Master of Orion Mod

[tjedge1]

The way I'm making it, it's more based in MoO 0(starlords), 1 and 2, but we have a saying "all the good people fit in the same room".

So glad to see you'll unleash your creativity. Don't know if the direction this mod will be heading will fit you(it'll probably be islands based with space as sea), but my best for it.

The Tachidi LH he made could still be used as Tachidi as well. They are very similiar to the Klackons, except bullyish and terrible with diplomacy. Otherwise they reminded me a of the Klackons alot. Oh well. I like the space and planets setup myself, so maybe I'll wait till you both finish your versions and the combine them for my own Moo Mod.

I'm still willing to help with this mod anyway I can.

Have got list of MOO3 Techs thanks to vmxa

I will order them in a read friendly format and then begin to separate techs into groupings of effect ...

Do I discard the ship specific techs, planetary defence and ship building?

This will help when you guyz get around to discussing tech tree, also civilopedia entries are present ...

Don't discard them. That might be interesting to use them for larger ships and such. I'm getting an idea so leave them in, please.

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Well, I've started on the Elerians. I've got the model and textures down about where I want them, and I'm working on the BG right now. If you have any gripes, get them out now...

Preview

 

[fe3333au]

Looks good ... very good ... well done ...

My 5cents, maybe if you de-anime it a bit to get rid of the cutsy factor ... can you add wrinkles or some other characteristic which portrays wisdom and experience for a leader ... and 'rough' the uniform up a bit ... too new ...

As mentioned just my 5 cents ...

 

[Drift]

Umm, in my humble opinion, the anime doll based leaderhead doesn't look at all like the Elerians. Also, the anime-factor is set on prettty high which isn't really something that I would associate with the style of Moo.

I would've made Elerians with a basic female model just with blue skin. Don't really see the need to use the anime doll.

I appreciate your work Hikaro, but I also need to be honest with this.

 

[Thorgrimm]

Umm, in my humble opinion, the anime doll based leaderhead doesn't look at all like the Elerians. Also, the anime-factor is set on prettty high which isn't really something that I would associate with the style of Moo.

I would've made Elerians with a basic female model just with blue skin. Don't really see the need to use the anime doll.

I appreciate your work Hikaro, but I also need to be honest with this.

I must say I agree with Drift and Fe3333au in this matter. The anime style is definitely not Moo. You have a good start Hikaro, just need to tone down the anime.


Cheers Thorgrimm

 

[flamescreen]

I want a Moo2 based MOD as well. But I don't see where anything Hikaro Takayama doesn't fit. I think his work is just brilliant. Some of the names need to be changed to match Moo2, like rename his bugs the Klackons. Not a big deal.
I've got a few spaceships I've been working on. Problem is I"m still new to the render-the-unit thing, but I'll try and contribute too, since the islands in space thing seems to be Extremely interesting to me.
It might be not as playable as Hikaro Takayama's vision, but both should be fun.
Since you are modeling your game after Moo playstyle, maybe you should call yours Moo Space Mod
And maybe Hikaro Takayama could call his "Moo - Marooned" or something...
That way you can both do your derivative works, and leverage what the others have done.

Well, I'll be uploading a file with the possible credits in my first post soon, so check it out. I'm really interested in spaceships, cause there aren't many designs out there. I will do some trek style ships probably, but the game had other designsas well, so I would be interested.

For now, I noticed that you probably have to post external links to see all pics in one post, so here's better views of the art. The third Sakkra, I posted earlier. I think I have nine in all, so some will be used for leaderhead, modified to fit of course, and some for the units.

There is a mantis for poser I have, but see below for a design I'm having in mind, if I'll be able to make it. Not much but will do the job.

 

[flamescreen]

The Tachidi LH he made could still be used as Tachidi as well. They are very similiar to the Klackons, except bullyish and terrible with diplomacy. Otherwise they reminded me a of the Klackons alot. Oh well. I like the space and planets setup myself, so maybe I'll wait till you both finish your versions and the combine them for my own Moo Mod.

I'm still willing to help with this mod anyway I can.

Don't discard them. That might be interesting to use them for larger ships and such. I'm getting an idea so leave them in, please.

Indeed, I would be violating someone else's vision if I took his creation and turned it to something else.
Here's a view of how I might be making Klackons. Thanks for the offer tledje1!
Check the first post to see in what role you'll be interested to help(if at all, I've chosen to be frank and that might annoy some, but better now than when they'll already be working for me.

Possible Klackons:

 

[flamescreen]

To fe333au:
Hey, FE, why don't you open a thread with them? That way lots of people that might want to use them can bookmark and have them available. That would be nice!

Possible Meklars:

 

[flamescreen]

Well, I've started on the Elerians. I've got the model and textures down about where I want them, and I'm working on the BG right now. If you have any gripes, get them out now...

Preview

I think it's cute. not bad at all. You could keep that for the ancient era and age it progressively for the other three.

EDIT: On second thought, have you thought of giving it blonde hair? The way it looks right now, it will immediatelly bring to mind the science advisor of MOO 2, which was Ellerian too.
My take on the ellerians(the prevailing)--Note these races are all early versions(AND animated for the one that asked)-:

 

[flamescreen]

These are the two versions I'm working on for the Ellerians.
I can't quite grasp the look, cause exactly the morphs I want are missing, but it's a start.

 

[flamescreen]

For the Darloks:
Simple but I'll improve it.

 

[flamescreen]

The following is for the marine civilisation.
I might call them trillarians after all, else, Icthytosian uses elements from MOO3 which is Quicksilver, not Microprose, i'm sure Microprose rights went with Atari, but unsure about quicksilver's and I don't know how they might feel with it.

This is the Deep one model Hikaro Takayama mentioned. I'll use that for units alone, I want to use a Medusa-Octopus kind of being for Ambassador preferably.

 

[flamescreen]

Btw, I've made up my mind about the title:
Nightfall stays. I'll use it as a method of victory.
It will be a doomsday type weapon that you can build and works like an advanced EM pulse cannon, throwing all opponents into stone age and granting you win.

For this reason, allied victory will probably be abscent(in favour of the Trek mod i'm working on).

The following pic is one of the 7 Mrrshan types(Cat Types, like Sakkra have different types of lizzards and the alkari have Horus and Ushabti currently). It's the models I recently dloaded and working on the textures(the ones they had I don't want to keep so it's untextured here.

I'll probably use something more cat like for the actual ambassador though.
MoO1 had females, MoO2 had males. I'll prob go for females, depending on the Human LH. For the time being I wanted it to be a black female, so in this case I'll have a Male Mrrshan.

 

[Drift]

These are the two versions I'm working on for the Ellerians.
I can't quite grasp the look, cause exactly the morphs I want are missing, but it's a start.

First one is spot on.

 

[flamescreen]

First one is spot on.

My thought too, though the second version took MUCH more time(1 day) to make and has all the elements of the reference the other lacks.

Comment on the clothing and hair colors you prefer too, as you can see I change them all the time cause I can't perfect the look. I'll make have to do a lot of new textures prob to emulate the looks(takes too much damn time).

 

[Bjornlo]

For the Darloks:
Simple but I'll improve it.

Did you see the darlok on the MOO LH thread? Quite impressive. I think it really caught the image of the sneaky SOBs.

 

[Bjornlo]

Well, I've started on the Elerians. I've got the model and textures down about where I want them, and I'm working on the BG right now. If you have any gripes, get them out now...

Preview

This is just amazingly good. I think it is better then the sort of weird sex-kitten meets robot look from the game.

The 2nd Elerian is very good too, but I think I would vote for this one.

 

[tjedge1]

I think they all look really good. I won't gripe or get choosey. The fact hat these are being done is satsifactory for me.

 

[fe3333au]

Great work ... what a superb update Flame

You really spun me out with the Ellerians ...
I know her in RL she is a visual artist and performer ... Farout Man
I vote first one and give her a slight reddish colouring to the dark hair, with one blond lock spilling over the face ...

EDIT - the blonde lock would probably look F###ed so don't bother

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Well, I'm done with the Elerians, and despite some people not liking the anime elements, all I have to say is: Tough cookies, anime is my style, weather it be CG or pencil sketcing. Besides, the sci-fi armor I have won't work with the standard P5 f (not to mention that "Judy" doesn't have any elf ear morphs). I did give once concession to Fe3333au: to kind of reflect the feudal/tradtional nature of the Elerians, I gave her a gold circlet (to convey her status as royalty) and gave the metal parts of her armor a hammered texture, to make it look as though they were hand-forged.

If you don't like it, then don't use it. (now I remember why I haven't posted any previews of my LH's in a long ass time)