I was thinking of recreating this ship, when a fellow member asked me to do this. As I don't use other models, I rebuilt it from scratch, looking closely at the original on pics and textures from BC. Textures I made as well anew.
The original design is by Hobbes. Getting in touch with him or Dream Arts Productions was unsuccesful.
As allways, thanks to Wrath of Achilles for his Texture Tutorial and Major A Payne for his SodTutorial.
Credits:
Original model design : Hobbes
Shipnames: captmaxwell
Please note:
I cannot be hold responsible for any damage or problems otherwise regarding this model.
You may use this ship in your mod, just give credit where its do.
Enjoy!!
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The Ronin was designed as a fast battlecruiser, to strike at an enemy with its massive torpedo and phaserbanks. This class had less mass than the Sovereign class, but was more manoeuvrable and could even outmatch her in armament and shieldprotection. Ships of this class were also used in special missions and as mid-range explorers.
This folder contains 2 versions of the Ronin class, the strike variant and the explorer. (The difference is that the explorer variant lacks the heavy forward phaserscannons under the saucer. It's just a matter of tast.)
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Installation instructions
Put the sod file into the sod folder and the odf file into the odf ship folder.
put the tga into the texture RGB folder. ( I include the MS3D files for those who are interested.)
Open Bitmaps --> open Admiralslog --> open ShipImages and put the image there.
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Open techtree file
Open
tech1
under Federation ships add:
fronin.odf 1 fyard2.odf // battlecruiser (Ronin class)
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Open
fulltech
add under Federation:
fronin.odf 0
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Open Sprites --> open gui_global
find:
# Federation build buttons
@reference=64
add below that list:
b_fronin gbfronin 0 0 64 64
find:
# Federation wireframes
@reference=128 (if not present, just add the reference)
add below that list:
froninw1 wffronin 0 0 128 128
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Open ODF-folder --> open station folder
open fyard2
add under the list of builditems
buildItemXx = "fronin" ( The X stands for the next number on the list)
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That's it!