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.
<race name here> Bombers
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Ok I won't blame the delay on the race name, the research station is still not finished, but it is one of the things I really want to decide before the release.
Very nice, the sides are quite... chunky... i take it that is because they serve the purpose of engines and weapons?
This picture is made for the purpose of reminding the race name poll, not to present the ship. From this picture I personally wouldn't have a clear idea what does this thing look like, if I didn't know nothing else about it.
awesome bomber!!!!!!!!!!!!i can't wait to see the BC!
Well i like it anyway :D
I've made a top-view picture: A.imageshack.us
The actual cockpit is in the tale part, the front windows are for the weapon operator/gunner. You may notice that the frigate has it's own bridge for every turret, so I've made a characteristic design element out of it.
Uhm is the fifth ship a new design or I need glasses? It looks like its right side is bigger and thinner?
Fifth from the left? Modular Frigate, after some research help from Hiigarans you can build the Plasma or Kinetic turret on it. But I still don't count it as a new design, the way I see it I have two ship, one of this two exist in three variations.
Why did I suspect you would come up with a modular Version of this?
n_n but awesome you actually do it.
O.o? WOW thats nice!!! i like it
Hey pouk what program you uze to make the ships? and can u make tuturial for it to show how to make a ship? i would love it.
Well not before the release, you would hate me for even more delay.
But still, you've got plenty of tutorials, on relicnews about the modding part or anywhere else for the particullar 3D editor you use.
nice .
what do you think of telasis for the race name ?
You know what they remind me of? Some sort of futuristic formula one racer vehicles, like the star wars pod racers XP
Anyway, that is an awesome design, i love the cockpit set at the back like that, it really looks like a heavy bomber....
You nailed it, that's what I keep in mind when I'm designing this race ships. They need to be fat, but at the same time they have to look kind of sleek, like a futuristic race cars, or as you said pod racers (the pod racers are in fact the actual inspiration -the cockpit and engines configuration).
OMG AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH that is awesome
Not sure about the gunner windows... from a distance they look like eyes. I'm also surprised you don't have the plasma bomb emitters closer to the center of mass of each 'pod'. Otherwise it looks good from the two images that we have.
They were closer originally, but it looked terrible. I wouldn't guess that either, but it really did.
Yeah, I think I can imagine how that might actually not look good. Well, how about tilting the squares so that they are the same angle as the line that is on the front of the 'pods'?
you mean rotate them? I'm afraid it would give him a rather "surprised face".
Nah, I'm not talking about the windows, I'm talking about the emitters for the plasma bombs.
I wasn't talking about the windows, I was talking about the launchers.
love it
Very nice work again Pouk!
I liked the Frigate and I like this Bomber a lot too.
The beauty of your own R3 is that you don't really have to be constrained and restricted by HW2 canon, you can do what you like and screw the justification.
I like that you can Mod original HW2 ships so well that you could slip them into HW2 and someone not totally familiar with the game probably wouldn't tell the difference.
Now you are showing you can create wholly original ship designs that, to me at least, are fully in keeping with HW2's distinctive design ethic.
Outstanding.
-"you can do what you like and screw the justification." yeah. :D
-Thank you
You're welcome :)
what's that big thing behind the bomber(don't the frigates the huge one,or is just o agglomerate of frigates)?
Just frigates.
These ships somehow remind me of the HW1-Bentusi
Yeah that's true. I really haven't Bentusi on my mind when making them, but they turned out to be somehow similar, which I take as a possitive this time, because it will allow them to blend into HW universe better.
The funny thing is... I've never seen any fanmade ships that look like they -might- be Bentusi. And now... well... I think the Nassar ships could be a basis of inspiration for someone to make Bentusi ships.
Aha! I knew there was a subject race of the Hiigaran Empire. If only found in the pre-HW2 storyline documents... The Nalthorans
The documents name is Homeworld 2 Story Progress 10 pager Final_bullets.pdf
which you may already have, but if not, it can be found within this pack: Assam.studio-gepard.pl
To quote:
"Nalthorans:
A race of beings whose in whole physiology the entire genetic makeup of the whole species exists in the queen, the only male, in the race. Thus the society is solely focused upon the protection of the queen, who is in turn responsible for all reproduction of the species.
Nalthorian space lies within the Hiigaran empire and they are a voluntary subject race of the empire.
Nalthorians have achieved space travel, but are neither expansionistic, nor particularly adventurous. Thus, their space ship technology isn’t particularly advanced. However, they have advanced detection technology."
One of the missions in this document has you protect the Nalthoran homeworld from Vaygr invasion.
i love these guys! they look great and are powerful too. great job on this race. although still early in it's stages, it looks very promising. one thing i noticed though, the research station has no textures, all i can see it the array and the rest is just black.