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Designation/Class: Name: Initial 3D Model Textures: DLL: Max Blagaj |
Last Update: 07/09/2004
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Current Status (a0.0):
Excellent model: thanks to Derrin Proctor from Movie Mesh Site for the support! I added internal doors to dropbay (just made a copy of the current external doors) and played with materials (still need to work the frontal sensors) and the spaceship's scale. Now the big task I'm doing with this model is the cleaning operation: merging faces, deleting hidden geometries... it will take some time... but in the end I hope to have a model better prepared to run in Orbiter Space Simulator and in lower PC specs.
Future Updates:
I plan to add a few more details to Proctor's original model. Basically I will open some additional holes in Sulaco's fuselage in order to have more cargo/bay/launch doors ready for animation. Sulaco is a military vessel and it's able to carry armament and other vehicles not seen in ALIENS movie. I'm talking here about one-person drop capsules, several missiles… All these equipments will be simulated when the time comes (I hope).
I also would like to add internal details… That Sulaco version would have the dropships hangars and APC garage modelled, and also the cargo level ;-)
Photo © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 1986.
About textures: the first alpha (a0.0) will have a basic one just to give a little of colour/"texture" to the fuselage. I prefer to play with materials… But there will be a future version with a texture you will surely like… That texture will have the ship's name and by editing it you can have any other of the 36 Conestogas… (in the current model the vessel's name is a 3D shape).
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The only numbers I was able to find were a) that Sulaco's length was over 385 meters (ACMTM) and b) that lateral loading cargo doors, in the foremost section of the hull, had 25x10m each.
The first alpha model will surely not have the right dimensions… but I guess they will be close. I'm mainly using Sulaco's dropship bay (and lateral cargo doors) and it's comparison to the more consensual dimensions of the dropship itself to resize the whole Sulaco.
Conclusions? Sulaco should have the following approximate dimensions (m):
- Lenght....645.00
- Width......125.74
- Height.....171.52
I must see / study the movie more times and research this further.
| Animations |
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First alpha animations: only the dropship hangar main doors. This is just an early animation and the doors do not open like in the movie.
Later animations: dorsal/ventral railgun, other hangars/doors and, if one day Sulaco's has internal details added it would be cool to animate the internal dropship hangar doors and the crane… (probably this will only be done with a specific.dll)
| Tecnical Data |
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Work in Progress… More details will be added in a later version… For now, I will only write that Sulaco has about 78000 tons, a fusion plant and very good engines ;-)
| Work in Progress: Pictures |
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Sulaco (a0.0 - early alpha pictures)
Sulaco at Mars
Sulaco at Mars: dropship flying close.
Sulaco at Acheron (planetary / atmosphere textures not developed yet)
This is an outdated picture: Sulaco's sensors have now the hull's material.
http://www27.brinkster.com/radman88/WebPage/Sulaco.htm at Aliens Hive
http://www.planete-alien.net/sulaco.html