R.E.A.R.M. - "Rearmament Expansion And Redesign Mod" is an unofficial Homeworld 2 expansion and it adds number of new interesting and various units.
New HS inhibitor
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Minor update: the command frigate HS inhibitor isn't that damn ugly anymore.
(and maybe you can recognize that new badge based on the original vaygr concepts)
TBH i never liked the antenna sticking diagonally out of the bottom
Well, i don't think I know anyone who likes it, but I can tell you the reasons why I've put it there:
1. analogy: command frigate -> command corvette. They have the same antenna and they do the same thing. When you see it for the first time, you know what it is, it's important. (BTW I don't even like the antenna on the corvette.)
2. it's easily recognizable, even from the distance. It's handy when the ship is yours or when you need to find where is the inhibitor which won't let you jump. You can find it between other ships.
3. military ships aren't pretty. For me, the bigger value in this case is that it's practical, than issue of the aesthetics.
4. the antenna can't be on top as the command corvette has it, because there's bridge and rocket silos. This is a good spot for it, nothing stays in its way even during the starting animation.
I think about my ships a lot, what I want them to look like and what I want people to think when they see them.
So yeah, you don't like the antenna, no one does. But answer me, did you know what this ship is when you've saw it? What did you think it was? If the command/electronic warfare/AWACS or any other kind of a support frigate didn't come to your mind, than this frigate design is fail.
But I suppose it could have big radar dishes, dozen antennas pointing at all directions or even a sensor array big as the ship itself, but I think it would be worse than a weird dome and a this.
i actually like the antennae looks kinda cool, i thought it was like a huge capital-ship killer cannon at first lol
I've always liked the antennae on the Command Corvette, it is Very Distinctive, and I like the antennae on this Frigate too.
Profile Recognition is very important in a heated battle and as you mention, this antennae tells you immediately what that ship is and what it does, which is a great thing.
The only thing I'm not so fond of is the texture of the Spherical Dome at the bow, it looks a bit bland, like the texturing hasn't been finished.
Unless this has been left this way deliberately for your own reasons, I think the overall look of the Frigate could be improved by giving that dome a texture. (Perhaps a light-grey triangular geodesic pattern?)
Sure, an image search of radomes shows that in real life most radomes are just plain white with no real texture, so what you have reflects reality, aesthetically I think some kind of texture would make that part of the frigate look as polished and detailed as the rest of it.
There is a texture, just not that distinctive. It's visible on the very second picture, but you're right that it's probably not enough.
Aha, sorry, looks like it gets 'washed out' with the red over it, is the red ship above the same 'version' as the white one here?;
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Looks like even white washes the texture out, leaving it looking untextured which is jarring compared to the rest of the ship.
(Here I am harping on about one dome texture, I'm sure you've got cooler things to work on, don't worry about it :)
Yes, that's the ship. In this case it's also partly because of the glow in postproduction, but the fact that it's flat again is pretty convincing. No problem, I'll at least increase the visibility of what I have there and will see about the rest later.
Dunno if you changed anything but now that I've used the Command Frigate in-game (v0.0.3) and had a close look at it, the texture looks good and natural, it must've been wash-out in postproduction.
I enjoyed using this unit a lot, it kinda feels like Vaygr Frigates can roll on their own now and support themselves, which will make for some interesting 'Frigate Only' engagements.
(I've yet to test this out, but am looking forward to trying!)
I didn't find a time to make it to 0.0.3, so the dome is the same, but I was going to check it.
And I've just made the "Frigate Only" (and I'm about to add any other combination which will cross my mind), it can be really interesting in the future, when the mod will grow a little bit and there'll be higher number of units to choose from.
Variety is definitely the spice of life. It would be really nice if you could make enough types of units in every class that an entire game could be played with any single unit class, and still be interesting.