Here and back again.
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Here and back again.
Well I am back and making ships again. I have been lurking around for the past few months and I have had a few brain farts that gave me a few more ideas for some ship designs.
These two I built just last week. I was just sort of experimenting with TheShipwrightArms' sprites just to see what I could come up with. They both lack a decent colouring job, but hopefully their section work and use of glows make up for that .
So yeah, there are more ships to come.
These two I built just last week. I was just sort of experimenting with TheShipwrightArms' sprites just to see what I could come up with. They both lack a decent colouring job, but hopefully their section work and use of glows make up for that .
So yeah, there are more ships to come.
Very nice, but I gotta say I like the front part of the ship more than the back. It just seems like the front flows better. Reminds me of the spindly look of some AD's stuff.
Not much else that really occurs to me, overall quite nice.
Not much else that really occurs to me, overall quite nice.
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Heres a new ship, its actually a remake of another ship I made a few months back around the time I sort of disappeared .
Here is the old one.
And here is the new one!
I personally like the new one allot better, it is far less cluttered and I actually took the time coloured it a bit. The old one would probably look slightly better if I actually took off the weapons however.
Here is the old one.
And here is the new one!
I personally like the new one allot better, it is far less cluttered and I actually took the time coloured it a bit. The old one would probably look slightly better if I actually took off the weapons however.
Okay, how about this?HorseMonster wrote: I like it allot, but it seems to lack any discernable engines and the back part seems a bit empty.
I dare say #2 suffers from a touch too much Generic2, but that might just be me. I like #1's engine setup better, and it looks a bit more solid - that break in #2 makes it look like the aft block could snap off at the drop of a hat.Blackhart wrote:Heres a new ship, its actually a remake of another ship I made a few months back around the time I sort of disappeared .
Here is the old one.
And here is the new one!
I personally like the new one allot better, it is far less cluttered and I actually took the time coloured it a bit. The old one would probably look slightly better if I actually took off the weapons however.
On the other hand, yeah, #1 does look a bit cluttered and messy.
They are visually 'flat' and don't look as pleasing, visually, as other sections, because they are lower-detail. That's not to say they're bad, period, just that you have to be careful how you use them.Rodgun wrote:Hey Arcalane, let me ask you something. I understand that a ship should be built with a diversity of parts instead of repeating over and over, but what is the problem with using too many Generic 2 parts?
You can use them, like this and be fine.
But what you shouldn't do is this. Someone else might be able to better articulate what I'm trying to say though.
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I dunno. That looks way too flat and bland to me. I don't really see how it's much of an improvement over the second screen you posted. Both use way too many flat, bland, uninteresting sections.Arcalane wrote:You can use them, like this and be fine.
As to why you shouldn't use them a lot. Well. They're called generic sections for a reason. Any ship made purely out of them is going to look damn generic, and relatively uninteresting, without some really, really classy section usage.
Also, Blackhart, while the newer one looks a lot cleaner and less cluttered, I over-all prefer the design of this:
This thing is great, though:
Very, very nice. Very clean. Seems to be lacking a little, though... I don't really know for sure what. Seems like it could do with some more detailed bits that look like they might have some purpose other than decoration, I guess. Maybe that's just me.
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