The goal of this mod is to bring back the units from the original Homeworld into the Homeworld 2 engine, with high quality texture and polycount detail. The campaign and animatics from the original game will also be included.
Scout
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Now it's good, i tweaked the smooth groups, added detail to the front, and a few more goblins.
I know it's just a small scout, but it still looks a badass :D
I agree on that it looks badass, by the way I think squadrons is a great way of playing the game because building one ship each seems strange for me, especially in HW2, Because it isn't only a scout it should be almost the same number of scouts as there are in a interceptor squadron.
Not having 3 hips in a squadrone because that would be a usuall HW2 scout squadron.
we still haven't decided about squadrons, but to me, the scout should be a single unit.
I for one never liked squadrons in Homeworld 2,
I would prefer the Homeworld 1 approach if it's reasonable.
The nose doesn't convince me, the cockpit in particular.
Speaking of the cockpit, I always immagined it as a single, smooth piece; something close to the F-14's one to give a reference, not so round and fragile of course.
I prefer your first attempt (the one on your profile) of that part...
A question, why have you "readded" the armored fairing on its right side, alongside the engine?
If you go for squadrons with all strikecrafts except scouts, a single scout would take the same space of an entire squadron of interceptors while docked and this would disadvantage it, especially because the Arrow is more considered a light interceptor than a scout.
I readded the armor first because it looks a lot better on the ship and second because it was on the concepts, was cut because of poly budget.
I'm not sure about the cockpit as well.
Ah, I didn't know the story of the poly budget. I thought it was left because rather useless...I mean, why weigh down a ship whose strenght is very high speed and manouvrability? But ok, I can live with it.
...single seat, right?
Right, but that's the original texture, relic made it to look two seat- Shipyards.relicnews.com
The Taiidan bomber Shipyards.relicnews.com seems to have a single seat. And the Kushan counterpart has two? Strange to me.
Kushan cockpits can easily be that way to have less polys on the model, and/or to try to further differentiate the two races' designs... Even because it doesn't make sense to me that Kushan pilots don't have a direct visual line to their front targets; only above them? They have just flattened the cockpit's geometry, that's my impression.
And look, Youtube.com ...3:46 Taiidan scout clearily with a single seat, the only doubt can be on the Kushan interceptor 3:38. But single seat or not, the cockpit is a single curveless piece.
Understood, and that interceptor picture will be very usefull, it's better than the concept art...
You've never browsed HWShots then...
Homeworldshots.net
Pics of the concept art used in that ingame cutscene:
Homeworldshots.net
Images.wikia.com
Kushan Scout / Interceptor concept art:
Homeworldshots.net
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I think one thing that's throwing off your Scout is you are making the cockpit and surrounding hull too rounded and bulbulous.
"You've never browsed HWShots then..."
Actualy no, but i add all those concepts, except for the one on the cutscene, it's a lot better than the actual concept art, it looks a lot better. I'll redo my blade based on it. Thanks.
Glad to be of some help :)