Civilian StarBlazer LF, Kusari Blood Dragon HF, (more)

Thu Mar 13, 2003 3:02 pm by rkcohs

Would like to apologize in advance for any regurgitation of info on this, but I didn't see a good listing of the ships that *should* be pilotable, but were left out for whatever reason.

I want to assume these ships are relegated to NPC's, and were left out of MP for one reason or another..

Civillian StarBlazer - IMO this ship looks miles better than the flier/tracker. The differences are almost subtle, but after seeing this ship all the other star* series look like chopped up versions (likely the case). This is the ship that I believe should have been ge_fighter3, and judging by the gap in the nicknames, was initially intended to be pilotable. As of this point the only reference I've found to it is in rtc_shiparch as a civilian freighter, though its class is still fighter.. at any rate, it was missing entirely from the shiparch.ini, so I did a really quick'n'dirty graft onto the star tracker entry to give it the unused model.

If anyone's interested in seeing it first hand, go into shiparch.ini, to the ge_fighter2 entry, by DA_Archtype change "tracker" to "blazer" for both the folder name and the file name.

Kusari Blood Dragon - apparently a class 9 ship that was either pulled from MP, or is simply an NPC vehicle. I have yet to mod this one into a base, but I'm really interested in seeing what it looks like. I feel like i've seen it before, but I'm not sure. At any rate it's a shame that Kusari doesn't have a decent advanced fighter.

Corsair Freighter - From what I recall, this one is a low-level NPC freighter. Haven't seen it yet, but I think the power rating was like 4/2. If it looks tough, perhaps it'd make a nice new heavy freighter. Why the Corsairs were left without their freighter, I refuse to understand.. suppose they just hitched up trailers to their Titans instead. (hrmm..)

Liberty Elite HF/VHF - just stumbled on this one, didn't notice it when I was looking up the others. WIll edit when I know more.
:edit: looks like Juni's Defender. Almost the same, but has a vertical fin on the back, gives the ship a real attitude.

Edited by - rcohks on 13-03-2003 18:05:43

Thu Mar 13, 2003 4:02 pm by Dauntless

Could that Liberty VHF be Juni's Defender?

Thu Mar 13, 2003 4:27 pm by Mubata

Actually Juni's ship is the equivalent to the Liberty Very Heavy. As you have probably noticed, it has a different vertical fin that the normal Defender lacks. It's mentioned in a few places in the ini's but was not made available for purchase.

If you do want to make it available for purchase, you need to edit it in. I did this with the defender in a mod I created for the demo. You need to create a loadout package, link to the cocpit mesh for the li_elite ship, as well as make it available for sale at one of the bases. The downside is that the content dll for the game, will still call it a defender when you go to buy it from the base that you added it to. So be sure to look at the stats to know which one you're purchasing.

If your curious how I did it, the mod'd ini's that I used are in the weapshipmodv3.zip, that is available for download here at LR.

Hope it helps...

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Thu Mar 13, 2003 6:03 pm by rkcohs

yepyep, just got out of the game. That fin gives the defender a whole different (better) look IMO.. though the Startracker's camera settings made the fin a bit of an obstruction trying to fly 3rd person

The Corsair Freighter looks a little like a wide wolfhound.. different anyway. The in-station model was transparent.

Had problems with the Blood Dragon.. likely made an error setting up the graft, but the ship was transparent.. looked kinda neat flying, kinda like wonder woman's jet :p

Overall, I like these variations better than their counterparts. I think that all four ships would be a nice addition to the pilotable ships in the game, help fill a few gaps in house ship ability. Liberty and Kusari both could benefit from having a stronger fighter.. as is they really aren't an option if you're going for higher level firepower. And I don't personally think that the Corsairs should be the only group without a freighter..

If no one else is working on getting these ships playable, I may bang out a mod. If it's already being done however, there's no sense in stepping on someone elses toes over time and effort to get the stuff in.

maybe the Anubis needs to be available from the monkey world as well...

Thu Mar 13, 2003 6:22 pm by Dauntless

though the Startracker's camera settings made the fin a bit of an obstruction trying to fly 3rd person

I don't know what camera settings are available, but perhaps try the anubis camera settings (if there is one)

- Dauntless

Thu Mar 13, 2003 6:29 pm by Dauntless

The Starblazer

- Dauntless

Thu Mar 13, 2003 10:42 pm by StarGod

the starblazer looks realy nice, and if you can help me i would like to add to my game.could u put up a pic or two of the corsair freighter and any other ships u are working on?
i attempted to mod in a ship following the instructions from another post and i screwed up fl so bad i had to uninstall/reinstall whole thing. obviously my modding skills are sadly lacking.

thanks

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Thu Mar 13, 2003 10:51 pm by Dauntless

obviously my modding skills are sadly lacking.

Lacking?! Mine are non-existent

Anyway, keep us posted rcohks.

- Dauntless

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