I'm intimidated.

I did start a TTA web site. Had a few new vessels on it and some that are half seen in the books.

Well Morrigan Press ended up with the rights to the TTA universe and got Stewart Cowley on board. they re-did the 1st book, made an RPG and a planet gazeteer... then things went quiet.
Adrian Mann the feller who made a damn fine TTA site was involved.
http://www.bisbos.com/rocketscience/tta/index.html

Stats, I'd stick with the TTA formula, make up some companies,
then list Main Drive, Manouver Drive, Sensors (?) Defences, Crew and Weapons.
A black and white line drawing looks good too.

I'd try your own universe. You can do more then. Or set it in the distant future of the TTA setting. But yeah stick the to the TTA look.

It's a fan supplement to ALL the MJ12 games, not an 'Official Product'.

While it's not a supplement to a specific game, you might find stats to any of the MJ12 games - depends on who wants to do what.

The only thing I'm promising at this point is some pretty pictures and an attempt at a common universe. How much more happens depends on how much I get contributor submissions to mesh together.

I'm pretty much a social creature, I thrive on input.

Excellent, I'm tolerably good at ships and starry backgrounds.

Whatever sketch you send me, I'll try to render into a starship. I cannot speak for Justin. Justin wanted to include Ground units, I'm doing ships.

I hope it will be really big, but I must warn you that all my projects to date have not faired REAL well. I did the ships for Iron Stars, and I subitted some artwork for WARDOGS. I think that I've suggested about 3-4 projects that never got past the idea stage, and one game design of mine simply died.

I have several game designs up on my website, but they never got more than a few comments. This was on geocities before I started doing MJ12 stuff.

Then a good start would be to remove the label calling it the "Starmada Trade Authority".

fixed...

I didn't have a title to start with, by the time that I had a direction, I had a name for it...

Far be it for me to tell you how to do things, but you might look at DOGA. It's not great for people, but Heck, even Dan seems to be able to turn out decent work with it. <ducks and runs>

Heh....

http://www.doga.co.jp/english/

http://www.doga.co.jp/english/software/index.html

It's uncrippled shareware. Great stuff.

I've got links and resources for 'parts', links to tutorials that explain how to MAKE parts....

I use a lot of custom stuff, I've even got a part that's a 'bridge crew', and another to use as a 'pilot'. They aren't very detailed, and they use a lot of polys - but they serve the same purpose as those 'half men' that you see in some old toy airplanes.

If you look REAL HARD at the 'Frigate', you'll see 'em.

I've made Poser props in DOGA, and used VUE to re-texture and render DOGA exports in, against a nicer background and turf than DOGA can manage.

Have they changed the interface yet? It's also got a fairly steep learning curve.

I have it, but don't use it much. DOGA seems much easier (to me) to use.

I'll try to get some another ship done before I go back to work - seeing as I just started my weekend....

Jim, I was also hoping to include some ARES units in this too.....?

:-)

True, it'll do water tight meshes and it's free.

Great stuff if you're able to figure out how to use Blender and want to make minis using what's called 'Rapid Protoyping'. I like sculpting my own minis, and don't have ready access to a 3D printer. I use sculpey, balsa, that sort of thing. I'm not so good (yet) that I'm looking to sell them.

Rapid Protyping is great stuff, but that bar just isn't down low enough for me to get into it right now. I think I did send a DXF to the Brigade Folks, but I don't know if it was what they used. I think Tony just looked at my un-textured pix and went from there.

DOGA is 40$, and makes no promises beyond it's capable of doing anime 'toons - for me, minis and graphics are two distinctly different animals.

It's largely what you find works for you, your working style, and what you find affordable.

Have you given DOGA a try? Dan made some ships with it. Not that Dan is a slouch in the graphics department, but it seems to me that he didn't take that long to figure it out.

I had to learn a program called Metaseqouia, which is also a mesh-level editor like Blender, but just to make my own parts. My main modeling and rendering package is DOGA. I find making meshes to me more effort than I want to expend for some things.

FWIW, I have Bryce (it's avaliable for free somewhere - CNET, I think), but I almost never use it - VUE makes much more sense to me if I'm looking to do something beyond what DOGA is capable. It's pallette editor is way more user-friendly than Bryce's.

Aah... I understand then. Mac or Linux User?

...I'm aware of their being other OS's, but somehow I don't see anyone actually using AtheOS, BeOS, or SkyOS for anything other than to fart around.

Google "ReactOS", it's a project to create an Open Source Clone of the XP-class operating systems. It's a few years from being useful...

You'd be surprised at how good a potato can look if it's got the right paint job.

ALL, would be nice....

I was only kidding! Your boots are now manifold and various  :wink:

'sides I'm allowed to rag you just a little bit, seeing as you're that much better than me. It's a rule.