Mon Calamari Gun Blisters image - Yuuzhan Vong at War mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
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This could probably be in the top 10 of Star Wars-nerdist-technical debates, but I would like to think I have finally solved Gun Blisters...
So here is my argument: the original mon cal models were some of the first that were made, and were made to be poly-light so that we could ensure that everything works in the game. The DP20 has 14 friggin gun turrets on it, that all rotate side to side, and elevate up and down.
14.
We have the DP20 successfully coded and in the game, flying around like a fighter plane, because that little ship is a hunter, and there is just no need for it to fly straight an linear. It works just fine. If that little guy can have 14 turrets, well then the Mon Cals, which are significantly large due to all their fins and flippers, well they can get a bit of an upgrade as well.
Which brings us to details, and how do you add detail to a Mon Cal ship.... Gun Blisters.
If you have seen the MC85, we have established what the mon cal texture will look like: Moddb.com
so there is not really a need to add boxes and greeble like we do on more smooth armored hulls that require some visual relief. So we can enhance the gun blisters. Following this image as our source of inspiration : Theforce.net, I wished to stay as true to this idea as possible. I have decided that all gun blisters on Mon Cal Ships will be Light Lasers, just like the dual light laser turret featured on many other ships. For all ships frigate sized and smaller, we will have the light lasers be visible inside the blisters. For ships cruiser and larger, no visible guns due to the size difference. Players will simply not be zoomed in often enough to see such tiny details on larger ships, and there are just too many blisters on some of the big guys, like the MC85.
So here we have the little guys, the frigates of the Mon Cal Fleet. It is important to note that since gun blisters on larger mon cal ships such as the Blue Diver, Viscount, Mediator, and MC85 all represent 'light laser turrets', they are primarily then an AA or anti-corvette weapon, since light lasers have good accuracy vs corvettes and anything larger, but their effective damage decreases with target size. This means that the big ships, which hold primarily all heavy weapons (due to a need to combat the empire from previous days), are somewhat lacking in medium-grade weapons to fend off frigates and fast moving cruisers. This is where the need for the Mon Cal Frigate fleet becomes vital.
We have shown these ships before, so I just a brief reminder. In the 1st pic, the MC40 light cruiser is show alongside the DP20 for scale reference.
- silver ship is MC25PD Moddb.com
- dark green ship is MC12 Interceptor Moddb.com
- blue ship is MC60 Torpedo frigate Moddb.com
- mint green is MC20 Ion frigate Moddb.com
we carefully consider every ship, and every weapon that is going in this mod. We are aiming for a truly strategic experience.
Love the attention to the details guys. Keep up the great work :)
I do like to see turrets on the Mon Cals. Makes them look like war ships.