Wyrdysm Games

This is usually what my work area looks like when building ships.
What do your work areas look like? I'm going to assume that mine is the most messy.

I find keeping loading sprites into shipmaker (or keeping them in the build area itself) just reduces the variation of sprites I use. Instead I find having a load of windows open at the side and dragging and dropping sprites onto the ship much easier.

I still don't know why you don't mirror anything. My workspace is clean, and I use the massive ini. file with all the shiny, DST, and HM sprites in it. Basically I just put something in, and if it looks good I keep it. The way I build is almost solely trial and error. I seem to be doing well, so I'm not going to make any changes.

Well doogie, that's the way I do it, but all I can build are space turds. (OnO)

... How on Earth do you build like that, Zalausai? I just... that mess would completely put me off, and having such a tiny and jumbled up selection of sections would irritate the hell out of me.

Here's how I do it. I made it a video because I was working on something and decided to record it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQO7JTFuuow

Well, I do leave the little window at the side with all the sprites in it open the entire time. It has all 512 shiny sprites. That screenshot is just the shipmaker field. A large number of those sprites are changed while they are selected using the left-click over the sprite that I want them to actually be. I use this method to control the number of sections that each ship gets.

No wonder why you don't use mirroring.

It seems that I have the most haphazard construction methods ever seen by anyone here.

How do you rotate a large group of sections like in the video?

I remember using that once so i'm guessing it's Ctrl+V+Scroll

You can move a section and every section parented to it by holding Ctrl+whatever you'd normally press. You can group rotate with Ctrl+L and J, and can group-move with Ctrl+Shift+Arrow Keys. It's a handy thing.

You know what else is a handy thing? Pressing F1 brings up the manual.

The manual is bloated and shit. (and people never bother to read it for this reason and also because they're lazy)

True dat.