Malabar transport

[bszlrd]

Here comes a very preliminary absolutelly unfinshed ugly sneak peak of the Malabar transport. Not even proper UV's (that's why the nacelles don't have even this basic texture).
Only for the adventurous, but in the spirit of release early, release often.


Give it a spin to see how it handles and strains your rig (13k tris). It's a sloth right now, but a huge one, about 60m long without those fins.
It doesn't have hyperdrive by default, but a #9 one can propel it to about 16ly for 30t of hydrogen. Cargo capacity is relatively low compared to overall capacity, to push it more to the direction of passenger transportation. The autopilot was able to land it on New Hope (~2G) but it wasn't fully laden. Full load will bring down thrust to just a bit more than 1G up accel, so taking of and landing might be a problem (especially for the autopilot). That's why I'm putting out it for testing, to iron out any problems.
Some images for size comparison.


(next to the DSMiner with it's new size, ~60m long too)

[bszlrd]

For those who interested in sneak peeks like this, the Malabar mesh is ready (17k tris), and mostly UV-ed:

[Zordey]

Turret guns :)

The double turrets look nice, now we need to be able to fit double guns, and of course turrets.

[TheBob]

It looks a bit bulgier in the sketch, which I like a bit better than the more slender mesh, but I'm loving it either way.

[FluffyFreak]

Wow awesome looking ship. I'm really looking forward to seeing these coming and going ingame.

[FluffyFreak]

Also 17k triangles should be fine for the highest LOD, you only really see that much detail when you're close up and other ships tend to be much further away than people guess at when playing :)

[bszlrd]

@TheBob: I noticed that my small sketches tend to look a bit bulkier, chubbier then intended because of scale and line thickness. I find it that they don't translate good directly to 3D and they need to be toned back on that regard to look more believable.

Anyway, the UV is 100%, so texturing time!

[bszlrd]

Animations are done and baked in, texture is a simple AO bake. I've updated the link at the first post if you want to try it out.

[FluffyFreak]

Looks really good ingame, even with just the ambient bake :)

[bszlrd]

A bit of progress on the texture:

(Mod file above updated)