GREYCAT CYDNUS (WIP)

Hi !

I started this work two years ago with the covid. it represented about 3 months of work. I mainly made it on Catia, which I used professionally. Pixyz, Sketchup, Blender and Maya also contributed. I had to stop work for personal reasons and I lost catia. I was therefore unable to continue. right now i'm trying to get a student version to at least finish this project. having recovered a "decent" PC I was able to exploit an FBX extract on Sketchup to evaluate what I lost between this extract and the most recent work I had done, if I were to end up in 3D "art " on blender for example.

I therefore take this opportunity to present the result to you.

a small video is being compiled and will come to YT shortly. I'll edit this post to add it.

hoping you like the project.

FIRST VIEW OF VIDEO : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frQ66L-a-kM

LORE:

the graycat cydnus is a curiosity that newcomers should not necessarily know. Greycat specializes, normally, in mining devices. this "spider" is supposed to be some kind of "snub". it can move slowly in space with its reactors to land on an asteroid and undermine it on the ground. it will therefore have to be deployed by a larger vessel. we do not know what the possibilities of on-board refining are. insofar as they are used with a larger one, we can assume that they do not refine. however, I assumed that given its size, the advantage of a deployment with respect to a prospector which is about an equivalent volume was its ability to be more autonomous. to do pre-refining and to create its fuel directly from what it withdraws. and then it was more fun to make a real little factory out of it. we had some info a long time ago (2014 ...) I'll let you look on YT for extracts from ATVs with 3D animation and artwork (google image). there are several different versions of the project. a few years ago, a leak revealed that the cydnus was still in development, especially for subin on SQ42. his affiliation to SQ42 must explain his discretion. it is unknown if it will be available to players. initially as she needed a carrier, which was a space station, this ruled out players. but it would be a shame to spend time making a beautiful ship without being able to use it, wouldn't it? and then coincidentally at the same time, we learned that the orion was doubling in size... well, I'm guessing. but we can dream, right? this "leak" version cannot be found on the internet, but someone used it to make a very clean 3D print of it. this allowed me to have images of the general proportions and the choices of CIG. since then, we saw it again for a few seconds in the background in the presentation of SQ42 in 2021 and the citizencon in 2022. but it's too far to understand the differences compared to the leak.

I normally created an infographic of all the ships in the game, and ... this ship was missing. so I decided to model it. then it kept me busy during the lockdown! once the base is done, I said to myself that as for doing, I might as well add lots of detail and the interior, to maybe make a video, a simulation, what do I know? and that's how we are.

the infographic is progressing, I will publish it soon. although since then others have offered great tools that make this work a little less "useful". I'll share here when I'm done. old version : https://robertsspaceindustries.com/community-hub/post/old-2017-ship-size-infography-xdrliva3biu8r

don't hesitate to tell me what you think! I would add maybe tomorrow or after tomorrow one or two poster-style images by working a little on photoshop.

sorry for the poor english. I am French, I use google, I am too tired and too incompetent to do better than what the translator will suggest!