Orthanc's Creation Thread

[TopGun]

Do you think I should give the warship medieval rockets?

I think so, yes, definitely!

BTW, the Fune turned out really nice! Thanks for yet another fine unit!

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Medival rockets? Maybe as a medival attack? Could you do two attack animations? One with just arrows, the other with rockets? The problem is that the intent for this is an ancient ship, but I like your idea, and I use Aaglo's two animations on many of his ships as the basis for ancient and medival ships, for example the Mesoamerican Quezalcoatyl Ship Aaglo made, I have the arrow version as a very early medival ship, and the cannon version as the Age of Discovery warship for the Mesoamericans. I don't know how hard animating in Pov Ray is, but in Poser its annoying, so I understand and don't really mind if you just want to do one attack animation.

 

[Orthanc]

Actually making two insetad of just one attack animations isn't all that hard, especially when the nature of the attack (launching projectiles) is essentially the same. It means the ship moves the same way, faces the same way and the new projectiles can be mostly based on the old ones, with only an alteration on the model, which won't be very hard either.

Easy enough way to get everything in this case is to have two versions and just turn the rocket attack off (using the ini file) for the ancient one.

Work on the next boat begins tomorrow!

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Hopefully I will have my next unit out before your next one. I try to make it a weekly event.

 

[Spacer One]

just pokin my nose in to ask if the timetable (Ha'Tak on aprox Nov 20th) is still correct?...

and so that I know, is someone (Still) making the Al'Kesh?...

 

[Orthanc]

Yep, I think I can still stick with the original timetable Spacer One

Here's what I got for the next Thai boat, the Reuua, so far. Considering how big this will look compared to the Fune, the next ship's gonna look huge.

 

[Bjornlo]

Very cool. I love it. I usually like to try and be helpful and offer some opinioon on improvement, but I don't see any.

 

[Goldflash]

Hey, thats beautiful....

 

[Spacer One]

That is incredible...very nice...as there is no China in my home mod, I see a nice Tibetan unit here...maybe Java too...

one slight suggestion...it looks a little "christmasy" maybe make the red :Richer" and the green "lighter"(on the plus side, its the same color that "Danielson" paints Mr Miagi's fence)...but Im not sure this will be better, IMO there should be gold/yellow highlights or something...

Enought poking, its a great unit, Ill use it whatever color it is...

 

[Bjornlo]

I suspect either the red or green is civ coloration, so it is unlikely to look identical in game.
One thing I've been playing with along those lines is using two very different shades of civ color. For example. it would be possible to have the unit look as cool (I think) if red were veryLIGHT-CivColor and green was veryDARK-CivColor, as the contrast in colors would still be there and the colors would be guarenteed to be complimentary.
I was playing with some ships & planes like this. Not sure if it I like it, but it does look ok.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

That is incredible...very nice...as there is no China in my home mod, I see a nice Tibetan unit here...maybe Java too...

one slight suggestion...it looks a little "christmasy" maybe make the red :Richer" and the green "lighter"(on the plus side, its the same color that "Danielson" paints Mr Miagi's fence)...but Im not sure this will be better, IMO there should be gold/yellow highlights or something...

Enought poking, its a great unit, Ill use it whatever color it is...

Those colors were used by the Thai on their ships. Aren't they cool and flamboyant?

 

[Spacer One]

Well if they are accurate what else can be said...guess they just liked it that way...lets hear it for flashy and bright!!...

For my knowledge, where did the name Reuua come from?
"reuua" - means boat, ship, vessel,??

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

i think it means warship in Thai. Not completely sure though.

 

[aaglo]

That looks nice, Orthanc

 

[Orthanc]

Yeah, according to this website Reuua means ship (thanks go to ShiroKobbure for getting this site).

Yeah, just like with my Fune the red is all civ colouring, I experimented with different shades of the green but none of them looked much better.

Yep, so the flashy colours are staying.

 

[Spacer One]

Accurate is accurate...dont change it if its right...right?...

 

[Orthanc]

Well as you can all tell the Reuua's done, I'm starting the next and last Thai ship, the Khaat (meaning destroyer apparently) tonight, maybe I'll manage to squeeze in a WIP preview.

After the Khaat, I'm going to do one more fictional African ship, and then it's on to your 2 spaceships Spacer One.

PS: Has anyone had problems with the sounds on my Schooner? It's probably just my royally screwed up computer, but I'm getting issues with them.

 

[Spacer One]

whooo hoooo...what 2 were you doing again? (so I dont get one made twice)
the Ha'tak and Al'kesh right?
the mod waits on these 2 units..thanx for making em

 

[Orthanc]

@Spacer One: Yep, those are the units, and I'm very hopeful on keeping that starting date for them.

@the audience: Well it's not much, but here's what I have so far. This thing's gonna be BIG, it's gonna have a superstructure that'll put the Reuua's (which was already considerably large) to shame.

 

[Spacer One]

what is the next one?...(I add most new creations to my personal MOD just to keep it fresh)