Our representation of Halo's iconic space combat in the Homeworld 2 engine, which puts the player in command of some of the most powerful weapons fielded by the UNSC and Covenant and to provide a balanced and competitive experience.
Updated Halcyon design
Corvettes - MAKO, hammerhead, tigershark. The MAKO will have a fire power package upgrade that'll convert it into a corvette sized AC130 in space. Hammerhead has advanced tracking systems and anti-fighter turrets. Tiger shark will be a heavy corvette with very good speed, moderate armour and mass driver weaponry.
Freighter (Atlas will be used for something else)
Longsword
Rapier drone - offspring from the Sabre programme, the earlier drone variants reached production stages but weren't equipped with shielding. Much better handling than the longsword with heavy anti-fighter weaponry.
Ignore the purple blotches. Was going to do some covenant concepts but couldn't get the same effect.
The Longsword looks kinda big compared to the Halcyon, doesn't it?
But I like the new corvette designs :)
Hadn't noticed. Probably is a bit big, but i wouldn't pay that much attention to how big things appear to be in these concepts.
Aww, no love for the Wombat. :P
Seeing as it's built for atmosphere, no.
Psssh, so is the Pelican.
looks nice, nice work guys! :)
Not a fan of your halcyon concept, it's quite a deviation from the original...
I'd say keep already existing ships at least close to their originals...you have plenty of room with these new concepts :P
Velo is experimenting with hangar systems to draw away from the traditional horizontal hangars and going more for vertical ones like the Marathon.
Discussed this with RL, the only way to make the original halcyon look good is a massively high res complex texture such as is the case with his Halcyon, otherwise the mesh design it's self is far too basic and unforgiving to look at all interesting. High res textures aren't something we want to do and something Zero isn't comfortable with, so a more visually interesting Halcyon design more in line with the Marathon makes sense.
I personally think this is far more in keeping with the original Halcyon than the Reach update, the only real difference is that the mid section isn't a giant haxagon with no outline detail rather than making the front end look like it was painted by Picaso.
Hmmm, the Freighter shape seems like a small version of the UNSC carrier(they put a picture up on the Halopedia article)
It's not there now. Link?
I'm afraid I have to agree with dud_doodoo about the Halcyon it looks A LOT more like the marathon, I love all of your other ships but this new halcyon is just a marathon variant I'm afraid of it =( lol if you want I do have a pretty good model of the Halo Reach version on google sketchup if you want it just download it, its free lol you can have it =)
p.s. I don't mind if you take credit if you decide to use it =P
I don't like the Reach variant. Nor am i happy with the original halcyon design. The Marathon was meant to be the updated version of the pillar of autumn, and i think you guys are highly exagerating saying it's a marathon - Everything but the middle section is just the PoA updated.
p.p.s. my sketchup name is: I want one of those just incase =)
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Sketches of the old and my Halcyon. You'll see the core details are all still there, the only change is it's less blocky.
link is broken =L
Ah. Well you can see it on the blog.
lol ok i'll check =)
I saw the image it looks nice but the true halcyon just looks right if you know what I mean =) your new version looks awesome, I would like to play with it in game maybe as a new type of cruiser though, or an experimental ship.
But regardless of my personal thoughts it is your mod and you are the ones who decide what goes in it, all i ask is that you not stray to far off the path :)
lol, bit of a coincidence then we've both picked the same 2 shark names for our fan created UNSC Corvettes:D the most popular names I guess.
I thought you'd copied mine tbh. I think i posted them earlier at some point, but maby not.
suppose their aren't that many shark names to pick from, My scale chart is over a year old, the most recent addition is the Hammerhead because I needed a class to fit the older corvette mentioned in 'the impossible life and probable death of Preston Cole' story.
You mean this?
Media.moddb.com
lol, is that 3 creators with the same ship class?, thinking of changing it now, this corvette (the Callisto I think)is suppose to be an older version of the Mako class, the description Hammerhead doesn't feel right for it, perhaps either thresher, angel or manta.
Two as far as I know. That image is from this mod I think from 2007. :\
Think I'll go with manta class for the Callisto, Hammerhead sounds too specialized for a class of ship at the beginning of the UNSC's military build up for dealing with the growing insurrection.
It's not from 2007, but it is from around a year ago, so it is very odd that we thought of the same names for corvettes at basically the same time.
spooky, lol, I've posted a color version of the scale chart minus the hammerhead, you can have a look if u like:D- D4rkst0rm99.deviantart.com , its certainly crammed full now, hard to believe it started of with a handful of ships, held onto it for years before I finally posted it, then just kept adding to it.
Looks nice.
thanks, do u have one for this mod? helps to keep an overall look of the balance, what side has what, are they evenly matched,etc
I keep a 3DS scene saved that i add everything to when it's done for the scale of things, helps coders too cause they always get meshes at the same ratio.
I started the same, just a work space with several layers for margins and the ships but then it got bigger and their wasn't enough room and crash a lot, still happens now even though its a flat jpeg image.
You do do it in a very large resolution to be fair.
Its because I started with the smallest ships, if I reduce the resolution ships like the frigate and prowler loose their detail, just so I don't have to split the chart in 2, instead I have both a full version, one for the larger ships and one for the smaller ships, started a higher resolution version a while back going as big as the prowler down to the pelican, one of many I need to finish