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Classic Ship Parts

By JoeDawson8 on March 6, 2006 10:03:19 AM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums

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I have started creating ships based on trek... Its slow going as there arent very many flexible parts for creating custom shapes and such. We need to start creating more custom parts for the ship builder.... saucers cylindrical shapes ect... granted a LOT can be done with what is already there as evident by the rough trek ship ive already created. I just think we need more standard geometric shapes... Thoughts anyone?? Also, it would be cool to add more designs to the ships, ie logos, lettering etc.
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Caelistis
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March 6, 2006 10:55:02 AM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
I used the dish upside down on both sides to close in the open saucer area. Crude but it worked with the parts available.
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March 6, 2006 11:02:14 AM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
Very nice designs!!!! I believe if more people will create ship parts, the devs will include them in future upgrades.
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March 6, 2006 11:16:58 AM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
This ship builder has really fueled my creative juices... I need more control over the hardpoints so i can use less connecting scaffolding and connecting parts. Perhaps that hardpoint fix that is in the downloads section.
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Kenes
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March 6, 2006 11:35:53 AM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
It is possible to create said "trek" ship but you have to scale eerything down and think of each peice as one in a million of peices you have to lay down. So it would take forever praticly
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March 6, 2006 11:47:21 AM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
yes, i have been having trouble with scaling issues due to not being able to lay ships side by side... the ships i have been creating do not scale well against each other. More geometric shapes to use as parts would help to create the designs i am attempting. I will put together another trek ship this evening to illustrate that it CAN be done and more polished than my first attempts.
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March 6, 2006 11:56:16 AM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
The modding wiki site says that you can use 3d studio max... i know a number of games that use 3d studio max in their modding... could these models be transfered over? its just a question of stats for addons and hardpoints and maybe textures, as far as i know the models should be easily transfered from other games.
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Franco fx
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March 6, 2006 1:05:41 PM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
I notice you are using the small triangular hull. If you open up a BOG game you will have access to the medium hull which is a more perfect saucer shape. It might also help your scaling problem.

Very nice work.
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March 6, 2006 1:42:53 PM from Stardock Forums Stardock Forums
FYI, if you use my mod ( http://library.galciv2.com/index.aspx?m=22 ) you can build ships completely from jewelry, or use any hull model as any size (i.e., use a medium hull model as a small or cargo), and couple hulls upon other hulls as jewelry.
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JoeDawson
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March 6, 2006 2:37:01 PM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
Forgive me Kryo, I should have thanked you right off the bat.. I would never have been able to create that pseudo "constitution" class without your mod as i was unable to find an appropriate engineering hull with a pylon extending up for the saucer. That is just a rough one anyway... your mod will allow me to make some really nice designs once i have a chance to spend some more time creating ships.


Cheers! and thanks for the impressive mod!
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March 6, 2006 3:10:10 PM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
"I used the dish upside down on both sides to close in the open saucer area. Crude but it worked with the parts available. "

How do u do that?
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JoeDawson
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March 6, 2006 3:13:43 PM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
I had that same question, i didnt see any hardpoits on the innerside of the dish, so i was wondering how yuo could do that

perhaps pylons on either side supporting the dish..?? Ill try when i get home.
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Life-Giver
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March 6, 2006 5:45:57 PM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
we also need more hulls. it would be really cool if an expansion would give us like 10 new hulls for each size.
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Doronron 2
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March 6, 2006 7:56:24 PM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
You can flip hardpoints to make them face the opposite direction.
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ViriiGuy
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March 15, 2006 9:46:08 PM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
I would like to be able to turn hardpoints 45 degrees as well.
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Serendipitous Zhao
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March 16, 2006 3:17:34 AM from GalCiv II Forums GalCiv II Forums
I don't seem to have dishes
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