ahh the wonders of a newb

[xXAesirXx]

okay so I finally feel confident enough to post a ship after 2 weeks of lurking and I'm fairly proud of it

it doesn't have a name though >.<

and the nasty green it team color i kind of like it when its red or blue



and here it is parented tell me if you see anything wrong

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[vidboi]

with all the parenting lines on we can't really see what's going on. it helps to go into preview mode by pressing F11 and then taking a screenshot, which'll show the ship as it appears in game. ok you've corrected that, but pressing F11 still helps

looking at the ship, it just looks very clettered, and it doesn't really have any redeeming features. sorry to burst your balloon, but i think you should start working on smaller designs focusing on the both the overall shape, consistency and how the individual sections fit together before you build something thios big again, as without the experience it'll just end up looking like a mess. good luck, and i hope you stay around and develop your shipbuilding skills! =D

[kittenpillar100]

gun size at the sides has got to be the same.

[xXAesirXx]

looking at the ship, it just looks very clettered, and it doesn't really have any redeeming features. sorry to burst your balloon, but i think you should start working on smaller designs focusing on the both the overall shape, consistency and how the individual sections fit together before you build something thios big again, as without the experience it'll just end up looking like a mess. good luck, and i hope you stay around and develop your shipbuilding skills! =D

thank you for the constructive criticism i was browsing around on the forums and saw a couple of threads where section spam was used and i tried to avoid that but here is a smaller ship i made as an escort or a fighter but i think its too big

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[vidboi]

yeah, that's pretty big for a fighter. i think the problem is you're mainly if not wholly using the kae_mecha sections, which tend to look cluttered if not used perfectly. try and look around and expand your section palette. most people nowadays use more realistic sections such as kaelis' shiny sections and horsemonster's sections, so you could try working with those

[Imaillusion]

Both ships don't seem to be perfectly symetical. Take the second ship for example. See how the section furthest to the right doesn't line up with center line in the background? You need to keep an eye out for errors like that.

[jwa8402]

I do like the thruster placement though. I think the overall shape is good, but as was said the particular sections your using give the appearance of being cluttered. Thats not your fault though.

[Doogie12]

I think you would have a better job with shiny sections, since your ships seem to be structured and fairly inorganic; while mech sections are really only good for making organic-looking ships.

[xXAesirXx]

okay so I put together a new ship using what I think are swized stock sections but I don't really know

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and 2 and a half hours later and some browsing of the dead part of the forum I made this

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[vidboi]

both ships are a great improvement, the first one may be small but the shape and sectionwork are both nicely done and i can't really see any faults in it. the second one's also nice. The sectionwork at the front isn't as coherent as the first one, but it has a nie shape and the colouring's done well. overall it's still a good ship, and i look forwards to seeing more of your creations

[kittenpillar100]

ohhhh nice, I like the second ship. Did you get the coulouring scheme from STARSTRUCKS glowy orange fleet.

the blurry parts at the edges stick out like a sore thumb, I thingk you should do something with them.

good work anyways

Edit: right here my freind viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5010

but the downloads broke

[xXAesirXx]

ohhhh nice, I like the second ship. Did you get the coulouring scheme from STARSTRUCKS glowy orange fleet.

the blurry parts at the edges stick out like a sore thumb, I thingk you should do something with them.

good work anyways

starstruck has a glowy orange fleet?


Damnit and I liked this color scheme

[Bad Boy]

ohhhh nice, I like the second ship. Did you get the coulouring scheme from STARSTRUCKS glowy orange fleet.

the blurry parts at the edges stick out like a sore thumb, I thingk you should do something with them.

good work anyways

starstruck has a glowy orange fleet?


Damnit and I liked this color scheme

Don't worry, orange and white isn't exactly an original colour scheme and it's been done at least a few times before SS (that's not to say the ships he used it for were unoriginal). Besides, just because the colour scheme is the same, doesn't mean you can't use it. While it would be problematic if you copied his design there's absolutely no problem with using a colour scheme that's been done before, especially since this was done quite a while ago.

[xXAesirXx]

something new for me

anyway the thing at the back covering up the shiny energy thing spins

way to lazy to make a .gif though

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[vidboi]

the shapes nice, but it's very cluttered in the middle =/ if you want inspiration on curvy alien ships, water and wind basically wrote the book