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GalTrek™: The Shuttle

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GalTrek™: The Shuttle

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I’ve spend a lot of time optimizing the Defiant, so I wanted to work on something small. Here is the third installment in the GalTrek series, the Shuttle.

The Shuttle

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At a little under 3000 triangles, this model is certainly usable by everyone. I’ve optimized the original mesh, added an area shadow lighting pass, and gave the hull some glow from the nacelles. I collapsed the defuse material and lighting into a base texture, and a self-illuminated texture, capable of being imported in GalCiv2. I didn’t bother with normal mapping for such a small model.

Bellow you can see the model in the game engine. Note that I have imported it as a large ship hull, so it is unusually large in the game for a “shuttlecraft”, which will eventually probably fit into the “tiny” ship class.

Any ship suggestions, or advice for which ship should be in which class, let me know. So far I have:

Cargo:?
Tiny:Shuttle (<10m)
Small:?
Medium: Magellan (?m) [link to my thread],
NX (225m),
Defiant (120m) [link to my thread]
Large: Intrepid (344m),
Excelsior (467m),
Prometheus (414m),
Huge: Galaxy (643m),
Sovereign (685m),

The Defiant should probably go into small if we are considering only size, but it would be wrong to give the Defiant such a small number of HP.

If you are interested in using this model pack, please post a reply on this thread. I want to see how many folks actually care : )

Cheers.

-Brian
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Reply #26 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
hey brian i have a quick question, i didnt make this file but i have model of a cylon raider all set and finished in 3ds max, and i was wondering how i go from there to putting it in game, or if i could send the file to you and you could make the neccessary changes, i think in your defiant post you said you had a little bit of a hard time going to max to the game, and i dont know how so..... any information or help would be great, here's a screenshot of the ship Link
Reply #27 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well there are two issues to deal with. The first is getting the model in X format to import to GalCiv2. You should install:

http://www.andytather.co.uk/Panda/Files/3dsmax6/PandaDXExport4.6.61.0.zip

to your max plugin dir. Uncompress first obviously.

Then export (file -> export -> select Panda’s X Exporter) using the settings:
“X File Settings” -> Top Frame Only
“X File Settings” -> Left Handed Axis
“X File Settings” -> Binary with compression

Then save the X file to:

C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\Gfx\Models

Or similar directory, using the file name S0_Large_2.X, for a human large hull. Note that you will have to enable cheats and press CTRL-SHIFT-R to get all techs so that you can access large hulls immediately. You can choose another ship to overwrite, but a large hull is suggested during build so you can see the detail. REMEMBER TO BACK UP THE OLD GALCIV2 X FILE!

Then find the hull in the ship builder. You might not see any textures, and you might see only a silhouette of the hull over the stars.

Let me know how this goes, and I’ll help you with textures.

I could do the model for you, but I would like to finish the trek pack first.

-Brian
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Reply #28 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Looks great! Put my vote in for a Reliant-type.

Also have to join the call for a Battlestar model. Galactica (new) would be nice but Pegasus might be easier due to its less skeletal appearance.
Reply #29 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
cool thanks a lot for the info, i see you've had a lot of requests for a battlestar if you ever happen to do one once you finish all these i have full textures for all of galactica but i dont have a model for it
Reply #30 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The Sirius - Download the game models or raw meshes? I am not sure where I will post this pack yet. There are a few affiliated download portals for GalCiv2.

If you mean the raw meshes, then there are a number of locations on the net that offer them. Google.

-Brian


I mean the game models. I am not familiar with model converting or something like that. i just see your amazing models in this forum and I want them. What am I got to do to get them?

-TheSirius
Reply #31 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
TheSirius . I plan on releasing all the models at once as a model pack or game mod. I guess all you have to do is keep me motivated so that I finish them all : ) I will post another one soon.

-Brian
Reply #32 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
spleeze: There are a few affiliated download portals for GalCiv2.


What are the links of these portals?
Reply #33 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
One is the library section to this site, the other is here:

http://thegalacticcore.com/forum/pafiledb/index.php

I will probably post it all over.

-Brian