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Nah, I've got him covered. Can't wait to pick these off like flies from an Excalibur.

:D

Only if the Tal Shiar Refit fleet uncloaking directly behind you at optimum Plasma Torpedo range allows this. We Rihannsu honor our treaty obligations, after all. Especially when it benefits us most of all. lol
 

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I'll see your optimised plasma raise you worthwhile shield enhancing Agaean with cannon Sovi and Defient escorts. Speaking of Defient Majestic remind me to send you the version I made out of the P81 mesh. As long as she is on the move you get DS9 stile weapons fire but if she is just standing still rof goes down alot and she is still nice and delicate. Interceptor looks great.
 

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Majestic, the fully textured Interceptor looks really awesome. Ahem... The Central Command send their thanks for creating such a deadly yet beautiful vessel. :cool:
Joking aside, do you already have a name for it?

you should make the beam weapon texture vary between yellow and blueish..like a gradual variation...showing that the cardassian weapon is somewhat dominion based...kind of a mix of the high powered phaser and the phased polaron beam...
Hmm, that sounds interesting. Gotta try something like that when I'm done with my recent WIP.

And yea Terra I know..but I am THE SISKO so i can see it all from my place as a Prophet in the Celestial Temple
Do Wormhole Aliens look like worms??? :lol2:
 

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they look like people you know from your everyday life...thats why they took the form of kira, dax, obrien, odo etc for sisko.. duh ..lol don't you watch star trek? LOLOL and the ship is nice...always need more cannon fodder for the Cardassians...
 
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Do Wormhole Aliens look like worms??? :lol2:

Do Wormhole Fish eat Wormhole Aliens because they look like worms? :lol2:

Pretty interesting philosophical can you've kicked over here, Terra.
 

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they look like people you know from your everyday life...thats why they took the form of kira, dax, obrien, odo etc for sisko.. duh ..lol don't you watch star trek? LOLOL
I know what the Prophets look like, having seen them on TV many times. 'Twas just a joke. LMAO

Do Wormhole Fish eat Wormhole Aliens because they look like worms? :lol2:

Pretty interesting philosophical can you've kicked over here, Terra.
But then, what do Wormhole Fish look like? :confused:
 

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Okay guys, I say if you want to continue this discussion, feel free to make one in the Star Trek section, or I can split the topic and make a new one for you. It's just bogging up the thread that's all.

Terra, I don't have a name for her yet, it's just Cardassian Interceptor. I am however open to naming suggestions. :)

CptBenSisko, I plan to use your idea about the weapon, using Achilles Cardassian phaser as a base. Thanks.

Oh yes even though she is advanced for the Cardassians she is still a weak vessel, so canon fodder isn't too far from the truth in regards to this little beasty.
 

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Nice way to keep the professionalism alive lol

Great work btw, nice blending of design elements, approve!
 

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A test to figure out how the weapon worked in-game. A fail on my part, but I know how the texture works so with any luck my next attempt will provide some fruitful results.

Oh and I was shocked to find A2 actually started up and didn't crash for me. First time in nearly 2 months that I have opened a non-FO A2 install. :excited:

However I don't hold my hopes of it staying that way. If I hadn't packed my winXP disk for moving I would've installed it this weekend.
 

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A test to figure out how the weapon worked in-game. A fail on my part, but I know how the texture works so with any luck my next attempt will provide some fruitful results.
It doesn't look THAT bad. Just needs a little tweaking. :)
 
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This actually looks very interesting. A weapon beam which changes color as it moves is something I've never seen before nor heard of either.
 

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Wcarddomphaserchange.png


edit: Try this...I use 1x6 step animation for all my beam weapons...i whipped this up in about 3 mins...try it and post a screen of it ingame..i gotta go to work...check y'all later!

its awesome isn't it? i have it for my klingon beam weapons on my neghvars...i noticed it in VOY Engame when the Klingons chase Janeway in SC-4...their beam weapons alternate slightly yellowish green to greenish yellow....ill put a beam together for ya Majestic and see what i can come up with.... shouldn't take long...
 
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A very nice bit of texture work there Captian Sisko, any chance of you releasing/posting the other you've put together for your own game? I'd be interested in seeing what else you've come up with (maybe in a seperate thread?).
 

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The weapons sprite are called flipbook animations. Each line or square is 1 frame of the flipbook.
 

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I think that can be arranged Dan...lol funny my real name is Dan also LOL...but...yea starfox they are called flipbooks...i couldn't remember the name off the top of my head...so 1x6 step animation is what i call them...its an adequate description...and actually my NeghVar weapons aren't even this good...i actually came up with the idea of doing it this way this morning lol..ill post a new thread later with other weapon ideas...who knows..maybe multicolored torpedos and pulse weapons as well...
 

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Thanks CptBenSisko, I'll give it a shot tonight or tomorrow and post a screenie. Got to go out shortly, quite a busy day today unfortunately.
 

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CptBenSisko could I get the weapon sprite parameters for the weapon, I input what I thought was right and well it turned out poorly, not how it should.
 

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This is what i have for it...i put it ingame..and it works well enough...but it could use a little tweaking...gonna see what i can do but this should get it working ingame for you - LOL i hate word wrap LOL

@reference=128

# Dominion Modified Cardassian Phaser
cphaserdom Wcarddomphaserchange 0 0 128 21 @anim=tex1x6
 

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Thanks, that's much better, I'll post a screenshot in a few hours. :)
 

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Okay here are some screenshots of my testing. The first three images are used testing CptBenSisko's weapon texture that he posted on the previous page, the rest are a edit of Achilles texture by me.

[fieldset=CptBenSisko Texture Test]Snapshot018.png Snapshot019.png Snapshot020.png[/fieldset]

[fieldset=Achilles Texture Test]Snapshot008.png Snapshot009.png Snapshot010.png Snapshot011.png

Snapshot021.png Snapshot022.png Snapshot023.png Snapshot024.png[/fieldset]

I find I prefer Achilles texture but CptBenSisko's version is a much smoother transition between colours. I am going to see about turning Achilles texture into a 6 or 8 animated frame texture rather than the 4 it currently is. I am also before I do that however going to try something else and see how it looks.
 

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What exactly are you looking for besides color change?
 

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Right now I am really just experimenting with different feels as I feel the hybrid designs need a few things that show they incorporate Dominion tech.

I am looking at making a weapon with a purple Dominion core with yellow Cardassian outside glow. I am looking at editing Achilles phaser to do just that.
 

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an interesting idea...I'll experiment with it that as well...that phaser texture is the base for all of my beam weapons for all the races, except the Borg..

I created the base texture and glow..then added noise, grey scaled to eliminate the various colors from the noise..then RGBed it and did a hue change...

to attain the color change..i simply took the two colors i wanted and with Photoshop modified the opacity for each step...step one was yellow...step two was blue with 20 percent opacity, step three was 40 opacity, then 60, then 80 and finally the all blue at 100...voila! 1x6 Yellow texture to Dominion styled blue...cuz Dominion ships use blue polaron beams and torpedos..not purple like is generally used...see 'The Search' and various other Dominion episodes..
 

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Remember that your arn't just dealing with different techs but 2 feundamentaling different weapons systems. Cardasingans use Phasers which are coherent high energy phased nadion pulses and compresed spiral wave disruptors which are work to alter the quantum vibration of the subatomic elementery particals causeing a rapid disasociation of the atoms in an explosive manner. The dominion uses phased poleron cannons which bombard a target with the aformenton quantum particals in an attempt to alter partical polarity and causeing a rapid disasociation of the atoms in an explosive manner. I remeber that domminon beam weapons could act as carriers of other substances and were very effective at cuting through shields. Perhapse an amagum of the 2 weapons would use the poleron beam as a carrier for disrupter pulses to benift from the enhanced shield penetration power.
 

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Remember that your arn't just dealing with different techs but 2 feundamentaling different weapons systems. Cardasingans use Phasers which are coherent high energy phased nadion pulses and compresed spiral wave disruptors which are work to alter the quantum vibration of the subatomic elementery particals causeing a rapid disasociation of the atoms in an explosive manner. The dominion uses phased poleron cannons which bombard a target with the aformenton quantum particals in an attempt to alter partical polarity and causeing a rapid disasociation of the atoms in an explosive manner. I remeber that domminon beam weapons could act as carriers of other substances and were very effective at cuting through shields. Perhapse an amagum of the 2 weapons would use the poleron beam as a carrier for disrupter pulses to benift from the enhanced shield penetration power.

Hold on, I need my Geek / English Dictionary to translate...:lol2::lol2:

Just kidding. :thumbsup:
 

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Remember that your arn't just dealing with different techs but 2 feundamentaling different weapons systems. Cardasingans use Phasers which are coherent high energy phased nadion pulses and compresed spiral wave disruptors which are work to alter the quantum vibration of the subatomic elementery particals causeing a rapid disasociation of the atoms in an explosive manner. The dominion uses phased poleron cannons which bombard a target with the aformenton quantum particals in an attempt to alter partical polarity and causeing a rapid disasociation of the atoms in an explosive manner. I remeber that domminon beam weapons could act as carriers of other substances and were very effective at cuting through shields. Perhapse an amagum of the 2 weapons would use the poleron beam as a carrier for disrupter pulses to benift from the enhanced shield penetration power.

But you also have to remember that Starfleet Engineering was able to develop a methoud of modifing the symetrical subspace graviton field that is the base for Starfleet shielding so that they would be more effective against the phased polaron beams...the defense of DS9 fromt he Dominion in 'A Call to Arms' is proof that that advantage of passing right through the shields has been nullified. So now a polaron beam in use acts just like a phaser in that the shields are capable of defending against them...they are equivalent to a Starfleet Type 9 Phaser bank...quite powerful for ships the size of the JemHadar bugs....so what i would suggest is that not only do we combine the look of the high energy phaser, which is itself equivalent also to the Type9, with the polaron beam..but also its damage potential, i.e. simply add them together...you get something on par with the Type 12 or higher...quite a powerful punch if you ask me...
 

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But you also have to remember that Starfleet Engineering was able to develop a methoud of modifing the symetrical subspace graviton field that is the base for Starfleet shielding so that they would be more effective against the phased polaron beams...the defense of DS9 fromt he Dominion in 'A Call to Arms' is proof that that advantage of passing right through the shields has been nullified. So now a polaron beam in use acts just like a phaser in that the shields are capable of defending against them...they are equivalent to a Starfleet Type 9 Phaser bank...quite powerful for ships the size of the JemHadar bugs....so what i would suggest is that not only do we combine the look of the high energy phaser, which is itself equivalent also to the Type9, with the polaron beam..but also its damage potential, i.e. simply add them together...you get something on par with the Type 12 or higher...quite a powerful punch if you ask me...

So true. And if you wonder on comparison to how powerful Type 12 Phaser is, check the Sovereigns. Their Phasers are Type 12 if I remember correctly. :)
 
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Now that is nice. Your Cardassian Fleet seems to be coming along quite well, with a lot of additions. How many ships do you have at the moment?

I can only hope you're putting as much into the other prime races as you are these. :)
 

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Thank you, however that is a really old image. I am only doing the Cardassians, for now. Perhaps after my other mods are complete I will come back to them and do the Dominion.

COE is pretty much almost ready for release, just a few finishing touches I am waiting for. :)
 
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