Star Trek Armada II Dawn of War

[Fireball]

Hello folks!
This mod is set in the TOS era and is intended to be a total conversion of Star Trek Armada II. Game play will be tech driven with various upgrades and research stations made available. You wont be seeing many special weapons; although some will be used throughout the game play!

Current status is as follows on a race by race basis:
Federation: Part done, sporadic ships all over the place, need to re-organize before I can properly judge the level of completion.

Klingons: A full race rendition of the Klingon race is nearly completed and ready for release.

Romulans: Planning stages currently, work will begin on them shortly

Other Races:
The other races that I've planned (time and will allowing!) are as follows:
Gorn Confederation & Orion Syndicate

Here are some recent ingame pics of Klingon testing!

Some more pics!
In the future I will attempt to post updates both here and on A2files as well as the uploading of files to both sites!

Soon I will post a thread about a (somewhat) open beta; perhaps 2-3 people from each site to help me with testing and iron out any final bugs for the Klingon full race release.

 

[Dominus_Noctis]

Nice work

 

[Fireball]

Thanks!

A bit of an update today;
Klingons are mostly ready aside from a few goodies; so it was time that I start work on something else.

With that I bring you the beginnings of the Romulan Construction ship!

Design wise I'm following the Gren Jein & Okuda style of ships (At least for the construction ship and possible mining freighter).

Design wise I will also be following some starfleet museum, some FASA and permission pending, some Atolm designs!

 

[Terra_Inc]

Looks good. I'm always available for beta tests.

 

[Fireball]

Thx, check your pm!

 

[Majestic]

I am overjoyed to see you've decided to update us here in our little corner of the web. I am just as thrilled to see you've also started work on the Romulans and you are getting close to beta testing. Like my good friend Terra, if you need me for testing or whatever I am here to help.

 

[Fireball]

I am overjoyed to see you've decided to update us here in our little corner of the web. I am just as thrilled to see you've also started work on the Romulans and you are getting close to beta testing. Like my good friend Terra, if you need me for testing or whatever I am here to help.

Thank you! I'm happy to be here!
Thanks for the beta testing offer!
Feel free to post pics and impressions after you do give her a go.

The Construction ship is done! At least textures, she still needs some damage, hardpoints and a worker-bee!

I've decided to keep the wings off of this one as I don't think all Romulan ships should have them; especially non combat ones!

Enjoy!

 

[Jetfreak]

I like the touch of green! Awesome work.

 

[Majestic]

Fantastic work, I love it. I am really looking forward to the Romulans.

 

[Fireball]

I like the touch of green! Awesome work.

Thank you!

Fantastic work, I love it. I am really looking forward to the Romulans.

Thanks man!
I'm kind of excited too..
Feels weird that this is probably the first race where i've STARTED with the Construction ship.

Cant wait to finish it so I can start to iron out Romulan TOS architecture for stations!

In the mean time here is my unusual construction bee!

 

[Majestic]

Fantastic Fireball, a very detailed Bee for sure. Have you currently got any ideas for stations for the Romulans yet, or do you make up as you go?

 

[Amateur]

[terrible joke]Ah, the face of construction![/terrible joke]

Ahem

Looking really, really good, mate. I especially like the colouring of the Romulan ship - it's got that green, but not too green look which I think will be perfect for the Armada engine.

It's nice to see some TOS stuff. Ironic really, that some of the best designs come from an era granted such little glimpses at the vehicles of the lore.

 

[Fireball]

Romulan conship is officially hardpointed, damaged etc etc
Here are some pics.

The bee's are very tiny so I need to reduce the welding spark some more.
Also note to self: Make the door opening animation take longer.
The doors whip open fast enough to make you think they're powered by 500 hp motors! haha

Now, some more klingon-age!

 

[Majestic]

The Romulan ship looks fantastic in-game. Out of curiosity were are the bee bays on her?

 

[Fireball]

The Romulan ship looks fantastic in-game. Out of curiosity were are the bee bays on her?

Thanks.
See the little thing with red lights going up and down it?
They sit inside there.

Its the sort of "hump" on the top of the ship.
You can see in one of the pics the doors are opened up
(very small bee-bay with very small bees tbh.
But theres 6 of them )

 

[Fireball]

Alright, so I've finished modeling the Romulan Starbase.

When making this the images and thoughts that kept going through my mind were from Admiral Jarok talking about the rising spires of his home in the TNG episode the Defector.

This station is pretty big. Bigger than even the Klingon Starbase I believe...texturing it will not be fun haha..there will be a great deal of windows.
But on the same token I'm pretty sure I'll be able to do the majority of the station with 1 or 2 textures thanks to good old fashioned symmetry!

and the basic texturing begins!
Next are the details + windows.

It isn't taking me as long as I thought it would.
Although to be fair this next part is where things are going to get nasty...there's going to be a LOT of clicking.

However now the final lines/colour scheme are visible.
So far 2 1024X1024 textures; should be able to fit the damage in there too.

Update time! I'm getting there with this..just need to do the middle cylindrical section and the 4 "spires"

 

[Majestic]

Wow, thats beautiful. You really outdone yourself. The Romulans are already shaping up to look fantastic.

 

[Jetfreak]

Very nice, I like how it evokes a "bird's nest" vibe! Very fitting for the home race I'd say.

 

[usndiesel]

very good looking mod. I'll be keeping my eyes on this in the future now that I know about it.

The one thing i've always been curious about for the Armada modding community...why they didn't make a NEW AMBASSADOR CLASS. The Enterprise C was the original version, but the DS9 USS Yamaguchi was a beautiful ship.

New Bussard Collectors
No Saucer arrangement
New Deflector Dish

That ship was a beaut!

 

[Fireball]

Wow, thats beautiful. You really outdone yourself. The Romulans are already shaping up to look fantastic.

Thanks!

Very nice, I like how it evokes a "bird's nest" vibe! Very fitting for the home race I'd say.

Thanks, exactly what I was hoping It would do!

very good looking mod. I'll be keeping my eyes on this in the future now that I know about it.

The one thing i've always been curious about for the Armada modding community...why they didn't make a NEW AMBASSADOR CLASS. The Enterprise C was the original version, but the DS9 USS Yamaguchi was a beautiful ship.

New Bussard Collectors
No Saucer arrangement
New Deflector Dish

That ship was a beaut!

Thanks man! Speaking of the Ambassador; it's a ship I've always intended to take a crack at, I've just never gotten around to it.

Texturing of this beast is complete; that means let the
hardpointing and damaging begin.

Also going to need to do new weapons textures for the Romulans!

the weapon tally for this station is as follows:
2 Disruptor Cannons, 1 disruptor beam and 1 plasma torpedo

 

[Terra_Inc]

Also going to need to do new weapons textures for the Romulans!

Drop me a PM if or when you should need some help with this. The semester is over so I have enough time for making a texture or two while working on my own projects.

The starbase looks stunning, good work man!

 

[Majestic]

Beautiful work on that Starbase Fireball, I love the detail that went into this an can tell it wasn't an hour jon. It would have taken you a decent amount of time and effort and it has certainly paid off.

 

[thunderfoot]

What a gorgeous piece of work!

 

[Fireball]

Drop me a PM if or when you should need some help with this. The semester is over so I have enough time for making a texture or two while working on my own projects.

The starbase looks stunning, good work man!

PM sent

Beautiful work on that Starbase Fireball, I love the detail that went into this an can tell it wasn't an hour jon. It would have taken you a decent amount of time and effort and it has certainly paid off.

Thank you! I've definatley spent plenty of time with this thing..soooo many windows! haha

What a gorgeous piece of work!

Thanks thunderfoot!

So update time:
She's ingame and hardpointed...
She has a grand total of 185 hardpoints.
I may scale it up the slightest bit...not too much though.

 

[Starfox1701]

Very nice work

 

[thunderfoot]

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[Adm_Z]

Beautiful man, just beautiful.

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
And I agree, that stations looks great and very plausible design.

Awesome!

 

[Majestic]

Beautiful work Fireball, she looks great in-game.

 

[Jetfreak]

The bird's nest is looking real awesome Fireball, love all the fine details you've put into the design. Enough to make it look plausible and subtle enough to keep the drolly eyed purists in line!