So given the new super cool mesh tech we got, I thought it might be fun to post some concepts of different ships, if for nothing more than to get the dev team's creative juices flowing for the sort of variability I personally think is necessary to make the infinite be more interesting for longer.


MANY images, slow internet connections beware Edit: Apparently it wasn't super clear, but the thread is mainly just to get the juices flowing for what different geometries and arrangements, levels of sharp vs smooth transitional shapes, boxy vs organic, and so on that models and other things in the game should have.

Yes, there are a ton of great designs. If you haven't seen it I highly suggest taking a look at the other ships which are found over here.

Wow. Some of those are flippin' gorgeous. I especially like the more oddball designs, rather than iterations on "boxes in space."

Now let me offer some more "boxes in space" designs. I do quite like these.

These are concepts from Traveller:

Some nice renders:

And some designs from John Eaves for a previous iteration of what would become Star Trek Online (slow browsers beware!):

Somehow the styles around the middle made me expect an aeromorph or two to crop up...

Pfffft.



Sauce!

Awesome, HowSerendipitous! I've just started watching Babylon 5 again.

Victor Tombs wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 31, 2017 1:59 pm

Awesome, HowSerendipitous! I've just started watching Babylon 5 again.

Me too , great minds think alike... Well, I say just started, I'm already almost at the end of series 2. Hoping to get through The Long, Twilight Struggle tonight... That's such a good episode!

Victor Tombs wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 31, 2017 1:59 pm

Awesome, HowSerendipitous!

Victor is stealing my words again

Well I'd like to aggregate all the images in this one thread, so I'm gonna grab some of those images from your links

AAAANDD I think I got a little carried away, there are ~450 images in this post, I divided them into 4 so your slow internets wont totally hate me

HowSerendipitous wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 31, 2017 3:43 pm

Victor Tombs wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 31, 2017 1:59 pm

Awesome, HowSerendipitous! I've just started watching Babylon 5 again.

Me too , great minds think alike... Well, I say just started, I'm already almost at the end of series 2. Hoping to get through The Long, Twilight Struggle tonight... That's such a good episode!

I've literally just started again, HowSerendipitous, coming off the back of a re-watch of Firefly and Serenity. I've never watched Babylon 5 in the suggested chronological order which includes all the movies, Legend of the Rangers, Crusade, and The Lost Tales. I've only got as far as a few episodes into series /season one after watching the pilot movie (The Gathering). There are many superb episodes to look forward to, my squirrel friend, but Sleeping In Light will always be my favourite.

I've got a long way to go.

Hyperion wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 31, 2017 5:47 pm

Victor is stealing my words again

Edit: I should add that this is a great idea for a thread, Hyperion. Josh needs all the help he can get in this department.

This one and the others around it are some of my favorite of that group. I really like the bulky look which is somewhat reminiscentof the older LT ships.


PS: the Spoiler button doesn't appear to be down below so I had to write the tags out


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I'll see if I can get that fixed. Right now there are some issues with spoilers I haven't been able to solve - namely, you can no longer "name" spoilers.

On topic: These ships (the ones I can load) mostly look brilliant. Reminds me of my old colonies thread. I miss that.

BFett wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 31, 2017 10:01 pm

PS: the Spoiler button doesn't appear to be down below so I had to write the tags out

Here's 100 more

You're a bit late, Corn. I already fixed it.

Talvieno wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 01, 2017 5:09 pm

You're a bit late, Corn. I already fixed it.

Thank you Talvieno, I knew I had looked long and hard for the button before I had decided to make that post. I appreciate the fact that I'm not insane.