Here's my first battleship class ship that I worked on -

Quoting Xydonus,

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Here's my first battleship class ship that I worked on -

 

 

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Wow

Are those Drengin ship parts?

I love the head on look shots...for me...these just make them look bad ass...Great job Mr. ST!

Gauntlet, JM,  Thank you for the kind words! The Akira Class is the most difficult ship I have ever reproduced in the ship designer. I tried for 7 months to make decent representation of that ship and it always eluded me. It just never looked right no matter what I did.  I had to chose my parts very carefully this time around. Thanks the the Thalian ship parts I was finally able to get the one ship that gave me fits and nightmares done.

Just 9 more classes of Star Ships left to be done and I will have every Star Trek ship class for the game,  including my own custom classes.

It's been a while since I've done anything spaceship related and usually my tools of use are Lego Digital Designer, but today I was playing Galatic Civilizations 3 and I figured this design was too good -not- to share.

Presenting the Somnus Corporation Fleet Ship "Overseer" Mk. 4

The 4th revision of the "Overseer" design which started with the Overseer Mk.1 Sensor Array Satellite, the Mk. 2 Short Range Scout, the Unused Mk.3 which was the same basic idea as the Mk.4 except with older model Hyper-drive engines which where replaced with more advanced Ion Drive systems mid-construction - the Overseer was meant to be a long range Survey vessel to scout out potential colonization targets for the Somnus Corporation along with the general logging and on-site research of interstellar phenomenon.

Yep, all Drengin parts. Playing as a custom faction and have the Drengin ship style selected.

Hey guys!

Finished another Ship Set! This one is for my own pirate themed race!

You'll notice these guys have a few of the other race's fighters amongst their number... helps make these guys a little more diverse and represents stolen ships and mercenary crews.

As I make sets now, I also make the custom race, including adding portraits and backgrounds to the game... the eventually mod groweth...

I've made some small, medium and large ship designs and in the galactic map, they all looked like the appropriate size. In the designer, I've seen some glitches in that: the designed ships were displayed incredibly small, in either the big list or the list of template images that are sorted by size. I haven't seen that glitch since the latest round of updates anymore.

NICE! I love it. The side disks are nice and have a good texture there.

As for scaling. GalCiv3 uses a sort of dynamic scale, and on the galaxy map, a ship's size is always the same as its class. Length wise.

So to get around that, you can place very small tube parts (they are in terran, black, very plain) and project them out from the front and back of the ship. They are effectively invisible in game, but will extend the scale so you can control your sizing better.

I like my ships to look relatively accurate to each other, I don't want my tiny probe to be half a medium destroyer. I get obsessive, regardless of scale, I try to ensure that turrets and fighters on all models look the same size... with varying success and failure.

Hope that helps!

Quoting Edladner,

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My answer to the pirate scourge

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Ed I really like your designs. Great work.

Orbital Asteroid Launcher

Thanks. If the large cylinder, there are actually two pieces, rotated then the asteroid containers would rotate as well, away from their pathways to the 'gun.' Ty for compliment though. : )