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[Mod] Yesteryears Updates

Majestic

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Interesting design mate.

Something I did before I went away. It's a new deuterium icon rather than the blue supply icon.

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The icon is a modified image from the warp-plasma/transporter test canister used in Voyager several times.
 

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In my opinion, it's the small changes like that - which many people tend to ignore - that really make the mod. :)
 

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Hello:
Majestic, you have been such a great work with this mod, I wish I am half as productive so I guess I really need my modding-mood back and soon.

Keep it up with the great work!

P.S.: I love the Constellation class ship in your signature :D .
 

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Hey Maj, how goes the mod's progress? I reeeeeeeeally want yesteryears, really!

Thanks Darklight, great to see some fans still exist.

As for the mod, nothing has been done since December last year. I have been focusing my modding time on getting the final models done for the Star Wars mod. After which I'll be refocusing my efforts on this mod and try and get a Federation beta out.

While my time is extremely limited and my modding days are drawing to a close I am hopeful that I can get the Federation and Klingon factions complete, for you all to enjoy. Hopefully with the help of KJC I can extend that to also include the Romulans at some point after the Klingons. Only time will tell.
 

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Your modding days are coming to a close? That sounds like your dying!
Please no!
Don't leave us! Your awesomeness is still needed.
 

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Hopefully with the help of KJC I can extend that to also include the Romulans at some point after the Klingons. Only time will tell.

Whoops, bad kjc. Romulans... *Gibbs slaps self*
 

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Your modding days are coming to a close? That sounds like your dying!
Please no!
Don't leave us! Your awesomeness is still needed.

Just retiring from modding to go into making games rather than modding them.

Whoops, bad kjc. Romulans... *Gibbs slaps self*

No rush mate even I haven't done any work on the mod for a while.
 

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No worries Maj, just being dramatic. I just hope you will finish the mods before making your own games which you probably will put your mods into anyway lol. (as secret easter eggs so you don't have to pay royalties, if they don't know about them ;))
 

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I doubt my mods will ever become games, if anything they could become freeware proof of concept prototypes that I might release a free games just for MSFC members.

However I do plan that once my diploma is over to fully move into all new games to make money off and get away from doing currently existing IP's but instead making up my own stories to based games off.

Got quite a few ideas already, basically I plan to make the games I want to play as very few games out there today that take my interest.
 

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A little something I did yesterday for Yesteryears.

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Dam Majestic. You weren't joking. That did take some time to load, but I seriously love how clean and well presented those textures of yours are.
 

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Oh man, that looks awesome. :yum: Great work Maj!
 

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Thanks guys.

That did take some time to load, but I seriously love how clean and well presented those textures of yours are.

Yeah a lot of time were spent on those textures unfortunately. It's probably one of the longest parts of each model, well except for the Proxima as the modeling on that one I would say was the longest part.

Here is a little something I whipped up yesterday. A spec sheet of the Proxima. I might do one for each design eventually.

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You're really showing a fine return to form Maj, great work with the renders and the new spec sheet really his all the marks. :)
 

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Thanks Jetfreak. I am currently sorting out the Starbase atm. Getting it ready for texture creation.

In the meantime I whipped this up. I think I got the length wrong for the Proxima and maybe even the Ulysses. Oh well it doesn't really matter.

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Ditto on what Cborg said! And if you want a proofreader or a sounding board to finish establishing class histories, I hereby volunteer my services! :)
 

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I might hit you up on that Zelph. I have only a sort background for each class, nothing that lengthy. As you can see by the last image, all that space above the ships top view is supposed to be fill with description. :lol:
 

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I like the other two designs, but there's just something elegantly awesome about the Excelsior...love it!

I agree she is a great design and one of my favourites. I might do one with her and the Excalibur down the line, they are sister designs after all. :D
 

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I realise I'm a bit behind since I joined only a few weeks ago, but I saw a number of your ships and they look great!
I myself was thinking of designs of ships of the period between TMP and TNG. Roughly from 2300 to 2350.
 

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Thanks mate. Glad you like them.

That era you'd see a lot of Excelsior type designs, along with the Ambassador and early Galaxy designs, the Nebula came out in 2350 if I remember right and the New Orleans and her sister designs came out in the 2340's.
 

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I could try to design a few ships and try to come up with some Klingon, Romulan and Cardies as well.
 

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Feel free to check out my Clash of Empires, it has a lot of Cardassian designs that might give you some inspiration for Cardassian designs.

I think Klingons and Romulan designs for that era would be great, such a shortage of them for that era, most of their designs are from TNG onwards or TOS and TMP designs.
 

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I am very busy at the moment, so it may take some time before I can start with the models.
 

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Looks like I'll be getting back into this, way too long since I modeled or since modelling was fun for me. Found out my diploma was only good for 3 years (the certificate) and they cancelled it on me because I wasn't progressing fast enough in a progress at your own place course. Go figure. So the time spent there I'll be diverting back to my modelling and art something I've missed but haven't had the time to do for over 12 months.
 

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they cancelled it on me because I wasn't progressing fast enough in a progress at your own place course. Go figure.
Well, that's entirely logical. /s
 
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