The start of a fleet, perhaps?

Commodore111 · Post by **Commodore111** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:14 am

The ship is the tiny one.

What do you think, should I continue with a fleet of this style or should I work on something else? I haven't posted any ships in a while...

I'll have more ships up later.

ArcaneDude · Post by **ArcaneDude** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:24 am

Wait. You're going to build a microfleet?

Fly swatters, IN POSITION!

Please keep going on this. This may become interesting.

Commodore111 · Post by **Commodore111** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:52 am

Microfleet for the fighters, then minifleet for the light capitals, normal fleet for the medium capitals, and titan fleet for the dreadnoughts and stuff.

derekiv · Post by **derekiv** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:09 am

Dang, I had plans for somethings like this....

But nice ship anyways

antisocialmunky · Post by **antisocialmunky** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:49 am

Well, I'm doing the same thing to since my BSG stuff is to scale.

Commodore111 · Post by **Commodore111** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:39 am

lol did you have to modify the sections position manually decimal by decimal?

Scorpia · Post by **Scorpia** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:06 am

This is an interesting idea. Go for it.

jwa8402 · Post by **jwa8402** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:22 am

ArcaneDude wrote: Fly swatters, IN POSITION!

I'm ready! Electric flyswatter ftw! ...that or a stoneage tennis racket...

wow thats seriously impressive, how did you get it to line up when its so small? You can modify it by decimals?! nice!

BoVinE · Post by **BoVinE** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:43 am

jwa8402 wrote:wow thats seriously impressive, how did you get it to line up when its so small? You can modify it by decimals?! nice!

Yes that's what I was shouting at you about days ago.

On a whole the ships and idea is good, but I think it ends up problematic with even ships that small having such high section counts. Highlighting at that scale isn't really necessary.

Commodore111 · Post by **Commodore111** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:54 am

I don't care about section counts. I care about detail.

Highlighting is pretty much neccesary for me

New ship.

it really is a pain to get everything to align right.

Post by **Anna** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:24 am

Highlighting on such tiny ships just makes them look like crap. Seriously, using regular grey sections instead of really dark but highlighted sections would probably look a lot better, and more detailed, on ships that goddamn miniscule. Also, I fail to see the point of making such tiny ships if they're going to have section counts higher than that of a Hestia.

BoVinE · Post by **BoVinE** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:45 am

Don't you get it? At the scale you're making this fleet, no one is going to zoom in that far to look at needless details, and you're effectively doubling the section count for no purpose whatsoever.

ArcaneDude · Post by **ArcaneDude** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:33 am

On the other hand, without highlighting, it might actually be impossible to see them on a normal zoom... <_<

But it's not going to help the fps, no.

DoubleThink · Post by **DoubleThink** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:37 am

ArcaneDude wrote:On the other hand, without highlighting, it might actually be impossible to see them on a normal zoom....

He could just build them out of white sections, and do away with the crap highlighting.

BoVinE · Post by **BoVinE** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:41 am

ArcaneDude wrote:On the other hand, without highlighting, it might actually be impossible to see them on a normal zoom... <_<

The smoke will be there, and he can always make the pieces lighter.