Darkship's assorted stuff (now with a new ship)

Darkship · Post by **Darkship** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:55 pm

i suppose i can agree with the deflector placement, what i was thinking when i did that was a shield projector cluster, but in hindsight that was not quite as good.

Its on my list of changes along with my weapon pixel nudging.

ArcaneDude · Post by **ArcaneDude** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:56 pm

These ships are definitely nice. Especially the last three ones. They remind me a bit of the Ruustirii fleet though...Still, kewlness across the board.

BoVinE · Post by **BoVinE** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:18 am

These new ones kick ass.
I really like your partial covering of the core, but also using it as part of the design.

Darkship · Post by **Darkship** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:52 pm

AH HA i finally have something so totally random that it does not fit into the other ships i have built so far for a fleet.

Well this one might evolve into a fleet itself if i feel like making it so.

In any case i present the Falcon. (Really i have no idea why i chose that name)

comments and criticism most welcomed.

Spoot Knight · Post by **Spoot Knight** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:36 pm

Very well done on the use of repetition to make the shapes.
And it's called the Falcon because it has wings?

It looks very alien and advanced, I wonder how it would look with gradients enabled considering it has manually placed gradients.

Darkship · Post by **Darkship** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:05 pm

Hmmm yes perhaps it is because of the wings, but really i only added the wings so it wouldnt look like a penisbrick.

As for gradients it didnt change much, if anything the colors got darker.

KLJaden · Post by **KLJaden** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:40 pm

Sorry if it seems I copied the name Arjuna, but its for a species name, not a ship name in my case. i just barely found this thread and hope you don't hurt me for using the name cause I Just randomly came up with it.

Darkship · Post by **Darkship** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:31 pm

Har another update on the twirly reactor ships. slightly different in design but oh well it works. Repetition at its finest

weapons and stats pending.

Spoot Knight · Post by **Spoot Knight** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:58 pm

Love the outlining on the back, use of manual gradients is still kicking rad.

Anty · Post by **Anty** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:19 pm

the outer hull is still too stretched and repetive

Master Chief · Post by **Master Chief** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:22 pm

Manual gradients. Yum.

Watch out for the section stretching though.

Post by **Anna** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:31 pm

Anty wrote:the outer hull is still too stretched and repetive

And still manages to look better than almost anything you've ever made.

The stretching and repetition is fine, in this instance. It's a single row of the same section on either side, which doesn't qualify as excessive repetition. Additionally, the stretching was done intentionally to preserve a specific pattern, and does quite a good job of it. What the hell is wrong with some of you people? The only reason you even have a clue about what looks good on a ship is because someone else has told you, and even then, you don't understand WHY it looks good.

"Because it's big, it must be good!" "Because it has repetition and section stretching, it must be bad!"

The section stretching on this only just borders on being excessive. On the flipside, the manual gradient is fucking beautiful, so I suspect half a dozen talentless hacks to try their hands at it in the near future, only to butcher it horribly.

Kanosint · Post by **Kanosint** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:39 pm

It's hard to even find anything wrong with this ship, but I did notice that, on that latest ship you posted, the frontal... errr, reactor (?) has some overlap at the back. Now, you probably did that one on purpose to make it look like some sort of 8, but I just thought I'd mention seeing how it slightly looks odd with the otherwise symmetrical ship.

Still, even if it is an error, it has to be the most beautiful error I ever saw. Great job on doing things that most people use to make suckships whereas you create beautiful things. Good job.

Anty · Post by **Anty** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:53 pm

Anna wrote:
Anty wrote:the outer hull is still too stretched and repetive
And still manages to look better than almost anything you've ever made.

The stretching and repetition is fine, in this instance. It's a single row of the same section on either side, which doesn't qualify as excessive repetition. Additionally, the stretching was done intentionally to preserve a specific pattern, and does quite a good job of it. What the hell is wrong with some of you people? The only reason you even have a clue about what looks good on a ship is because someone else has told you, and even then, you don't understand WHY it looks good.

"Because it's big, it must be good!" "Because it has repetition and section stretching, it must be bad!"

The section stretching on this only just borders on being excessive. On the flipside, the manual gradient is fucking beautiful, so I suspect half a dozen talentless hacks to try their hands at it in the near future, only to butcher it horribly.

I disagree, the front stretched section 3's just have a very blurred and different texture then the middle part of the ship with the section 9's which is way more detailed, I don't care how much it was the intention to keep a certain patern, but the front just doesn't look as good as the rest of the ship

Siber · Post by **Siber** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:58 pm

the last two ships should be held up as shining examples of how you don't need hundreds of sections to make great ships. Sure, you can reflexively slam them for repetition, that's easy enough, but the reason repetition or section stretching are bad is they tire the eye, and become very visually boring. Such is not the case here, where the curves and gradients are masterfully done.

They're not perfect. The internal curves are messy and uneven, disapointingly, but they are improving. It's an easy to overlook fault in light of the magesty of the rest of the ship. I look forward to seeing any further refinements of this idea.