Pallas

Orac · Last edited by Orac on Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:30 pm; edited 4 times in total

Pallas

Unit Stats
Strength: Heavy
Weapon: Medium Range Heatseeking Missiles x6
Advanced Weapon: N/A
Speed: Slow
Requires: GDI Naval Yard

Description:
The Pallas Patrol Boat is GDI's jack-of-all-trades ship. It's mainly deployed for coastal defence and escort missions however some Pallas ships have been used in long range assignments where it's more than capable. The Patrol Boat can fire volleys of guided missiles from the launch tubes on the front deck towards land and sea targets, but are less accurate against fast moving aircraft.

Starkiller · Pyro Sniper **Joined**: 26 Nov 2008

Nice

good work .

Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

Why name it a patrol boat? A Destroyer would be nice #Tongue

Also the subforum, Navy suits better than Naval Force.

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Allied General · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 5:00 pm Post subject:

I like the design of the ship but the name seems a bit generic.

Since we have like Orca class aircraft and mech names, perhaps something more fitting for a "class" of boats.

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Orac · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 7:35 pm Post subject:

Alright, that is a good point.

Right now there are three main GDI ships,
-Patrol Boat
-Cruiser
-Capitol Ship

The Capitol Ship is "Poseidon", so the Cruiser can be "Triton", and that leaves this little guy needing another name in kind.

I'm looking for ideas, anyone have them?

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

By that logic, the third and the smallest vessel should be called Pallas (Patrol Boat) since that was the name of the daughter of Triton in Greek mythology.

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Pallas sounds nice imo.

About the voxel:
-the small blue fins have a step effect. If it's intended to be this way ok, but it looks more like some better normals are needed there.
-the missile tubes on the front could be extruded a bit (going 1 voxel upwards). Or at least give the border of the section a normal that makes it look like it's extruded. (this should enhance the detail too, as it looks quite flat)
-the dark windows look a bit pixelated. Maybe it would look better if there are few but bigger of them, with added anti-aliasing borders around them

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Orac · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:43 pm Post subject:

The blue fins have a stripe of darker remap on them, not a stair effect Wink

as for anti-aliasing the windows, the windows on the voxels in the screenshot are anti-aliased.

And I may extrude them, yar...