Systems Alliance Kodiak Shuttle image - Dawn of the Reapers mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
The reapers have returned from dark space. With Earth under attack and the mass relays in a state of chaos from refugees and the councils fleet engaging reaper forces the galaxy is a mess. The outcome is unknown, the warfare is devastating. The galaxy will never be the same.
Systems Alliance Kodiak Shuttle
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Remade the model, and skinned it. Still have to include the ambient occlusion maps but wa la.
It looks nice my good sir!
Goodness this looks absolutely nice! What a wonderful thing to wake up to before work (:
What will this be used for ingame?
Will probably replace those mini Colonization shuttles.
why not make those colony pods we see instead then? they are easier and you dont have to go into such detail for them.
this is too well done and is about the size of a fighter in length 2 in hight.
I expect it will be a corvette
Then I must say you are an still have no idea about ME ships. The max canonical armament it has in only two guns and it's not bigger then a fighter.
A fighter holds 1 pilot and nothing else but armament, Kodiak Shuttles hold 12 people and can be fitted with a missile rack if needed.
it is bigger than a fighter and it can carry more, even has been seen using a turret out the sides.
Compare the in-game model of the Kodiak with the Cerberus fighter it's not that big. And even with those armaments it can only serve as a gunship not a corvette. It's like saying a OPV can take the role of a frigate.
I have compared the two, the Kodiak is definately larger. plus it has a stronger Ezo Core, can be stealthy and has 2 cannons.
especially with the fact it has the ability to adapt missile racks and Kinetic barriers makes it a lot stronger too. if anything this is a bomber class.
its still not a good role for it either way it would'nt make sense
It also flies like a brick (acording to Steve Cortez, shuttle pilot in me3).
Possibly replace nukes used to attack planets as Council laws prohibit bombing "garden" planets.
This looks like its straight out of the ME games.
Curious, how do you do your Ambient Occlusion maps?
Skyline or zombie does it, i have 3ds max 07 cant do AO's.
You can actually. Render to texture, shadow map. Also skylight + light tracer.
or you can use xnormal, free plugin program. Thats what i use
Isn't that just for height maps? How do you actually calculate ambient shadows with that thing?
Hey, its long time i follow this mod, and i registered on moddb just now then for say how wonderful is your all work, im a big ME fan, and i bought sins of solar just for this mod. Really wonderful work! Good luck for next stuff. I just needed to say. :)
A friend of mine and myself often debate which one is better, the Pelican or the Kodiak, I go with Kodiak, and we argue and have fun imagining them flying into battle in a cooperative effort to kill something really evil. I still side with the Kodiak every time. Love this this ship and you do it justice like no other. I am most pleased. :)
The flying brick returns!
The model looks good, but don't the back engine pylons extend the length of the fuselage?