New Borg ship textures New Borg ship textures

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Tain_Enabran, 2007-12-30

Next on the menu, Tain_Enabran (heavycruiser1701) brings us a texture pack for the Borg. The new textures replace the textures for the Assimilator, Cube, Colony Ship, Sphere, Fusion Cube, Tactical Cube and Tactical Fusion Cube. Some scripting changes are also included in the mod, the changes are to the odfs of the Assimilator and the Cubes. The Assimilator now has a transwarp device and it has more special weapon energy, also the auto-assimilator weapon has been fitted on all versions of Cubes (normal, fusion and tactical).

In order to get these to work you must remove some of the original .tga files (consult readme for guidelines on how to do so), however the original files are included in rar format in this mod in case you have a change of heart and wish to revert to them.

As for the textures themselves, they are not bad. The Cube is a much better improvement over the stock although at times it is hard to distinguish the shape of the cube due to the textures. The Tactical Cube is probably the best of the bunch, the tactical armour is reminiscent of Starfleet hull armour but it looks good nonetheless. The Sphere and Assimilator are good, with the Sphere appearing more Borg-ish while the Assimilator doesn't look any bit like a Borg hull composition but whatever floats your boat I guess Wink

In it's entirety it is good, a lot better than the stock but not as good as some Borg retextures out there.
Still gets a Thumbsup

- IKS


NEW BORG SHIPS TEXTURE FOR ARMADA 2
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These are new textures for Borg sphere, Borg colony ship, Borg assimilator, Borg cube, Borg tactical cube,
Borg fusion cube and Borg tactical fusion cube. The assimilator is now equiped with a transwarp device and
her special energy is increased. Auto-assimilator is now added on all cubes. These are more realistic than
the originals.



<<<Textures>>>

IMPORTANT!!! You must remove a lot of .tga files: it's the most difficult and boring thing to do in
this mod but it's necessary to see this working!

-> search for the following files and remove them from your RGB folder:

Bcruise1.tga
Bcruise1_1.tga
Bcruise1_2.tga
bcruise1bump.tga
bcruise1bump_1.tga
bcruise1bump_2.tga
gbbcruise1.tga
bcolony.tga
bcolony_1.tga
bcolony_2.tga
bcolonybump.tga
bcolonybump_1.tga
bcolonybump_2.tga
gbbcolony.tga
Bassimilator.tga
Bassimilator_1.tga
Bassimilator_2.tga
Bassimilatorbump.tga
Bassimilatorbump_1.tga
Bassimilatorbump_2.tga
gbbcruise2.tga
bbattle.tga
bbattle_1.tga
bbattle_2.tga
bbattlebump.tga
bbattlebump_1.tga
bbattlebump_2.tga
gbbbattle1.tga
btactical.tga
btactical_1.tga
btactical_2.tga
btacticalb.tga
btacticalb_1.tga
btacticalb_2.tga
btacticalc.tga
btacticalc_1.tga
btacticalc_2.tga
btacticalbump.tga
btacticalbump_1.tga
btacticalbump_2.tga
btacticalbbump.tga
btacticalbbump_1.tga
btacticalbbump_2.tga
btacticalcbump.tga
btacticalcbump_1.tga
btacticalcbump_2.tga
gbbbattle2.tga
gbbbattle3.tga
gbbbattle4.tga

-> replace these files by those:

Bcruise1.tga--> RGB
gbbcruise1.tga--> RGB
bcolony.tga--> RGB
gbbcolony.tga--> RGB
bbattle1.tga--> RGB
gbbbattle1.tga--> RGB
bbattle2.tga--> RGB
gbbbattle2.tga--> RGB
gbbbattle3.tga--> RGB
gbbbattle4.tga--> RGB
Bassimilator.tga--> RGB
gbbcruise2.tga--> RGB


<<<Bitmaps>>>

-> remove the following files from your ShipImages folder:

bcruise1.bmp
bcolony.bmp
bcruise2.bmp
bbattle1.bmp
bbattle2.bmp
bbattle3.bmp
bbattle4.bmp

-> put the new files in the correct folder:

bcruise1.bmp--> ShipImages
bcolony.bmp--> ShipImages
bcruise2.bmp--> ShipImages
bbattle1.bmp--> ShipImages
bbattle2.bmp--> ShipImages
bbattle3.bmp--> ShipImages
bbattle4.bmp--> ShipImages


<<<ODF>>>

-> replace older files by these:

bcruise2.odf--> Ships
bbattle1.odf--> Ships
bbattle2.odf--> Ships
bbattle3.odf--> Ships
bbattle4.odf--> Ships


IMPORTANT!!! I have made a back up of the original files so do not delete this mod before saving the
these files!!!


<<<RIGHTS AND CREDITS>>>

new Borg textures : Tain_Enabran using SFC 3 mixed Borg/Federation textures and reworked
build buttons : Tain_Enabran
bitmaps : Tain_Enabran
odf files : (Activision) modified Tain_Enabran
screenshots : Tain_Enabran

screenshots objects samples :

-McKinley shipyard : by Deemon
-Borg planets : by Cmndr_Parker @ SoulForge
-Dominion Ultimate patch 1.4


Contact : heavycruiser1701@yahoo.fr
Author: Tain_Enabran (it's me ;))

Version    Author  Tain_Enabran  Website   
Downloads  875  Size  5.80 MB  Created  2007-12-30 

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#1 Chiletrek 2007-12-30 14:52
Hello:

This pack is great, and the Borg look like it shoiuld be, like real Borg ships (rock). I specially like that Sphere and the Tactical Cube. Well done, really 10/10
#2 pacsouljah 2007-12-30 16:08
Does anyone notice that the textures actually change as you zoom out? I don't know if it's my computer or what, but the textures actually change to something else when you zoom out, they're still recognizable as borg, but they look nothing like when you zoom in! I don't know if that has to do with bump mapping(I don't think so though), or if my laptop is playing tricks on me, but the first thing I thought of when I saw this was "Will, you have got to stop smoking shisha!" But anywho, this is pretty neat, 9/10
#3 thunderfoot006 2007-12-30 16:22
These are very nice, indeed. There can never, ever be enough Borg textures available here. These look very very well done. I cannot wait to see how they look against Yaccuza's MU 2.0 backgrounds. Well done! 10/10!
#4 insert_name_heer 2007-12-31 06:41
@2, i think i know what you are talking about. with the stock dimond, it looks good up close, but at full zoom out, it's like a green square tilted on it's side.
#5 pacsouljah 2007-12-31 14:50
silly me, I didn't remove the original textures!! So now I basically have one model of the ship, but 2 sets of differing textures!! That's why it looked different when I zoomed out! But it still looked neat though... hmmm... I wonder if I should remove the originals at all... I've always wanted a borg ship that could change color in battle!! lol...

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