[MOD] SoaSE: BORG INVASION

Oh, screenshot failed to load, though I am excited someone has devoted the time to add the Borg, I will be looking forward to the success of this mod, and hopefully the combination of this with other trek mods.

well Im good at most things but I have no clue on particle effects ( i do have some experiments I'm working on ) or texturing ( I'm hoping to remedy this in the next few weeks ) I have made about 15 models in xsi which is the only program I have for 3d graphics and the borg are cool so if you need my very amateurish help just let me know.

the biggest problem would be I have no clue what borg ships look like! you would have to show me what you were going for.

you should talk to ezriel as he has the st fan club with all the neat federation ships going on there, I am remodeling an excelsior class ship of based on his and I think it looks pretty good!

if not good luck I think you have a good idea here.

ds

Borg ships are basically panaled, Tactial borg ships are large armor paneled. post some screen shots if you can i'll see what i can help with.

I don't really need help on particle effects right now. Mainly if you'd like to model and texture a Tactical Cube or a better Diamond, that would be of great help. I also need borg-style orbital stations if anyone is interested in working on that.

Ezriel's ST work is totally awesome. I have asked him if he would like to allow his work to be used in this MOD as well, so we'll see.

-Draven

as far as I know hes going to be helping be hone my texturing skills over the next few weeks when he has time but ill post some shots of models Ive built and the xsi files if you want to look at them closer.

Ill also make a cube a sphere and a diamond just to see if my ideas match yours.

and ill hunt about to see if there is any sort of borg bases online.

expect a few thing to look at by tomorrow.

ds

A suggestion for the Borg stations, the shipyard models from the Armada series may be a good starting point, you may even consider the Unicomplex as a structure of some kind.

I would love to help, as I plan on adding the Borg to 7 DEADLY SINS. Please let me know what I can help with, or what my team could help you with.
Feel free to do to my forum, request access, and post what you need there.
We have modelers, coders, and texturers among us. I also have some good ideas for the Borg:
Ability to "assimilate ships"
Borg cutting beam
Borg Trackter beam
Ability to "adapt"

My 2 cents.

DANMAN

I found a borg prob online so I'm making a scout ship from it everything else borg is huge! at least in relation to federation ships! the scale in ST it weird why is the FED all small ships? even the darn Romulans have bigger ships! how do they compete?

anyways im almost done modeling the scout ship/prob its a lot more challenging than a darn cube! but I had a thought one of the ST movies, I think it had picard in it, anywho it had a shpere ship launching from a cube... maybe us a cube as a carrier and have it launch sheres in combat like fighters only bigger.

ds

There is already a star trek mod... why not go help them out instead of making your own?

no Borg I believe is the reason.

Im sure I or someone will merge both into one once both are out, take the best of all the trek mods and combine them into one super trek mod.

ds

so I was trying to see if there was another veiw of the borg scout only to find this and there is already an actual scout ship... so whats the probe for? arg!

WWW Link

just scroll down to the borg section.

I don't see any diamonds so I assume your not going strict ST official ships? cuse if thats all they have your screwed on the variety of ships.

although the battle ship could be cool to model so Ill do that next.

edit: below...

then it struck me, molecular structures for space stations in 3d not 2d would make perfect borg space stations!



and an idea for the ship and station sizes and groupings.

frigates - 3

probe -small x1

sphere -small x2

cube -small x3


cruisers - 3

sphere -medium x1

cube -medium x2

battleship -medium x3


capitals - 3

diamond -large x1

tactical cube -large x2

assimilation cube -large x3


space stations - 4

military research -small x4

civilian research -small x4

Transwarp Hub -large x5

Unicomplex -large x7

the space stations shapes will be molecular in design.

the x0 behind the size is the smallest of the grouping x that number so say you have a scout which is tiny the cube in that grouping will be x3 that size, make sense?

ds

Yeah, it's my understanding that the Trek Mod that MajorStress' group is working on will not be including the Borg at all. That is why I'm doing this Mod. I have also asked Ezraiel to see if he will contribute some of his excellent Starfleet work for this Mod as well.

xxx_diresaint_xxx,
Can't wait to see what you come up with.
Also, just to note, the Diamond was actually shown in the Voyager series. It is smaller than both the Cubes and the Spheres, but a little bigger than the rectangular scout ships.


-Draven

Wow dude, looks sweet! By all means, use my ships! I am most definitely going to have borg in my mod, so maybe when you manage to make some sweet borg weapons effects, I could borrow them plz? My plan is to convert antimatter to crew count, and make it so the borg can assimilate other ships. They will start out with a small number of assimilated ships of various races, and will then assimilate other ships into the collective to bolster forces. Eventually, the borg player will be able to research a subspace beacon and basically "summon" a cube. With only one cube under the borg player's controll, I can make it the uber-wtfpwnzorcube I want it to be and not worry about the game getting unbalanced. I might include diamonds/spheres/etc, I'm just not sure how I want to do it yet...
Sweet looking mod, keep up the good work!

Ezraeil

Eraeil,
Thank you! I will be posting an initial release soon, and of course if there is anything in my mod that you'd like to use for yours, such as weapons effects or what not, please feel free.

All,
As stated above, a 1st release Beta of the mod will be released soon. Just have to add Ezraeil's excellent Starfleet ships in now that I have permission, and then do some more tweaks to the Borg.

I am still in need of a better Borg Diamond, as that is one ship that this mod uses that really looks poor the way it is now. Any contributions here would help greatly.

-Draven

For those who were wondering, this is what a Borg Diamond looks like. If anyone can model and texture and would like to work on this for me, please let me know.

-Draven

well idea wise it may be a good idea to look at star trek armada more ideas on moddles and ships.

This is some incredible stuff!!!


 :CONGRAT: LONG LIVE STAR TREK!!!! :CONGRAT: 

its not that we are not including borg, but we are not releasing then in the inital release due to balance issues. We are planning on putting them in as pirates. Borg ships are very powerful ships by all canon specs. even though they do not have shields, the armor and beam output is off the charts. 1 cube was enough to take out a task force at wolf359, now you tell me how you should balance that properly! or even how they would play as a playable race.

well in the series the federation killed the Borg so it isn't impossible to balance its from the voyager series. p.s. transfasic torpedoes.

well I for one am not all trekified so I'm not holding to ST absolutes, I want it to look and feel like it but not let it ruin a mod for a game not meant to be based on ST specifically.

but thats my opinion yes the borg will be stronger but not to start off... I think if the player using the borg can survive the first 2-3 hours building them up they deserve to wipe the map up with them.

saying that anyone who uses the mod can always mod it themselves to make the borg stronger or weaker.

next I wanted to show off a bit of progress I made on the infamous "diamond"

its far from finished but I didn't want go get too far along and have to redo it.





obviously I ave more to do and may yet finish the model tonight.

ds

Hey do you know any good XSI tutorials? I had it installed for awhile and couldn't get much done with it

Wasn't the Diamond in one of the Voyager esp. Traveling to assimlate some planet. The ships look cool. Can't you just put the greyish colour panels on top of the cube to make a tactical one?
Sorry not that star trekky

xxx_diresaint_xxx,

That Diamond you are working on is excellent!!! Great work, very awesome.

-Draven

An Assimliated Miranda does battle with Starfleet...

The first part of my XSI tutorial can be found here for those of you who are interested!

Ezraeil