Afew of my creations - Now with good Parenting!

Zeron · Post by **Zeron** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:47 am

Alrighty!

Post by **th15** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 12:17 pm

yea don't put quotes in your filenames.

HighComedy · Post by **HighComedy** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:31 pm

I managed to download the ships. They look beautiful, but the parenting is...ow.

Parenting lines criss-crossing the central axis is never a good sign. The sections are connected all over the place, and there are a lot of misaligned mirror clone pieces. These problems not only means that in the game, blowing away the ship's pieces will cause utterly unrelated sections to illogically fall off, but all the unintentionally mirrored pieces will happen again and again. I mean, unintuitive parenting can serve as a challenge for Metal Fox-like boss battles, but I don't think that was your intention. I'm sorry because I'm not sure if the issues can be fixed either, short of a near-total reconstruction of the designs. And this is a pity because they're all bloody beautiful ships...

EDIT: I read your description of the Thor again so this might be your intention, but in any case I can't agree with a design philosophy where if you destroy that front central spar, all the ship's weapons and outer sections spontaneously explode. And the Thor is relatively sane compared to the bird's nest of horror that is the Vega Class:

Danny420Dale · Post by **Danny420Dale** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:36 pm

.....Ouch. Yeah, that is bad parenting, those baby ships are cussing up a storm and not eating their veggies at all!

I do recommend rebuilding them, however.

Post by **Arcalane** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:39 pm

Oh dear.

What they said. Scrap 'em and start fresh. Parenting like that will not get you very far.

Post by **Aralonia** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:54 pm

but in any case I can't agree with a design philosophy where if you destroy that front central spar, all the ship's weapons and outer sections spontaneously explode.

Sigg'd.[/quote]

Magin Chao · Post by **Magin Chao** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 6:54 pm

Hehehe sorry about the parenting, but i've got no idia how to controll it, it seems fine untill i mirror things and then it seems to go crazy

Boba Fettuccini · Post by **Boba Fettuccini** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:14 am

...oh god. N00000BB!!

You make a ship with good parenting by clicking the piece you want your next piece to be attached to.

for example, when making, say, the Hestia, you click on the wing strut before clicking the wing piece and placing it.

for bad example, when making a star trek ship, you start work on the nacelles with a piece in the saucer section still selected.

Magin Chao · Post by **Magin Chao** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 7:19 pm

I've remade the unnamed/ un armed ship from scrathc with perfect parenting + weapons, I'm just going to give it a test flight before i upload it

Enjoy

Himura.Kenshin · Post by **Himura.Kenshin** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:33 am

I LOVE the design of the unnamed one =D

Magin Chao · Post by **Magin Chao** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:11 am

Himura.Kenshin wrote:I LOVE the design of the unnamed one =D

thanyou

picc

don't really like the Engiens ATM, looked better before

Post by **Arcalane** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:32 am

Uh, why do you have Boosters targeting the weaponless rear sections? Aesthetics? You could just use different colour settings for that.

Cerebrus · Post by **Cerebrus** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:34 am

But then they wouldn't be shiny.

Magin Chao · Post by **Magin Chao** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:40 am

Cerebrus wrote:But then they wouldn't be shiny.

he speaks the truth

+ you can target them in game so it doesn't really matter

Atrum · Post by **Atrum** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:14 am

Aestethics over firepower. ^^