potential new alien fleet

[The Silent One]

Looks promising.

[ssalamass]

another update of the small-sized ship....

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greetings, tom

[Tortanick]

It's coming along nicely, but you probably should remove the guns. All weapons fire in 360 degrees so current policy is no visible guns on the hull.

[Josh]

Oh my. That huge ship looks much bigger than what I thought huge ships would be like.

[pd]

The size relations are far from what will be reasonable in terms of game design. See this thread for details. There is not a final decision yet, as we'll have to figure this out in a demo, but it should give a direction.

Your concepts are pretty much spot on, as far as I can tell, Josh.

[ssalamass]

yepp.. I was paying attention to that thread already... But I thought that the sizes of the ships discussed there, were just the size of the appearance within the final game...

So my intention was to design the ships how they would look like in "reality" and then scale them down/up to mach the game size.

here is a little update on the small-ship btw:

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greetings, tom

[pd]

There is one problem with this way and that is, if you are using features to indicate scale like windows for example, you'll scale them as well and by doing this you'll ruin the size relations.

The ship is coming along nicely. Some nitpicking regarding the presenation: You could perhaps try putting it on a non black backgound. You also might want to use a slight falloff.

Good work, I'm looking forward to where this is going.

[tzlaine]

These are starting to look really good! I especially like the disco lighting in the first one above. Could you Photoshop John Travolta into the scene, maybe dancing on the wing?

[pd]

Disco!


I should have gone to bed, but some things are just too important.

[Sandlapper]

LOL

We ought to make that an easter egg in the game, if possible.

[pd]

It's the splash screen for 0.4.

[tzlaine]

That just made my night!

[Tortanick]

We ought to make that an easter egg in the game, if possible.

Seconded!

[ssalamass]

another update I added a colormap... I would be greatful for some feedback whether you think the "style" of the painting fits the design or not ....

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greetings, tom

[pd]

It seems quite arbitrary and doesn't support the form. Try using simpler, less curvy shapes