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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:56 am
by Spoot Knight
FIREST0RM000 wrote:If you look real carefully, you'll notice a faint shimmer of red.
yes, I see it. perhaps if you opened up the front of the ship a little and gave it a barrel, kinda memento mori style that would look good, especially with the yellow outline.
I'd still love to see a version that launches fighters. then it'd be like a cross between a sub and an aircraft carrier.
The thing with this ship is for some reason it doesn't look good when a gap is made to show "Hay guyz, I can has cliche ubergun." so I had to go with a solid bow. What I need to do is find a way to make it appear out of place to the point it looks like a seperate part of the ship.
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:07 am
by FIREST0RM000
The thing with this ship is for some reason it doesn't look good when a gap is made to show "Hay guyz, I can has cliche ubergun." so I had to go with a solid bow. What I need to do is find a way to make it appear out of place to the point it looks like a separate part of the ship.
well, if you want to hide the main gun, you could put some more guns up front, slightly off to the side.
Or, you could just make a slightly more inconspicuous barrel using the outlining you already have going.
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:08 am
by Spoot Knight
FIREST0RM000 wrote:The thing with this ship is for some reason it doesn't look good when a gap is made to show "Hay guyz, I can has cliche ubergun." so I had to go with a solid bow. What I need to do is find a way to make it appear out of place to the point it looks like a separate part of the ship.
well, if you want to hide the main gun, you could put some more guns up front, slightly off to the side.
Or, you could just make a slightly more inconspicuous barrel using the outlining you already have going.
Both of those are my intention.
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:11 am
by FIREST0RM000
well then I'll let you get back to work
good luck with the ship.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:50 pm
by Spoot Knight
Ok...I've nearly gone bananas thinking of what to do, and this is my result.
How's this?
Oh, I see what Imageshack did...fuckers...
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:57 pm
by Bad Boy
I can't speak for everyone else, but I really like how it turned out. I recommend you make (or continue to make) a fleet in this style.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:28 pm
by Spoot Knight
Now that the ship's completely armed...
The Harbinger class Battleship, a name that well suits this ship, is the most powerful warship in the Commonwealth fleet. It boasts a tremendous amount of firepower that can make short work of any previously dated ship of its class.
The Commonwealth's main focus is releasing tremendous amounts of firepower, and this ship does just that. With 32 micro-missile launchers the Harbinger can launch a full-strike consisting of 512 micro-missiles, which is both devastating and almost impossible to intercept. The five sets of PULSAR beam arrays give the ship a deadly defense against a large number of targets.
Like the Orion Assault Destroyer, the Harbinger houses a leathal particle lance cannon, which can mean certain death to nearly anything it faces, but requires three minutes to recharge, making a miss or an ineffective attack fatal.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:38 pm
by bien4500
Looks like a submarine, a very large, spacefaring submarine. Uber cool! The main cannon bothers me though.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:41 pm
by Spoot Knight
It doesn't look so flat with Surfaces on, and it looks a lot more solid, and it is cliche.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:46 pm
by Master Chief
An excerpt from IRC:
IRC wrote:[20:10] <Siber> :/
[20:10] <Siber>
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/1048/hurrrrrqy2.png
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[20:10] <Siber> I don't think I like this...
[20:10] <Anna> I don't either.
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[20:10] <Exe> Too much outlining
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[20:12] <Anna> Honestly, I liked Spoot's Blue ships a lot more than that thing.
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[20:12] <MC> Bleh blue blue blue blue blue blue blue
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[20:12] <Anna> And? Still looks better than that... thing.
[20:13] <Exe> Sorry, what we talking about?
[20:13] <MC> [20:10] <Siber>
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/1048/hurrrrrqy2.png <--- This.
[20:13] <Exe> Ah yes.
[20:13] <Exe> Some proper nasty section use there, again the concentration is too much on the ship's overall shape.
[20:14] <MC> I don't think Spoot intended for anyone to carefully inspect his section usage.
[20:14] <Anna> Fuck "careful inspection". At a casual glance I hate it.
[20:14] <MC> Overuse of outlining. Period.
[20:15] <Exe> Exactly, it's just plain messy, anything thrown together to make the overall ship profile
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[20:16] <Anna> Overuse of outlining? Maybe. Even the general shape and section usage sucks, though.
Kind of self-explanatory.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:49 pm
by Spoot Knight
Yeah, I always figured I should've stopped altogether but I felt like I could try making something different from my Spoot ships.
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:37 am
by Water_and_Wind
I would disagree, I think that this ship does look good. The internals are passable (except for the canards, those were a good idea but the insides suck) but the outlining gives it a very sleek feel, and makes it look three-dimensional. Using the layers as contour lines, it is easy to envision how it would look in real life. Not to mention, the weapon placement has been improved vastly since Spoot's early ships. Its a different style from the usual, to be sure, but I personally like it.
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:52 am
by jwa8402
I just like that its elongated and I really like the 'fins'. Beyond that, not qualified to say much, but I liked the internal structure of your blue ships. Perhaps Try different outlines, sans the black and highlighting, and go for the detail that helped make your older ships great, without the same old shape and color scheme.
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:06 am
by Skull13
Good shape. The outlining assaults the eye, though. Keep up with the fourth revision! The Crusader only falls to Cruise missiles! CRUISE MISSILES! I can't kill it AT ALL! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGG
GGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Make more, please
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:32 am
by FIREST0RM000
PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:46 am Post subject:
An excerpt from IRC:
IRC wrote:
blah, blah, blah
Kind of self-explanatory.
don't give in to the pressure. keep making awesome ships like these. the outlining adds a lot to the ship IMO, but the canards and nose section aren't quite as good as the rest of the ship.
use of orange outlining on the nose looks sort of out of place.
otherwise a great ship.
