


Earth Alliance Command Omega Class Cruiser (Poly: 1372/ Anim: FF Destroyer)


Earth Alliance Poseidon Class Carrier (Poly: 1662/ Anim: FF Destroyer)


Earth Alliance Thunderbolt Class Fighter (Poly: 1314/ Anim: FF Fighter)


Minbari Federation Morshin Class Carrier (Poly: 1324/ Anim: FF Cruiser)


Minbari Federation Tishat Class Fighter (Poly: 776/ Anim: FF Fighter)


Narn Regime Gorith Class Fighter (Poly: 893/ Anim: FF Fighter)


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The download also includes a change in the EA Warlock animation (to make it more canon). Thanks again to The_Coyote, for its work in the EA Omega rotating section, which has been reused for the Command Omega and the Poseidon.

Again the same comment as every time: .

Compared to these units, the standard FF ships look completly and incredible boring.

May I request permission to retexture some of them to be Protoss ships for my startcraft mod please?

Once again, very nice indeed. If there are any other advanced EA warships, I would like to put in a small request for them.

Deon said:

May I request permission to retexture some of them to be Protoss ships for my startcraft mod please?

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Sure thing, go ahead, I you require it, I can give you the UV mappings of the ships you intend to retexture (some of my textures are not retexture friendly ). Just PM me with the list of ships you intend to retexture and I'll give you the mappings.

Ajidica said:

Once again, very nice indeed. If there are any other advanced EA warships, I would like to put in a small request for them.

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There aren't more B5 canon EA advanced ships, however there are plenty of non-canon EA advanced ships (tho there are a few approved by JMS). I would like to make some of them (actually several) but I don't know If those will fit the B5 mod, if they do consider it done, if they don't... I could make them, tho it might take longer.

The seventh ship pack is available, its contents are as follows:

Centauri Republic Shuttle (Poly: 654/ Anim: FF Invasion Ship)


Drakh Cruiser (Poly: 1000/ Anim: FF Cruiser)


InterStellar Alliance WhiteStar Class Monitor (Poly: 837/ Anim: B5_Custom_FF_WhiteStar)


InterStellar Alliance Victory Class Destroyer (Poly: 1214/ Anim: FF Battleship)


Minbari Federation Neshatan Class Gunship (Poly: 758/ Anim: FF Battleship)


Narn Regime Dag'Kar Class Missile Frigate (Poly: 544/ Anim: FF Carrier)


Streib Collector (Poly: 838/ Anim: FF Carrier)


JumpGate (Poly: 720)


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I haven't seen the minbari ship before, they look cool.
I have to inquire, what type of ship is the Collector supposed to be?

Wow, the White Star looks amazing
I have to watch Babylon5 again

Thanks for the comments!

Ajidica said:

I haven't seen the minbari ship before, they look cool.
I have to inquire, what type of ship is the Collector supposed to be?

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The race known as Streib sometimes sends ships into other races controlled regions of space with the purpose of attacking other races small vessels and capture live specimens in order to both acquire information of the other race's level of technology and to experiment with their captives for purposes unknown,... perhaps they are looking for good prospects of invasion.

AbsintheRed said:

Wow, the White Star looks amazing
I have to watch Babylon5 again

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Good Idea!!

The eigth ship pack is available, its contents are as follows:

Minbari Federation Glider Class Transport (Poly: 484/ Anim: FF Invasion Ship)


Narn Regime T'Ralie Class Transport (Poly: 492/ Anim: FF Invasion Ship)


Narn Regime Rongoth Class Destroyer (Poly: 846/ Anim: B5_Custom_FF_Destroyer)


Centauri Republic Centurion Class Cruiser (Poly: 937/ Anim: FF Destroyer)


Centauri Republic Adira Class Battleship (Poly: 1502/ Anim: B5_Custom_FF_Destroyer)


Earth Alliance Narcissus Class Cruiser (Poly: 1389/ Anim: B5_Custom_FF_Warlock)


Earth Alliance Tempest Class Destroyer (Poly: 1322/ Anim: FF Destroyer)


Earth Alliance Nike Class Command Ship (Poly: 1402/ Anim: B5_Custom_FF_Destroyer)


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The ninth ship pack is available, its contents are as follows:

Gallery Cruiser (Poly: 851 / Anim: FF Cruiser)


Earth Alliance Sagittarius Class Missile Cruiser (Poly: 1257 / Anim: FF Carrier)


Earth Alliance Avenger Class Carrier (Poly: 1125 / Anim: FF Destroyer)


Earth Alliance Aries Class Starfury (Poly: 898 / Anim: FF Fighter)


Minbari Federation Traga Class Fighter (Poly: 644 / Anim: FF Fighter)


Narn Regime Ta'Lon Class Fighter (Poly: 762 / Anim: FF Fighter)


Centauri Republic Razik Class Fighter (Poly: / Anim: )


Brakiri Syndicracy Tashkat Class Advanced Cruiser (Poly: 1178 / Anim: FF Fighter)


Brakiri Syndicracy Corumai Class Dreadnought (Poly: 708 / Anim: FF Cruiser)


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The tenth ship pack is available, its contents are as follows:

Centauri Republic Aquila Class Cruiser (Poly: 606 / Anim: B5_Custom_FF_Destroyer)


Centauri Republic Darkner Class Light Carrier / Cruiser (Poly: 1068 / Anim: FF Destroyer)


Centauri Republic Sulust Class Destroyer (Poly: 828 / Anim: FF Destroyer)


Centauri Republic Valerius Class Command Ship (Poly: 1502 / Anim: B5_Custom_FF_Destroyer)


Federation Morshin F2 Class Carrier (Poly: 1231 / Anim: FF Cruiser)


Federation Valenzha Class Command Ship (Poly: 1431 / Anim: FF Battleship)


Narn Regime T'Rakk Class Light Carrier (Th'Nor Variant) (Poly: 474 / Anim: FF Invasion Ship)


Narn Regime G'Kar Class Command Ship (Poly: 1496 / Anim: FF Cruiser)


Narn Regime Var'Nic Class Destroyer (Poly: 327 / Anim: FF Invasion Ship)


Narn Regime T'Rakk Class Advanced Cruiser (Amras design) (Poly: 816 / Anim: FF Invasion Ship)


Narn Regime Toreth Class Corvette (Poly: 666 / Anim: FF Carrier)


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Man, these are more than 100 ships now, right? Just incredible.

Oh, and don't forget to add your newest package here.

The_J said:

Man, these are more than 100 ships now, right? Just incredible.

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Not yet, but we are over 70.

Oh, and don't forget to add your newest package here.

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Can't believe I haven't seen that thread before

The eleventh ship pack is available, its contents are as follows:

- Brakiri syndicracy Cidikar Class Destroyer (Poly: 858 / Anim: FF Cruiser)


- Brakiri Syndicracy Deveskar Class Carrier (Poly: 662 / Anim: FF Destroyer)


- Brakiri Syndicracy Ikorta Class Assault Cruiser (Poly: 724 / Anim: FF Destroyer)


- Centauri Republic Maximus Class Command Ship (Poly: 1488 / Anim: B5_Custom_FF_Maximus)


- Dilgar Imperium Kahtrik Class Destroyer (Poly: 396 / Anim: FF Destroyer)


- Dilgar Imperium Omelos Class Destroyer (Poly: 1164 / Anim: FF Destroyer)


- Dilgar Imperium Thorun Class Fighter (Poly: 1296 / Anim: FF Fighter)


- Minbari Federation Enfali Class Frigate (Poly: 694 / Anim: FF Cruiser)


- Minbari Federation Valen Class Cruiser (Poly: 1321 / Anim: FF Cruiser)


- Minbari Federation Velarian Class Command Ship (Poly: 1259 / Anim: FF Battleship)


Included in this pack is the Maximus animation, a FF Cruiser based animation.


Also, as a separate pack, the ODSat (Orbital Defese Satellite) Mk I, Mk II and ODP (Orbital Defense Platform) have been released!:

- Orbital Defense Satellite Mk I (Poly: 700 / Anim: FF Carrier)


- Orbital Defense Satellite Mk II (Poly: 1066 / Anim: FF Invasion Ship)


- Orbital Defense Platform (Poly: 866 / Anim: B5_Custom_FF_Maximus)


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great space ship packs



looked at bit if it´s possible to improve (some) the units in nifskope. Here are some edited models of your last ship pack.



the top row shows the unit with environment light and gloss texture (beside setting the spec colour to full black and diff colour to full white in the material settings) [called gloss versions, because it´s simply how to add gloss to a non shader model]
the middle row shows them with additional added glow texture (i only did the windows make glowing) [called gloss_glow versions]
the last row again shows the gloss version, but the bright side

All models are still not rigged (so the are still non shader models. Imo even if looking better, the gloss_glow versions are problematic, because they are a bit texture intensive - i wasn´t able to reduce the texture size compared to the diff without losing to much details (so they use a 256 diff, 256 glow, 128 gloss and 64 env).

If you want to edit your models this way (explained at the Brakiri Cidikar gloss glow file):

• the important thing is the "NiTextureEffect" (Node 18), which should be child of Scene Root. The texture "Environment_FX_Space.dds" seems to be the special final frontier environment texture. If you check your shared folder you will see that is more than one "Environment_FX_...dds" to choose
• you must also add this node as effect (not child) node to the parent node of the affected model (here DUMMY_Destroyer_Hull - node 8, because your model is a child of this node)
• now you can add a gloss texture to your "NiTexturingProperty". Set "Has Gloss Texture" to yes and add a copy of your diff texture (NiSourceTexture) as texture.
• change the texture name of the NiSourceTexture of the gloss texture to the name of your gloss texture
• if you want a glow map, set "Has Glow Texture" to yes and add your glow texture like described with the gloss

Because the glow slot is reserved for the enviromental texture if you create a shader units, i only know this non shader way to add gloss and glow to units

If you want to add a shader to your units, you must rig your meshes to the dummy nodes in Blender before you export them (a small how to is part of my animation tutorial - starting with page 4 - you have to import your models twice [if you don´t use your blends as base], first import the model normal and afterwards import again the nif with the "only skeleton" option). Afterwards you create a skin partition for them (or create the skin partition while exporting). After chosing the shader (most suitable should be "TCiv4MechShaderGloss") you add the enviromental texture from the above non shader models as glow texture and the gloss texture as gloss texture. You must also add the diff texture as "Decal 0 Texture" or add a proper damage texture there [but if you want to use a damage texture, you should copy the entire TextureProperty from the unit which animation/damage texture you want to use - there are some informations needed for a proper working damge texture]. Additional the diff texture must be assigned to the details texture and not the base texture (this slot will be empty)

as example, i made the shader version of the Velarian (velarian_fx.nif)

I could see the human ships being used in a Final Frontier mod.

Thanks The_Coyote I'll try your suggestions, those pics look great, however it will be a few days more before I get to it, first I have to enjoy a few days of vacationing off-town .

Hi The_Coyote!,

I have successfully added glow and gloss to the new Brakiri Kabrokta

However damage textures are still beyond me

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EDIT: I finally made it!, thank you very much The_Coyote , once more I owe you one

The 12th ship pack is available, its contents are as follows:

- Brakiri syndicracy Brathon Class Transport


- Brakiri syndicracy Falkosi Class Fighter


- Brakiri syndicracy Jakaroth Class Fleet Command Vessel


- Brakiri syndicracy Kabrokta Class Destroyer


- Brakiri syndicracy Rakarta Class Scout


- Dilgar Imperium Delagor Class Frigate


- Dilgar Imperium Jashakar Class Frigate


- Dilgar Imperium Mankhat Class Battleship


- Dilgar Imperium Ochlavita Class Destroyer


- Dilgar Imperium Tarluska Class Fighter


Included in this pack is the B5_Custom_FF_CarrierCruiser animation, a FF Cruiser based animation.

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As new features most of the ships have damaged states, gloss and glow, here is a taste:


Here are the details for the models: