Imagine a new WipEout team....

@D79 : It was funny that after I done the edits I went to leave a message on Kyonshi's page and seen your comments about the cockpit position, which is exactly what I was thinking :) I think to definately give it the Wipeout feel the cockpit has to be at the back :+

Hope its all good and things get better for you :+

Have a good break - Im looking forward to seeing that Tez ship in 3D :D :+

VELENO AG EVALUATION CENTER: Revealed the ship model and the name of the team.

Finally we're ready to know the details about this new AG Racing team from Italy, through the words of its founder Giulio Galletti.

Giulio Galletti: "Hi mates! Let's be friends eheheh! We're 'so excited, finally the moment is arrived!
We're enthusiasts to presents this honest creation from Italy, builted in the amazing AG-Racing laboratories of Magmatech, in Sicily.
Probably a lot of people doesn't know that the final test for Moa Terma track was made from this amazing Italian center ehehehe!
Honestly I've believed in this company since the first moment that I was entered in their laboratories...the quality and the results of their researches are flawless! And with the collaboration of my Veleno AG-Evaluation center we have created this honest italian creation, under the name of VOLCANO HI-TECH!
Why Volcano? Eheheheh, simple, Sicily is the location of one of the most great volcano in history, the Etna...but from 100 years ago the Etna
volcano is still inactive, and the Magmatech laboratories was situated into this amazing volcano.
The Etna can be wieved as an immortal simbol of power in Sicily.
Our colors will be orange, brown and blue, everyone of them has its meaning into this collaboration:

orange: the Sun, the lava and....the oranges eheheheh (Sicily is still famous for its citrus fruits...);

brown: the earth, simbol of the power of a volcano;

blue: don't forget that Sicily is an island, eh? The blue is a tribute of its amazing sea and beaches.

Please stay away from every negative interpretation! Our logo represents a volcano in eruption, but that can be viewed as a positive circle of life (like our collaboration, for example), sorrounded by four blue angles, that represents the sea that rounds this beatiful island...
but if you look it with more attention you can interpret our logo as two persons embraced, rounded by the blue color, a color of peace and friendship, and this represents our pacific and friendly intentions into the AG-Racing.
A special thanks for A.L.T.E.R.N. reserach, that has believed in our project since the first moments of our studies.

I hope that our tough researches will be repayed by your enthusiasm.

Please remember...we're forged in fire!"

Ship characteristics:

Team Name: Volcano Hi-Tech;
Provenience: Italy;
Motor Engine: Veleno PT-APP, perfected by Magmatech Laboratories;
Weapon System: Magmatech XH;
Shield System: Magmatech HT.

The ship racing skills wil be revealed into a very near future.


Team logo: http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/pic...pictureid=1479

Ship design: http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/pic...pictureid=1478

For Kyonshi: Awesome work mate! I love the color contrast and the great idea for your ship design....ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC :+!

Venom... The craft is taking a new shape, a new form, a new direction. I am very impressed at the reworking of the model so far mate. And for sure, A.LT.E.R.N recognizes all members as pivotal to the Enterprising Research Network, where all technologies are embraced, all ideas are considered and enthusiasm is never curbed.

I, personally think you have created a new scene here at the zone, thus saluting the futuristic world of high speed anti gravity combat racing! :rock

Mu5, our esteemed 3d Model Maniac (:rock) has offered to give your ship a 3d makeover, which is very generous of him. I would like to see, with much anticipation - his effort to give your ship the 3d makeover.

Finally, As head of the AirLicker Group, I have a message I would like for you to relay to Guilio Galletti, "Dear Guilio, I am in awe of your vision my friend, your vision which left most of us in the world of Anti-Grav Racing, in doubt. I, for one - believed in your enthusiasm and charismatic ability to influence and win over, several key figures and businesses to your idea of making a team. There were times when Veleno did indeed look like it had stalled. But I know you Guilio, and know you are indeed a dark horse - you kept many things quite from other, prying eyes. And I commend this, as your team needed secrecy from the harsh reality of Mafia extortion, and corrupt govt. officials, not to mention the interest of other teams wanting to know exactly what direction you were taking VELENO to. Indeed, Veleno re-emerged into the world, born from a volcano, born of a life giving fire, a passion - and much like a phoenix, which rises from its own ashes, Veleno re-emerged as Volcano Hi-Tech. We look forward to working together with you, to perfect technologies in future. You have our support, as much as we have yours, dear friend!"

And for you Venom - I have this sentiment: :rock on buddy, you're backstory is fantastic and hugely entertaining... (this threaqd has all the makings of a sure fire anime hit, if only we all had the right connects, money and influence eh!!!! - still, I dream!) :)

Kyonshi: Top class logo design, very cool man!!!

@Mu5
I appreciate your designer input for the ship dude, but i placed the cockpit toward the nose on purpose and i'd like it to stay that way. ;) Also, the color pallette is not exactly how i was seeing it, because i wanted to use the ones that are featured in the team logo. Im gonna work on this later.

Also, i wanna differ from all the rest of the WipEout ships in their conception. I wanted to show how a frontal cockpit ship could be featured in WipEout and still looks in accordance with general WipEout ship concept. That's why i mentioned in my fictious story that i fused arrow-head and dual-hull chassis. Anyway, my ship isnt the first one to feature such design, Fusion's Tigron was also a frontal-cockpit ship :)

Second, the ship's strength is based on powerful Thrust and fluid Handling. This is why the reactor is long and narrow, placed from the immediate back of the cockpit to the far end of the tail. For handling, yes i wanted to have a bird-like hull and have the cabin foward the nose to literally dive into the air and let it flow along the fuselage to allow the ship to be sustained by air-flow. Now im not the best in physics and engineering, but that's how i see it :P

Im not really looking for the shape of an owl. In my point of view, it would looks too bulky. Its more about a svelt and slender design that recalls the shape of a bird, how it soars through the air. What can be related to the snow owl is more about the fierce but controlled power this bird has.

Cool mate :D :+

When I first seen your design I loved it - but it looked that the cockpit should be set back slightly (I guess, to be more like the design of traditional Wipeout Craft). I knew it was going to be a relatively easy edit, so thats why I just fired ahead with it :D

Your original image rocks mate - its just my brain thinking the ship is back to front the way you have designed the cockpit :D

Regarding colour - the only colour that I love with Blue is orange, so thats why I chose that. I just wanted to add a fresh colourscheme :)

Love your top down view - Are you planning on doing the the side and front views also yeah ? :)

I love the design. Great work :+

My team name is 'Peregrine'. [pronounced with a long "i".]

}Slowly.... sloooooooooowly the concept takes shape. :g {

...as in Falcon? - Cool name! :D :+

Just to say Kyonshi - I just wanted to see what your ship looked like. I didn't mean to say you should change the design, not at all mate :D :+

Im itching to build that white storm ship in Modo :beer

I just downloaded Sketchup; Google must have some fast servers; through my wireless connection, it ran at an average of about 550KB per second. Only took about a minute to dl.

However, I'm thinking that my little laptop may not have enough horsepower to do things without taking ridiculous amounts of time.

My crappy 3 year old laptop runs SketchUp with no issues. :+

I have heard that blender is pretty cool - even if you have a low spec machine :+

Ive yet to try it out - seen some amaizing particle/engine effects in it though :D :+

djKyoto, that's good to hear. Mine has a 2.16 GHz Celeron, 535 MHz FSB and 2 GB RAM, and it's at the bottom end, the entry level, of standard laptops. I installed SketchUp with no added plug-ins tonight, and it seems to work fine. I don't yet see a curve smoother for freehand lines yet; I hope there is one so I can do compound reverse curves on the Peregrine racecraft.

I watched a few videos earlier tonight and was amazed at what some people have done with animations. I don't know if they used the free or the pro version; they weren't sayin'. :)

edit: I discovered that I can use the arc tool to get a smooth compound curve.

Lance - send me a ship design (orthographic views) and I will build it for you :D :+

Thanks for the offer, but this is something I want to do myself. Having someone else do it would be like giving them a stack of selected words and asking them to write a poem for me. Sorta. :) Can you tell that I'm one of those damned artist fellas? They're all eccentric.

X-Zen-tricks! :D

I was gonna offer too lance but college has just started haha, so more homework and less modelling. However, if you need any help on sketchup then I'll be more than happy to help. :)

For ACE-FLO: thanks for all the good words mate :beer!

From Giulio Galletti: "Thanks to your support and friendship! In the past the Veleno laboratories....ehm....am surprised....do you know the "famous" italian mafia, eh? Ehm, yes....am very embarassed, but the mafia was a serious problem for the "old" Veleno technologies and the Italian country in general...extortion, don't you know? But today, with the increasing number of police departments and the original use of some fast AG-Police ships, the problem was totally resolved, believe me...our donation to the italian - corrupted at its times - police departments has involved the Italian police squads from its old bad times....and the corruption form the most powerful positions was totally destroyed....for your help and your friendship, I want to contribute with a serious donation for you all, the A.L.T.E.R.N. group!
Thanks for all the good words! We believe in a new, clean future for our Italian country, and a new, clean and peaceful future for the AG-Racing.

Giulio Galletti, the "dark horse."

Best regards!"

And another incoming information from the founder of Volcano team:

"Ehy mates, do you want to know the Volcano ship racing skills?
Ehehehe, let me show them to you...!

Top Speed: 7
Accelleration: 10
Handling: 9
Shield: 7

Remember guys, we're forged in fire!"

@Lance - No worries! I was just offering to build the 3D Model, I would never design it for you ;)

@Ace-Flo: Cheers , you have gave me an idea for a new team name - 'Zen-X' :D Going to start building it this afternoon.

@Venom : Have you checked that fontstruct app out yet? You should do your own font in it ;)

Andy, thanks. I watched a couple of Google's tutorials last night, and it's clear that one of the main things I need to master for this project is the Follow-me tool so I can produce curved forms in solid. I may practice that today, if other things permit.

Mu5 - That's cool, X-Zen-Tricks was a lil play on words is all. I'm happy for you to use this name, and look forward to witnessing a stunning new creation from you! :)

Lance, I'll have to start learning SketchUp too. I got some free time next month and aim to get acquainted with its basics.

Venom, A.L.T.E.R.N are eagerly awaiting your contributions! Thank you.

Just wanted to add that the TD-T project has delayed slightly due to real life commitments, but AirLicker Group will be back with more, soon! :)

It'll probably take a lOt of practice before I can produce "the bloodleaves feathered peregrine in silver wings".