Spacefighters form Space: Above & Beyond

[The_Coyote]

looks great, thanks again

i linked my to a changed JetFighter Animation, added some effects from the FinalFrontier Fighter (Engine Glow and Afterburner Glow, but the last works all the time) and also exchanged the weapon effect

Edit: the best one is from the blizzard, the EF3000 has the missing weapon effect (through editing) when intercepting

 

[Agent327]

3 Chigg thingies.
The basic fighter, the advanced stealth prototype and a heavy bomber.

The models and textures are game ready, i did however not merged them onto animations. Because not really sure which one to take, and not sure if someone needs them.
They will work as Final Frontier fighters as they are (and probably as BTS fighters as well). They can be merged on anims in Nifscope quite easily tho, if really needed.
No FX shader, but i added a gloss and self illumination effects on them.

Note: All 3 share one set of textures. So they should either stick together in the same folder, or you might want to drop the textures in Shared art folder.

Downloaded the Hammerhead. I'd like to use this and the Chiggies in MOO2Civ (if I ever get it to work with patch 3.17) if that's possible - and alright with you...

 

[Refar]

Sure. I did not do a lot of stuff to work with Final Frontier, so if there is something looking odd, let me know and i will see if i can fix it.

 

[Agent327]

Cool! (I'm trying to collect as many models as I can for MOO2Civ.)

This bit I don't quite follow though:

The models and textures are game ready, i did however not merged them onto animations. Because not really sure which one to take, and not sure if someone needs them.
They will work as Final Frontier fighters as they are (and probably as BTS fighters as well). They can be merged on anims in Nifscope quite easily tho, if really needed.

If I'd want to use all three unts (as fighters/bombers) they're not animated? (Being a totalnoob modelwise it's basically abracadabra to me what you're saying; for instance I've no idea what Nifscope is.) Could you make it so I can just use them as MOO2Civ units? (I'd really appreciate it if you could.)

 

[Refar]

I never played FF or looked closer on its units, so i am a bit at loss, as to what is needed, i checked some units in the download DB, seen a couple of units made by Woodelf for you mod (This one for example: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=9017) - so those Chiggs will work in the same fashion as that one does (Does it work ?!).

I think they don't have special effects like weapon fire etc. They definitely will fly around a city if set on air patrol, fly strafes when set to airstrike etc - this i tried.

I will - since they - surprisingly - do have a taker - merge them on anims, once i found out what exactly you need.

Does the Hammerhead work/animate in your mod the way you would expect/need it ?


EDIT: Btw - do you want teamcolor on them ? And when yes, where ? I did not found a good place to put it myself (The glowing parts are out - either glow or teamcolor unfortunately...)

 

[The_Coyote]

the FF fighter have a own animation and nif structure, the standard fighters should work, but it will look like the standard fighter and not like the FF fighter (the model will be too big)

The FF Fighter nif has three times the models inside to look like a squad, with 2 weapons effects, 2 engine glow effects, 2 engine thrust effects, 2 small hits effects and a death hit effect per model. Also the engine effects are centered by the nif not by the model (or the dummy representing the model). Mostly the reason why i´m too lazy to link a model to this animation, to much numbers to change.

 

[Agent327]

Wow, you're way ahead of me! As I mentioned on the MOO2Civ thread, it's not compatible with patch 3.17 - which means until it is, I can't playtest anything...*

As for teamcolours, there are stripes on the FF units (barely visible on my poor comp); I usually identify units by their flag or by moving the cursor over 'em.

I really appreciate your answer and the time/effort you spend on this!

*I hadn't gotten around to implementing any models yet before patch 3.17.

 

[jkp1187]

Nice models. Very inventive.

I didn't catch the show first-run in the '90s, but watched all of the episodes in 2003. A shame that it only lasted one season....though it wasn't as good as later shows that drew some inspiration from it, like Firefly or the new Battlestar Galactica.

 

[avain]

Freakin' brilliant, Ref!

Yep, the best shows nowadays are Firefly and BSG.
I'm just so sad they cancelled Firefly... (((

 

[asioasioasio]

Yeah Firefly was very interesting - that's a pitty that they stopped show.
I didn't catched the climat of BSG (it resembles to much Star Trek - wich wasn't my favoured tv shows)

 

[Refar]

Yes firefly was cool. Unfortunately Serenity is a beast to model... I tried a while ago

 

[Zebra 9]

Sweet! I could see the hammer head flying in the skies in a 100 years (maybe less).

 

[knugen]

I used to watch this show aswell but I also preferred Earth2

 

[Daryl95]

Chigg Space Fighters (<<< Link)

And - to complete the set - here are 3 Chigg thingies.
The basic fighter, the advanced stealth prototype and a heavy bomber.

The models and textures are game ready, i did however not merged them onto animations. Because not really sure which one to take, and not sure if someone needs them.
They will work as Final Frontier fighters as they are (and probably as BTS fighters as well). They can be merged on anims in Nifscope quite easily tho, if really needed.
No FX shader, but i added a gloss and self illumination effects on them.

Note: All 3 share one set of textures. So they should either stick together in the same folder, or you might want to drop the textures in Shared art folder.

How do I merge this with animations? I have tried several things. I want to add the planetary defense ship anime but but when I open it up in the game I see a planetary defense ship and no alien fighter. Then when it fights I see lasers and two orbs.

 

[The_J]

Try the small tutorial in the second post of this thread.

 

[Callie]

Hi All,
I'm new to all this forum stuff but i saw your great model of the ISSCV
The original design for the isscv can be seen here: My husband designed it.
http://www.cassinidesign.com.au/illustration.html, (3rd row down, 3rd illustration)
Do you have a copy of your model in 3ds max format?

 

[The_J]

Nice picture, but original design...

3Ds max can import nifs, with this plugin.

 

[Callie]

Oooops I was wrong that it was all his, when I built our website he said it was one of his designs, he does so many I can't keep track, when i told him I posted this he said this was a revamp of an earlier concept
but he did work on the show in 1995 doing concepts and spacecraft.
And thanks for the plugin info
next semester at uni I hope to do intro to gaming and then i might understand something of this forum

 

[achilleszero]

Oooops I was wrong that it was all his, when I built our website he said it was one of his designs, he does so many I can't keep track, when i told him I posted this he said this was a revamp of an earlier concept
but he did work on the show in 1995 doing concepts and spacecraft.

Thats awesome, I used to watch that show every week.

 

[The_J]

Oooops I was wrong that it was all his, when I built our website he said it was one of his designs, he does so many I can't keep track, when i told him I posted this he said this was a revamp of an earlier concept
but he did work on the show in 1995 doing concepts and spacecraft.

Didn't want to say something dishonest, just wanted to prevent potential copyright issues .

And thanks for the plugin info
next semester at uni I hope to do intro to gaming and then i might understand something of this forum

And hopefully you'll contribute something to this section here .