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Star Wars ships for Homeworld

This page is meant to publish modified (Star Wars) ships for Homeworld.

New: ship publishing in Anark media files
(in case you can't view these files, you want to install the Anark client v.2.04.1177 directly from the main Anark site, www.anark.com)

 

 
Anark animation of
'Eagle One' bubble fighter.		 Anark animation of 'Apollo'.

Secondary objective is to provide background information for creating Homeworld MAD animations. You'll find an extensive Animation Tutorial, and a copy / mirror of Tech's MADing section on this site.

The ships published here are mainly intended for use in Homeworld. Only two ships have been made explicitly for Homeworld Cataclysm (the 'MoonFish' modular mothership and the 'Jedi StarFighter'). 'MoonFish' I constructed for testing HWSE capabilities of creating specific Cataclysm PEOs, and to be the first modder who actually creates a modular Cataclysm mothership. It's challenging to create motherships for Homeworld in general. The difficulties I experienced creating 'Silverwing' made me start programming animation display & control for HWSE together with Delphy.

One of the latest changes to the Tatooine Base MOD has been the creation of LODs (Levels Of Detail) for a few ships. LODing is something which I believe can be controlled automatic (rule-based LODing), for instance using HWSE v.1.41 beta 2, for which I programmed mesh-reduction.
For HWSE I also did gun-targeting windows, SHP/MEX cross checking, normals recalculation for Cataclysm PEO smoothing, etcetera.

Programming HWSE is nice, but what I like most is creating smooth, continuous meshes with lots of subobjects for heavy animations and turreting. It's my intention to have animations (a MAD file) with every ship I make, although some have to do without because they're not really fit for it. Feel free to tune ships as you like and please drop a note if you really want something changed or improved.

 

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List of (ship) downloads

Picture Link / Ship Remark
Space spider

Watch the anims!

(Test case for 3D Studio MAX R3 and Animation Shop.
The model is eventually to become a Worker, HW:C).

 

Tatooine Base mod


A whole load of ships,
including the 'SilverWing' r1 mothership
and the 'Death Star' r2 mothership.

Cataclysm

HW:C MoonFish mod


Includes the Jedi Starfighter
& MoonFish modular race_sect moship.

Cataclysm Jedi Starfighter (JSF)
+ JSF SHIP file (for UnitViewer)

+ as HW r1 CloakedFighter


From SW 'Attack of the Clones',
replacement for HW:C race_sect
Acolyte & ACV: watch the linking anim!

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Apollo command & service module
+ Apollo SHIP file (for UnitViewer)

 
r1 RepairCorvette, LODed.
Docking tuned for the
Tatooine Base mod ships.

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SkyHopper T-16
 + SHIP file (for UV)

r2 LightInterceptor, LODed.

Boba Fett's 'Slave One'


r2 LightCorvette + r2 MineLayerCorvette,
recently LODed + Mine & explosion sound.

CR - 90 Corellian Corvette

 
r1 HeavyCorvette, LODed.
Textures derived from stills off
the 'StarWars Digital Model Databank'.

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Don West's 'Eagle One'  bubble fighter
+ SHIP file for the UnitViewer
r1 LightInterceptor, unLODed. The MAD-animation provided is nice but not really necessary, because all parts rotate as this fighter attacks.
 
  Textures derived from the movie Lost in Space  and from stills off this website.

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New project... Reconstruction of 'Khar Selim'...
... finalised... ... now called 'Spirit of St. Louis'...
+ SHIP file for UV 		r1 ResourceController, LODed.
Contains a continuous animation and is adapted to Eagle One docking.

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Moonbase Alpha 'Eagle' transporter
r1 ResourceCollector, LODed.
No anim or SHIP file for this one,
instead many alpha LiFs...
Homeworld2: the derelict shipyard at Tanis
ready to run in HW1
r1 moship, including animation
of (hangardoor) objects.

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Screenshots

'Spirit of St. Louis', sistership of Khar Selim. The UnitViewer SHIP file contains a little story about it's history.

'Eagle One', a bubble fighter from the movie 'Lost in Space', as flown by the movie character 'Don West'. The original designer, Evan Davies, shows three different prints for this fighter. The other two are 'Jeb's' blue bubble fighter (called 'Ranger One' in the movie, available on request), and a bubble fighter in tiger print. I chose to do the shark print, although the tiger print is very nice too.

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'CR-90 Corellian Corvette', as r1 HeavyCorvette. Note the texture corruption at the engine trails (due to too many 256x256 textures used with other ships).
This ship actually has eleven engine exhausts, but HW only shows a maximum of four engine trails (although more than four 'engines' can be defined in the SHP & MEX files). The SW:NR mod also has a model of this ship, but this one's completely new, with new textures.

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'MoonFish', modular HW:C race_sect moship

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Death Star r2 mothership

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Jedi Starfighter (JSF) as HW:C race_sect Acolyte & ACV, thought to make good use of 'linking'...
I've recently adapted it to the HW r1 CloakedFighter slot too, but without the animation.

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Apollo as r1 RepairCorvette. The last two pictures show HWSE usage in the design process.

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