CRUSADE Shadow Hybrid Attack Ship

Verion 1.0

LightWave 5.x and [6] Format
03 August 2000

The CRUSADE episode "The Path Of Sorrows" showed a large, Shadow- like ship blowing the living hell out of an Omega-class destroyer. The ship appeared to have Shadow-based technology and weapons, but until JMS released the lost episodes of Crusade at http://www.bookface.com/ we really couldn't be sure what it really was. Then we learned the truth about this mysterious ship. (No, I'm not going to tell you - read the scripts to To The Ends Of The Earth and The End Of The Line.)

Using a few stills from the show I've tried to recreate this weird little buttkicker using MetaNURBS. I started in LightWave 5.6, but it would have been far easier to do using the powerful vertex weighting tools of L[6]. (Of course that would mean that all you 5.x people couldn't use it...)

After a long while of inactivity, I made some tweaks to the object and freezed it for release. Then I made a few image of it, decided that there were some major inaccuracies, and tweaked and froze it again. :) Finally, I've got a fairly accurate reproduction of this strange little sucker.

Scaling may be iffy, as I really don't have much of an idea how big the ship really is. You can always scale to taste.

As always, comments and feedback can be sent to wombat@flarn.com where it will be promptly lost in the usual avalanche of spam.

James "WombatControl" Reding
http://www.wombatcontrol.com/

 

Contents

Objects:
- shadow-hybrid.lwo
- shadow-beam.lwo

Images:
- All textures procedural

Scenes
- shadow-hybrid-setup.lws

Installation Instructions

Unzip the contents of this archive using the following password - "cerberus". Unzip the files to your content directory (usually C:\NewTek\ for 5.x or C:\LightWave for [6].) Make sure that your unzipping utility preserves the directory structure.

Open up LightWave and use Load From Scene and open up the 'shadow-hybrid-setup.lws' scene. (It should be in the Scene\Crusade folder of your content directory.) The ship should load up with its weapons object and lighting. You can remove the beam and the extra lights by removing the beam object.

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These models are being distributed as FREEWARE, meaning I hold the "copyright" to my work, but am allowing you to use it without charge as long as copyright CREDIT to Foundation Imaging, Netter Digital, Warner Bros. and the author is noted in productions/animations using this data set. Not one part of this data set has originated nor has been obtained in any form, direct or indirect, in part or in whole, from Babylonian Productions, Inc, Foundation Imaging, Inc., Netter Digital. or Warner Bros. They are the exclusive copyright holders to their original data sets and do not claim authorship to this independant work of the author. USE OF THIS DATA SET CONSTITUTES THAT THE USER AGREES THAT USER CAN- NOT LEGALLY CLAIM NOR IMPLY THAT SAID DATA SET REPRESENTS IN ANY FORM THE ABOVE NAMED ENTITIES AND MUST NOT USE DATA SET TO INFRINGE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY UPON THE RIGHTS OF THE ABOVE NAMED ENTITIES NOR USE DATA SET FOR COMMERCIAL OR FOR-PROFIT PURPOSES. Creation of this data set was strictly for personal, self-educational purposes and is NOT intended to infringe upon any original material or concept copyright held by the above named entities. This document MUST accompany the distribution of this data set. This archive MUST remain UNALTERED during distribution.

The password for this archive is: "cerberus"