Star Wars Model - TIE Defender (3/29/06)

Dual · Mar 29, 2006

UPDATED (4/19/06):

Added team colors to the unit by adding a FX.nif file.

UPDATED (4/06/06):

I added improved ion engines on the back of the model, with new textures to go with them. Polygon count is a little higher, at 1712.

Also added all of the animations from the origional Jet Fighter unit, so point to that animation when adding the unit to the XML.

OLD POST: Here's the latest in the TIE variations I'm working on: the TIE Defender. One of the more unique looking TIE fighters.

The TIE Defender is possibly the fastest and most powerful of the TIEs developed by the Empire. Unlike most TIEs, the Defender has a shield generator and hyperdrive. It is armed with laser cannons, ion cannons, and missiles (and sometimes a small tractor beam). But because of it's high cost, and a large rear blind spot, it was never produced in large numbers.

Like the other TIEs I made, it's meant to be used as an aircraft. And you can use the vanilla units' animations with it (like the Fighter Jet's kfm file). The polygon count on this one is 1560.

UPDATED PICS:

Ploeperpengel · Mar 29, 2006

Awesome Civmansam will probably get crazy on this too

TheLopez · Mar 29, 2006

Wow, it looks great. Though I think it might be a bit too blue...
Here check out the wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_defender

Dual · Mar 29, 2006

TheLopez said:
Wow, it looks great. Though I think it might be a bit too blue...
Here check out the wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_defender

Yeah, most of the reference pictures I found were grey (though a couple were blue). But both the Fighter and Interceptor I did were grey, so I wanted to make it a different color.

I got the color from a toy TIE Bomber I own, but made it slightly darker because the lighter blue still looked grey in-game.

I also took some artistic freedom with how exactly the model looks, just because.

Rabbit_Alex · Mar 29, 2006

Looks awesome. We're definitely gonna use that.

Where are your other TIE models?

Dual · Mar 29, 2006

Rabbit_Alex said:
Looks awesome. We're definitely gonna use that.

Where are your other TIE models?

They're further down the page here. I did a TIE Fighter and a TIE Interceptor a couple days ago.

Rabbit_Alex · Mar 30, 2006

You should put them in your signature like alot of other people do. :goodjob:

woodelf · Mar 30, 2006

More great stuff Dual. I can't wait to see your stuff in the SW mod. Now maybe air combat will be cool!

Civmansam · Mar 30, 2006

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dual · Mar 30, 2006

Rabbit_Alex said:
You should put them in your signature like alot of other people do.

That's a good idea. I'm going to start doing that.

Los Tirano · Mar 30, 2006

Nice one dual mage. What about making the smallest of tie's, the TIE raptor. Damn i like that small fast thing. Was absolutely superb in a freelancer mod i played. Weak, but good luck hitting me.

Anyway nice work.

Dual · Mar 30, 2006

Los Tirano said:
Nice one dual mage. What about making the smallest of tie's, the TIE raptor. Damn i like that small fast thing. Was absolutely superb in a freelancer mod i played. Weak, but good luck hitting me.

Anyway nice work.

I'll add the TIE Raptor to the list of ships I'm doing. The wings are so simple it shouldn't take long to model.

Warmaker · Apr 1, 2006

Heheh, I recall from the old TIE Fighter game that the TIE Defender was a truly mean fighter. The very definition of super-fighter for a game.

Zuul · Apr 1, 2006

Nice one. My fav the defender.

Dual · Apr 6, 2006

Updated the model. See the first post for details and download.

Killamike718 · Apr 6, 2006

Amazing Unit!!!!

Dual · Apr 19, 2006

Unit has been updated to have team colors. See the first post.

Zuul · Apr 19, 2006

Nice one. Add a white version too please

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Rabbit_Alex · Apr 19, 2006

This is just a suggestion Dual, but could you make the team-color area on the TIE/Def larger so that it's easier to see which civilization "owns" each unit.

Great work once again :goodjob:

Must be alot of fun being talented at making models.

Dual · Apr 19, 2006

Zuul said:
Nice one. Add a white version too please .

The unit can be reskinned to white by editing the dds file, so I'll leave that to you are someone else. I'd rather spend my time adding team colors to the rest of my fighters, or making a new model, rather than reskinning my own units.

Rabbit_Alex said:
This is just a suggestion Dual, but could you make the team-color area on the TIE/Def larger so that it's easier to see which civilization "owns" each unit.

That can be changed in the dds file as well. Just make the black area in the file's alpha bigger to make the color on the unit bigger.

I only set the black part of the wings as team colorable when I made the nif files though. So any changes to the team color will probably have to be confined there.

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