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Borgie
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Joined: August 15, 2005
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|  Posted: 2011-04-29 16:53
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On 2011-04-28 19:05, Pakhos[+R] wrote:
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On 2011-04-28 19:04, Azreal (Ret) wrote:
I have a shirt and poster with the Wolf logo. But I'M an artist, so.....
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Now you are taking this game too seriously.
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nah a tattoo of his fleet logo would be too serious
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Azreal
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Joined: March 14, 2004
Posts: 2816
From: United State of Texas, Houston
| Posted: 2011-04-30 14:14
Thinking about this.....
I know how to do moldwork for plastic injection molding. Most of the time I have a machine open to do whaterver I want to. I do all kinds of side crap. I also have a generous sized scrap heap to pull crap materials from to play with...
anyways, my point is, I wonder how hard it would be to run up a series of scaled plastic collectors models.
And then that got me thinking of something else. I am going to school for animation right now. I started thinking about this and it made me REALLY REALLY want to do a stop-motion animation series....
I am already playing around with something for one of my classes that I'm basing on my squad and the ds universe. I needed an idea for something and this was convenient for me 
but I really wonder...what if DS had even an internet cartoon? Looking through the history, I can come up a thousand plotlines that would kick tail.
I'd be all over it if I knew 3d animation, but I am not there yet. A few more quarters before I learn that. Stop motion is easy, fast and economic after the initial models and sets are made though. Eh. I don't know sound yet either. But all in due time....
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Reznor
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| Posted: 2011-04-30 19:14
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On 2011-04-30 14:14, Azreal (Ret) wrote:
Thinking about this.....
I know how to do moldwork for plastic injection molding. Most of the time I have a machine open to do whaterver I want to. I do all kinds of side crap. I also have a generous sized scrap heap to pull crap materials from to play with...
anyways, my point is, I wonder how hard it would be to run up a series of scaled plastic collectors models.
And then that got me thinking of something else. I am going to school for animation right now. I started thinking about this and it made me REALLY REALLY want to do a stop-motion animation series....
I am already playing around with something for one of my classes that I'm basing on my squad and the ds universe. I needed an idea for something and this was convenient for me
but I really wonder...what if DS had even an internet cartoon? Looking through the history, I can come up a thousand plotlines that would kick tail.
I'd be all over it if I knew 3d animation, but I am not there yet. A few more quarters before I learn that. Stop motion is easy, fast and economic after the initial models and sets are made though. Eh. I don't know sound yet either. But all in due time....
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I've always viewed the Star Trek series using Models as superior to the new ones with 3D models (AFAIK, Voyager started out with a model, and Enterprise was fully 3D) .
The main problem was always scale. You want a small ship to have detail, so you make it pretty big. But that means for it to sit next to a larger ship, that larger ship has to be REALLY big. That makes it prohibitively expensive and harder to position and move. Star Trek got past this with computer editing: making the smaller ships smaller by filming further away, then compositing them in front of the bigger ship.
Regardless, I love your idea of a DS series. The universe is ripe for it.
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Talien
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Templar Knights
Joined: May 11, 2010
Posts: 2044
From: Michigan
| Posted: 2011-04-30 21:10
I can see it now. Darkspace the animated series, coming soon to cartoon network.
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Kenny_Naboo
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Joined: January 11, 2010
Posts: 3823
From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2011-05-01 06:38
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On 2011-04-29 16:53, Borgie wrote:
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On 2011-04-28 19:05, Pakhos[+R] wrote:
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On 2011-04-28 19:04, Azreal (Ret) wrote:
I have a shirt and poster with the Wolf logo. But I'M an artist, so.....
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Now you are taking this game too seriously.
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nah a tattoo of his fleet logo would be too serious
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Cool idea. I could test that out with a Kluth logo by using a marker pen to draw some curved lines around my left nipple....
[ This Message was edited by: Kenny_Naboo[+R] on 2011-05-01 06:44 ]
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Enterprise
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Joined: May 19, 2002
Posts: 2576
From: Hawthorne, Nevada
| Posted: 2011-05-01 07:01
I would throw all my money at a Darkspace ship collection. Just saying.
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JBud
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Joined: February 26, 2008
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From: Behind you.
| Posted: 2011-05-01 19:43
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On 2011-05-01 07:01, Enterprise wrote:
I would throw all my money at a Darkspace ship collection. Just saying.
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We have a 3D printer at my college, I've been trying and trying at all my friends on the staff to use it, niy they just bought it though brought it in for the CAD classes.
I attempted to take one of the classes, but I am not in the correct program.
I have been looking into 3D printers, not cheap, 10,000 dollars is a bit beyond my wallet size, but if I could find somebody with one, I have the models, would just need to slightly modify them with inner braces and thicker hulls so that they could be printed out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing
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Azreal
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Joined: March 14, 2004
Posts: 2816
From: United State of Texas, Houston
| Posted: 2011-05-01 22:59
I was trying to think of a way to import a model into Gibbscam or Mastercam. Would just be too damned easy. Then I just mount a couple aluminum plates to the mill, mirror z axis, hit button.
But life would be too easy then wouldn't it?
still I wonder if there is a way to have one of those programs read a 3dmax (I assume that's what ya'll use...) file and convert it to a cam. I don't know 3D yet, so I haven't the ability to hack at it yet.
I do so want a Claw to sit on the lid of my toolbox tho. And maybe an Assault Cruiser. And an old assault scout. And a nymph.
oh and I think as a model the Aggy is nice.
Don't forget fighters.
I would HAVE to have a larve. Those are awesome looking. ICC have the sweetest looking fighter tho, imho.
what scale? If a fighter was, say, 1" long, how big would a stat be? An EAD? Foot and a half long EAD? Two and a half foot tall stat?
WOW!
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Mommy I want some!
Also, I like this idea of t-shirts and posters. They aren't expensive to produce outside of initial investment, and the returns could be pumped back into the game for server and dev work. Drive F to quit that lousey day job! It's cutting into needed DS devtime.
Also, I was wondering, whatever happened to adding ship logos?
I was thinking that if that could be done, than fleets would pay XXX to have the ability to place logos on their ships for a period of time.
Maybe a fleet treasury that is drawn from every month for certain fleet rights. An extra garage space, extra storage, or even fleet size. Maybe the bigger, the more the monthly draw. Have to give people a nice carrot or two tho for it.
Maybe enhancements that are available to fleet members only. Don't ask me what, I dunno. I am not a big fan of AOE in DS outside of the dictor, but whatever, maybe that is an idea. Maybe a bonus to fighting in some way when grouped and within a certain distance.
Long winded, I stop now.
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Reznor
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Joined: March 29, 2010
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| Posted: 2011-05-01 23:05
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On 2011-05-01 22:59, Azreal (Ret) wrote:
I was trying to think of a way to import a model into Gibbscam or Mastercam. Would just be too damned easy. Then I just mount a couple aluminum plates to the mill, mirror z axis, hit button.
But life would be too easy then wouldn't it?
still I wonder if there is a way to have one of those programs read a 3dmax (I assume that's what ya'll use...) file and convert it to a cam. I don't know 3D yet, so I haven't the ability to hack at it yet.
I do so want a Claw to sit on the lid of my toolbox tho. And maybe an Assault Cruiser. And an old assault scout. And a nymph.
oh and I think as a model the Aggy is nice.
Don't forget fighters.
I would HAVE to have a larve. Those are awesome looking. ICC have the sweetest looking fighter tho, imho.
what scale? If a fighter was, say, 1" long, how big would a stat be? An EAD? Foot and a half long EAD? Two and a half foot tall stat?
WOW!
{<0> , <0>}
Mommy I want some!
Also, I like this idea of t-shirts and posters. They aren't expensive to produce outside of initial investment, and the returns could be pumped back into the game for server and dev work. Drive F to quit that lousey day job! It's cutting into needed DS devtime.
Also, I was wondering, whatever happened to adding ship logos?
I was thinking that if that could be done, than fleets would pay XXX to have the ability to place logos on their ships for a period of time.
Maybe a fleet treasury that is drawn from every month for certain fleet rights. An extra garage space, extra storage, or even fleet size. Maybe the bigger, the more the monthly draw. Have to give people a nice carrot or two tho for it.
Maybe enhancements that are available to fleet members only. Don't ask me what, I dunno. I am not a big fan of AOE in DS outside of the dictor, but whatever, maybe that is an idea. Maybe a bonus to fighting in some way when grouped and within a certain distance.
Long winded, I stop now.
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The main concern with it was detail on smaller ships. But after thinking about it, DS has lower quality models the smaller the ship is, so the logic is fairly moot.
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SpaceAdmiral
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Joined: May 05, 2010
Posts: 1005
| Posted: 2011-05-02 00:15
I believe DS ships get graphics from textures rather than polys.
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