Cynsye's Ships

Silver Swordsman · Post by **Silver Swordsman** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:51 pm

I actually like the "fatness" of the Aries, although I say the clutter in the middle isn't a good idea.

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Cynsye · Post by **Cynsye** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:13 pm

Decided to make a variant instead of rebuilding the Aries.. as a small fleet command ship gets extra "middle" and a command bridge, plus a bit more missile firepower. Fluff + a name later.

LactoseTolerant · Post by **LactoseTolerant** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:23 am

The command deck stands out far too much, as it's the only DST sprite. Integrate it more, or use a different sprite?

Edit: Brain fart

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Silver Swordsman · Post by **Silver Swordsman** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:00 pm

Get rid of the clutter. Otherwise it looks nice.

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:15 pm

Silver Swordsman wrote:Get rid of the clutter. Otherwise it looks nice.

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What clutter exactly? I'm not seeing it.

jwa8402 · Post by **jwa8402** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 4:09 pm

LactoseTolerant wrote:The command deck stands out fart too much

lol sorry /end immaturity
Perhaps add some pieces around the command deck, something like this?

Beyond that, not so much a fan of the shape, but I like a lot of the details you put into it. Just has a bit too much of a beetlish look to it. I hope you use all those circles from the mecha sprites as bases for weapons or equipment.

Imaillusion · Post by **Imaillusion** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:34 pm

I see a problem. Can you see how there's that dark olive green section areas anround the middle. Some of the outer section actually overlap the innner sections, making the impression that the outer sections stand higher up. Make it so the very middle sectons of the ship go over the ones further out, and those sections over over the ones that are even more further out, and so on. That way, those outer sections don't stick out as much.

Also, I don't have any problems with the clutter, but i suggest you change the colouring, that dark olive-green stands out too much. I think that's why people say there's clutter

Cynsye · Post by **Cynsye** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:59 am

Sorted quite a few depthing errors I missed (Doh) and changed to an "Alliance" colour scheme.

Been reading around as well, and I'm playing around with the meta 2.0 design rules, starting small.

So, I give you the Kallichore class corvette:

Size 60, armed with a pair of Vulcans and a Missile Launcher, and a full set of attitude thrusters. Found it interesting to work with a limit on sprites. Makes you think more about how certain ones go together.

And the Anthe class gunboat:

Size 43, armed with three AC's.

Silver Swordsman · Post by **Silver Swordsman** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:20 pm

I still think the middle of the ship is a bit cluttered. The second small ship looks really good, but I'm not a fan of the wing shape

Post by **Anna** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:31 pm

I disagree entirely about clutter in the middle. There's a damn lot of detail, yes, but it's neat and well structured detail that doesn't burn the eyes. I kinda like it. Have you been lurking a long time, Cynsye? Or are you an older member come back under a new name? Either way, your shipbuilding skills are quite impressive for someone so new to the forums. Bravo.

Cynsye · Post by **Cynsye** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:53 am

Anna wrote:I disagree entirely about clutter in the middle. There's a damn lot of detail, yes, but it's neat and well structured detail that doesn't burn the eyes. I kinda like it. Have you been lurking a long time, Cynsye? Or are you an older member come back under a new name? Either way, your shipbuilding skills are quite impressive for someone so new to the forums. Bravo.

Thanks. Well.. its not really either of them. Downloaded the game on Friday last week, and messed around making a few old-style ships. Came looking for more sprites on Monday and well.. it went on from there

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I have played a lot of GalCiv II, and Garry's mod so I have quite a bit of experience building things up from parts, which translates well into this.. being 2d is far easier than GMod and GalCiv as well.

Another ship: Siarnaq class frigate.

Size 80, and armed with 2 Vulcans, 2 H Vulcans, and 2 Missile Launchers.

I've been getting a weird bug sometimes when I have been making ships, where it will spew out a string of errors about modules and weapons that nothing but replacing them fixes. Anyone heard anything about that?

Rugdumph · Post by **Rugdumph** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:43 am

Yeah, it's not that bad, it's just it doesn't like it sometimes when you mirror a depthed weapon. To be on the safe side always mirror weapons then depth. And on the ships. Damned impressive work for a first timer, all nicely thought through ships, with good section work to match

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:52 am

I miss the olive coloring actually ...

Cynsye · Post by **Cynsye** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 6:15 am

Rugdumph wrote:Yeah, it's not that bad, it's just it doesn't like it sometimes when you mirror a depthed weapon. To be on the safe side always mirror weapons then depth. And on the ships. Damned impressive work for a first timer, all nicely thought through ships, with good section work to match

I tend to not use mirroring.. I know it would save me time but I like to make sure everything is where I want it.. plus it would break some of my usual spinal sprites, as they have to be offset by 0.5 to centre them. I guess cloning would have the same effect?

If you want olive colouration I have them in that as well

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LactoseTolerant · Post by **LactoseTolerant** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:08 am

The olive color fits well. The Anthe is well done, nice and small. The Kallichore's center sprite stands out from the rest of the ship, it's size seems disproportionate. The Siarnaq feels a bit "flat" from the outer gnr-sw sprites, but no other complaints there.

="Anna"] I disagree entirely about clutter in the middle. There's a damn lot of detail, yes, but it's neat and well structured detail that doesn't burn the eyes. I kinda like it. Have you been lurking a long time, Cynsye? Or are you an older member come back under a new name? Either way, your shipbuilding skills are quite impressive for someone so new to the forums. Bravo.

Don't take that lightly. Anna hardly gives positive reviews, so take it as a big accomplishment. I've been around for a bit, and i've hardly gotten noticed

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