thanks for the encouragement guys, I know that some have come over to support, but not as many as I thought would while I was on vacation, but no worries. Here are a couple of more texture shots for the 304.





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Eomega, just thought I'd give you an update on my work to give you some sound bites to play with for the mod.

I've identified a couple clips for each of the ships (some that have hints of background music, so I dunno if we can clean them up or not, or if the 'coolness' of the quote overrules that), but I haven't been able to record them. I don't have access to a microphone, and my efforts and finding programs that can simply record what the speaker outputs are isn't successful.

Currently, I'm pondering about how to implement the sounds. The game directory seems they're all .ogg files, so converting to those from wavs or mp3s wouldn't be too difficult. But, how are we going to implement the different ship captains? It would be kinda strange to have the order for a movement to sound like Caldwell but the order to enter hyperspace sounds like Emerson or Ellis, know what i mean? Do you think there's a way we can implement a selection of some kind, so that a particular ship is 'marked' and dialog of one captain only comes out of that ship?

Secondly, I've been looking at your ship selection. Have you ever thought of putting the Destiny (from the virtual series Stargate Destiny) as a potential ship?

Most of the graphics i've seen online for the Destiny series are the Daedalus-class cause they didn't have a modelmaker at first. Now they do. These are the images I could find.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Corpral_Hicks/destiny.jpg
http://au.geocities.com/sheebadedog/fleetb_11.jpg

The first is a textured image of the Destiny. Essentially it's the first Tau'ri ship designed for long term exploration of the universe. The second image is a scaling of the Destiny alongside other Stargate ships.

I don't expect you to add it just because I've asked. I just thought I'd give you a heads up, cause I like the design and think it fits well with an evolution of Stargate ship building.

I'll join your forums and we can discuss more there.

Both of your help is greatly appreciated, we have a small team at the moment, but enough to get stuff done at a steady pace. As for the Destiny, we are going to keep our options open, in case we want to use that 'little' ship.

In the case of the 304, here is a texture update, Im working on it slowly but surely.



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I love the look of what I assume are hanger bay doors on that 304, its parts like that I think give a ship a sense of reality and character.

What about missiles for the 304?

By the way, you guys are doing an awesome job!

  Man keep it up i am a big fan of stagate cant wait for you to finish. Also good work so far i like your models

just wanted to give you all a quick update, derbal23 and i have spent the last 30 minutes or so working on getting the rail guns looking good, and we have two shots for you.

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v2


And here is a bit of an update on the 304

304 UPDATE:

The 304 consists of 4 different weapons, two of which are not initially unlocked.
The main weapons are the railguns. These take up the 'normal' weapon slots. There are two different looks for the railgun effects which can be seen above.

The other three are usable as abilities.

-The first ability weapon is the Mark III Tactical Missile. It fires one missile with an initial cooldown of 25 seconds and costs 25 antimatter. The Damage is set at 100 for now, but we will balance that at a later point.

-The second ability weapon is the Asgard Beams. This will not be available at first, but after a bit of research will be. The damage will be moderate, but with a 2 cooldown and 1 antimatter cost. We decided this way most resembled the series. The Asgard Beams were not until late in the season and they were very powerful. But to get the look close to what is seen in the series, we had to decrease the damage per firing and decrease the cooldown.

-The third and final ability weapon is the ultimate, destroy-all. It is the Mark VIII Tactical Nuclear Warhead. This is to replicate how the Daedalus would use Asgard beaming technology to beam Nukes aboard the ship and instantly destroy the ship. Right now the antimatter cost is set at 250, which is the total antimatter reserves for the 304. The cooldown is at 400, but the damage is 25,000 (Instant kill). This is also only be unlockable through research as well as a level 5 capital ship, so it will not be available to later in the game. The explosion effect is the same as the TEC's orbital cannon hit. (NOTE: If we are unable to balance this properly, it may not be included in the final mod; but that's a long way off.)

Any thoughts, suggestions, comments, questions are appreciated.

I've begun work on the research trees for the Tau'ri. If anyone has any ideas on specific researches they'd like to see or think would fit in with the Stargate universe, please tell us.

Thank You
derbal213

I just want to say great job guys on what you've done so far, keep up the good work.  

Just a thought, but is there any chance in seeing the Asurans using a version of the Atlantis city in space as like some capital ship?

Yes the Atlantis city ship will be in the mod. She is going to be very expensive, but well worth it when it comes to firepower.

I also would like to see the great and glorious city of Atlantis skipping around space, and laying waste to targets. Can't wait.

DANMAN