Bridge Commander Questions

posted on January 17th, 2011, 11:29 pm

I installed this thing on a clean install and now I can't find any games.  Did I do something wrong or is it just a coincidence that I installed it and there are no games available?

posted on January 18th, 2011, 4:54 pm

Would there be any way I could get this vessel into Bridge Commander?

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posted on January 18th, 2011, 6:33 pm

That ship is gonna need a lot more polys(and details) to look good in BC. Based on the size of the ship id say no less than 5k.

[Anonymous]

posted on January 18th, 2011, 6:42 pm

Last edited by Anonymous on January 18th, 2011, 8:22 pm, edited 1 time in total.

The ship has 396 polygons after optimization.  I see no reason to give it any more than I have to for such a basic shape.  The textures may need to be a bit higher on the resolution, but not the model resolution.

By the way, every time I join as a sphere, everyone teams up and fires on me.  And that sphere is quite underpowered.

posted on January 19th, 2011, 6:19 pm

The ship has 396 polygons after optimization.  I see no reason to give it any more than I have to for such a basic shape.  The textures may need to be a bit higher on the resolution, but not the model resolution.

Well, maybe some smoothing around the edges?

By the way, every time I join as a sphere, everyone teams up and fires on me.  And that sphere is quite underpowered.

Well, thats what you get for chosing to play as any borg ship. A sphere can take on two sovs and win with half its hull left. And all the hps are getting redone anyway though the Sphere doesn't need to be that much stronger than it is now.

posted on January 19th, 2011, 9:15 pm

No need for smoothing.  It looks exactly the way I want it to look.  And if you noticed a bit of smoothing on the warp nacelles, I just removed that smoothing as well.  The vessels phaser positions create extremely narrow blind spots.

I think I can sometimes get one, maybe two vessels with the sphere before everyone realizes what's going on.  Then I can't do anything else with the sphere.