YEah so I've been working on these new ships and I have finally decided to post it up along with some WFTU stuff (IF they ever let me back in [Arcalane still hasn't replied to my pm that I sent him a few days ago]).
Some of this stuff is just junk and some of it comes from the RandomAssShit folder so be very critical please.
Ma new shipsies
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Ma new shipsies
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- Last one's a small fat cargo ship that sucks ass real bad. don't even ask about balancing. ON the bright side it has an unhealthy amount of my first sprite (a thruster)
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- Thsi light MIRV Turret is also unbalanced. It is very long range and I am trying to make it a saturation weapon but its not working out right not. Currently it rapes anything it sees with rabid and violent passion.
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- The Light GUn Turret is mounted with a large vulcan. It is currently weak as fuck but Im balancing it. It is really supposed to be an anti smallish ship weapon as the large ships simply rape it.
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- The Light Beam Turret currently rapes all it sees. It fires constantly with ESTREMELY low damage. As such it is only dangerous in groups or when you just plain ignore it. It is very weak in the armor area so most ships one shot/volley kilsl it. Oh and the Beam weapon is my own personal sprite I made.
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- Not balanced or polished yet. The Dom' Kass uses a single fusion beam Turret and two low damage high fire rate autocannons. It currently sucks because its not balaced at all yet but it should be slightly slower with thicker armor and such.
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- Type 3 Ra' Tuhem. Currently being balanced.
It's basically a type 2 that traded two of its vulcans for a missile launcher. This missile launcher is high tracking, high accuracy, high clip size, high speed, and high range but low damage weapon. Anything this thing fires is Garaunteed to hit 99.9% of the time, but each only does a bit of damage, so its only useful to take down gunships, figs, and corvettes. (or at least anything small with weakish armor) - SMscreen012.png (8.97 KiB) Viewed 6299 times
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- Type 2 Ra' Tuhem Gunship.
Four Vulcans, faster speed/accel/turnrate, and better armor than the Type 1. Made specifically for lighter, faster targets. It punishes the C1 2v1 but get's its ass handed to it vs C3 4v1. - SMscreen010.png (11.59 KiB) Viewed 6299 times
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- Type 1 Ra' Tuhem Gunship.
Small, fast, little armor, and two huge ass missile launchers made specifically for larger ships. THis is the slowest of the Ra' Tuhem variants. It kick's the C3's ass so hard that you barely have time to blink before the battle is over 1v1. Yeah gunship vs Battleship gunship wins. But anything faster (Like the C1) simply dodges its innaccurate, slow, non guided missiles. - SMscreen09.png (3.59 KiB) Viewed 6299 times
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- The Huge Hauler. Name says it all. I was thinking about using it as the basis for a carrier. The odd thing is, I started out making a space station and ended up with this thing.
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Anna
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Re: Ma new shipsies
Press "P" in the future to turn off parenting lines before taking screenshots.
Also don't use the thruster sprite you made. Just don't. It's really poor quality and does not mesh with shiny sections well at all.
The cargo ship looks nasty, the hauler is semi-decent but needs more detail, the Dom' Kass is just bad, and everything else is kind of average. One of the problems with your designs is that you use lots of really big sections, even on smaller ships. If you look at how other people in the WFTU do it, you'll see that smaller sections combined together can produce more detailed and interesting looking ships. Larger sections are almost only ever used to represent flat armoured plate areas on big ships.
Also don't use the thruster sprite you made. Just don't. It's really poor quality and does not mesh with shiny sections well at all.
The cargo ship looks nasty, the hauler is semi-decent but needs more detail, the Dom' Kass is just bad, and everything else is kind of average. One of the problems with your designs is that you use lots of really big sections, even on smaller ships. If you look at how other people in the WFTU do it, you'll see that smaller sections combined together can produce more detailed and interesting looking ships. Larger sections are almost only ever used to represent flat armoured plate areas on big ships.
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Re: Ma new shipsies
Hide the parenting lines by going into preview mode with F11. Take new screenshots without them, it'll detract from the ships less. Don't forget to press the HOME key to bring the zoom to normal before taking your screenshots. That will allow accurate size comparisons.
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Re: Ma new shipsies
crap forgot about the preview mode on most of these. Oh and Anna I know it is horrible, I have made a few more sprites that don't look as horrible though.
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Oh and Im not don with the huge hauler been at that one for almost a week now
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Anna
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Re: Ma new shipsies
Okay, okay, you know the thruster sprite is horrible. Riddle me this, then: Why the fuck are you still using it if you know it's bad!?Jay2Jay wrote:crap forgot about the preview mode on most of these. Oh and Anna I know it is horrible, I have made a few more sprites that don't look as horrible though.
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Re: Ma new shipsies
Eh, on the cargo ship I was just seeing how it looked on a ship and on the Ra' Tuhem ships it is just a placeholder untill I improve it.
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Danny420Dale
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Re: Ma new shipsies
First rule of placeholders and stopgaps: Approaching the design of something as a stopgap is asking for it to end up unchanged in the final product.
Re: Ma new shipsies
da fuq is a stopgap?
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calvin1211
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Re: Ma new shipsies
Makeshift something you use if the real product is delayed but you need something to fill the role fast.
Re: Ma new shipsies
thank you (replaced because I just recently realized it sounded like a smartass comment and not a real thank you)
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Re: Ma new shipsies
If you are concerned about your ship quality, go look in my thread early on. We all have to start somewhere. Just build ships using a few sections. You'll be amazed how many things you can do with 20 sections.
Also, stop insulting your own ships. It doesn't help you or anyone else. People are more inclined to help others when they aren't depressed on themselves. I think it will be helpful if you practice with basic sections. Such as stock SW. People will be more accepting if they at least see you practicing (even if it is with stock stuff).
Also, stop insulting your own ships. It doesn't help you or anyone else. People are more inclined to help others when they aren't depressed on themselves. I think it will be helpful if you practice with basic sections. Such as stock SW. People will be more accepting if they at least see you practicing (even if it is with stock stuff).
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Re: Ma new shipsies
Thanks Zalausai, I will take your advice to heart!
Re: Ma new shipsies
NEW SHIP! Not done yet, still editing for awesome. It will move and have glows/doodads. But right now all I can get it to do is have one arm go back and forth while its hand/claw thing turns around in a circle at 300 mph
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Zalausai
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Re: Ma new shipsies
Did you read the turret tutorial?
Also, you probably have the "borders" disabled.
Also, you probably have the "borders" disabled.
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