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This will be the thread in which I post all of my random ships (of which I have many).

Here's the first:


Here's a new line of ships I'm starting; if they take off, I'll move em to another thread. For now, here's the patrol ship:


Here's the frigate:


And here's the figher:


C&C appreciated, as I know that I screwed up somewhere.

I plan to use this thread for ALL ships that do not fit under my Halo ships or my Apophis ships.

about coloring:

for a color scheme, you will most likely want to chose a neutral color, such as a gray, as well as a primary color and a secondary color. any more than that and the ship begins to look like someone threw up skittles. try to make most of the ship's hull from either your neutral and primary colors, and use different shades of those to give the sense of depth. then use the secondary color sparingly to draw attention to interesting parts of your ship.

the primary and secondary color for your ship shouldn't clash either. I would suggest darkening the blue a little bit, and making the red brighter. your primary should be a color that looks good on your ship, and the secondary should stand out but not clash. a good example of this is blue with a purple secondary.

this is only one of many possibilities for a color scheme, but it's a good place to start.

also, you don't need to write in the 'EDIT:' thing if no one has posted after you yet as I understand it, and you don't need to do it at all on a ship building thread's first post.

Thank you very much for the advice. I'm editing the ship right now. Updated version in a sec. Also, how do I overwrite the version that's already uploaded?? Somehow it let me do it for my Halo ship, but now I get a prompt saying that I need to rename it first.

the best thing to do is not upload ships until they are finished, since very few people download works in progress ships unless it's to help with balancing. some one else will have to help you out there though.

for now just post pics

Updated.


Wow, thank you a LOT firestorm (btw, I'm not being sarcastic, I really appreciate your advice). BIG improvement.

I just noticed that those two white pieces in front of the blasters will change colour depending on how your colour is set for AI and player and such. Nice touch, if unintentional. Though now I know how to do that. Hit cancel when choosing a custom colour.


Click here for an action shot.

you're welcome. I'm glad to see improvement.

those color changing sections are generally referred to as 'house colors'. they can be made to appear as any of the 3 colors that are set for their team. when you right click a piece and in the colors menu hit default colors instead of custom, you can chose between these 3.

the only thing that I thing needs to be changed color scheme wise is to change those front to blue sections either to the steel blue you have in back, or to gray. for the future, it helps if higher sections of the ship are brighter, IE: near the core. otherwise, I like it. good job. try to apply lessons learned here to your other ships.

I give 8 lines of legitimate advice, and you are correcting me for telling someone who's location says they are from Virgina how to spell a word in American English.

I fail to see your logic at times

Killer: If you want your screenshots to be less blurry and to show colours more effectively, try saving them in .png format.

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My pics don't look to blurry, I just upload them without changing them and they look great to me, had no blurriness complaints off anyone. Of course, I could be wrong but my opinion is thats the best and easiest to do.

Jpeg format does result in an obvious loss in picture quality with BSF screenshots, notably with slight blurring and fading of colours as another result, as per my post in this thread. Also, when you convert to PNG, you can use the opportunity to TRIM YOUR DAMN SCREENSHOTS PEOPLE. (Not directed at you, Killer. You've done a great job of trimming yours, though I strongly recommend using png format.)

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Are screenies automatically saved as .jpeg then?

EDIT: saw the screeny topic, its a bitmap i see.

No, they're automatically saved by BSF as .bmps, which are a lossless format and also STUPIDLY HUGE for image files. Uploading said bmps onto most places like imageshack often automatically converts them to jpg format, usually very poorly.

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MSPaint also saves jpegs poorly, but it saves pngs very well. I recommend Irfanview for screenshot conversion. Easy to crop and save as new format.

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I just want to say, for posterity, that I think that this ship is cool, and the gatling gun-like things (pulse guns?) are neat.

Irfanview +1

Ship: Tone down the colors . . . and the rear wings look spindly.

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