Rman Virgil wrote:
Let's see... other than the common vtol propulsion, the cyborg transport looks nothing like the large campaign transport (or visa versa) therefore the medium transport should look like one or the other stock transports - just because. Is that an accurate interpretation ?
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CyclonatorZ wrote:I dunno, I always thought they looked quite a lot alike. At the very least, they share more in common design wise than the current medium transport body shares with either of them. Both of those models have large, boxy bodies with small wings, while neither have double tails or wing surfaces that meld right into the rear. As it stands, the medium transport model looks a lot more like a gunship from Halo or something to me. But that's just my take on it.
Well, I'm going by basic geometries when I compare the Cyborg Transport & the original Campaign Transport. I agree with the "box-like" description of the Cyborg Transport but we part company with applying that term to the Campaign Transport which i perceive as clearly
ellipsoid. (A rather pronounced deviation, I dare say, in basic geometry.)
As for the
Halo connection with the medium transport - I don't see it. What I do see is Jorzi's inspiration from good ol' Mother Nature - the
manta ray.
I also question the assumption that there must be an overwhelmingly obvious visual resemblance between the 3.
I am certain when the
Osprey was on the drawing board that one of the design prerequisites was NOT that it look like a
HERC - form serves function & evolution is breathtaking in the endless forms that can serve like functions.
That said, I also believe there are clear limits to how far you should go in the name of realism in a game like WZ when the baseline reality is fun & the coolness factor or as Bernard Suits provocatively expressed it -
"Playing a game is a voluntary effort to overcome unnecessary obstacles." 
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(no support for tangent space though, since it requires further changes to the model format)
