Wow, that's pretty damned cool, Spuck. Though I think you should make that fin more rigid by adding more "pipes" or making it into wider segments (or get rid if it completely). Other than that I think it's great. Good luck with the texture map.

=b

What a ship contest? I am confused

yeah the "fin" (it's supposed to be some kind of antenna/sensor thing) isn't finished yet. same for the rear :P

Originally the ship was supposed to be some kind of large slow defensive mobile base thing. heavily fortified, defensive weapons and advanced sensor capabilities (*DING* antennae :D)

for some reason (large ships are hard :P) it morphed into this:
a small, relativly fast, medium(low?) armoured, relativly heavily beweaponed (, with advanced sensor capabilities :P) offensive frigate class ship. designed for cap to cap combat.


armament:
1 large turret (top right)
2 medium turrets (bottom left right)
10-15 (less?) large gunports


and HyperSpaz:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard?thread=3861

http://mmiski.tripod.com/fighter.gif

I've been making some progress on my fighter design. Not quite sure whether to make the exhaust ports come out of the wing pylons (left) or whether to make it go down the fuselage (right). I like how the wings are more defined and swept back on the right model, but I also like the multilayered look of the first one. Decisions...

http://mmiski.tripod.com/fighter2.gif

Side view sort of complete. Still not completely satisfied with it. It looks like it's missing something at the back, but I don't want to just slap a tail fin on it. I'll see if I can fix it up somehow. Then I'll need to work on the front view and add a color scheme and I'll be done (hopefully by the deadline). Wohoo!!!

First Entry: Pelican (transport)
Second Entry: Raven (fighter)

very nice, Arolte

My favorite is still the Wolverine though, such a cool ship!

O_O .. wow, the Wolverine is cool.

And.. OMFGBBQWTF!!!111 the deadline is so soon; I really have to start finishing all my 'designs' asap.

Once final release is out, and if they add that Volverine, ITS MINE O_O

I wanted to make sure everyone was aware. I AM leaving Vendetta soon. However the contest WILL be seen through to completion.

I want to thank everyone who participated. You guys have made this contest more successful that my wildest dreams.

To the sponsors, without you guys, well let's just say there wouldn't be this thread left, it would've long ago died.

I also wish the contestants the best of luck (although luck is for the unprepared)!

Hmm, I just remember. I was going to give some price money too, I think I have to trade a bit then - hehe.

Done!! I think. I've decided to leave the color scheme of the Raven alone. The Pelican was slightly tweaked. The two are most definitely not to scale. I resized the fighter to make some of the details more visible. I may work on them more if I have some free time between now and the deadline. If not, then I guess this is it. Sorry I don't have any 3D renders. I wish I had fancy 3D programs to work with. Oh well.

http://mmiski.tripod.com

Or as single images if you want:

http://mmiski.tripod.com/pelican.gif
http://mmiski.tripod.com/raven.gif

Pelican--This medium transport vessel was built with safety in mind. Although it doesn't have the capacity of a Centaur or Marauder, it does have two very powerful engines that allow for greater acceleration than most transports of its class. It was designed with one thing in mind--speed! After all, what better way to avoid those pesky pirates than to leave them exhausted in your tracks.

Role: Medium Transport
Hull: 10000
Capacity: 12 crates
Agility: Medium
Weapons: 2x Large Ports

Raven--With the invention of the Valkyrie, the Serco have long since struggled to create a formidable fighter to counter such devastating attacks from the Itani. The Raven is their answer to the problem. With the agility of a Vulture and the firepower of a Warthog combined, this fighter packs a mean punch. However, due to lack of advanced technology the hull strength remains moderate as a compromise.

Role: Strike Fighter
Hull: 8000
Capacity: 4 crates
Agility: High
Weapons: 1x Large Port, 1x Small Port

(note: weapon configurations not shown in concept designs)

Good, from what I've seen so far; I'm probably going to be majorely owned by most of you. *WOW*skyfox's wolverine*WOW*

Anyhow; here are the ship details *not* yet the renders, mostly because not all are done yet - some are even only drawn on paper so far - and also because I still have to code a simple site to contain all these stuff so McFuggin's bandwith will be used up^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbarely touched.

[edit: lot's of details removed; they are now on: http://sheean.localnetsys.com/SDF_ship_contest]

updated my second entry a bit :D and since i like cryptic acronyms :P ... say hello to the MAF:

http://home.arcor.de/famscheffler/sd/maf/maf.jpg
(replace jpg with png if you want a png)

shippy gots some weapons, some crude texturating and stats are finalized

the agility is compared to some imaginary standard cap ship.

Impressive all, I like to Wolverine and the MAF

Incidentally, what do the Waylonics on the MAF's hull read? MAF?

hmm

Well, tomorrow is the last day to enter or revise anything so good luck to all!

Judges, here is how judging for the SDF SC will work:

Each judge will view the various craft and decide on the top 3 craft in the following categories:

Fighter
Freighter/Cruiser

For example, the Wolverine could be classed as a Fighter or as a light Cruiser for it's armament.

Pick the top 3 starting on Sunday and post them here, the craft with the most votes will advance to the Finals where the ultimate winner will be chosen.

Rules for judging the Finals will be posted later...

yeah ... "MAF-1" I wanted to put something more interesting there but without some grammer the pictographic waylonics are useless (or better every sentence would sound kinda retarted :P) and alphatetical ones were to long.

slightly off topic... I'd love to see some more personalification in the game. like the smiley on the lcv or the text on the maf :D

edit: and even more off topic :P ... please add the "Manual" link back to the sidebar. took me forever to find the waylonics table :D

spuck if you ever need someone to translate an english sentence into the waylonics grammar I think I can still do it.

PS there's a link to the manual page when you open up the message board intro... though it's not very... uh... helpful.

<offtopic>
Ehh, mr_spuck the / thingy is a 0, not a 1 in waylonics.

Oh, and /me points to: http://sheean.localnetsys.com/GTS2.ttf

Lol about the MANUAL!!!!
</offtopic>

<offtopic>
Elrad: thanks saw the link in the intro page this morning -_- my bookmark points directly to the forum index

I found the manual via google :D

Sheean: ouch ... it was late -_-
ok then it's maf-0 (it will go berserk during it's first testrun almost killing it's pilot :P)
that font is nice i've heard about it before ... but my hand drawn one is cooler :P

<offtopic2>wow nautilus has a font viewer :D</offtopic2>

</offtopic> :P

Here they are!

http://sheean.localnetsys.com/SDF_ship_contest

Note: I didn't had the time to double check for errors, neither did I test it in Internet Explorer. But it's mostly recycled code, so it will probably work.