For some reason the earth ships are almost to dark to see, except for the Excalibur which isn’t so dark. The Nova is so large you only see a small part of its mid section in the shipbuilder window and even though I made it a large hull the Omega is still really small.
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if a ship is too dark, its actually not too dark, but there is a bug that sometimes makes GC2 throw light at it from below the ship instead of from up top. I still dont know what causes this (ships I convert for GC2 the same way are sometimes correct, sometimes bugged). Iam still trying to figure this out. I managed to fix it for the Aurora Starfury (merged the Aurora and a scene with model that had correct lighting). I will continue to bugfix the dark ones as I have time.
the ship size is a real problem. for some people ships are too big, for some others they are too small. its a matter of taste. one part of the problem is that there is no way to know what the ship looks like for all hull sizes ingame when you are in the 3D Editor.
The Nova is pretty large in the ship designer for me too, but looks quiet well-sized in the actual game then. If I made it smaller for the ship designer it would be way too small in the game. It is supposed to be as big as the Omega, however the Omega has an animation (the rotating hull section). The animation kinda screws with the way the game adapts the sizes itsself. So I had to considerable reduce the size of it (it was bigger than 3 parsec at first) to make it fit into 1 parsec. The Ship designer screen then made it appear alot smaller even tho its still pretty big in the real game.
Its a total hassle.
My suggestion if you want different sizes:
get Kryo's Hull Mod, then add every ship as jewelry. then you can scale hull sizes the same way you can scale ship parts in the ship designer.
Iam currently playing a game with all Earth Force ships to see how the sizes stack up versus each other and may then release modified ships. however they may still be too big or small for everyone else taste.
| The names of the B5 ships always seemed confusing to me. Like the Omega Class Destroyer which I thought was a Destroyer it’s actually more like a Cruiser. |
yes thats actually a political thing of the Earth Alliance. The Nova that is as big as the Omega is called Dreadnought, but after the Earth-Minbari War when Earth started to produce Omegas the Earth Force thought it was smart to call them destroyers instead. dont ask me why, I dont remember. ^^
the ship classification you did is the same Iam running right now (Starfuries tiny, Olympus small, Hyperion medium etc).
I added the ships like this: Aurora, Standard tiny hull, no tech requirements, then Thunderbolt after you got Advanced Hulls (more expensive, but also more space and hit points than Aurora, but tiny too). Same for Nova and Omega (after you got Superior Hulls). Still have to make the Warlock next weekend.
