[video=youtube;SkVotzNGGTs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkVotzNGGTs[/video]
Now that you have finished watching the cringy video... 
Hello there fellow Commanders!
CMDR Clanga here and I figured I'd share something I created just as a fun project to learn more about 3d modelling (and animation, I guess). The clip is supposed to be a guardian AI scout/exploration/outpost ship intercepting a player's ship. Perhaps the AI would be angry at humans being in their space, perhaps just curious, who knows... The aim of this thread is, indeed, to get people thinking and wondering more about Guardians and their sentient AI.
Please do not take anything in the video seriously, I know the quality is less than what one would get in-game, however much of it is due to me having to try and replicate everything down to the minute details... and eventually one just realizes that there is a lot of detail in Elite's cockpits, even in ones that are as barren as an asp's cockpit. So I decided to, at one point, not spend too much more time on getting everything perfect and just get this project done and start rendering it. Also please do not mind the sound, I am not good with sound and I basically just mashed together loads of sounds already in Elite (some of which are new from the 3.0 update, which is partly the reason I finally decided to add the sound and release this video).
There are also other things that are not quite right, for example the "code" that the alien craft transmits to you is similar to something already in-game, however it does not follow the same "rules" as in-game... the reason for that is that the code in this video actually does mean something, best of luck to anyone who wishes to try to decode it.
In the end, my biggest wish would be to induce a discussion about the guardian AI... are they still out there? If they are, where would they be? If they are, what would they look like? Would they be hostile or not?
If the thread does not belong here then I would ask a moderator to move it to a more relevant forum.
Hello there fellow Commanders!
CMDR Clanga here and I figured I'd share something I created just as a fun project to learn more about 3d modelling (and animation, I guess). The clip is supposed to be a guardian AI scout/exploration/outpost ship intercepting a player's ship. Perhaps the AI would be angry at humans being in their space, perhaps just curious, who knows... The aim of this thread is, indeed, to get people thinking and wondering more about Guardians and their sentient AI.
Please do not take anything in the video seriously, I know the quality is less than what one would get in-game, however much of it is due to me having to try and replicate everything down to the minute details... and eventually one just realizes that there is a lot of detail in Elite's cockpits, even in ones that are as barren as an asp's cockpit. So I decided to, at one point, not spend too much more time on getting everything perfect and just get this project done and start rendering it. Also please do not mind the sound, I am not good with sound and I basically just mashed together loads of sounds already in Elite (some of which are new from the 3.0 update, which is partly the reason I finally decided to add the sound and release this video).
There are also other things that are not quite right, for example the "code" that the alien craft transmits to you is similar to something already in-game, however it does not follow the same "rules" as in-game... the reason for that is that the code in this video actually does mean something, best of luck to anyone who wishes to try to decode it.
In the end, my biggest wish would be to induce a discussion about the guardian AI... are they still out there? If they are, where would they be? If they are, what would they look like? Would they be hostile or not?
If the thread does not belong here then I would ask a moderator to move it to a more relevant forum.
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