New Orleans

[ray320]

posted on October 14th, 2011, 6:40 pm

Last edited by ray320 on October 14th, 2011, 7:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.

(Not sure if this is the right place for this topic, move it if you need to)

I know that the Dev Team (Optec i believe) are fond of the New Orleans class.  I have been follow the Star Trek Excalibur project for quite a while very often they put renders of starships online which I think are very cool, and recently they put up some renders of their take on a design for the New Orleans class.  So if you would all like to take a look then I will post the link.

Here is the link for the New Orleans class: Nicht unterstüzter Browser | Facebook

In addition here is the link for the entire album, which includes many starships: Nicht unterstüzter Browser | Facebook

posted on October 14th, 2011, 7:13 pm

their model is ok, but i think they have the nacelles going back at too sharp an angle.

posted on October 14th, 2011, 8:30 pm

their model is ok, but i think they have the nacelles going back at too sharp an angle.

I agree. Also, the torpedo launchers are one of its most characteristic features, but they seem rather small and unremarkable on this model.

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on October 14th, 2011, 8:45 pm

Last edited by Dominus_Noctis on October 14th, 2011, 8:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Actually looks pretty close to the images you can find around I think - the only artistic license I can really make out is behind the command 'bump' and perhaps the impulse engine at the junction of the secondary hull. Not bad at all

EDIT: nevermind I take part of it back - pylons do look a bit too sloped back, and the way the primary meets the secondary hull looks peculiar (and is shaped strangely) 

posted on October 14th, 2011, 8:48 pm

Some of the other ships in that album are cool too, i like the ambassador they have personally.

posted on October 15th, 2011, 8:55 am

WTF is that deflector?! It has the same deflector style as the Galaxy Class (Its actually build of pieces of Galaxy Models). Quite a bit of other detial is also missing. The bottom pod, for example, is not directly attached to the hull. Yea I'm a New-Orleans fanatic

Ex Astris Scientia - New Orleans Class Reconstruction

here are good pics of the actual study model

The renderings are nice, of course Its just my little New Orleans ..!

//edit:
Just noted that the deflector does of course appear golden on the model, but that's the same with the Galaxy model (http://employees.csbsju.edu/rsorensen/m ... tm0800.jpg), the proper colors are received through light

posted on October 18th, 2011, 6:15 pm

Yeah the gold deflector is to match the ones on the Galaxys in Favor the Bold. The ones with the grey necks that was a glitch.

Like this.
USS Beliskner Galaxy class war refit 1.1 Download, Bridge Commander Ships

posted on October 20th, 2011, 5:40 pm

I don't think the initial minor details matter as much as just having the ship ingame After all, we can just go back and fix it later

posted on October 22nd, 2011, 7:46 pm

I have to disagree with you some mods you play have lots of different units available but they never look like they all go together. One of the things that attracted me to FO is the level of professionalism that the models have.

posted on October 22nd, 2011, 8:56 pm

WTF is that deflector?! It has the same deflector style as the Galaxy Class.

hehehe this gave me a good laugh.

posted on October 22nd, 2011, 9:03 pm

I have to disagree with you some mods you play have lots of different units available but they never look like they all go together. One of the things that attracted me to FO is the level of professionalism that the models have.

I hope your not saying that excaliburs models dont look professional....

posted on October 23rd, 2011, 2:37 am

No i was talking to trekiefan minor details always matter. Actually im not sure exactly why i posted that rant

posted on October 23rd, 2011, 8:34 am

Kinda twisting his words there, Ray.

I agree with what you said before, Dircome. It's not about the quality of the work, as it all looks professional, just not homogenous. If you put together a fleet of different peoples' work, it will look wrong, as everyone tends to use different shades of colours. It's a problem with many big mods; some federation ships can be almost white, whereas others are dark grey; you end up with a huge patchwork of colour/grey. Of course, it can be fixed by a bit of Photoshopping, but a few authors would take offence.

posted on October 23rd, 2011, 4:54 pm

That can be very true, all of the ships in this game from what i have seen, all seem to fit together well.  I think it will be a very cool game when its released.

posted on October 25th, 2011, 4:55 am

No i was talking to trekiefan minor details always matter. Actually im not sure exactly why i posted that rant

Sure they matter, but not as much as actually having the ship. I was simply saying that it wouldnt matter at first if the deflector dish was gold rather than blue, provided it was changed later on. After all, Fleetops still has a ways to go before the final product, when alot of ship designs are presumably going to be changed