Monday, January 1, 2024

Mneme Ship Combat Update: 300DT body is done - for Art and when done moving on to Research Vessel.

First off, Happy New Year (from those of us in the Philippines at GMT+8). 

So the merchant liner and the frontier trader are for art. This means Nicco is creating the PPT map by rendering it in blender, formatting the transparent layers, and marking the legend and what each part of the ship is. Then I will upload it. 



A recap: the 20, 30, 50, 70, and 95DT Small craft are all created. I realized I failed to put it here in the spreadsheet. I'm going to have to update the Mneme Space Combat book, and I will start putting the art of the ships in the book as well as having a better way of showing the jam-packed number of ships the Product in DTRPG offers. 

you can see this is not a good way to show the ships. We are going to use Diagram.net and create a table of the ships. 

The Research Vessel was overlooked.  Give me and Nicco till Feb to get to this. 

The 200DT Habitat Ring + 100DT Tender with a Model-B M and J Drive is able to give it TP-1 and J-1. This is going to be a Feat in Blender since we will make a 2D Map that will interact with the 3D Ring - using Instancing. Instancing allows the models in the 2D map to affect the models in the ring without going into the tedium of manipulating the ring. Give Nicco and me about March to finish this. 

The 200DT Habitat - has the 20DT Launches that are designed to perform the Orbiter Role (the ability to land in a terrestrial planet). 

I will honor my commitment to make the rest of the CE SRD Common Ships and then some key ships that I can squeeze in with my budget. Although they will all be TL9!!! (because the BASE version of this ship would be the most available and HIGHER TLs are rarer). 

 TENTATIVE - as committed as a 2-man operation can be. 

TL9 RESEARCH VESSEL 200DTJAN2024
TL9 TENDER 100DT (B-M DRIVE, A-JDRIVE)JAN2024
TL9 HABITAT RING 200DTFEB2024
TL9 SYSTEM DEFENSE BOAT 400DTMARCH2024
TL9 SURVEY VESSLE 300DTFEB2024
TL9 YACHT 100DTFEB2024
TL9 CORVETTE 300DTMARCH2024
TL9 DESTROYER 800DTMARCH2024
TL9 SYSTEM MONITOR 1,000DTAPRIL2024
TL9 LIGHT CRUISER 1,000DTAPRIL2024
TL9 HEAVY CRUISER 2,000DTMAY2024
TL9 DREADNAUGHT 5,000DTJUNE2024


Whenever we have to remake the ship's profile (Silhouette) and keep it reasonable, that takes a lot of time. more than 2 versioning and prototyping. But we try to reuse it when its reasonable like the 800DT destroyer, 1000DT monitor and Light cruiser should have a fairly similar profile/cross section. 

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