Yes, another "Newbie ship" theme.

Masluk · Post by **Masluk** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:22 am

Sooo...I've been playing with ShipMaker for about 3 days. Here's the ship that does not look so bad in comparison with my other ships. Used those fancy SWA style Mech sections mostly.

That cross section rotates, plasma balls are all shiny and I don't know if my colorscheme is any good.

thanto_ · Post by **thanto_** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:03 am

I like the color scheme and the section usage, but the fake aegis seems unnecessary to me.

Also, it would be great if you could make an animated gif of that rotation. I'd like to see it in action. Use ctrl+F9 like screen shot to grab frames (follow the prompts - use a number of frames equal to one frame less than a quarter rotation, and you should have a full animation if its set to repeat).

25000st · Post by **25000st** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:55 am

Depth is pulled off well. Faux Aegis is eyeburn. The section usage looks ok but I think the SW-style sections are covering up.

Masluk · Post by **Masluk** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:28 am

Removed Fake Aegis. By the way, how do you change the exhaust color of thrusters? I tried to change it into other than blue, but in the game they are still blue.

HorseMonster · Post by **HorseMonster** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:32 am

The only way to change exhaust colours is to make an entierly new exhaust sprite. When doing so rememeber that custom exhausts are drawn from the middile of the image rather than the back, so you need a bunch of blank space in front of the exhaust in order to compensate.

Masluk · Post by **Masluk** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:55 am

Awwww, shucks. So the exhaust color is completely useless then? And please more C&C.

AidanAdv · Post by **AidanAdv** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:34 am

Masluk wrote:Awwww, shucks. So the exhaust color is completely useless then? And please more C&C.

Arc made a pack of recolored exhaust sprites you can download here.

Also, I like your ship. The spinny middle piece looks great.

Masluk · Post by **Masluk** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:01 pm

Made Corvette-class ship. The weapons aren't well placed though. Still not sure about its role =\

unsunghero10 · Post by **unsunghero10** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:09 pm

atmospheric entry?

Masluk · Post by **Masluk** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:40 pm

unsunghero10 wrote:atmospheric entry?

Hmmm. Perhaps, but its about 70 units long. don't know what its like in meters. Guess its about the same size as airbus or something similar.

Post by **Arcalane** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:42 am

Masluk wrote:
unsunghero10 wrote:atmospheric entry?
Hmmm. Perhaps, but its about 70 units long. don't know what its like in meters.

"Whatever you want it to be" is the rule of thumb around here. Just decide how many pixels are equal to however many meters, and enjoy.

Grasmaaier · Post by **Grasmaaier** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:09 am

Give it missiles

Masluk · Post by **Masluk** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:40 am

They are in it already. i just set Alpha to 0. Used Minimissile launchers with Meta characteristics. By the way, I've been trying to fit that cruiser-class ship with weapons and other stuff. Installed weapons according to its threat, like 4 twin blasters, HBE and some other, but it just can't defeat other cruiser-class ship. Or it can, but it is damaged really bad (like having half of its sections destroyed) Any tips on balancing?

Oh, and i've used Ixranin beam sprite for the HBE, bit sometimes it looks reaaly strange, like part of the beam locates in other direction, or it appears ot of space 50 pixels from the actual cannon. WTF?

This is what i am talking about.

Masluk · Post by **Masluk** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:17 am

Hate to double-post, but i made another ship. Tried new colorscheme, which looks ok (to me at least)
A Destroyer-class ship Blue Arrow. Thoughts?

Blackhart · Post by **Blackhart** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:28 am

Masluk wrote: Oh, and i've used Ixranin beam sprite for the HBE, bit sometimes it looks reaaly strange, like part of the beam locates in other direction, or it appears ot of space 50 pixels from the actual cannon. WTF?

I used to have the same problem, try turning off surfaces if you haven't already in the options menu.

As for the Blue Arrow I like the effect of the Ixra sprite with the glow at the rear end of the ship, and the usage of doodads are pretty decent around that area too. As for the rest of the ship the hull shape could be alot smoother and the engines kind of stick out too far.