...but of course dark external highlighting doesn't show up in space n looks sucky, lol. One of the aspects of highlighting is contrasting your ship with the background, hence light highlighting.
As to people wanting one facing the other way, I'm making an alt version now, some, you know, generic planet buster thingy. Might upgrade it to a star buster, just cos stars are bigger... though then again, this ship's not
that big.
The joints are my favourite bit, jwa - just did one when I was starting and loved it, heh.
Not seen the Bentusi warship, but inspiration was drawn from the planet killer missile launchers in HW2 and a blurry pic of the Replicator ship I half remembered that someone posted somewhere (cookie to Blackhart
)
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Update:
Colours retouched and made custom, bar some team colour trimmings, seen in blue.
And introducing a backwards, capital killer variant that I'm dubbing the Kraken
(sure that I've heard of that name somewhere before, but I'm sure no-one can remember that far back... ). Listening to the people (for once) I stripped out a pair of spikes, angled the outer spikes in a little, re-did the curve joining the spikes and slightly restructured the bow. Oh, and flipped it around. But that much should be obvious.
Each of the 16 segments of the glowy beam cannon port mounts a mega beam dealing 25 dmg/frame for 300 frames (just because I'm a nice guy and 150 dmg to each beamer was a little excessive once I'd copied it from the Claw Ship...) - oh and it's backed by a five shot, high damage tach for the whole pulsy - beam thing. And it has 46 micro missiles down various spikes. So far...
Yeah, the Kraken looks pretty cool... though it looks just as cool the other way around, lol... I don't KNOW WHICH WAY I PREFER grrr... Looking at how much narrowing the ship improved it, I plan on extending the centre spike of the Claw ship and moving the outer claws forwards, elongating it enough to have a similar effect to narrowing it whilst making a bigger ship
.
In my mind's eye I see an asteroid factory with these spiky ships 'growing' out of the crust like crystal growths, clawing their way to freedom...
