Original design and concept by me, never used in any commercial projects.The Dragonfly is a highly detailed VTOL capable space superiority fighter with lots of moving parts. Extendable wings, working gear system, 15 rotatable maneuver thrusters, 10 ordenance hardpoints, openable canopy, and fully detailed, realistic space drone cockpit, with articulated cameras and telescope makes it an ideal candidate to all sci-fi space projects. The model is fully UV mapped, with comprehensive UV layout, enabling easy retexturing.
The concept of this fighter was to create a Vertical Take of Landing (VTOL) spacecraft, suitable to serve on space carriers but capable to land on planets too, thanks to it't powerful plasma drives and articulated vernier thrusters. It has two stubby wings to carry heavy ordenance; a mix of rail guns, two large capacity missile launchers, sensor pods and space-to-space missiles. It is armed with two fixed large lasers. The unusual triangular drive layout and compact size makes the Dragonfly a very agile fighter in space. Because of the drives' high mass, the landing gears placement might seem strange for the first look, but computer controlled vernier system makes landing and take off easy. (centre of mass is somewhere in the aft quadrant of the fighter) The fighter is controlled by a semi-autonomous AI system, enabling razor-sharp turns and high-G manoeuvres.
The model is realscale. Dimensions are 6.6m wide, 5m high, 13.5m long. UV maps are typically 8192x8192 or 4096x4096 for the larger parts (body, wings, etc.) and 2048x2048 for smaller parts like (instruments, missiles,etc.)
The original model was created in Lightwave 3D. It has trigons and quads only and it is fully UV mapped, so exported shouldn't be a problem. Other versions were converted with various software. Please note, that these versions lacks the procedural textures of the original, and might need a bit work. If you can, use one of the Lwo/Lws version, that is complete, and needs no afterwork. The Lightwave versions also come with complete rigging, movement and rotation limiters, and lights to illuminate drives. Beside the original and the OBJ format files, two fbx version is provided: one from Lightwave 2020 interchange system, one from LW 2020's layout system.
The ASM226/ASM240 Missiles are included with the Dragonfly. The Hangar shown in the pictures are sold separately.
