No worries, life comes at you fast, I hope things are going well for you!

@Dog With a Machinegun

Sorry I haven't put much effort into this recently. I was working on some ships for another faction I want to make, then I went on vacation and couldn't find the motivation to go back to modelling when I got back.

Hey, I just wanna ask if you've had any time to work on this
This mod is one of my favourite aesthetically, bar none, and I would love to see your take on carriers/small craft

I've been doing some testing with these hulls, and they're very interesting. They feel a bit OP right now, due to their volume tank. Could we maybe see a structure health nerf so they'll go down a little faster

@Squirtle

No ETA, it'll be a while. Been a bit busy with life so I haven't had as much time to devote to it.

any ETA on fighter update? love your ships!

@Dysthymaeon

I might get around to it eventually but no promises. If I do it'll probably be inspired by the Bellator (the best SSD variant in my opinion).

As of now my plans for the next update will include a couple of fighters and some hangers for the existing hulls. The update after that will add a dedicated carrier and a few more small craft.

After all that I may look into making a dreadnaught

Nice, any chance on a Dreadnought variant? like the Super Star Destroyer? since your ships remind me of ISDs. ^_^

@Twinky

No ETA yet. Still waiting for the process to be more figured out before I take a stab at it. I have one mostly modelled craft ready for when I do.

Looks very promising but any eta on carriers and such?

@Grape Soda

I haven't decided yet. Not sure if a railgun would fit the faction lore-wise. But I also haven't been able to come up with an idea of what would fit

Amazing mod btw but I just wanted to ask if this faction will be getting some kind of railgun / equivalent ultra-long distance weapon

Just to say, thank you for keeping this mod updated.

It's one of my favorite ones, venator or not!

Another thing you could do would be to lean into the star destroyer vibes with built-in ventral hangars (similar to how the vanilla carriers have built-in bays). That would make sense and allow the elector and senator to both have at least limited ship capacity.

that still sounds amazing tbh, I really just want to be able to have a venator tbh
you could probably make it work with just lengthening some of the mounts and one of the internal compartments
no clue how difficult that might be though

@Dog With a Machinegun

I probably won't be doing that, as I think I'd have to do a rework of the whole model to make it work. I do have an idea to give the Senator some hanger options though, so it'll probably remain a battlecruiser with limited built in fighter support, as opposed to a full strike carrier.

Have you considered putting a built-in hangar to the Senator for real Venator larping?
you could probably fit like 3-4 light landing pads down the spine, make it a true light/strike carrier, only able to take small craft

Gotcha, Thanks for sharing!

@Titus Groen

Blender for the models, Substance 3D for texturing, and Unity for getting it all in game.

What do you use for creating the models?

thank you

Mod has been updated for the carrier patch. No small craft for now. I got ideas but it'll be a while before they're ready.

im super conflicted because on one hand theyre starwars style which is peak but on the other hand the proportions look almost dopey in comparison, not a diss on the quality just thoughts on the style itself. love it though, not trying to hate

Love the designs, they need nameplates and logos though IMO

If you mean the ship and turret models then no, I'd like to hold onto them for myself for the time being. Thanks for asking though

I don't normally like "star wars" styled ships but these are great! Is it okay if I use some of these mod assets?

Yo dude, these ship and weapon models are great man!

I'll add RPF and Hybrids when I add in the next two ships (models are mostly finished, then it'll just be texturing and Unity implementation)

Love the design of these cute little star destroyers. In practice, I think they're significantly weaker than their ANS counterparts due to the loss of RPF and Hybrids, though the autoloading 120s are a nice addition.

great ships

Instantly in absolute love with your ships. I love the designs and look forward to the rest.

I'm vary happy with how you balanced the ships. Good job man!

very exciting work, thank you for sharing

we have star destroyers at home, star destroyers at home :

Cute little star destroyers

More ships are planned!

adding more ship variants would be cool, a battleship and a light/gun cruiser

I'm reluctant to commit to custom munitions (at least for now) as VFX isn't something I'm very familiar with. I do have an idea for another faction that I might end up needing to look into VFX for, but that won't be for a while.

Cute boats

yoo cool, this looks like venator class from star wars

Partially disagree; when you have custom missiles, it means any saved missiles from the faction cause frequent errors when the faction is disabled. Ammo plays nice, though.

would be fun if custom munition types (like missiles or ammo) could be put on the roadmap, as I always find mods that include those to be especially fun.

Nice and clean, I like it