Spacefighters form Space: Above & Beyond

[Refar]

Some units form "Space Above and Beyond", just in case someone does remember They had some very nice, original and yet credible Sci-Fi designs in there.
I made those models a very-very long time ago.
Remembered them now seeing some futuristic planes here, and decided they could be of use for some kind of near future / next war scenario.

Sa-43 Hammerhead ( <<< Link )

The fighter jet. A very cool Sci-Fi design in my opinion - different and yet simple and credible. Could go for some kind of near-future units.

1000 Polys, Teamcolor, Shaders, Button. Uses Jetfighter animation.
<fScale> 0.48 in the pictures. Probaly a notch too big.

ISSCV Dropship (<<< Link)

The Dropship from the same show. And again a very nice, credible design, imho.

1120 Polys, Teamcolor, Shaders and Damage Texture. Button included.
Use Gunship Animations.
Managed to keep damage texture animation from gunship without redoing everything from scratch. The damage picture is a bit plain tho - just some bullit holes...
<fScale>0.36 in the picture.

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.

 

[The_Coyote]

looks great

(and i simply also like the design, do you have the "Abandon All Hope" Chiggy von Richthofen?)

 

[Refar]

Yep. Tho it is a bit hard to read the script... Would also look a bit silly on fighter animations i suppose...

 

[The_Coyote]

yes but if you know where to look it´s readable, thanks for showing looks good and yes with the standard jet fighter animation it would look strange (or silly)

Couldn´t you release the ISSCV as bomber or gunship?

 

[Refar]

There is a little bit of work involved to make them game ready (the textures need to be backed - as it is now most of the detail come from the bump map, which is not useable in civ...) And find suitable anims of course...
So i had no immediate plans to export them all for civ.

Just remembered the Hammerhead seeing all those cool futuristic jets you are releasing, and figured it might be of some use

 

[The_Coyote]

i have time so no need to hurry, the result will be the worth the waiting time

yes i think there should be some diverse futuristic jets for mods avaible now

 

[Ekmek]

awesome, I'm not much into sci-fi but this is great. maybe if you made some robotech/macross planes I'd get more into it

 

[Toryn]

Wow...that show was years ago...

Wasn't it canceled?

 

[GeoModder]

That brings back memories.

How about a custom animation in which the Hammerhead flips on its axis and starts firing backwards along its path?

 

[keldath]

wowowow a real buety

 

[Dual]

Very cool looking. It would fit in good with any sci-fi mod.

 

[Eclipse-X010]

Nice, Nice

 

[Edgecrusher]

This is a really cool unit. Looks like the aircraft from Terminator 2. awesome work!

Now thats an Event for Civ4.

Machines rise up in those death robots against all humanity

 

[asioasioasio]

I took a look on the woodelfs update - and what i saw on the image was hammerhead. I couldn't believe in the begining that someone made it

Awsome work on the models and textures (maybe chiggs texture should be a little bit darker and gray)

And very good tv show . I even had (shortly) temptation to make mod based on SAAB - war with silicants and chiggs might be very interesting theme for civ. In those days (early 90's ??) i liked only more Earth 2 TV Show - wich was base for games i liked to play (damn old good turnbased strategical games just with pencils, paper and dices or any other randomizer (like paper scrapes dropped from altitude jumped on the paper, and the place where it stopped was marked by mineral resources or place of colony ;D) )

(and i simply also like the design, do you have the "Abandon All Hope" Chiggy von Richthofen?)

Yeah Chiggy "Abandon All hope" would be cool unit

 

[Refar]

Converted the ISSCV dropship now as well. Looks ok on Gunships animatios.

Link in the first post.

 

[The_Coyote]

looks great, thanks

edit: perhaps you should change the thread title

 

[Refar]

Would be good, but can't... It will not let me edit the title

 

[GeoModder]

heheh, I wonder when there's going to be a rallying call for a "Space Above and Beyond" mod.

 

[Refar]

Ok to finish the set, here are the Chiggs (3 of them).
I even managed to get the script on Richthofens plane readable in game - tho only barely.

The textures might be a bit too dark. But then again they were pretty dark in the show...
More picture and link in the frst post.

heheh, I wonder when there's going to be a rallying call for a "Space Above and Beyond" mod.

Maybe now

Edit: @Coyote - what anims are you using for your space/sci-fi fighters ?

 

[Arian]

Cool!