Hmm... well, Anarchy, creativity comes in many guises, and these days, when there's so much that has already been done, much of the creative purpose can be merely taking older ideas and working with them.
What in particular wasn't creative? The ship's shape? Well, it's like a seed, tipped with a nuclear shell launching claw. Ok, so the sides are more or less gentle curves, like many ships on this forum... but then, there are plenty of straight-edged ships, angular ships, triangular ships, pointy ships, blocky ships... list goes on. But that's more originality than creativity.
What about the glowy lines? Not seen them on this forum before, but yeah, I've seen glowy lines before - I was thinking Necrons crossed with HW2 Sajuuk when I conceptualised this - creating something from previous ideas.
What about moving engine pods, staggered charging sequences, and all that shebang? I mean, if there's creativity in this design, that's where it lies - the entire fire sequence. Spent a few evenings just trying to sort the animation out, tweaking it, fighting against the tempermental bugs - much more time than I spent on the ship design.
Now, I'm not having a go here or anything - I'm genuinely interested to know what merits a stamp of 'creativity', as opposed to, say 'originality'.
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Yeah Himura those are indeed short-ranged 360 beamers - pairs of them, one light, the other a darker yellow, just for fun
They are, however, functional - and not just cos they can do a little damage; The forward sparkles extend the engine pods and the cannon sparkles work the glowy spikes that snap back like a bow as the cannon fires.
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One note on the ship - obviously to run it you need a shield - specifically TBE_Shield4 (or 5 - can't remember which, they look the same) in a folder named "TBE_Shields". Don't think I've used any other non-standard sprites.
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