Raider Graphic

[Weylin]

The raider and especially battlecruisers look kinda rushed and just thrown into the game.

If it's worth it, I might try making 3D renders for them, though blender is very complicated, I gotta figure out how to apply and render materials


This is just a rough design and probably needs more detail, and of course, materials to be applied to it.
Is this OK for an overall shape, or would you like it closer to the current raider?

[NiteHawk]

The raider and especially battlecruisers look kinda rushed and just thrown into the game.

If it's worth it, I might try making 3D renders for them, though blender is very complicated, I gotta figure out how to apply and render materials


This is just a rough design and probably needs more detail, and of course, materials to be applied to it.
Is this OK for an overall shape, or would you like it closer to the current raider?

I think its fine to be a bit different. The shape has potential (perhaps a bit smoother?), overall wondering how it will go when its done. Looks like a good frame though.

[Sandtrooper]

The raider and especially battlecruisers look kinda rushed and just thrown into the game.

The Raider was a 3rd party graphic (made by "Nathan" if I recall) that somehow impressed Stardock and ended up in the game (as far as I can speculate, I didn't get a proper internet connection into SF until 2005, so I don't know the true story).

The Battle Cruisers, well those are absolute shit so I have no idea why they were included in the first place, the Arcean design is the most original out of the 3, the Drengin one is a bastardization of their Freighter, while the Terran one is the most forgettable.


As for your reconstruction, I usually would like to see a "near-perfect" rebuild, so why don't you save two files, one being that you got now, and the other file looking more like the original Raider?

[NiteHawk]

Isn't the current raider ship in 1.4 a old drengin/terran ship from the old days? Pretty sure it was.

The battlecruisers don't fit, they really still don't. Though I like he Arcean one, I really dislike the Drengin and Terran one. The Terran one x2, in SF 2.0 included.

[Sandtrooper]

Isn't the current raider ship in 1.4 a old drengin/terran ship from the old days? Pretty sure it was.

In my copy of SF "1.1 A", the Raider is in the game, in it's little Pirate corner, so it was in the game before 1.2x was available.

[ChillFactor]

Pirate Raiders came with the 1.1 update since they were intended to get some attention from current modders. They didn't but were kept since they were the work of an SF Admin member.

This one looks quite rough, but has potential.

[NiteHawk]

Raiders existed in 1.0. But the ship image was a default ship in a Terran or Drengin in I believe 0.9.. Remember the old SF ships, before the 1.0-1.4 ones? Ugh they were something but yeah.. Those :p

Anyone still got a old install? :>

[Sandtrooper]

Raiders existed in 1.0. But the ship image was a default ship in a Terran or Drengin in I believe 0.9.. Remember the old SF ships, before the 1.0-1.4 ones? Ugh they were something but yeah.. Those :p

Anyone still got a old install? :>

I tried my copy of the 0.7 BETA but it doesn't work since it was a time-lasped copy (expired Nov 17th, 1997), so I tried "0.99.98 EW", and I didn't see the Raider, it was not in that install.

[NiteHawk]

haha 0.7 beta, awesome And darn. I could of sworn it was something else before a pirate ship, ah well.

[Harpor]

lol i know exactly what u mean night