Unnamed ship is still unnamed but done. Now in 3 colors!

Post by **Arcalane** » Fri May 02, 2008 5:34 pm

Kazuael wrote:Another thing I'm not so fond of is that having so many aegis deflectors makes the ship looks like it's covered in warts. Sure, I could stick all of them in one place, but then I'd have nasty lines going everywhere, so I'm also currently thinking of a way to try to cover that up.

Unfortunately you can only really do this with bright coloured aegis (as demo'd on the Colossus' reactors) but what I usually do is hide the aegis on the section it's shielding if it's just a decorative shield. I don't think it'd really work for this ship though.

Exethalion · Post by **Exethalion** » Fri May 02, 2008 5:52 pm

Looking at that pic, I think the central aegis column ends at the front of the ship too abruptly.

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Fri May 02, 2008 10:32 pm

Yeah I thought about trying to hide the generators under the glow, but it didn't really work so well. As for the central column, I haven't gotten around to ending it yet. I haven't thought of a good way to do it yet, but it'll be less sudden once i get around to finishing it.

EDIT:

Didn't want to double post, so I'm editing this one. I ran some weapon tests, so here's a teaser in the same vein as the novelty weapons thread:

Name the weapon!

Bad Boy · Post by **Bad Boy** » Sat May 03, 2008 5:13 am

They're either pulsars or drivers, but I think pulsars. Are they the weapons the ship has?

AidanAdv · Post by **AidanAdv** » Sat May 03, 2008 5:35 am

They look like the impeder deployer platforms, but I can't figure out how he made them glow or how they would work as weapon.

mtheminja · Post by **mtheminja** » Sat May 03, 2008 5:55 am

Sidewinder.

If not, maybe pulsar, or he horribly stretched some other projectile, but I doubt it. I bet you could do something neat like that with Rorschaches...

ChaosTheory · Post by **ChaosTheory** » Sat May 03, 2008 5:59 am

Either:

A) Pulsars bunched together in slow motion

or

B) Impeders on circle sections with Aegis

mtheminja · Post by **mtheminja** » Sat May 03, 2008 6:14 am

Upon testing, it's an aegised section 13, but how is that a weapon? I was all excited, too.

derekiv · Post by **derekiv** » Sat May 03, 2008 6:53 am

really fast spinning pulsar

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:15 am

Nobody's gotten it right yet, but yes, it will be one of the weapons on the ship, though you could consider it more of a defensive mechanism than a weapon.

They aren't pulsars or drivers, they're not section 13's, they aren't impeder platforms, and they're not sidewinders.

Here's a rather large hint:
They don't actually move once they get where they're going.

Bad Boy · Post by **Bad Boy** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:28 am

Platforms? Rorschachs? Those don't move when they get where they're going.

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:32 am

It's an actual weapon, not a module or a platform.

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:45 am

Tachyons, or the exploison of a plasma torpedo, possibly recolored flak. Sidewinders, REALLY BIG DEMETERS... REALLY BIG recolored demeters.

I'm inclined to go with the demeters. In which case thats a brilliant way to get immobile gun platforms.

EDIT: Demeters, 0 speed, recolored. I believe.

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:49 am

While it would be really cool if they were giant glowing demeters, they're not. Also they're not tachyons, plasma torpedoes, or flak, but I do have something planned for plasma torpedoes later on.

6 weapons down, a bunch more to go.

Here's another hint:

EDIT:
I just tried to load the ship for the first time, and apparently mirroring that many aegis deflectors makes it so some of them don't assign, which required a bit of fiddling. Also, I am sad that recolored point beams make the game explode.

AidanAdv · Post by **AidanAdv** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:55 am

I'm running some experiments know, and my new hypothesis is that it is a modded weasel.