Random acts of violence with Shipmaker

[ArcaneDude]

Okay, so, I kinda went into silly mode and overwrote the Key Ship with a tiny little sentinel...so I had to rebuild it. I think it's actually better now.

This will most likely be the only ship for the Forerunners. I tried building a sentinel, but...I dunno, there's no satisfying way to build something that tiny, and the enforcer is ugly as hell anyway. Plus I want to move on to the next stage of the project, a.k.a The Old Republic. I'll arm this ship, release it, and that's that.

[Bad Boy]

For the most part it looks a lot better, more interesting and better section usage. However, I think the rear end (the part at the back with the right angles) looked more interesting in the last one, it looks too bland here. That said, the connection of the rear end to the wings looks better in this one. The same applies to the 45 degree struts near the core connecting the wings to the front.
This might just be me though, maybe more blandness is a good thing in this case.

[ArcaneDude]

And thar she blows.

If you've downloaded the previous ships I built you should have no trouble loading this. If you do, contact me.

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On to Star Wars: the Old Republic. I will be including ships from KOTOR, the comics, and even some from the upcoming MMO.

[jwa8402]

On to Star Wars: the Old Republic. I will be including ships from KOTOR, the comics, and even some from the upcoming MMO.

Wicked, can't wait to see that!

Ok one of my favorite ships from Homeworld, the Hiigaran Battlecruiser. This is very wip but I started it at 3 in the morning while watching Skyline, so weird shit is bound to happen. Could use some advice on the coloring cuz the picture I used had this weathered dune brown that I can't seen to match. Needless to say the sectionwork will be refined also, especially those two rectangle pieces near the front cuz I know thats supposed to be smoothly sloping inward.

[Altahir]

Woah, I love it
It makes me remember when i make it but huge xD
Ah, old times, that and the Vaygr Battlecruisers are my best works

[Silverware]

It doesn't seem long enough at the front, the back seems right though.

[ArcaneDude]

Finally, there are posts!

@jwa: I dunno, the ship itself doesn't really flow, and the colorscheme makes it look like a turd, pardon me french. My ideas are, rework the outer parts of the hull with somewhat flatter sections, and search the interwebs for a better colorscheme. There's bound to be some out there. Also, I'm wondering, what refpic are you using?

[cubby989]

I absolutely love everything here! nothing is "bleh, too overpowered" it's beautiful, and functional, I hope you never stop, lest the world gets overpopulated from the lack of heart attacks.

[jwa8402]

First thanks to everyone who commented. I agree the brown came out wrong, but I sampled it directly from the image I was using and it still came out differently.
As for flow and not being long enough, I'm still fooling around with it so changes will definitely be made. I altered the color scheme, but still working on that.

Attempt at remaking the stock series. Mostly done with most of the ships but this was the furthest.

This is the shot I used.

[Bad Boy]

The flow of the sections around the core doesn't do it for me. They look fine but they really don't look athena-ish - too curvy and such. Also, because the outer sections are pretty dark it's all you see at first glance (and without a decent deal of head craning and squinting ).
Other than that, something about the thickness looks off but I can't quite put my finger on it. Might just be the dark outer bits making it look weird though.

That said, it does look quite nice, just needs some clean up.

As for the hig BC, it looks quite nice, but not as good as it could. If you've got the patience go through it and find better sections, some of them just don't mesh well with the ones next to each other. In particular, take a look at the sections on the sides that have a darker streak running through them and the kinda abrupt looking line where the front bit meets the main bit. Also, the sudden shading change about halfway down (where the sections with lines through them end) also looks a bit off to me.
Looking at it again, other than those few things it looks pretty good. Not flawless, but what'll you do

[ArcaneDude]

@jwa: those colors are much better. All you need to do now is take another look at the sectionwork.

In the mean time:

From small to large: Defender class light Corvette, Foray class Blockade Runner and Hammerhead class Cruiser.

I'm not sure about the Hammerhead, but I think I've got the other two about right.

EDIT

What, 47 views and no-one's bothered to comment? Bunch of lazy bums.

[jwa8402]

Those are quite nice; its hard to pick out individual sections. Any idea of what other ships your doing from the old republic?
Also played with the forrunner key ship and I gotta say that I love the beams! They do a great job of simulating that race, and its a beast to fight.

Is this most of the area you guys are talking about?

I'm doing some serious fooling with balance. For one beam ships like startrek's are overpowered for their size because they always hit. To fix this I'm removing point defense from some ships, which so far seems to have helped.
There are also some ships like Galactica which have no shields, just increased hp. I'm going to do this to more of the ships that aren't supposed to have shields, and increase the shield hp of shielded ships while nerfing their hull hp. This gives some ships lots of armor to chew away at, while the shielded ships remain unhurt until their shields fall, after which they die fairly quickly. This also has the virtue of speeding up fleet combat somewhat, though in 1on1s they have more staying power.

[Bad Boy]

Yep, that's the area. The back section looks very out of place, the middle one starts an area of slightly different shading that's not really a problem I think (just figured I should point it out) and the front one helps create a very straight line that looks iffy.

And hope the rebalancing goes well. Maybe I'll actually do what I said and test them once it's done (sorry for not delivering on that yet, the usual busy/unmotivated thing).

[ArcaneDude]

Yep, that's the spot.

So far, I have these three, plus the Praetorian Light Frigate, the Tanthra Corvette (which I've reclassified as a destroyer, regarding it's role) and the Inexpugnable class Tactical Command Ship. Of course the Aurek Starfighter and Chela Bomber will also be made, and who could forget the ever classic Ebon Hawk?

In Sith ships, I'm still looking for concept art and such, their fleet isn't nearly as varied. Which is a problem I intend to fix.

[Icy]

sorry, I haven't been around much but, you guys are awesome! I might have to dust off bsf and start creating stuff again.