WC:CD "Strakha"

[JasonRocZ]

Alright well here's yet another ship to be featured in the WC:CD mod...Tell me what you think...I haven't really come up with a name for it yet.....but, it still needs a little bit more texture placement.

 

[Vinman]

Awesome! Will cloaking function?

 

[Dyret]

The textures look a bit strange around the cockpit, but apart from that that's the sexiest Strakha I have ever seen! Excellent work!

 

[JasonRocZ]

As far as the Cloaking...Probably not.....but hey target practice is always fun

 

[Dyret]

...Oh, and I just noticed that it looks Skaarj, which is cool, cause I've never noticed the similarity before.

 

[JasonRocZ]

Forgive for asking but what does Skaarj mean?

 

[Dyret]

Warlike alien reptilians from Unreal... I just noticed their ships and architecture has a bit in common with the Kilrathi's.

 

[JasonRocZ]

Yea as far as the Textures I used the WC Arena Darket as a basis....

 

[Milatry]

That looks sweet, will it clock like it should or is that not possible in secret ops.

 

[JasonRocZ]

To be honest I believe I could make it cloaked...but....it would only be possible if I made some type of cutscene where it shows it cloaking in a movie of sorts....but within the vision engine you wouldn't be able to see the actualy cloak process between visible and then invisible....I could make it cloaked (Totally invisible) or partially invisible and it would fire at you while cloaked (you'd still see the afterburners) but I'm not sure if I should do it or not... it's up to everyone here on the boards what would be real or not real....Most of what we see in WC2 and on your able to see the cloak process and then it's gone and then reappear somewheres... in our case it would be there....then a cutscene and then everything would be invisible (Except for Burners),it could shoot while cloaked, targetable, and never rematerialize until it's destroyed...

 

[Dyret]

Didn't the Standoff team fake a cloak effect? Have you asked them about it?

 

[JasonRocZ]

I'm not really too sure...If I asked the Standoff team all there secrets it would be too many to list really, and I don't want to bother them as much as I already have, I've bothered them enough....The only thing I can really think of is making a cut scene of some sort without the help of the Vision engine, playing an Mpeg or avi or whatever format the movies in prophecy are made and somehow implement that in the mission. Maybe make the movie using normal models and make some type of cloaking effect, in the movie. If I can't do that then maybe I'll find some other niche instead of cloaking. for the fighter.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

Maybe someone will soon gain access to the Prophecy source code and make it available to these projects.

 

[JasonRocZ]

 

[PopsiclePete]

Standoff's cloaking is made with some crazy mission scripting, a few engine hacks and fun models. If you really want to know how you can find out by extracting Standoff's files

 

[JasonRocZ]

tank you berry much!!

 

[JasonRocZ]

Here's one with a type of missile/torpedo launcher, tell me what you think?

 

[ELTEE]

It certainly makes the ship appear more menacing.

I do think, however, that the Strakha looks best when kept as simple and 'pure' as possible - more of a recon and harassment type craft. The spaceframe just doesn't look as if it could support that kind of firepower.

Now, it could be cool to do a 'what if' - enlarge the ship, add some modifications, etc as if the the first Kilrathi war went longer or if work on the original concept continued after hostilities ended. Kind of like a Luft 46 type design.

 

[JasonRocZ]

What about..resizing them?

 

[JasonRocZ]

I have this in Vision engine as of today but stay tuned...on monday for I'll have some screenshots up.