http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2010/07/04/spaceship-now-without-weapons/
Where did the guns go?
In the latest twist of fate for the 3D spaceship model I’m designing here at Starbright for the Vega Strike game we have decided that it should lose the guns. You might think it sounds a little strange that a bunch of space gamers want to voluntarily strip their spaceships of guns, but it is to make it possible to add many different weapons mixes to the same frame, so it does sort of make sense after all. You can read all about all the thinking that has gone into this spaceship design here at the Vega Strike forum.
I’ve also been worrying about those thrusters out on the ends of the wings, but this article on the physics of space battles indicates, it’s not such a ridiculous place for them to be.
I think I’m approaching a definitive layout for this spacecraft with all the elements it needs pretty much in place: just a lot more greebles, some more obvious hard points and a pilot to go. There is also some work to be done yet on the mesh of the spaceship, making it more even, getting rid of triangles, simplifying where possible, flipping normals etc, etc, etc but I’m still having a good time.
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