Netharis wrote:I guess I'll jump straight into the feedback.
1) The sw-style armaments and engines all look out of place against the rest of the ship which has been done in the stock-style.
2) While I agree that the "covered electronics" is a good idea, I think it would look less odd if the armor coverings were brighter or at least as bright as the electronics themselves.
3) Assuming you take number 2 into account, the ship would look odd with one patch of bright grey in the center and nowhere else. Maybe change it into a brighter shade of red to maintain the sense of depth the bright grey gives without it looking so out of place or add more bright grey sections elsewhere.
4) You should probably change the background to the black one before taking screenshots next time.
I look forward to seeing some more up-to-date works of yours.
1) yeah, i totally agree on that one now i think of it *facepalm*
2) the thing is though, i didn't actually try for 'armor coverings' or 'covered electronics'... i just figured if i was gonna try add depth i should build depth, so i built an outline in grey then went over it... its just the paterns on the sprites lol, but its easy enough to add electronics i guess with noc_runes
3) ahh, i get it, since the grey 'electronics' are under the 'armor' they should be darker or the same brightness as the armor covering them, but that would make the one piece of bright grey stand out so i could change it to a slightly (not stock enemy red) shade of red to make it fit with the colour scheme
4) got it
well, last night i updated my sprites section and done it properly (arctics sprites are done as arctic_component... because arc_ already exsists for arcalane) and basically the whole ship is a mess of question marks... and so has a little ship i tried to build yesterday made up of shiny sections, which always either didn't work at the front or back quite right, and then it got fat...and then it died a horrible death. so i think shiny sections hate me atm, so i'll stick with the normal ones and keep messing with shinys in my spare moments.
so im gonna have to do up to date work now, since all my normal ships from years ago don't work any more... it'll still be a while since i haven't got an idea as to if i can put something not totally terribad together again, so i won't try to build anything and just go for random things. (gonna take into account that lower down sections in depth normally must be equal or darker than higher ones to work, and apparently building a shape then going over it isn't the worst idea in the world)
but rl sucks for being in the way atm, so if i disappear for like a month im not just another noob whos quit, im probably pulling my hair out over not getting something good-ish together and being drowned in work!
*disappears into shipmaker*
