How to make colors look more realistic?

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LostAmongStars
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How to make colors look more realistic?

Post by LostAmongStars »

Question for my fellow shipbuilders: How do the other shipwrights get their craft to look like this:

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download/file.php?id=819&mode=view
download/file.php?id=820&mode=view
download/file.php?id=815&mode=view

As opposed to looking like a glowing blueprint?
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Re: How to make colors look more realistic?

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They use custom sprites.
As of now, most people use Kae_shn supplemented with some DST_swnc, horsemonster stuff and SS_Prosectionax which can be found here in a nice little package here: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=5764 (Note: Redownloads the rest of the game as well) which conveniently also contains a bunch of ready-to-go backgrounds.

Besides that, the first and fourth ships aren't exactly what I would consider goals to strive towards, better sources of inspiration would be the works of Anna, STARSTRUCK and Doogie12, to name a few off the top of my head (Ships by anyone whose name is in a different colour appears to be a pretty good guesstimate.

And no. I am not posting this response just because I have an exam tomorrow and am procrastinating, honest.
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Re: How to make colors look more realistic?

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Oh okay--thanks for the explanation. I'll take a look at that--see what's up. And I wasn't posting those because I was looking for inspiration--plenty of ideas up in my head :P I just saw those as examples of "solid" sprites, and wondered how they did that. So, thanks for the clarification :)
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