Re: Anna's Greatest Hits (Now with High Guard)
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:19 am
I've spotted a few problems right off the bat: 1) You're using Kaelis's shipwright-style sections with Shiny sections. This is a pretty big no-no, it almost never works, because Shiny sections are high detail with very fine shading, and the SWA sections are much less so. If you want high-detail ships, the best sections are the Kae_shn sections, the dst_swnc pack, and Horse_Monster's sections. They all go quite well together thanks to a similar level of detail and shading.
Big problem number 2) You're using lots of REALLY BIG, low-detail, flat sections in your ships. It makes the whole thing look very, very monotonous and kinda ugly. You need some variation in there, and really, with the big flat sections, you shouldn't use many of them at all unless your ship is enormous, because they just don't look great, especially with a ton of them right next to each other.
And this last problem is less to do with your ships, and more just something that you might appreciate. Go to bfconfig, find [Glow Colour] and change it to this:
[Glow Colour]
blue = 0
green = 0
red = 0
And that will get rid of the nasty orange/yellow glows around your ships.
I'd recommend checking out the Pseudo-Chainship project thread, and seeing how we built those ships piece-by-piece. May give you some ideas!
Big problem number 2) You're using lots of REALLY BIG, low-detail, flat sections in your ships. It makes the whole thing look very, very monotonous and kinda ugly. You need some variation in there, and really, with the big flat sections, you shouldn't use many of them at all unless your ship is enormous, because they just don't look great, especially with a ton of them right next to each other.
And this last problem is less to do with your ships, and more just something that you might appreciate. Go to bfconfig, find [Glow Colour] and change it to this:
[Glow Colour]
blue = 0
green = 0
red = 0
And that will get rid of the nasty orange/yellow glows around your ships.
I'd recommend checking out the Pseudo-Chainship project thread, and seeing how we built those ships piece-by-piece. May give you some ideas!