Exeter Class

Background: 	Imagine the year 24 something. A controversial leap in technology results in the development of a new project: Exeter. Warhawks emerge in the Federation, quietly pushing this project through, however, during shakedown trials, the prototype is stolen. Throw in double agents from the mirror universe and some radical Klingon types, and you get the pseudo story of this ship.

This ship is intended to be a design bridge between the Monarch class and the 24th century. Maybe she has slip stream drive technology... you figure that one out for me. Fun, into-the-not-so-distant future design in any case.





Requirements:	I like stock, so this will work on the simplest installations of Legacy. Probably works on the others too. 





Installation:	This is my first release, so I want this to be easy to use for anyone of any skill level. 

Put all .dds files in your textures/dds folder
Put .m3d file in your m3d folder
Put F_Exeter into odf/ships
Put the two 'torpedo' files in odf/photons
Put the two 'phaser' files in odf/phasers
Put the three other odf files in odf/pulse

The ms3d file is for any milkshapers who want to play around or critque. Its a first release, so some of the way i put it together is a little rough, but i think it works well enough. Open to criticism.




****This ship requires you to modify your weapons.spr in your sprites folder. This isnt hard. If you don't wish to do so, just replace the weapons in the F_Exeter.odf to something from a stock ship.
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@reference=256
@tmaterial=additive

#  Federation Pulse phaser
pphaser		wpulse		0	0	256	64	@anim=tex1x4

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>After this line, skip a space and add:

#  Future Federation Pulse phaser
wpulseE		wpulseE		0	0	256	64	@anim=tex1x4

>to look like:
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@reference=256
@tmaterial=additive

#  Federation Pulse phaser
pphaser		wpulse		0	0	256	64	@anim=tex1x4

#  Future Federation Pulse phaser
wpulseE		wpulseE		0	0	256	64	@anim=tex1x4
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>This installs the pulse sprite (which makes pulse phasers apear in the game).

Still need to do the same for the phaser. Find:

# Federation Tng Small-ship beam
wfedphaser_tng_sml	wfedphaser_tng_sml	0	0	256	64  @anim=tex1x4 @tile_u

# Federation Tng Medium-ship beam
wfedphaser_tng_med	wfedphaser_tng_med	0	0	256	64  @anim=tex1x4 @tile_u

# Federation Tng Large-ship beam
wfedphaser_tng_lrg	wfedphaser_tng_lrg	0	0	256	64  @anim=tex1x4 @tile_u

>and subsequently add:

# Federation Fut Medium-ship beam
wfedphaser_fut_med	wfedphaser_fut_med	0	0	256	64  @anim=tex1x4 @tile_u






Credits: 	Special thanks go out to TipTop for your support and help with the ship icon, model, texture advice... it wouldnt be here with out that help.





Issues:		None known.	New textures will one day be released, so bear with me. Plus, I don't know how to create a bonified bumpmap using GIMP. 




If you are going to build future weapons on future ships, by all means, you can use mine with no credit given.

If you are going to use the ship  for something, please mention me.