Is there anything the judges are supposed to do? Or do we just wait until the deadline is up for instructions?

As I said: `if you be so kind and tell me what do you think about it`
Nothing more..
I don't want to take a place in that contest.. it's not for me...
But what do you think about a ship?

I like the way the front part looks a bit like a bus!

Soo... is there a (even very little) changce that maybe someday this (or could be other.. but BIG) ship take a place in vendetta side by side to it's... smaller friends ? :D

Judges: All you do for now is wait. When the deadline is complete, I will place all the pictures onto a website and then give the judges the URL and ask them to pick a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place (note, currently we dont know WHAT the runner up is gonna get).

The judges will have my personal e-mail displayed on the page and I ask that they e-mail their selections to me. That will generate a "semi-final" group that again I will ask judges to look through. If from the first round of voting, there is a design that leads by so much that it seems HIGHLY unlikely it will be defeated, I may declare it a winner (say 1:3:21 vote tabulation, 1 vote for X, 3 votes for Y and 21 votes for N, N will pretty much just be given the winner status)


Ciuciu: I beleive that the eventual plan is to introduce Capital-class Armed Space Craft into game that while expensive would provide a serious warforce to smaller patrols and craft. Many would like Frigates and other huge craft so we can reinact massive battles using Capital-craft and Fighter-craft.

I'll be a judge.....


P.S. NO BLOODY PNGs, i can't open them.

Arrgh, what are you talking about?! PNGs are awesome. Update those browsers!

Question... is the deadline still June 1? I'm almost done my Transport concept and I've started working on the fighters. Hopefully I'll have them done before the deadline. Wheeee!

You can't open pngs? Wow, I haven't had that since the days of Navigator, like, 2.0...

Or any version of Intarnat Exploder for Windows...

/me thinks Phoenix_I is surfing with his Palm.

Is there a max on the amount of ships you can send in? =)

on the subject of pngs: if you are using a macintosh, you should be able to view them, phoenix. at least my pBook (using Safari 1.2.1) supports png display.
they are great for transparency shtuph.
on a sidenote: that post in which i announce that i'd exit the contest was a rash decision. i will do my best to make the deadline.

RelayeR volunteers for Judgeship if any more are needed or anyone can't fulfill their volunteerism.

Send ALL the ships in you want, they will all be open for judging.

Thanks RelayeR

To all prospective contestants- Here are some basic rules:

1) Enter all you want, we want a lot of great ideas, dont supress them
2) You cant be a judge and a contestant
3) Ship can't be previously published and used in another game (if you are a professional and OWN the design and it has not been used, then you may enter it...no design piracy though)
4) To be eligible for grand prize, you must allow craft to be placed ingame

5) ALL WINNING ENTRIES: become property of Guild Software and the renderer forfeits all ownership of the design (except for taking design credit, eg. "Yeah I designed that craft" is fine but sueing guild for their using it isnt...ever!)

Offenders of rule 5 will face SERIOUS consequences pressed by ingame action such as greifing and piracy. If someone violates the rule, the Contest Administrators will contact Guild about using EXTREME force against the offender.

Thanks,

[SDF] Black 1
CO, SDF

Ok.. sign me in.. i have deveoped my entry a bit.. and.. so.. here it is:

History:
The "SuperNova" transport ships family was developed by Itani engeneers about 20 years ago. All ships are based on the same structure, which was first userd more than 40 years ago in prototype ship called "The White Hole".
It was developed by NT's company "NeoLogic" as Galaxy - class Govement transport ship, and it was the most sophisticated transport ship ever. Due to it's unique power supply, which was based on anti-mathery reactor, it was able to make a small jumps within sectors (up to 50km) or even create new wormholes (althought they wasn't stable and collased as soon as The White Hole leaves them).
In spite of it's very low agility and low turbo speed (about 110m/s) it had a fame of one of the most secure ships, due to it's awesome armourment and extraordinary armament. Despite all those advantages, the prototype was also the most expensve ship ever. The first model cost about 100 bilions credits, and every serial ship cost would be about 25.000.000 credits, which was far more then even the govement could afford.
After about two months of successful tests there were a tragic accident. During routine insector jump, the White Hole from unknown reason jumped inside the star (wchich was 2000km away). The blow of an anti-mathery reactor demolished whole sector 28, including "NeoLogic" research station with all of "The White Hole" plans.
There are roumors that Itani govement had something to do with that accident, however there is no proof for that.
About 30 years after that accident Itani engeeners came up with a prototype of SN-109E "SuperNova". It's hight capacity, govement transport ship. Two years leter there were also developed SN-108 and SN-105C. Since then all three of them became the most popular massive transport ships used by Itani, Serco and NT nations...

Prifiles:
Name: SN-109T "SuperNova"
Weapons: 2 Small, 4 Large (2 on front, 2 on back), 1 for some bigger canon :)
Agility: Extremly low
Cargo: 520
Length: 320m
Width: 40m
Armour: 550.000
Price: 1.500.000c

Name: SN-108D "SuperNova"
Weapons: 2 Small, 4 Large (2 on front, 2 on back)
Agility: Very low
Cargo: 160
Length: 200m
Width: 35m
Armour: 200.000
Price: 300.000c

Name: SN-105F "SuperNova"
Weapons: 3 Large (2 on front, 1 on back)
Agility: Low
Cargo: 80
Length: 130m
Width: 20m
Armour: 120.000
Price: 80.000c


And of course some photos :)
SN-109T:
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/transport1_1.png
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/transport1_2.png
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/transport1_3.png
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/transport1_9.png
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/tansport1_10.png

SN-108D:
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/transport2_1.png
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/transport2_2.png

SN-105F
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/transport3_1.png
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/transport3_2.png
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/transport3_3.png
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/transport3_4.png

Hehe.. and something that rendered really long (about 15 min), its messed up a little due to import issues, and i'm too lazy to fix it ..
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/convoy.png

The ship is (i hope so!) orginal, and were never before publicated (since I finished it an hour ago :)

I will now concentrate on some destroyer design, which i will call "turtle" :)

hey...

i was wondering what software is used to design these ships... i'm mainly a 2d artist and i can hand draw... would some hand drawn entrys be acceptable?


-MW[VC]

I'm using Blender. Vlad uses 3dsmax. I played with Maya for awhile too, it's fun. Scuba Steve 9.0 will be using Wings, which is a very useless program.

WOW! Due to my own negligence and the fact my girlfriend has been after me to start hanging out at her place more, I havent had time to exhume this thread.

Ciuciu, for some reason I get a "Forbidden" page when I attempt to look at those URLs you listed. They state

FORBIDDEN:
You do not have permission to access this server.

Ge.. two days ago i played with perrmissions to files and... now it should be fixed :D
http://kastor.ds.pg.gda.pl/~ciuciu/files/pp/transports/

It works now Ciuciu, VERY impressive...I can't beleive how well that is rendered...

Scuba uses Wings3d. or, at least, he used to.