Supreme Commander Cybran T3 Battleship

[Slayer0019]

Another ship replicated from Supreme Commander, I present the Cybran Galaxy Class.
This took way longer than I expected. I Made stats as close to the originals as possible while still maintaining the powerful BSF feel of battles. Weapons are, I believe, very close to the actual armaments.
If people are interested I'll post a download link.



C&C Welcome, as usual.

[Kurusunami]

I wanna shoot my Pilum at it and see what happens. Link!

That is awesome. I've seen Sera's ships, but he's too leet for me, or anyone else to beat. I wish I could get that good IN A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME. Teach me.

[LTfoxfire]

Looks almost like the ship off of Starship troopers. The coloring works well enough. I want to ask when is the best way to choose when to shade sections to show depth? You did a pretty good job outlining the sections off, and you seem to enjoy creating larger vessels. Any pointers, that you can show in your design, that may be of help to me and others?

[Kurusunami]

Alright, back to true recommendations.

Sometimes the pieces sticking off are badly done. I realized this problem on my pilum, the forward piece I put looked very out of place. On yours, it's like you suddenly went from thick, clear lines to thin, grainy lines that are brighter and draw bad attention. If the ship's looked at for more than a passing second the eyes are drawn to those parts. You could use a naturally (By default) smaller piece that has the general same shape. They're also apparently in numerous other places in the hull.
[That was a bit long-winded over a small issue, sorry if you think I'm nitpicking, but I find the small things go a huge distance. Like simply coloring, bolding, and formatting tooltips makes the difference between your game looking professional or your game being a slapped-together piece of crap.]

[Squishy]

This is a very faithful rendition, however you must be aware that some of the sections are a bit more pixelized than other sections due to stretching. This causes a garring effect on my eyes as I move my sight across the ship as parts of the ship shift from fine granularity to course granularity. It is taking a great deal of aesthetics out of your otherwise excellent ship.


If you have time, go back across the ship once more and play with the sections that are most stretched so that they do not stand out too much amongst their neighbors. You may need to substitute a one or more pieces to fill in any gap cause by unstretching some problem sections. Your goal is to maintain an overall fineness across your ship.



Your ship also suffers from repetition of sections, however I feel this may have been necessary due to it being made to accurately represent the Cybran Galaxy Class. Once you're done with fixing the stretching, see if you can mix up and vary those long, linear patterns of sections

[Slayer0019]

Thanks for the feedback, and I understand what you mean about the stretched parts. Part of the reason I did that was to stay as close as possible to the actual lines and contours of the Galaxy Class. That meant having to mix smooth plates in with more complicated arrangements.
Here's my reference pic, to better illustrate what I'm saying.

[Kurusunami]

The repetition's excusable, it's a fanship. But yes, there's a need to sacrifice a bit of shape for aesthetics. Use a different section for those grainy ones.

What game is that from? Looks fun. Looks kinda like Homeworld.

[Slayer0019]

Supreme Commander, and yes, it is fun. Take any RTS game you've ever played and multiply its scale by 20. Maps can be as large as 40 square miles.

[Arcalane]

40 square miles? The largest maps in SupCom are 80km by 80km. That's more like 50 square miles. Well, 49.7096954 to be precise.

[Smut]

To get back on topic (no offense), this ship is great. It's really big and I like the custom weapons on it. However, some of the sections are stretched a lot, and it's a bit ugly.

[Kurusunami]

I don't see anything stretched... Shrunk, yeah, which is bad, but we already had that. Faithful recreation of ship, good job, let's talk about big RTS's. Homeworld2's maps are HUGE.

[Arcalane]

Then you're not looking hard enough.

Looks accurate to the original, relatively speaking, though the turrets look a bit weird and could probably do with some colour variation and perhaps some mild outlining to make them stand out more.

[SHAD0Wdump]

This is certainly well done... I'd even go as far to say that you've made it look more cybran than the original.

[Kurusunami]

There seems to be a large amount of empty space. Hullmeat needed. Try using a white background in shipmaker to spot the gaps. Slight variations in the shades of black and red would also make it look better.

[Slayer0019]

There seems to be a large amount of empty space. Hullmeat needed.

Lolwut? The only empty spaces are in the back, where there actually are empty spaces.

the turrets look a bit weird and could probably do with some colour variation and perhaps some mild outlining to make them stand out more.

Agreed.

The largest maps in SupCom are 80km by 80km. That's more like 50 square miles. Well, 49.7096954 to be precise.

Close enough. If nothing else, the extra 10 square miles only strengthens my point.

Homeworld and Sins of a Solar Empire are immediately discounted from any discussions of scale due to the fact that they take place in space.

However, some of the sections are stretched a lot, and it's a bit ugly.

Actually none of the parts are really stretched all that much. The 22s behind the bridge are only sized up 2 or 3 "clicks" in either direction. The rest is just shrunk, which kind of throws the scale.
As for ugliness, blame Brackman. He designed it.