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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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I've been looking at this for way too long. Someone please tell me whether the glows are too much or whatever.
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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The glows that are too much are...
The fighter bays, they come to the edge of the wing. Maybe shorten them a little.
The glow in the front. It looks much brighter than the others with those teamstripes there.
The engine glows. They have no color.

All of the others glows appear fine.
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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All I can say is a bit more teamstripes, and moving the glows from the fighter bays a bit farther into the ship.
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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Well, I tend to use a lot of glows so it looks fine to me.
I agree with adding more teamstripes, though. (Either that or removing the lone teamstripe at the front.)

Glows aside, the ship itself is great.
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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Oh, I totally meant to delete that. Huh.
I'll fix it up when I wake up.
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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Fixed the Glowverload (heh)
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I took the additive blending off the doodads, it made it less glaring. Shrunk the docking bay glows a tad, no change to the white engines. I love white engines.
Besides I think that engines need to have a different glow color than the ship to be distinguishable.

And I felt like adding doodads to my darling, the Laissez-Faire
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Fun fact, this is an early WIP of the Glowverload.
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Edit* (forgive me, I forgot to hit home on that screenshot)
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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The revision looks good, as does the "Magnum Opus" Laissez-Faire.

The only nitpick is the small thrusters. The exhaust glows appear to go to the edges of the thrusters, while the larger ones in the middle do not.
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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Oh I see it.
When you make a ship that large you tend to start half-assing things near the end. Thruster flares would be an unfortunate victim of that. I'll fix it, but I don't think I'll post a screen. You can see the ship just fine.
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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Doogie12 wrote:Fixed the Glowverload (heh)
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I took the additive blending off the doodads, it made it less glaring. Shrunk the docking bay glows a tad, no change to the white engines. I love white engines.
Besides I think that engines need to have a different glow color than the ship to be distinguishable.

And I felt like adding doodads to my darling, the Laissez-Faire
Image

Fun fact, this is an early WIP of the Glowverload.
Spoiler!
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Edit* (forgive me, I forgot to hit home on that screenshot)
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Download? O_o
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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Cool shipses.zip
The Glowverload needs the bubbleshield build.
(5.62 MiB) Downloaded 393 times
Here's that.
Edit* Eff, it needs the custom shield.
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Put in the "Doog Edits" folder
Put in the "Doog Edits" folder
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Magnus Deus Acerbitatem.shp
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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That's awesome. I love the wings.
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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That looks awesome doogie! Please use those glow wings more often, they look great!
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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Wow. 'Nuff said. These are amazing just to look at, especially the animated one.

@Necrontyr: That would mean my laptop's screen is buggy too, and it's a year old. You can see the green if you look very hard, but on first sight you don't see it :(
Quite frankly I wonder why I ever began making ships for this. You see, my work never becomes quite as good as I feel it deserves to.
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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Wah? What green, what's buggy? /:P
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Re: To steal Netharis' thunder

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You posted something somewhere back about that animated ship. I believe you thought it was yellow, whereas Doogie said it was supposed to be green. That's why :3
Quite frankly I wonder why I ever began making ships for this. You see, my work never becomes quite as good as I feel it deserves to.
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