Name a few

posted on June 19th, 2011, 6:35 am

Fantastic achievement!!!!



I wish to add something which I found to be a little redundant.  Since we now see the names of Federation Starships, someone needs to go into the registry names and start naming ship more appropriately.  For example, I just saw a Sov class named "USS Sugarbeat" or something like that.  I'm sorry, but that is not right!  Capital ships should have capital names.  The Sov's  should have names like USS Lexington, or USS Trafelga.  Support ships could have a few major titles, but mostly, that would be where your USS Sugarbeat should go.    I hope this gets looked at.  The Cap Fed ships should hold the most meaningful titles. 

posted on June 19th, 2011, 10:41 am

I don't know, every name's meaningful in Starfleet.

posted on June 19th, 2011, 1:27 pm

Geez, such a hatred for comical names 

posted on June 19th, 2011, 1:33 pm

I'm not, I give odd names to my ships. The Sugarbeat name makes me wonder why Starfleet named a Sovereign Class after a band, though...

posted on June 20th, 2011, 12:45 am

Congrats on the spiffy work!

posted on June 20th, 2011, 6:21 am

Geez, such a hatred for comical names 

I didn't say I hated it.  Just that the more conical names, as you suggest, should be given to the smaller support ships.  Not going into a fit or anything, as this is just a suggestion.

posted on June 20th, 2011, 10:32 am

Very impressive!  I just hope there won't be layout issues with some longer names on certain ship classes.

posted on June 20th, 2011, 4:35 pm

Very impressive!  I just hope there won't be layout issues with some longer names on certain ship classes.

Shouldn't be an issue. They're texture files, so they'd be made for each individual model and name, by the looks of it. It does mean a LOT of texture files, unless they are done through sprites so you can have multiple ones in one .tga.

posted on June 20th, 2011, 4:44 pm

I didn't say I hated it.  Just that the more conical names, as you suggest, should be given to the smaller support ships.  Not going into a fit or anything, as this is just a suggestion.

Why should only smaller ships be allowed silly names? That's discrimination against big ships.

posted on June 20th, 2011, 5:04 pm

This is very cool to this this come over from Legacy but as with Legacy the reg hardly ever looks like its part of the ship it just looks like its always floating just above the hull. (see sov pic)

It would be still possible see this concept art for example.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2416/152 ... 54807c.jpg

Thats obviously from TAS.

posted on June 20th, 2011, 6:16 pm

it just looks like its always floating just above the hull. (see sov pic)

i think they could fix that if they slightly altered the sovvie model so that text doesnt cover windows and doesnt run over trenches in the hull.

posted on June 20th, 2011, 6:28 pm

Going over the hull trench probably wouldn't be too bad, the bump map will help with that.

posted on June 20th, 2011, 6:32 pm

Nice work! 

posted on June 20th, 2011, 7:46 pm

Another question, will we get the intrep texture upgrade with this feature aswell, so there isn't conflicting regestrys on the ship?

posted on June 20th, 2011, 7:49 pm

yep