Battlestar Question

[DamoclesX]

Anybody know where I can get full blueprints, models, reference shots, all that good stuff for the new battlestar series.....

and whats up, there is the mk2 and mk5 vipers? whats with the others? or do I get to make those up[:D]

I think i"m comming close to my fill of b5.. and I -really- like this show...

[TheDeadlyShoe]

Ack, I thought the show had only started in England?

Just a suggestion.. but mailing the guys on the show might work!

[DamoclesX]

I downloaded the eps, I"m not good at waiting, who would I mail? I suppose I could ask them to generate some 3 shots but I doubt they would do it.

We.. I"m gonna start with the olympic carrier, I can take the movie apart frame by frame and hopefully built a close to accurate ship.

I"m trying to decide.. if I should push starshatter and built 5000 poly ships or keep it under 3000......

I guess under 3000 would be the best for al ot of ships.. but.. with the new graphics cards...

I want to do interiors for these ships.. give em a REAL feel so you can look inside and see people and stuff.

I suppose I could create 2 lods.. the normal game one, and a super high poly(5000-10000k close one) but I hate lods.. so much bloody work

[Diabolico]

... and I will worship you if you do that!!!! [&o]

[DamoclesX]

well, put the word out to the galactica forms mabyh I can get some support or reference pics.. but I do want to do this if I can get the info, if I cant, I"ll go back to the dilgar war.

[Werewolf]

W00t. And I'm glad to see you're starting to enjoy the series. I must say the way they worked out things so far was amazing. As for reference pics, I think there's a Battelstar galactica game out there (commercial) - how about looking there for reference pics?

[Pheonix Starflare]

Oh, right for the XBox and PS2.

Unfortunately the Battlestar is modeled on the original one, not the one from the new series. However, it's old-school vipers look pretty good (but I thought someone was doing an old-school BSG mod around here at some point that had some nice models already done?).

[Diabolico]

Look here for a comprehensive preview of all vessels :
http://www.shipschematics.net/cgi-bin/b ... cgi?ColAll

Here is the link to the playstation game (be sure to check all screenshots) :
http://games.filefront.com/1529;/Battle ... Galactica/

Tell me if you need anything else...

=S=

[Diabolico]

http://ravensbranch.allen.com/galacticasize.html

[Diabolico]

http://ravensbranch.allen.com/technologies.html

... and you may e-mal and perhaps find some support for your project here :
http://www.battlestarpegasus.com/store/

[Diabolico]

and if you really want something neat, you can buy the paper blueprints here :
http://www.kennedyshipyards.com/product ... ID=VIP-TOS

=S=

[DamoclesX]

Cool

im doing all the new ships tho, none of those from the 70's show... I want nothing to do with discos in freaking space

Have you looked that that new bsg?? wtf is up with it, over half the ship doe snot have the hull armor you can see the damn bulkheads

[Lord QDaan]

This is your friend:
http://www.starshipbuilder.com/cgi-bin/ ... &SUBMIT=Go

Speculation: the Galactica was a museum ship well past its time. It's quite possible that some of the armor was removed for replacements on other ships of similar age and design which were still in active service, or that damaged armor was removed and not replaced, or that the plates were removed at the time of attack for some sort of maintenence or alteration. I can't remember what exactly the situation of the ship was - was it sort of on duty and about to become a permenant museum exhibit, or already a museum, or going to be scrapped, or what? Anyway, if it was just leaving active duty to be a museum ship as I remember the weapons and any large, still-useful equipment was probably going to be removed.

[DamoclesX]

awsome

bloogborg I cant pm the forum keeps eating it, msn me at damoclesx@hotmail.com


thanks for the pics.. damnit I did the viper wrong....... have to re-do it lol

I got the underside.. not.. quite as defined..hmmm

back to the drawing board!

[Lord QDaan]

Happy to help. Too bad I don't know where to find much of the Mk 5. Ugly ass ship, anyway. Only good for being the first-episode cannonfodder it was.

[DamoclesX]

ya.. ugly... and going to be nnoying as hell to model

[Velosipo]

This may be helpfull for you, this is the MK2 Viper from the new series in 3ds format is a low-poly mesh with nice textures on it.

MK2 Viper (right click to dowload)

Right clik on the link and dowload, it is a zip file (i had to change the extensión in to jpg because my free host don't allow me to upload zip files)

Here's the creator's website.

[DamoclesX]

its not bad

but the textures are nowhere near the level we need for this mod, so i"m making those from scratch, and there is no pit, plus.. way to many faces on the engines


kind of odd he would use so many on the engines when he used so few on other parts

[bloodborg]

ORIGINAL: Lord QDaan

This is your friend:
http://www.starshipbuilder.com/cgi-bin/ ... &SUBMIT=Go

Speculation: the Galactica was a museum ship well past its time. It's quite possible that some of the armor was removed for replacements on other ships of similar age and design which were still in active service, or that damaged armor was removed and not replaced, or that the plates were removed at the time of attack for some sort of maintenence or alteration. I can't remember what exactly the situation of the ship was - was it sort of on duty and about to become a permenant museum exhibit, or already a museum, or going to be scrapped, or what? Anyway, if it was just leaving active duty to be a museum ship as I remember the weapons and any large, still-useful equipment was probably going to be removed.

Galactica was being converted into a mueseum, and she was decomisioned on the eve of the attack. i think the hull plating is just for key sections. the only armaments that were removed from galactica was all the munitions for the rail guns, her missles. and if you take a look you will notice that the flight pod that has been closed of with glass has no railguns on it. that pod was converted into a showroom, an the hanger an lauchpods on that side of the ship were converted into a gift shop lol. so that pod i useless to them unles the remove all the rubbish lol.

also rember we know that the other newer battlestars look more or less the same as galactica, they are missing hull segments also, so it must be part of the design. we have seen a new generation battles star, the hulk of one was drifting near caprica when helo an boomer make there approcah and we see basestars still attacking caprica

[incbob]

Check out http://www.galactica2003.net/colonials/mini.shtml.

There are a lot of great graphics hidden all around this site. Ummm. didn't go where I wanted it to go, but it does get you to the site.