drop kick.

More great ships.Are there anyplans for the steamrunner class or am i just blind

Do you have a release date?

AWESOME!!! Galciv developers here is the guy to create the new ships for expansion and updates!!!!

2 More great ships! Woot! Too bad on the starbases...but I can understand...Another race having them yuck haha.

yea, I nagged spleeze enough to add it

looking good.... dont really like these ships but they still look good.

Here’s the scoop. None of the ships that I have released recently have been my own ship models. Sorry if I did not make myself clear.

I started this modding project by first building the ships from scratch and using existing high detail (production quality) models. I was spending countless hours hacking and slashing, rebuilding geometry, creating new textures, etc.

The oberth, shuttle, the original delta flyer, the Magallan, the Excelsior, and a Galaxy class (not posted) were created using this tedious process.

Then I ran into the SFC3 community, who has a huge collection of great ship models that were already game optimized (much better then I could do, for sure). I’ve extracted these ships from the SFC3 mod packages, made small adjustments and cleanup to the mesh, changed some textures, and applied a lighting pass in 3ds max. I’ve created a new set of textures for each ship (the composite of the old textures, and the lighting solution) and applied this new texture to the ship hulls. I then do a little tweaking to the map channels and disable the polygon shading. I then export as an X file, add a “_L” to the filename of all outputted textures, test in game, change some more lighting, test again, and then post here. I still need to finalize all the mount points on each model so they will act like standard GalCiv2 hulls (I’ve only added one or two mounts per model so far, just for testing).

I still need to come up with an elegant method of getting these models into the game as a proper mod, but I’ll figure something out.

So, by nature, I am not a game modeler, thus I would not be the best choice for someone like StarDock to hire as a model maker. Thanks for the thought though. : )

I hope this clears everything up, and I hope everyone is going to enjoy the work once the thing is finished. A lot of time goes into these.

Cheers!

-Brian

what was hard to understand in several threads there is refrence to him using ships from sfc3.He has modded them to fit in this game good work spleeze keep it up.Yes the steamrunner could be for my uber missile ships like it was in previous game a long range assault unit.Need tri cobalt torpeodoes now

I can't wait for this to release, please release it asap!

Whether or not you find an elegant way to implement it as a mod, I would also like just the .x and ,png files also, if possible. I don't mind adding a few lines to the GC2Types.xml file to use them.

The thing is, I don't want a mod that only works for the Terran's, since I always play as my custom race, the Meese.
So I need the hulls to have S99 as the race designation so it does not matter which hull style I happen to choose.

I actually prefer the manual method of adding basic hulls into the GC2Types.xml file.

Moosetek13, i think i will implement the ships as the terran hull type, but you can still play as a custom race no problem. Just choose terran as your hull style.

Ahzi Dahaka. No I don’t think that I will do it that way. Started a new business the other week, and I really have no time at all anymore : ( hopefully I can get the current mod finished.

-Brian