Noctis's work Currently Mechanist Fleet (clockwork)

Gkug · Post by **Gkug** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:54 am

The Dreameater looks good, but the tail looks like it could still do with a little more improvement.

Noctis · Post by **Noctis** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:05 am

well personally I like the goat head so imma keep it. If it bugs you so much just ignore it.

working on another ship as we speak

jwa8402 · Post by **jwa8402** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:58 am

Magick, shut up, your the one that screams epic every time you see a half decent ship.

Hell ya, the second set of horns looks much gooder!
I like the color transition on the tail but its still one section repeated. If thats the look your going for fine but I would use no less than three sections, repeating if needed, to give it a beefier look. For this ship its not the end of the world though.

Noctis · Post by **Noctis** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:41 am

Ok new ship but first

Credits to Chaos theory for the ion cannons and to Water_and_Wind for the charging guns.

Lazarous.

The Lazarous is a strange ship, actually pieced together out of pieces of other amalgamite ships during a major battle. It "rose from the dead" to have a powerful role is defeating the other army.

Note, when looking at the hands try to image them in 3d, thats how I attempted to make them look. I actually have two versions of this, one which uses the Ion cannon's of Chaos (actually its three weapons stacked for a single effect) and the other which uses the charge gun of Water_and_Wind. Charge guns are on the upper hands of both versions and only on the lower on the second.
The glowing read thing in the center of the hands is animated btw

version one

v2

Caesius · Post by **Caesius** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:48 am

Shouldn't it be "Lazarus"?

Whenver I read that I thought it said "Lazerous."

Looks alright, but you use a LOT of Section 16's, which is bad. Bad bad bad, BAD. If you find yourself using the same piece 3 times in a row you're in trouble, but if you use it a dozen times in a row then you seriously need to reconsider your shipbuilding strategies to find out what's causing you to use the same section over and over again. If it's laziness, than just spend more time on your ship! [/guywhousesfourdozensection4sonaship]

Also having a red square thing inside a circle looks awkward.

Noctis · Post by **Noctis** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:19 am

Caesius wrote:Shouldn't it be "Lazarus"?

Whenver I read that I thought it said "Lazerous."

Looks alright, but you use a LOT of Section 16's, which is bad. Bad bad bad, BAD. If you find yourself using the same piece 3 times in a row you're in trouble, but if you use it a dozen times in a row then you seriously need to reconsider your shipbuilding strategies to find out what's causing you to use the same section over and over again. If it's laziness, than just spend more time on your ship! [/guywhousesfourdozensection4sonaship]

Also having a red square thing inside a circle looks awkward.

I know I know, I'm working on getting better at that but sometimes it just doesn't look good without doing that, least to me.

um as per the red square, as I said its animated so in the game it looks more like red flickering energy then just red square.

As per the name, fuck it I found like a dozen different spellings of it so whatever, freaking biblical names.

NEXT SHIP IS NAMED TONY GOD DAMN IT

Caesius · Post by **Caesius** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:31 am

Okay, so it looks like a red square of flickering energy and Soviet propaganda.

Noctis · Post by **Noctis** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:59 pm

YARG

I was bored so THIS

his name is tony

OH NOES TONY ANGRY

YAY TONY IS TEH WINRARS

Ok silliness aside "tony" here uses 5 charge cannons, reworked by me to charge up for a while then fire a very fast and destructive bolt of energy. The one in the center there has a 90 frame charge but does sheerly crazy amounts of damage.

Noctis · Post by **Noctis** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:35 pm

So how is everyone here doBLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE.

yeah so decided to make a big honking ship called the Blade of chaos. Its as of yet unarmed But I will do that later.

whole ship

close up of the most detailed area around the cockpit.

I'll have a better shot of the whole ship up as soon as I can cobble a few shots together.

Download up when finished

C&C on this and "tony" please.

(I am aware that the red is kinda dark but going with the Chaos marine design idea the only real colors are red, dark red, darker red and steel.)

Night

Danny420Dale · Post by **Danny420Dale** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:56 pm

JPEG = No C&C. Stop using JPG and we'll stop being dicks.

Noctis · Post by **Noctis** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:12 am

You know I honestly see no difference here but ok fine here's your gif a nd png. Feel free to bitch about something else pointless and inconsequential
Oh and just in case you feel like giving me flack about the use of the parts as an outline
http://www.wyrdysm.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... 2489#52489
does the exact same thing. Not as good as his overall at all but still, he can do it, why not me.

Edit:just in case those weren't enough here.

Caesius · Post by **Caesius** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:05 am

Noctis wrote:You know I honestly see no difference here but ok fine here's your gif a nd png. Feel free to bitch about something else pointless and inconsequential

That's probably because you took the .jpg above and converted it to .gif and .png. Do you know how compression artifacts work?

And it's not pointless and inconsequential, we seriously can't give you accurate C&C if the image is muddled.

ArcaneDude · Post by **ArcaneDude** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:48 am

Noctis wrote:

Oh and just in case you feel like giving me flack about the use of the parts as an outline
http://www.wyrdysm.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... 2489#52489
does the exact same thing. Not as good as his overall at all but still, he can do it, why not me.

Reasons why you can't do this;

You're simply not that good at it yet.
Yes. He does it. May I point out that Anna is the inventor of the style (I think)? And that he's the only one who can use it that good?
Oh yes. Someone does something, so LET'S ALL DO THE SAME!

My advice is, try to develop your own style, or simply wait using this untill you've improved a bit.

Danny420Dale · Post by **Danny420Dale** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:10 am

Caesius wrote:That's probably because you took the .jpg above and converted it to .gif and .png. Do you know how compression artifacts work?

EPIC FAIL. How the hell could someone be so blitheringly staggeringly stupid!?

Caesius · Post by **Caesius** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:45 am

Danny420Dale wrote:
Caesius wrote:That's probably because you took the .jpg above and converted it to .gif and .png. Do you know how compression artifacts work?
EPIC FAIL. How the hell could someone be so blitheringly staggeringly stupid!?

http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... eupqd0.png

For this one I see .jpg AND .gif artifacts.

Noctis, for future reference, if you take a low-quality image and "convert" it to a high-quality image, the end result will look WORSE than the low-quality image despite being a larger filesize. You HAVE to use the .bmp files that BSF creates as those are the original, lossless files.