My first ships

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Doctor Lasergun
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My first ships

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Hello everybody, this will be my first post on this forum. Here are my first attempts to make ships with something other than stock sprites. Please tell me what's wrong with them so I can do better next time.
These ships will definitely need everything that's in the MIRV repack in order to function.

Destrucifier
Destrucifier pic
Destrucifier pic
Heavy cruiser. Death-spewing blasters on the front, and side-mounted beams that are curiously much more effective.
Destrucifier.shp
Destrucifier ship
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Purple Bird
Purple Bird
Purple Bird
Big, fat, slow battlecruiser. My fourth of July party got rained out so I made this thing to get my fireworks fix.
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Purple Bird ship
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Imperitude
Imperitude
Imperitude
Another big ship. Puts a lot of projectiles onscreen at once.
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Imperitude ship
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Bear Market
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Bear Market pic
The biggest and slowest one. I can't seem to make the robot arm behave intelligently.
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Bear Market ship
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Thanks for your consideration.

EDIT: Better pics.
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Re: My first ships

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Doctor Lasergun wrote:I can't seem to make the robot arm behave intelligently.
Try this. Scroll down to the "Articulated Robot Arms" section.
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Re: My first ships

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I did, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten this far. Great tutorial, by the way.
I think the problem I have is that the dummy gun guiding the arm (it's in the center of the elbow section) is still turning back and forth erratically like a regular gun. I've got the arc range pretty much where I want it, but the turret is just dancing around too often.
So the range of motion is fine, but the dummy gun acquires a target, points the arm toward it, and the real gun mounted on the tip of the arm (it's linked to the dummy gun) fires for a second. But then suddenly the arm pulls back to its starting position for no good reason which ruins the shot and tends to get the ship killed. I was hoping I could improve this with the right combination of dummy gun weapon type+deviation stats+turn rate, but maybe it's just a limitation of the game.
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If the target moves out of the arc range of a dummy gun, it will go back to straight. Some weapons do look around randomly. I personally use the "blaster" for all of my dummy guns. I haven't had any problems with that weapon. If you still have problems with it, I can look at it when I get internet on thursday.
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Re: My first ships

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A few smaller ones:

Tick
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Can Opener (guns aren't lined up because they auto-pivot in preview mode)
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Maudlin
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Re: My first ships

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One more:

Pop Gun
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Pop Gun image
It has a big laser.
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These need more grey and mechanical colors.
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I might go as far to say the colours are a bit over saturated too :P
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