Daedalus Progress Report

[Klaw]

Last of these for now, The first image was still in rough stages - except for hunting for a better Captain's Chair - The bridge is done

[Klaw]

Thanks to my mad milkshape skills ( - jk) I was able to get something that looked a little closer to the on screen counterparts.

May I present the Nova (and eventually Daedalus') Port side, Heavy Phase Cannon:



Still working on it - but I'm happy it's coming together and I feel like sharing tonight

[Klaw]

Wow, been a while.

Nova is coming along beautifully The Skeleton for three decks is very much in place right now including the Bridge, Engineering, Armory, Launchbay, Transporter Room, Crew Quarters, Mess Hall, and Sickbay. My hope is that a good weekend of mapping (combined with an hour or two each night) could get me up to snuff, and ready to release an early alpha to my Daedalus compatriots sometime early in our Daedalus 'tween season break.

I may have mentioned before, but Nova will be the initial groundwork for the refit of Daedalus that is to come - so I'm hoping this map excites you

Still a lot to do, but it's coming along. expect some updated images shortly

[Klaw]

A few updates since I last showed anyone the fun stuff

Please, enjoy the progress report

[Klaw]

Nova Mapping Log - Stardate, today

Mapping is going well, all things considered. I still have some concerns about elements of the map at this point (The door functions, Door shaping, and the potential stability issues if My "away mission" idea works). But, I'm sure they'll all work out.

At this stage, I'm running through each of the 4 currently mapped decks, adding details, entities, textures and re-examining what I've done so far.

Ideas keep popping in my head as I go. Including one idea about variations of warp speed. (IE a button for Warp 1, 2, 3, 4 etc)

With this map, each warp factor would include a faster warp star texture, and if We hit Warp 4 - it'd likely shake, and start blowing things up (If I have my way)

Just a thought I had while driving home from work today.

Anyhoozle, I'm gonna drop some progress images below - to let you see the changes, and give you a feel for areas yet unseen (by most of you anyway )


Our Tour begins on F Deck:

Transporter Room:


From here, we move aft - to the Shuttlebay:





Moving forward, this is a view of the corridor from the forward section of F Deck, to the Transporter:



Now, the forward section of F Deck includes Engineering (Which technically would be the Mid section of the ship)



Across the Hall is the Armory:







And just outside the Phase Cannon bay, is a little break station:



Now, We hit the Turbolift and head to E Deck:

First stop, the Command Center:



From here, across the hall is the MACO Barracks:



Now, down the hall a bit to the Gym:



From here. I think I pulled a muscle:







And across the hall, Cargo:



Now, back too the lift, and hit D Deck!

Since the crew and officer quarters are stupid tiny, it's hard to get a good angle But, the mess hall is easy:







-And that's the quick, rough tour for now

[Ramsey]

Captain Ramirez, would be proud! 

[Klaw]

Happy to report

Nova has 4 Warp Settings!

(And they appear to be in-glitch-able! )

[Scott Archer]

(And they appear to be in-glitch-able! )

I haven't gotten round to it yet


Everything is glitchable if you try hard enough

[Ramsey]

Scott's true mission, to glitch the Novas warp drive

[Klaw]

And I hope he does it now in testing,  so I dont have something stjpid buggy on release

[Scott Archer]

Scott's true mission, to glitch the Novas warp drive

Ssshhh don't expose my true objective!

[Ramsey]

Scott's true mission, to glitch the Novas warp drive

Ssshhh don't expose my true objective!

Sounds like Archer during ENT season 3 about completing the mission

*Watches Scott put Klaw in the airlock until he tells him how to break the warp drive* ................

[Klaw]

After a great deal of consideration

I have decided to remove the "hinged" doors, and return to the standard sliding doors.

I *may* include a few hinged doors here and there, but not every door (like I had it before)

Also - Screenshots of some updates will be up this weekend

[Ramsey]

Look forward to the screenies!.

Also hinged doors...weren't the doors to engineering the only real hinged door Enterprise had anyways? i don't recall many doors of the hinged kind.

[Klaw]

Beginning my final tweaks for a playable alpha.

I have 2 weeks until we need it.... cross your fingers