Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

To take a small break from all the Dominion stuff i just decided to make a new design for one of the oldest Federation ships. The Canaveral Class. The model which is still in use was one of the first i ever did  ^_^
I think i got up with a acceptable basic design but i'm still undecided were to put the nacells. Therefore i will let the fans decide! Vote now!

Option A:
(http://www.borgcore.de/optec/fleetops/canaveralwingA.jpg)

Option B:
(http://www.borgcore.de/optec/fleetops/canaveralwingB.jpg)

i like Option A:
i whood like it more if the war engens wher not tilted at all. ,but that are both realy cool desinse.

what i meen is that the warp engens are ponted tord the sides and i tthink that a need consept.
but i think i whood like it a lital bit beter if thare was a whay it figer out a whay to make that poned as thay are in the ncc-1701-e.

I personally liked option A more.  It looked better with it's nacells up.   B)

oe posably use a difrant look for the worp engens.

They are kinda E-E looking. Maybe if they were tilted at a 45 degree angle instead of what looks like around 15-20. That or completely upwards like the Excelsior/Ambassadore where the attachment comes out and curves upwards.

That and possibly change Necel the design to look more TNG style or like the ones on the Akira.

Hi there Fleetops crew nice mod beta 2 here nice interesting ships way better than A2 and I can't wait till 3.0 comes out it looks brilliant the dominion looks great.  Anyway I think option A would look good or maybe higher angled nacels to 45 degrees like what Preator said.
Great Job :thumbsup: and Happy New Year

Andy

Thx, and Happy New Year to you too :)

Here is a new nacell design. what do you think about it? (just the nacell itself not the position)

(http://www.borgcore.de/optec/fleetops/canaveralnacell.jpg)

the thing that bothers me is that i am so used to looking at the nacell design cerintly used. eny thing uther slite chage in direstion looks off.

if you wher to make that look like thare was no top and botom to the nacell design. like in kerks enterpise or the cerint werd enterpise that whood whrk beter for puting in a side.

but its ok to me as lick as thay to look like thay are ponted in the rong dirction. but i love the consept realy cool.

Yea that looks good it looks better than the other one, I think it looks good without the adjusted angle as the way it is

I like the new nacells. And for the positioning of the Nacells I vote for the A configuration.

kinda like this whood be cool i did it quick but this shood give you the idea of what i am thinking.

or hers a nuther idea:

hm yep, i think the new nacell will be textured like your first idea, ewm90 :)

i like option A and i liked the old caneveral design  

the new canaveral design w/ option A looks like a Nova class.....I prefer the third design optec, but, it is your choice that matters.

I voted for option B and here me out
 
seeing as starfleet adopted nacells that move u could add a animation to the ship to shift its nacelles for when it goes hyper impulse ?

i prefer option A

very nice makes a change to the old one

I voted option A, But i think 4 of 11 has a great idea, assuming in V3 it will have hyper inpulse. I think that it would be quite easy to animate it and would look realy cool.

thanks B)  

that would be super-cool

Thx for all the replies and all the ideas!

And here it is. The first Fleet Operations community design!

(http://www.fleetops.net/gallery/gal/Ingame/Federation/_thb_01-08-05-canaveral.jpg) (http://www.fleetops.net/gallery/gal/Ingame/Federation/01-08-05-canaveral.jpg)

I think it looks somewhat like my idea. I guess.

so i gess that fineshes up the avatars
http://www.fleetops.net/index.php?p=avatars (http://www.fleetops.net/index.php?p=avatars)

it looks good.

optec i have this to say that is one sexy ship

any moveable naccelles?

dont look like it it is still sexy though

Yep, cause the Canaveral has neither Hyperimpulse nor is there warp in Fleet Operations i used fixed nacells (i must admit i don't know if moving nacells are even possible to realize without the source code). But i used the idea from Preator Defiant and used "Sovereign style" nacell holders (no sharp edge between 0 and 45 degree). It was quite interesting, i think i should invite you to design polls about new starships more often :)

Well this model redo (and some gameplay redo too) did only replace the existing Canaveral. The last remaining Federation vessel is the Phalanx Class for Admiral Risner but i expect its completion soon

Me? I know what makes a starship look good :D  

did you remodel anny oyher ships? bisides monsoon and canaravel

From the V3 Changelog:

    Replaced Models and Textures:
    - Federation Mediterranean
    - Federation Newton Class
    - Federation Monsoon Class
    - Federation Mandril Class
    - Federation Canaveral Class
    - Federation Defenceplatform
    - Federation Starfleet Science
    - Klingon K't'inga Class
    - Klingon Topmey Class
    - Non Playable Breen Cruiser
    - Non Playable Ferengi Marauder


And more to come :)

Can we perhaps see some screenshots?

no i just want to know we dont want to hold them up

It is possible to have moving nacels, Im working on animating a station myself at the moment but the problem i have is im a lousy texturer so i cant test my animation in game but. To have moving nacels you just have a weapon e.g. hyper impulse (i know it doesnt have it its just an example) activate the ships animation, if there is no animation i dont think it causes a problem and i also belive that the code is summat like animateOwner = 1 . Finally you have the animation in the SOD be normally off but then it would come on when the weapon was fired. Ohh and if the animation is the same length as the duration of the weapon that you can have the nacels do what you like in it. quite simple to do once you've got a textured model only problem is the textures streching.

take a look in our gallary  ^_^  

@Crazy Moose
Yep, but "speed_boost" does not call the animateowner script - shouldn't work ;-)
animate owner does only work with simple cannon or launcher type triggers as far as i know

Option A definately, Nacells pylons in an upward direction makes the ship a lot more sleeker :)