Zalausai's Ships and Ship Ideas

[Majicnanas]

Fireballs?! I wanna see how this turns out!

[Zalausai]

The testing is done for overlapping projectiles. It is present in the Hellfire's main artillery cannon.
Now onto alternating shot color tests.

HLB 05 Hellfire has arrived. (It will replace the HLB 07 Hellfire supership from this point forward)
It also has the red brightened and the grey darkened as per Anna's advice.

Slow, cumbersome, but packing the strongest single shot weapon available, the Hellfire brings death from a distance.

Class: Heavy Artillery
Core HP: 250
Speed: 0.5
Turning: 0.25
Accel: 0.05
Size: 132.77

Weapons:
"Hellfire" Artillery Cannon x 1 (Equivalent of 4 superheavy violet lasers)(firing arc 45 degrees)
Rapid Fire Flak Cannon x 2



Comments and critique are requested and welcome.

[calvin1211]

Nice effects.
Unfortunately, I don't like the turret design. It's far too front-heavy. Cut off the bit after the first two red prongs perhaps, and add a counterweight to the back.
(Also, that shape looks...suggestive.)

[Zalausai]

How's this?

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Turret Extracted

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[calvin1211]

Yeah, that's better.

[Necrontyr1998]

Wow that weapon effect looks better than I thought. Some thing for a tutorial eh zal

[Zalausai]

Maybe after a few more HLB ships. I want to give each ship that is cruiser class or larger a special effect looking weapon. The HLB 03 and 05 have them. They like their weapon tech, so I have to make it look more advanced than other factions, even if they aren't stronger. Got to come up with at least two more weapons before I make a tutorial. That way I can put all of them on one.

[Zalausai]

New test. A zig-zag cannon that changes colors between shots. Much more simple than it looks.

The ship is not up for critique. It is simply to demonstrate the weapon concept. The weapon, however, is up for critique and input.
The shots alternate between blue and green.

Power Level = Laser Used x 4
In this case it is twin light red lasers.

Before commenting, please be aware that I set the bullet speeds to 1/10 of normal to demonstrate the effect clearly.

[Necrontyr1998]

Hmm, it appears that you have linked the weapons with a delay to their colour counterparts. I quite like the effect.

[Zalausai]

Yes. Each turret has for guns on it. The zigzag effect it's achieved by moving two of the weapons off to the side. Sadly, this is more complex than the "fireball".

[Majicnanas]

What about having a laser that as it progresses through it's magazine, the projectiles get dimmer and lose energy, dealing less damage. If it's possible of course.

[Zalausai]

Yes it is, I'll make a demonstration ship. I will use a pulsebeam for this one.

[Majicnanas]

Cool. Can't wait to see it.

[Zalausai]

The Cerberus is actually quite nice and probably one of the better ships you've made. I think you really need to work on better shading for your ships, though. They greys are too bright and the reds are too dark for them to mesh well. idk, though, maybe that's just me.

The HLB 05 Hellfire uses this advice. I would appreciate a comment comparing the color of the cerberus and hellfire from someone.

[calvin1211]

I personally think the outer edges of the Hellfire are still too dark.