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Title: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 17, 2012, 08:01:48 PM
So it's finally happening. Be it your worst fear or your dream of a pony mod is coming to Starfarer come true.

The main people working on this mod will be evildog (spriting), SonicRaptor (spriting? and coding for ships), and myself (whatever else needs doing I guess).

But we are going to need a lot of input from My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic fans as to the direction this mod will take.


What do you people want to see in a Pony mod lore wise?

All input is welcome.
Lore donations are welcome.
Portrait and ship donations are welcome.
If you have good art sources you want to see used (pictures from pony booru for example) then provide us with a link please.

Test Versions of the Mod: These are not perfect and some might crash your game, try at your own risk.
Spoiler
1st - SonicRaptor http://www.sendspace.com/file/yew12k
2nd - SonicRaptor http://www.sendspace.com/file/ex3d3y
3rd - SonicRaptor http://www.sendspace.com/file/0rhs08
4th - The Soldier http://www.mediafire.com/?0yo090yjuk8mqyx
5th - Vandala mlp_mission_testmod.zip (484.38KB) (http://www.sendspace.com/file/0bdc4n)

Ship Mod - changeling_fighter.zip (11.00KB) (http://www.sendspace.com/file/pj0ksi)
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Accumulated Artworks so far:
Spoiler
Donations by Kalthaniell:
(http://s15.postimage.org/skzmd405j/celestia.png) (http://postimage.org/image/skzmd405j/) (http://s15.postimage.org/eaunfd96v/Solar_Empirefrigate2small.png) (http://postimage.org/image/eaunfd96v/) (http://s15.postimage.org/4etkfq3ev/Solar_Empirefrigatesmall.png) (http://postimage.org/image/4etkfq3ev/) (http://s15.postimage.org/mk6its2x3/solar_flare.png) (http://postimage.org/image/mk6its2x3/) (http://s15.postimage.org/f5h71eh1j/solar_ray.png) (http://postimage.org/image/f5h71eh1j/)

(http://s15.postimage.org/ga6nt1e4n/luna.png) (http://postimage.org/image/ga6nt1e4n/)

(http://s15.postimage.org/x9fm8apc7/Changelingship.png) (http://postimage.org/image/x9fm8apc7/) (http://s15.postimage.org/sz0ycpk93/Changelingfighter.png) (http://postimage.org/image/sz0ycpk93/)


Donations by SonicRaptor:
(http://s15.postimage.org/qf9wwcm2v/Solar_Fighter2.png) (http://postimage.org/)

(http://s15.postimage.org/8iuj87zd3/Lunar_Bat_normal7.png) (http://postimage.org/) (http://s15.postimage.org/bfhk8i56v/Lunar_Frigite1.png) (http://postimage.org/) (http://s15.postimage.org/bqz0l9lmv/Lunar_Fighter.png) (http://postimage.org/)
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Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: evildog on May 17, 2012, 08:05:42 PM
Spelljammer?
Great... now you are making me google things.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 17, 2012, 08:15:45 PM
You can also think of Eberron skyships, like:

(http://s9.postimage.org/lp89hwfq3/82881.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/lp89hwfq3/) (http://s14.postimage.org/w8ypymgnh/3a1b2faff3cb99bb23f6c66186b212f3.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/w8ypymgnh/)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 17, 2012, 08:50:16 PM
Some ship ideas.

Lunar Republic vs Solar Empire (low/med/high tech style/design differences)

Lunar Republic as low-tech: You could make pony ships in the style of the low-tech hegemony and lore wise account for it as Luna having bin away for a 1000 years and finding that ship design has progressed from her old fleet which lies in either disrepair or have just bin restored and taking back into use.
Solar Empire as med/high-tech: Mid-tech ships would be the mainstay ships of the Solar Empire while high-tech ships are brand new designs.

Lunar Republic as high-tech: The return of Luna brings back old lunar magic lost to the past.
Independent as mid-tech: Independent unicorn ships or ships of other races find a balance between the two goddesses.
Solar Empire as low-tech: Celestia has grown old and her magic has to span across the great defense fleet which does not allow for the energy abundance of Luna's ships.

Pony racial castes.

Earth Pony as low-tech: Earth ponies having to do everything by hoof and with little magic of their own fit well for the low-tech ship style.
Pegasus as mid-tech: Pegasus ponies are more accustomed with flight and its mechanics as well as their military history, there ship designs show a balance between the pony ship designs.
Unicorn as high-tech: Unicorn ponies being the magic users fit well with the energy style of high-tech ships, as well as their relative frailty, their speed represents their aversion for combat.

Individual ship ideas.

Apple family carriers: Applejack, Macintosh.
Science vessel: Twilight Sparkle, Starswirl the bearded.
Fighter or fast Frigate: Rainbow Dash.
Capital ships: The three Princesses; Celestia, Luna and Candice.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: FlashFrozen on May 17, 2012, 08:56:26 PM
I don't mind this as long as you add in a orbital friendship cannon  :D
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 17, 2012, 09:06:43 PM
I don't mind this as long as you add in a orbital friendship cannon  :D
Orbital would imply a standalone weapons platform that is in orbit around something (a planet for example).

Though we could do a "re-purposed orbital friendship cannon" on a capital ship perhaps.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: arcibalde on May 17, 2012, 10:08:49 PM
I'm for ponies vs vanilla ships and ships to blend with current ships.  ;D
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: vorpal+5 on May 17, 2012, 10:42:04 PM
Why ponies? Every game seems to have a pony mod, even dwarf fortress has a pony mod!

Seriously, I'm not against, everybody is entitled anything as long you don't step on the feet of your neighbours :) this is a naive question without offence meant... Is the TV show so good that it deserves adaptations to game? I admit I never watched an episode!

Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 17, 2012, 10:52:50 PM
Why ponies? Every game seems to have a pony mod, even dwarf fortress has a pony mod!

Seriously, I'm not against, everybody is entitled anything as long you don't step on the feet of your neighbours :) this is a naive question without offence meant... Is the TV show so good that it deserves adaptations to game? I admit I never watched an episode!


Yes it is and no its not.

Its just a preference for some people, some people find comedy or joy in ponyfing (sp?) the things they like.

Watch a few episodes on youtube (start at the start), you can see for yourself whether you like it or not.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: mrsnuggles on May 17, 2012, 11:06:53 PM
i have to admit my little ponies are freaken AWESOME

any ways i liked to second idea where lunar faction was high tech
solar was low tech
W\independents
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: zanar9786 on May 17, 2012, 11:25:28 PM
Gawd no you have me watching MLP at home, i think if my parents walk in ill tab to some porn, it would be easier to explain ;D
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Upgradecap on May 18, 2012, 01:28:08 AM
You can also think of Eberron skyships, like:

(http://s9.postimage.org/lp89hwfq3/82881.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/lp89hwfq3/) (http://s14.postimage.org/w8ypymgnh/3a1b2faff3cb99bb23f6c66186b212f3.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/w8ypymgnh/)

Honestly? Those ships look epic! :)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 18, 2012, 01:34:52 AM
Thats why I want a fantasy mod for Starfarer Upgradecap.

Eberron in general is just epic. You should google their lightning trains.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: arcibalde on May 18, 2012, 01:51:59 AM
They look very fragile to me.You'll have to put some nasty shields on them  ;D
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: zanar9786 on May 18, 2012, 02:38:27 AM
This lightning train?

(http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss255/GrokMeAmadeus/125662_edit_lr_web.jpg)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 18, 2012, 02:45:05 AM
That be the one.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: zanar9786 on May 18, 2012, 02:52:36 AM
But how would it fit into starfarer? Betweeen system transport? (when that finallly happens ;)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 18, 2012, 03:47:13 AM
I wasn't implying that we should... But now that you mention it. Hmm, space train.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: zanar9786 on May 18, 2012, 03:55:16 AM
 space train could be another way stations get resupplied, that would add a whole new dimension of new things to do instead of fighting.
(not that ima agianst killing fleets 4 creds)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: vagyr on May 18, 2012, 04:14:41 AM
First off. Not into ponies and the whole lore...
But I can see the space train being some superheavy super long transport for supplies for the faction with the ships with the rings being its support.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 18, 2012, 05:58:50 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/XaO0f.gif)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Zebster10 on May 18, 2012, 07:48:27 AM
This is a great idea! ( I'm the guy who ponified SonicRaptor. :3 )
Anybody think this awesome thing can be made into a ship?
(http://travelingponymuseum.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/airship-pin.jpg)
(Sorry for odd measurement information - this was made for a toy. Also, I am not affiliated with Travelling Pony Museum - I just think their airship is cool.)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Erick Doe on May 18, 2012, 08:05:42 AM
I... am so confused by this. And so I googled...

(http://www.nakedrobber.com/wp-content/uploads/nakedrobber-bronies.jpg)

When I was a kid, we digged Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Zorro and Batman. When I was 20 we digged muscle cars and women. What the heck is this?

You folks got me so confused.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 18, 2012, 08:13:03 AM
Know your Meme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olLDrvc1qt4)

An hour of everything on ponies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE7I_IDX98g)


Totally not a brony (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BrWli4RZNQ)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Upgradecap on May 18, 2012, 08:28:06 AM
Know your Meme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olLDrvc1qt4)



From 3.00 and onwards.

He said that because if 4chans moderator bans it ignited a civil war, right? He also stated that a brony would re-unite them, right?


Well, neither the TimCORP nor the sidus dim (read project CAELUS) can allow this. We will invade and destroy all ponies. 
This is now a full-scale war!
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 18, 2012, 08:33:03 AM
4Chan now has it's own dedicated board for ponies. /mlp

Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 18, 2012, 08:36:22 AM
On the topic of the mod, I'd like to see the Solar Empire vs the Lunar Republic
The Empire having white and trimmed gold ships, the Republic having midnight purple and blue colourings. I'd also think both groups of ships would be high tech, arcano-science and all that.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Zebster10 on May 18, 2012, 11:01:42 AM
Know your Meme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olLDrvc1qt4)
Should probably also link the actual article (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic). Might help clear some things up for people. :)
(Ashame that all Know Your Meme really focused, on, though, was the 4chan war...)

I... am so confused by this. And so I googled...

When I was a kid, we digged Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Zorro and Batman. When I was 20 we digged muscle cars and women. What the heck is this?

You folks got me so confused.
Here's a really good article on explaining why the show is so good, hence a large following: Anime Vice's "Why Do Guys Like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic?" (http://www.animevice.com/news/why-do-guys-like-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic/5805/)

On the topic of the mod, I'd like to see the Solar Empire vs the Lunar Republic
The Empire having white and trimmed gold ships, the Republic having midnight purple and blue colourings. I'd also think both groups of ships would be high tech, arcano-science and all that.
(On-topic!  ;D) I really like this concept. However, are you referring to two factions? Or simply two different ship-types?
My personal idea (btw I'm not affiliated with the mod dev-team other than knowing SonicRaptor) is perhaps two factions, each with custom ships, but there would be different types of ships. Maybe Earth Ponies would be the fighter and drone wings, etc., and the Pegasus would be frigates, then Unicorns the next level above (Sorry - can't remember the name of this group offhand), with a "Royal" Capital Ship representing the Alicorns. Furthermore, each faction could be made to represent the two royal sisters' personalities. Perhaps Solar Empire would be heavy ships but they'd either sorely lack on shielding or weapons, whereas the Lunar Republic would be smaller, "weaker," well-balanced ships. This way, a player could choose to ally with a side focusing on ships with specialties or with a balanced group good for en masse attacks.
But, that's just my two cents. All I know is we definitely need to find a way to work in a "To the moon!" joke. ;)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: evildog on May 18, 2012, 11:53:57 AM
I got some good news and some bad news...

The good news is that I have some ships drawn out for the Lunar Republic :)

The bad news is that I lost most of the cords for my scanner when I built my new computer, so there is only one option for me now...

MS PAINT HERE I COME!!!
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 18, 2012, 12:10:45 PM
What I mean is that whole thing about Celestia VS Luna, thus Solar Empire vs Lunar Republic
So, two differing factions, each with a theme, the Solar Empire seeming more attuned to the day, and to light, the Lunar Republic, more towards the night. Also, I'm basing the general colour schemes of the two factions on the princesses they represent.

This being Celestia...
(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120401202551/mlp/images/thumb/1/13/Celestia_large.jpg/450px-Celestia_large.jpg)

And this being Luna
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120401201756/mlp/images/b/bb/Luna-forest-cropped.PNG)
I'm only thinking of their coat and the color of their decor. I'm ignoring their manes, because come on, pink, green, purple and blue? On a space-faring warship? The Imperial Amarr Navy pull off white ships pretty well. Though I've never seen a midnight-blue ship in any universe I've encountered.


NINJA'D:
Any internet cafes near you? Maybe they can scan your stuff in and you can send it to yourself....
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 18, 2012, 12:15:06 PM
As for the 'To the MOOOOOOOOOOOON' thing, if it was possible to use a different sprite for the station, you could totally use a sprite of a moon as the station for the Lunar Republic. Is such a thing possible? Pretty much everything from Starfarer can be rebuilt if you look at mods like Fight For Universe or Ascendancy.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: evildog on May 18, 2012, 12:19:04 PM
As for the 'To the MOOOOOOOOOOOON' thing, if it was possible to use a different sprite for the station, you could totally use a sprite of a moon as the station for the Lunar Republic. Is such a thing possible? Pretty much everything from Starfarer can be rebuilt if you look at mods like Fight For Universe or Ascendancy.

Now that is a cool idea.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on May 18, 2012, 12:36:55 PM
What's an average resolution for a ship and what are the average ship classes for this game? (never played starfarer)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on May 18, 2012, 01:37:28 PM
That all depends on the type of ship

fighter are between 32x32 and 64x64
 
and bigger ships like battle ships can range from 100x100 to 400x300

some were around there.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on May 18, 2012, 03:05:56 PM
That's pretty small, which means there's not much need for detail. That's good :)

I'm not a pony fan, to be honest I find all ponies a bit creepy (the live and the animated ones alike), but I do like to help out with projects that  operate on 'outside the box' concepts. Your project is clearly one of those and you guys need help badly (the train thing) :P

I'm handy with graphics so I think I might help you with that part of your mod. I made a quick concept ship, with simple model and textures, that I think has just the right mixture of sane old school sci-fi'ness and mlp 'touch'. Would this look like a capital ship of the Solar Empire?

EDIT:
*small pic
(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpireCapital1small.png)
*big pic
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpireCapital1.png (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpireCapital1.png)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: evildog on May 18, 2012, 03:20:46 PM
That looks beautiful!!! What program do you use???
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on May 18, 2012, 03:26:14 PM
maya for modelling and UV mapping, gimp for texturing and 2d-edits :) glad you like it ^^
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Zebster10 on May 18, 2012, 04:24:31 PM
That's pretty small, which means there's not much need for detail. That's good :)

I'm not a pony fan, to be honest I find all ponies a bit creepy (the live and the animated ones alike), but I do like to help out with projects that  operate on 'outside the box' concepts. Your project is clearly one of those and you guys need help badly (the train thing) :P

I'm handy with graphics so I think I might help you with that part of your mod. I made a quick concept ship, with simple model and textures, that I think has just the right mixture of sane old school sci-fi'ness and mlp 'touch'. Would this look like a capital ship of the Solar Empire?

EDIT:
*small pic
(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpireCapital1small.png)
*big pic
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpireCapital1.png (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpireCapital1.png)

This... Is just a "quick concept?" O_O SOMEONE HIRE THIS EPIC PERSON NOW WITH ALL THE MONIES WE GOT.  :D
That is stunningly good. And, for not being into MLP, I actually think that really represents Celestia rather well. It looks very heavenly in design, which accurately reflects her position as, well, pretty much a god. (Kind of sad they call her a "Princess" when she's the matriarch, though.  :P)
Quick idea: Anyone up for throwing in a sort of "secret weapon" ship with the rest of the mod? I really would love to see something like this done for Chrysalis or Discord. >:3

(For those non-bronies: Chrysalis is queen of the changelings. Think shapeshifting-Xenomorph if it were squee.
Some Chrysalis Fan-Art (http://14-bis.deviantart.com/art/Queen-Crysalis-300172008)
Discord is an evil trickster spirit, the embodiment of chaos. Think the personality of Loki, or Q. Actually, they got Q to voice him...
Some Discord Fan-Art (http://laurenmagpie.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d4bzc1b))
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 18, 2012, 05:34:35 PM
That's pretty small, which means there's not much need for detail. That's good :)

I'm not a pony fan, to be honest I find all ponies a bit creepy (the live and the animated ones alike), but I do like to help out with projects that  operate on 'outside the box' concepts. Your project is clearly one of those and you guys need help badly (the train thing) :P

I'm handy with graphics so I think I might help you with that part of your mod. I made a quick concept ship, with simple model and textures, that I think has just the right mixture of sane old school sci-fi'ness and mlp 'touch'. Would this look like a capital ship of the Solar Empire?

EDIT:
*small pic
(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpireCapital1small.png)
*big pic
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpireCapital1.png (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpireCapital1.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/U3LeV.gif)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on May 18, 2012, 05:55:41 PM
Quote
That is stunningly good. And, for not being into MLP, I actually think that really represents Celestia rather well. It looks very heavenly in design, which accurately reflects her position as, well, pretty much a god. (Kind of sad they call her a "Princess" when she's the matriarch, though.  Tongue)
Quick idea: Anyone up for throwing in a sort of "secret weapon" ship with the rest of the mod? I really would love to see something like this done for Chrysalis or Discord. >:3

Thx. I used the pics IIE16 Yoshi posted above to get an idea of how two factions could look like. Both characters create a lot of contrast in terms of colours and shapes, so reflecting it on ships is rather easy. Look:
    (http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120401202551/mlp/images/thumb/1/13/Celestia_large.jpg/450px-Celestia_large.jpg)                                                   (http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120401201756/mlp/images/b/bb/Luna-forest-cropped.PNG)

(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpireCapital1small.png)(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/LunarEmpireCapital1small.png)

And if I'll do more ships, I'll definiately am going to do that :Some Chrysalis Fan-Art (http://14-bis.deviantart.com/art/Queen-Crysalis-300172008). This thing is awesome.

EDIT:
*big pic for luna capship: http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/LunarEmpireCapital1.png (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/LunarEmpireCapital1.png)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: zanar9786 on May 18, 2012, 05:57:30 PM
DUDE you are a god at making ships, you should get into some serious spriting your crazy good
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 18, 2012, 05:58:02 PM
Kalthaniell, man you make some cool art! You are free to donate whatever you want!!

Please consider making ships based on these characters as well:
Discord: basically a creature/god of chaos.
http://atryl.deviantart.com/art/Discord-288082125?q=boost%3Apopular%20discord&qo=0
http://laurenmagpie.deviantart.com/art/Discord-261989039?q=boost%3Apopular%20discord&qo=8
http://mickeymonster.deviantart.com/art/Discord-being-Discord-281176741?q=boost%3Apopular%20discord&qo=16

Changeling Queen Chrysalis: an evil pony creature, can change their appearance at will.
http://skykain.deviantart.com/art/Queen-of-Changeling-297653823?q=boost%3Apopular%20changeling&qo=21
http://wizardwannabe.deviantart.com/art/Chrysalis-Queen-of-the-Changelings-298357188?q=boost%3Apopular%20Queen%20Chrysalis&qo=21
http://nastylady.deviantart.com/art/Queen-Chrysalis-299036505?q=boost%3Apopular%20Queen%20Chrysalis&qo=19

Nightmare Moon: basicaly Luna when she was evil for a time.
http://cosmicunicorn.deviantart.com/art/ponysketch-Nightmare-Moon-203992501?q=boost%3Apopular%20nightmare%20moon&qo=1
http://moongazeponies.deviantart.com/art/Nightmare-Moon-214805086?q=boost%3Apopular%20nightmare%20moon&qo=11
http://deludedcon.deviantart.com/art/Nightmare-Moooooooon-252378412?q=boost%3Apopular%20nightmare%20moon&qo=46

Ahuizotl: weird fantasy creature.
http://deadrabbit13.deviantart.com/art/Ahuizotl-283344081?q=boost%3Apopular%20AHUIZOTL&qo=2
http://2snacks.deviantart.com/art/meet-your-DOOM-284240222?q=boost%3Apopular%20AHUIZOTL&qo=19
http://raikoh14.deviantart.com/art/Ahuizotl-286012369?q=boost%3Apopular%20AHUIZOTL%20pony&qo=5

Windigoo: ponified version of the wendigo, an wind/ice spirit that seeks out disharmony.
http://firebust510.deviantart.com/art/Villains-Wallpaper-2-292506465?q=boost%3Apopular%20AHUIZOTL%20pony&qo=25 (top one)

On the topic of the mod, I'd like to see the Solar Empire vs the Lunar Republic
The Empire having white and trimmed gold ships, the Republic having midnight purple and blue colourings. I'd also think both groups of ships would be high tech, arcano-science and all that.

This could be problematic. Sure we can do it but if we do we miss out on the game features of the different tech ships going at it. The game would become just high-tech vs high-tech.

All I know is we definitely need to find a way to work in a "To the moon!" joke. ;)

Banishment cannons?

Zebster10, a balloon can be made but consider that you can't see the underside of it. It's only a top-down game after all. Perhaps if we modified it to have interesting features on the sides of the balloon instead of on its underside.


Silly me, I've bin so focused on Luna and Celestia that I didn't consider those other characters. We can have way more factions, think Diamond Dogs, Griffins, Changelings, and various other small factions for the other talking creatures (cows, donkeys and minotaurs for example)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on May 18, 2012, 06:30:41 PM
DUDE you are a god at making ships, you should get into some serious spriting your crazy good

wow. I truly am flattered. Seems I do have a knack for spacships in particular.

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Kalthaniell, man you make some cool art! You are free to donate whatever you want!!

Please consider making ships based on these characters as well:
Discord: basically a creature/god of chaos.
http://atryl.deviantart.com/art/Discord-288082125?q=boost%3Apopular%20discord&qo=0
http://laurenmagpie.deviantart.com/art/Discord-261989039?q=boost%3Apopular%20discord&qo=8
http://mickeymonster.deviantart.com/art/Discord-being-Discord-281176741?q=boost%3Apopular%20discord&qo=16

Changeling Queen Chrysalis: an evil pony creature, can change their appearance at will.
http://skykain.deviantart.com/art/Queen-of-Changeling-297653823?q=boost%3Apopular%20changeling&qo=21
http://wizardwannabe.deviantart.com/art/Chrysalis-Queen-of-the-Changelings-298357188?q=boost%3Apopular%20Queen%20Chrysalis&qo=21
http://nastylady.deviantart.com/art/Queen-Chrysalis-299036505?q=boost%3Apopular%20Queen%20Chrysalis&qo=19

Nightmare Moon: basicaly Luna when she was evil for a time.
http://cosmicunicorn.deviantart.com/art/ponysketch-Nightmare-Moon-203992501?q=boost%3Apopular%20nightmare%20moon&qo=1
http://moongazeponies.deviantart.com/art/Nightmare-Moon-214805086?q=boost%3Apopular%20nightmare%20moon&qo=11
http://deludedcon.deviantart.com/art/Nightmare-Moooooooon-252378412?q=boost%3Apopular%20nightmare%20moon&qo=46

Thx. I'm not sure about the goat-lion-otherstuff-thing but I'll try my skills with the shapeshifter. Evil luna could be a variant of ship for Lunar Empire. I have a whole next week off, so with luck, I'll make you guys a whole neat fleet. From what I can tell, there's no mlp spaceship art anyways, so it could be used for other games too.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 18, 2012, 06:37:11 PM
That sounds wonderful!!!!
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 18, 2012, 06:48:20 PM
I don't remember seen any other pony ships other then these, and I'm not sure if they are origionals or just stolen from existing ones.
(http://s17.postimage.org/dpluultij/luna_nobis_custodit_by_chobit_389_d46874n.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/dpluultij/)


Here is some more great art to inspire you.
(http://s17.postimage.org/q2yp1ij6z/166662_Ahuizotl_Alicorn_artist_ziom05_badass_c.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/q2yp1ij6z/)

And some more, we could also have giant space bear ships.
(http://s14.postimage.org/r7pjffnel/trixie_i_won_t_lie_anymore_by_ziom05_d4x74.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/r7pjffnel/)
http://virus-91.deviantart.com/art/Wrath-of-the-Ursa-Major-245070655?q=boost%3Apopular%20Ursa%20Major&qo=2
http://modern-warmare.deviantart.com/art/Dancing-with-the-Stars-213904086?q=boost%3Apopular%20Ursa%20Major&qo=25
http://kcpon3.deviantart.com/art/Ursa-Major-Custom-291919057?q=boost%3Apopular%20mlp%20Ursa%20Major&qo=6
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on May 18, 2012, 06:57:20 PM
I don't remember seen any other pony ships other then these, and I'm not sure if they are origionals or just stolen from existing ones.
(http://s17.postimage.org/dpluultij/luna_nobis_custodit_by_chobit_389_d46874n.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/dpluultij/)


Here is some more great art to inspire you.
(http://s17.postimage.org/q2yp1ij6z/166662_Ahuizotl_Alicorn_artist_ziom05_badass_c.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/q2yp1ij6z/)

And some more, we could also have giant space bear ships.
(http://s14.postimage.org/r7pjffnel/trixie_i_won_t_lie_anymore_by_ziom05_d4x74.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/r7pjffnel/)
http://virus-91.deviantart.com/art/Wrath-of-the-Ursa-Major-245070655?q=boost%3Apopular%20Ursa%20Major&qo=2
http://modern-warmare.deviantart.com/art/Dancing-with-the-Stars-213904086?q=boost%3Apopular%20Ursa%20Major&qo=25
http://kcpon3.deviantart.com/art/Ursa-Major-Custom-291919057?q=boost%3Apopular%20mlp%20Ursa%20Major&qo=6

That's really stunning artwork! Plenty of inspiration. I did not know there was so much amazing art created for mlp. This anime must be truly outstanding if it prompts so much creative output. I hope you were joking about giant bears in space, though :P
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 18, 2012, 07:04:27 PM
I think, for the moment, flesh out the Solar Empire and the Lunar Republic, then we can go onto others like Chrissy (Chrysalis) or Discord.

As for Nightmare Moon, you could probably make like, I dunno, a super capital flagship in Nightmare Moon's colors for the Republic. As for Celestia, I've seen some artwork of Celestia's fan version of NM, which I believe is Sol. I'll see if I can find artwork of that.

NINJA: Yeah there's some awesome artwork out there of MLP. As for 'Sol'...

(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/248/6/d/ponysketch___umbrae_nova_by_crappyunicorn-d490s9v.png)

And Nightmare Moon...
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/169/d/8/d8bfd53ce3930cc8dd9bc2de4c565d33-d3ja27v.png)

Both pictures are by the same guy too.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on May 18, 2012, 07:08:34 PM
These ship pictures are so awesome. I can't wait to see more.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on May 18, 2012, 07:12:23 PM
The Nightmare Moon pic is just pure awesomeness. I'll check out more fanart when I get a chance. This stuff is really cool (though it's pony-related :P ). Now it's time to rest (2 am here), but I have a couple of concepts I'll shape into digital being tomorrow. Take care!
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 18, 2012, 07:17:38 PM
I so look forward to your designs dude.  :-*


 :D
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 18, 2012, 07:42:32 PM
That's really stunning artwork! Plenty of inspiration. I did not know there was so much amazing art created for mlp. This anime must be truly outstanding if it prompts so much creative output. I hope you were joking about giant bears in space, though :P

There is an episode where the ponies encounter a Usra Minor and are only able to 'beat' it because its a baby, its mother is an Ursa Major. These bears are pretty much the ultimate creature of the pony universe at the moment, kinda. It would be cool to have this represented in Starfarer as well, by giving these bears really powerful ships and have it just be those two, no others spawn, as a bonus enemy to test your skills.

There are literally tens of thousands of pony fan art pictures and there are many good ones. I would suggest looking at ponybooru but that site has bin having a lot of problems lately. (can't imagine why  ::))
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 18, 2012, 08:12:06 PM
I've found maps of the Equestrian world.

http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/46929?search=map
http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/39012?search=favorited_by%3DTomiGun
http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/92096?search=artist%3ANsko

If only we could turn these into a planet somehow.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: CrashToDesktop on May 18, 2012, 08:14:47 PM
 Upgrade...where are you?  We need your criticism. ;)
Anyway, I'm actually looking forward to this mod just to see what I looks like.  I might even help here and there. ;D
I haven't even watch Friendship is Magic yet...is that bad? :)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 18, 2012, 08:38:00 PM
Upgrade...where are you?  We need your criticism. ;)
Anyway, I'm actually looking forward to this mod just to see what I looks like.  I might even help here and there. ;D
I haven't even watch Friendship is Magic yet...is that bad? :)
No, but it would help if you want to help out, that way you get a better feeling for the lore.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Zebster10 on May 18, 2012, 08:38:48 PM
There is an episode where the ponies encounter a Usra Minor and are only able to 'beat' it because its a baby, its mother is an Ursa Major. These bears are pretty much the ultimate creature of the pony universe at the moment, kinda. It would be cool to have this represented in Starfarer as well, by giving these bears really powerful ships and have it just be those two, no others spawn, as a bonus enemy to test your skills.

"Ulitmate creature" is a good way to put it, as it is likely the most powerful being in the Everfree Forest (not sure if the Forest-Dragon counts, and the Hydras are too stupid). The Ursas would make good bosses. However, I think the most powerful creature in the series is Discord. He was one epic villain. I mean, he had basically total control to alter reality. He brainwashed ponies just for fun! (We know he could've corrupted them more humanely...) The only reason he couldn't maintain power was because he never took any threats against him seriously. If there was an entire Starfarer faction made based off of Discord, they would be the most sporadic, OP things ever. The only flaw they'd have is they'd never seriously try. Hmm... What is possible in the areas of AI-modding? (I'm not a programmer, myself.) Is it possible to create a mod to make the AI for a particular faction so terrible that they actually purposely mess up in battle? And, to take it a step further, could we assign them tons of mediocre-to-good ships and let them loose? Ah... The chaos. Muahahahaha...
...I'm just an idea person.  ;D
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on May 18, 2012, 08:40:38 PM
Thank you so much Kalthaniell I love the ship you did so far they are amazing. I will get the two ships implement into the game as soon as I can most likly with a mission, Luna vs Celestia.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Zebster10 on May 18, 2012, 08:44:46 PM
All I know is we definitely need to find a way to work in a "To the moon!" joke. ;)

Banishment cannons?
Jus' sayin'... It IS a space-game.


Zebster10, a balloon can be made but consider that you can't see the underside of it. It's only a top-down game after all. Perhaps if we modified it to have interesting features on the sides of the balloon instead of on its underside.


Yeah, I was kind-of thinking in the area of turning the balloon into the ship. Sort of like that huge round ship from Gratuitous Space Battles.

Thank you so much Kalthaniell I love the ship you did so far they are amazing. I will get the two ships implement into the game as soon as I can most likly with a mission, Luna vs Celestia.
The first mission of the Starfarer Ponyverse... It has begun. :3
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 18, 2012, 08:49:42 PM
If there was an entire Starfarer faction made based off of Discord, they would be the most sporadic, OP things ever. The only flaw they'd have is they'd never seriously try. Hmm... What is possible in the areas of AI-modding? (I'm not a programmer, myself.) Is it possible to create a mod to make the AI for a particular faction so terrible that they actually purposely mess up in battle? And, to take it a step further, could we assign them tons of mediocre-to-good ships and let them loose? Ah... The chaos. Muahahahaha...
...I'm just an idea person.  ;D

Well we could edit the persona of the captains but I don't know how far we ca take that.

Still, a faction based on discord need not be overpowered. We could just have him as a leader or figurehead and his minions and underlings could be other creatures. It would not need to be extremely powerful, they could fill as many roles as we needed them to just as with vanilla ships.


Yeah, I was kind-of thinking in the area of turning the balloon into the ship. Sort of like that huge round ship from Gratuitous Space Battles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMyy0ddaBdk
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Zebster10 on May 18, 2012, 08:52:09 PM
Well we could edit the persona of the captains but I don't know how far we ca take that.

Still, a faction based on discord need not be overpowered. We could just have him as a leader or figurehead and his minions and underlings could be other creatures. It would not need to be extremely powerful, they could fill as many roles as we needed them to just as with vanilla ships.
Ah, good point. I'm probably not thinking very realistically. I should ask SonicRaptor for some tutorials on dealing with Starfarer's code.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 18, 2012, 08:59:06 PM
Ah, good point. I'm probably not thinking very realistically. I should ask SonicRaptor for some tutorials on dealing with Starfarer's code.

You can change the characteristics of personalities by editing ./data/characters/personalities.csv
You can change the personality factions use by editing the faction files in ./data/world/factions/...
The personality types are found near the bottom of the file.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 18, 2012, 11:06:03 PM
Note of curiousity; unless all the ships will be using hidden turrets, those capital ships, along with any other ships, will need to have mounting hardpoints in 3 uniform sizes....
Alternatively, we could take the route of all hidden turrets, making it look like the guns are firing from what would effectively be bunkers along the ship's hull
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 18, 2012, 11:12:27 PM
I would prefer visible turrets, makes it easier to equip them in-game.

But its also possible to make a mod that uses only hidden weapons, I have no problem with it. Not sure if it will look good though.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on May 19, 2012, 09:09:17 AM
                         Hocus-pocus!

Ta-dum:

Two cruiser variants:
(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpireCapital2bsmall.png)(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpireCapital2csmall.png)

And a destroyer:
(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpiredestroyer1small.png)

< 3d wizzard ;) >

Not sure if the game allows more than one ship of the same class, but I just liked the silvery thing too much to scrap it.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 19, 2012, 09:29:51 AM
Oh my, nice!

I don't think that will be a problem, we'll just create two classes for them that are kinda similar.

Or maybe we can have their id be different but show their name in-game as the same, don't know if that will work but we can try.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: CrashToDesktop on May 19, 2012, 09:51:40 AM
When two unholy weapons meet, a new one is born...
[Insert Picture of Orbital Friendship Cannon]
Yea, I'm making one. ;D
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on May 19, 2012, 10:03:56 AM
i made a mistake the bigger images like the 1000x1000 they make good capital ships the the smaller one make nice destroyers or a larger Frigate.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 19, 2012, 10:08:07 AM
i made a mistake the bigger images like the 1000x1000 they make good capital ships the the smaller one make nice destroyers or a larger Frigate.

A paragon is only 330 by 364 though. No worries, we can always shrink them down.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on May 19, 2012, 10:38:48 AM
Ah yes i see i was thinking about it all wrong my first numbers were right.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 19, 2012, 10:56:13 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/eZ2M2.jpg)



EDIT:

If you want a look at Chrysalis, this is her
http://quiss.deviantart.com/art/Not-over-yet-297686639
http://foxinshadow.deviantart.com/art/Princesses-Pfff-what-about-a-queen-297701686
And for more literal/awesome artwork
http://ziom05.deviantart.com/art/Chrysalis-The-Dark-Queen-299086934
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Zebster10 on May 22, 2012, 06:23:39 PM
How's the mod coming? I know you've made progress, SonicRaptor... >:3
Also, relevant:
(http://www.deviantart.com/download/206102474/battlepony_galactica_by_johnjoseco-d3ephoq.jpg)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 22, 2012, 06:43:51 PM
How's the mod coming? I know you've made progress, SonicRaptor... >:3
Also, relevant:
(http://www.deviantart.com/download/206102474/battlepony_galactica_by_johnjoseco-d3ephoq.jpg)
"Let's go this way really, really fast. If something gets in our way, shoot it!"
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 22, 2012, 07:27:27 PM
SonicRaptor has bin making progress, don't worry. I've seen the ships in a test mission, there was just a problem with them auto-retreating.

The problem can be solved in two was, the good way includes redoing the turrets in a fashion that is more in line with the known layouts of ships in their intended size class.

Don't worry you'll see them eventually. I'll go poke SonicRaptor about it for you.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 22, 2012, 07:35:12 PM
I hope the turrets stay hidden, or custom weapons are implemented. Massive case of nomegusta thinking of that Solar Empire flagship with huge-ass large mount turret strewn all over it. Alternatively, hidden turrets as I said earlier.  :)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 22, 2012, 07:36:59 PM
They were not hidden, and it looked pretty good. Still such things should be easily changeable.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 22, 2012, 07:38:50 PM
sneak peek so I can go cream rainbows?  :P
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 22, 2012, 07:45:24 PM
Here ya go.

These are just the very earliest test, anything about these ships can still change.

Click on the pictures to enlarge them, they can be enlarged twice.
(http://s13.postimage.org/qwv1z3uxf/screenshot000.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/qwv1z3uxf/) (http://s17.postimage.org/mlkoytyvv/screenshot001.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/mlkoytyvv/) (http://s14.postimage.org/ifd65dwrh/screenshot002.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/ifd65dwrh/) (http://s17.postimage.org/ra0ou0o2j/screenshot003.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/ra0ou0o2j/)
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on May 22, 2012, 07:58:11 PM
No heavies? Or are they gonna be getting custom weapons?
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 22, 2012, 08:07:00 PM
No heavies? Or are they gonna be getting custom weapons?
Like I said, just testing.

I don't know, I think people will want costume weapons but vanilla weapons are easier to balance. We'll see, if we get cool picture for weapons then we'll get you custom weapons for sure.
Title: Re: MOD = My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on May 22, 2012, 09:03:13 PM
Thanks Vandala for posting the pics. I am still working on it, but I don't have a lot that I can do as of now.  I am very happy that people still want to see it developed ;D.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on May 30, 2012, 10:09:22 AM
Okay, after much work, and some procrastination :P, I am at a point were i want you to say what you think about the mod and maybe were I can make it better. as of now the mod only consists of 4 ships and 6 missions, campaign related stuff will come later.

here is the link for the download:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yew12k

tell me what you think.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 30, 2012, 10:25:25 AM
The link isn't working for me.

I'll try again later but right now I'm getting a "HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found" error when I try the link from sendspace.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on May 30, 2012, 10:45:37 AM
okay, hmmm...

lest try this:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ex3d3y
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 30, 2012, 11:22:19 AM
New link works.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 30, 2012, 11:52:50 AM
The AlicornSD3 in the mission MissingV2 seems to have problems being hit by anything. I can't damage it at all, shots just go right throe it.

The luna ship has a anti-matter blaster in the same weapon group as two graviton beams, this will not do.

We really do need pictures of our own so people can easily identify pony mod mission from others. For now we can use this mock one until we find something better:
(http://s12.postimage.org/a9r2hwkop/icon.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/a9r2hwkop/)
Simply placing it in the mission folder and overwriting the original icon there should do the trick.

I have to say that I find the current weapon layout horrible, not the turret placement, just the weapons used in the variants. I'll get back on that later, I'm going to need to make some lists first.

I would also like to see versions of the ships that do not have engine trails/fire if that's possible.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on May 30, 2012, 12:38:36 PM
yeah that was the big problem I had is, I have trouble balancing weapons layouts.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on May 30, 2012, 12:58:12 PM
Update:
fixed a handful of problem one of them being collision detection with the ship.
I also removed the engines by Vandala request. and replaced the mission icon with something more pony.
link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0rhs08
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on May 30, 2012, 11:10:00 PM
There is something weird going on with one of the needlers on Celestia's first ship. Its rotation speed is not the same as the other.

EDIT: The problem is that one is a hardpoint while the other is a turret.

EDIT: There is also something weird going on with the turrent movement on one of the other ships, its missile turrets don't want to move at all.

EDIT: Not having engine trails definably feels weird, without them there is not sign of movement from your ship. It gives to much of a disconnect.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: CrashToDesktop on May 31, 2012, 06:15:39 PM
Oi...do you need me to fix this?  I'd be glad to help. ;D
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Sarkovar on June 01, 2012, 12:01:44 AM
Oh great first we have "My Little Fortress" in DF, now we have "MLP: Tachyons Are Magic". That's how you know your game is big time, a pony mod. ::) Seriously though, this looks like a well designed and thought out mod so far not just "herp derp ponies in space lol". Good work so far and if your mod stays at the same quality it is now you may make a space brony (bronie?) out of me. :P
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 01, 2012, 02:33:02 AM
Oi...do you need me to fix this?  I'd be glad to help. ;D
Your free to help of course.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 01, 2012, 08:48:48 AM
Oi...do you need me to fix this?  I'd be glad to help. ;D

That would be awesome getting another to help with the development.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Unwoundpath on June 01, 2012, 02:48:06 PM
Wait, am I reading this right? A pony mod, where Unicorn will shoot lazers and missles and ECT. GIVE ME! (Just in case you are wondering, I am a brony.)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: CrashToDesktop on June 01, 2012, 02:49:24 PM
Oh no, not another one. ;D
No offense.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: CrashToDesktop on June 01, 2012, 06:23:58 PM
Oh, can you send me that file?  I need a look at it t fix it.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 01, 2012, 06:39:18 PM
Here is the link to the mod:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/0rhs08
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: CrashToDesktop on June 01, 2012, 07:38:06 PM
Holy crap, those bounds are complicated!  I had to slim those down in order to make my computer run at any rate.  That might be a reason to the collision.
Also, the collision box and shields for all the ships were WAY to close together.  The collision box should always be bigger than the shield box, and the shield box was pretty close to the sprite.  Ascetic purposes, really.
Fixed the hardpoint issues, and that's about it!  Here you go:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0yo090yjuk8mqyx
And just to get into something, if I were a pony, I'd be Big Mac... ;D Kinda silent, strong.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 01, 2012, 08:02:52 PM
Thank you, I'll take a look when I can. I don't have time right now sadly.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 02, 2012, 05:11:45 AM
I'm currently busy with the mod, I like your bigger engine flare on Luna.

Found a lot of little things I didn't like while editing the hull files of that ship though, I'll post an edited version of the mod later once I work everything out.

But for now we have stranger problems, disco problems, take a look at this:

(http://s9.postimage.org/6y4cfyh1n/screenshot001.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/6y4cfyh1n/) (http://s9.postimage.org/m847n5cjv/screenshot002.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/m847n5cjv/) (http://s9.postimage.org/82yelc3ij/screenshot003.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/82yelc3ij/) (http://s9.postimage.org/tdvypllmz/screenshot004.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/tdvypllmz/)

Funcky  8)

I don't know what could cause this about our mod but its the only alteration to standard Starfarer so... ?
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Unwoundpath on June 02, 2012, 05:24:16 AM
I played the version you posted earlier, Vandala, and I have to say... Luna is quite overpowered.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 02, 2012, 08:56:08 AM
I played the version you posted earlier, Vandala, and I have to say... Luna is quite overpowered.
I haven't posted anything yet, I'm almost ready to post and Luna is still very must overpowered, perhaps even more so.

It's because of the three Graviton Beams on that ship and the other ships have far to little firepower to match it.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 02, 2012, 09:27:24 AM
Finally its done, this took all day.

mlp_mission_testmod.zip (484.38KB) (http://www.sendspace.com/file/0bdc4n)

I think I went a little overboard on the contrail size.
Luna is still overpowered.
Redone a lot of the turret arcs, still have to look at a lot of the PD ones though.
I've renamed a lot of stuff.
Touched up the mission text a bit, probably still some spelling errors there, let me know if you find any.
Corrected quite a number of little mistakes like some turrets being hardpoints.

Let me know what you guys think.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 03, 2012, 11:16:42 AM
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarFrigite1.png)

(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarFighter.png)

I was messing around seeing what i could make that would look like it belongs in the lunar republic army.
the big one is a frigate some what like the lasher but with more cargo room, and the second is a small fighter.

I would like to see what your opinions of them are.
and were then need to be improved.

P.S. i have no idea how to add a fighter to the game help with that would be appreciated.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 03, 2012, 12:26:46 PM
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/SolarFighter2.png)

I threw together a solar fighter because well why not. if there is anything you think needs to be changed just tell me.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 03, 2012, 02:50:34 PM
Oh wow, your pretty good at this actually.

Do make more!

The only thing is that the lunar frigate looks rather featureless and the side attachment looks weird, but I really like its colors an excellent choice.

I'll look into adding fighter wings, I suspect it will be a lot like adding a normal ship.

EDIT: Yup, fighter wings have a *.ship file just like any other class of ship, the only difference is that they also have a wing_data.csv file.

EDIT: The solar fighter could use a tiny bit of color, maybe use one (or more) of Celestia's hair colors instead of gray?
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on June 03, 2012, 04:28:50 PM
Find out if Kalathaniel can knock out some more designs? If nothing else, it's gonna hurt my OCD seeing 3d modelled ships mixed in with pixel sprites.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 03, 2012, 04:31:34 PM
Find out if Kalathaniel can knock out some more designs? If nothing else, it's gonna hurt my OCD seeing 3d modelled ships mixed in with pixel sprites.

Kalathaniel is enjoying the summer weather at the moment, we'll have to patient. Don't worry, he wants to do more ships.

We can always split up the different style ships into different mods.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on June 03, 2012, 04:34:27 PM
I don't mind them being in the mod, all inclusive. Just hopefully not as the only option. I like my ships having a theme and style, which is why I like mods like DSTech, or the Ascendancy mod. Factions with a solid theme and look to their ships, unlike the Hegemony, which seem almost ramshackle in comparison to the Tri-Tach.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 03, 2012, 04:44:06 PM
We can separate them into ships only used for missions and ships used in the campaign.

I've bin entertaining the thought of making special missions that are basically character vs character in the vein of the cartoon. For example Celestia vs Nightmare Moon, Mane 6 vs Discord, Twilight vs Ursa Minor, etc. Making the conflicts of the cartoon series into playable battles with the characters represented as ships unique to their characteristics. This would allow for interesting fights where we can give them weapon layouts and stats that don't have to be in line with other ships in the mod that are used for the campaign.

Kalathaniel ships would be excellent for this approach.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on June 03, 2012, 05:18:47 PM
Could work like that. Personally, I'm biased towards having all the ships available in the campaign. But that's just me.  :P
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 03, 2012, 05:25:19 PM
Could work like that. Personally, I'm biased towards having all the ships available in the campaign. But that's just me.  :P

We can do that but it would probably look weird.

But we could just put them on the outer edge of the system where they don't interact with others, or put just them in the storage facility as an option for the player.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 03, 2012, 06:56:24 PM
Find out if Kalathaniel can knock out some more designs? If nothing else, it's gonna hurt my OCD seeing 3d modelled ships mixed in with pixel sprites.

Actual my ships were also 3d modeled too( thanks to blender). I know they are far from good but I just threw something together to see what people thought; I am happy that people like it so far :D, so I will do my best to up the quality and I will put do the retexture solar fighter very soon an I have another one to replace the lunarFrigate. But ultimately I think getting Kalathaniel to do the majority of the art is a good idea, being that he is far better than me and will turn out some very good art :)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 04, 2012, 06:45:55 AM
Far from good?!

Don't sell yourself short!

They look pretty damn good!! (except for the frigate)

With some more experience you'll be making little wonders that everyone will drool over.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 04, 2012, 08:18:03 AM
Far from good?!

Don't sell yourself short!

They look pretty damn good!! (except for the frigate)

With some more experience you'll be making little wonders that everyone will drool over.

*Everypony ;)
and thanks for that.
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/SolarFighter3.png)
and here is the updated fighter I have another on i am working on now.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Zebster10 on June 04, 2012, 08:20:41 AM
...Twilight vs Ursa Minor...

Can we have a Trixie ship? Preferably, if in Campaign, in its own faction? Sole purpose should be to just annoy fleets and then try to retreat, never really serious about attacking. >:3 Also, if we get a Trixie ship, I will e-mail a picture of it to Sethisto.  ;D

(P.S. Yeah... I know we're limited on A.I. control... I have no clue what I'm talking about...)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 04, 2012, 08:31:00 AM
...Twilight vs Ursa Minor...

Can we have a Trixie ship? Preferably, if in Campaign, in its own faction? Sole purpose should be to just annoy fleets and then try to retreat, never really serious about attacking. >:3 Also, if we get a Trixie ship, I will e-mail a picture of it to Sethisto.  ;D

(P.S. Yeah... I know we're limited on A.I. control... I have no clue what I'm talking about...)

Maybe we can work with the captain AI to get it to behave like old Hounds, and then give it really long range weapons.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 04, 2012, 08:36:17 AM
*Everypony ;)
and thanks for that.
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/SolarFighter3.png)
and here is the updated fighter I have another on i am working on now.

Hmm, I think my suggestion did more damage then good.

It still has that weird stripe/gray area in the middle, both versions have it, it doesn't look perfectly symmetrical to me, its a little to far to the left I think.

You probably have a better view of it then I do but it feels wrong somehow.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 04, 2012, 10:03:38 AM
here is the ship i was working on more recently.
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal.png)
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal2.png)

tell me witch one you think looks better.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 04, 2012, 10:10:35 AM
Hard to say.

I think without the lines looks better. I'm not sure though.

Perhaps you can use the subtle lines of the first frigate you posted.

(I really liked the lines of the frigate you posted earlier. Those looked fantastic.)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 04, 2012, 10:23:10 AM
something like this?

(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal3.png)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 04, 2012, 10:24:51 AM
Yes, thats looking good.

Can you add your other lines on top of this? I wonder how that will look.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 04, 2012, 11:02:31 AM
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal4.png)

I am not sure what you were thinking, so what about something like this?
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 04, 2012, 11:23:52 AM
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal5.png)

I think i derped on that one a little bit i am guessing this is what you wanted.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 04, 2012, 11:37:50 AM
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal4.png)

I am not sure what you were thinking, so what about something like this?

This one ^^^ probably looks the best but it very hard to say for sure. It's lines also aren't perfectly symmetrical, I don't know if symmetry was what you are going for but it would probably be better since its a symmetrical ship design.

However I think it can be improved a little bit further, if you take the lines of this ship.
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal2.png)

But cut out all of the ones that are not in the middle and the two gray areas and paste the lines of the middle and the gray area onto this one.
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal4.png)
Then maybe we'll have an even better looking ship?
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 04, 2012, 11:57:13 AM
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal6.png)

ok I think this is what you meant. i turned down the opacity of the "decal lines" and that gave them a more real look like they were as worn as the ship.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 04, 2012, 12:30:59 PM
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal6.png)

ok I think this is what you meant. i turned down the opacity of the "decal lines" and that gave them a more real look like they were as worn as the ship.
I think you confused which set of lines to cut.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Zebster10 on June 04, 2012, 12:32:45 PM
(Snip)

ok I think this is what you meant. i turned down the opacity of the "decal lines" and that gave them a more real look like they were as worn as the ship.
I think you confused which set of lines to cut.
Remove the little horizontal lines in the middle, not the ones on the side. :(
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 04, 2012, 12:36:33 PM
(Snip)

ok I think this is what you meant. i turned down the opacity of the "decal lines" and that gave them a more real look like they were as worn as the ship.
I think you confused which set of lines to cut.
Remove the little horizontal lines in the middle, not the ones on the side. :(
No no, he got the right side(s) just the wrong set of lines.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: cardgame on June 04, 2012, 12:51:45 PM
(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal2.png)

I think this looks like a very nice frigate with no aesthetic changes in regards to the lines/patterns needed.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 04, 2012, 01:01:11 PM
I will do one last version and then you can chose what you like the best

(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal7.png)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: cardgame on June 04, 2012, 01:02:19 PM
Hmm, I like that last one a bit more actually. Feels a bit more... spritey and in character with the rest of the game.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 04, 2012, 01:06:41 PM
I will do one last version and then you can chose what you like the best

(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal7.png)

Yup, this was exactly what I imagined.

Leave it like this, its perfect. (for now ::))

Sorry for being such a nitpicker.  ;D
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 04, 2012, 01:12:13 PM
I will do one last version and then you can chose what you like the best

(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal7.png)

Yup, this was exactly what I imagined.

Leave it like this, its perfect. (for now ::))

Sorry for being such a nitpicker.  ;D

lol no problem
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: CrashToDesktop on June 04, 2012, 01:23:27 PM
Anyway, this mod seems to be progressing smoothly, I'll leave it to you guys. ;D
If you ever get stuck, just ask me and I'll try to help.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on June 04, 2012, 02:31:14 PM

Sry for the delay. I was taking some time off from any PC-related work ^^ Now I'm back with even more energy and ideas xD
Here's a new ship: Solar Empire Frigate (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpirefrigatesmall.png)
I think it might be a frigate, though you guys decide. Btw. what's that about turrets? I don't mind making some sprites but I would have to know what resolution should I be aiming at.


(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal5.png)

I think i derped on that one a little bit i am guessing this is what you wanted.

Amazing work SonicRaptor! You make excellent ship models. I simply luv the shape of that ship, man! ^^
*Try touching that texture in gimp. You'd make it even more awesome. I think you have a real potential! Keep it up :D
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 04, 2012, 02:47:42 PM
Turrets could be a problem.

If you place them directly on the ship we can no longer resize them as we want.

You could create lose turret images we can just copy/paste onto any ship we want.

Simply mimicking the original turrets in size should do the trick.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 04, 2012, 03:03:50 PM

Sry for the delay. I was taking some time off from any PC-related work ^^ Now I'm back with even more energy and ideas xD
Here's a new ship: Solar Empire Frigate (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpirefrigatesmall.png)
I think it might be a frigate, though you guys decide. Btw. what's that about turrets? I don't mind making some sprites but I would have to know what resolution should I be aiming at.


(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal5.png)

I think i derped on that one a little bit i am guessing this is what you wanted.

Amazing work SonicRaptor! You make excellent ship models. I simply luv the shape of that ship, man! ^^
*Try touching that texture in gimp. You'd make it even more awesome. I think you have a real potential! Keep it up :D


I have some experience in GIMP but not a lot and i don't know what you mean by touch up.
I am guessing you mean pixel by pixel but i am not sure.

P.S. thank you for the high praise :)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: WKOB on June 04, 2012, 03:17:48 PM
Overlay layer type would be best.

(http://i.imgur.com/Wo0Q8.png) (http://i.imgur.com/7BHP7.png) (http://i.imgur.com/uWmsU.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/gPdua.png) (http://i.imgur.com/eNEkL.png) (http://i.imgur.com/muZ2p.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/9shOL.png) (http://i.imgur.com/fNcEO.png) (http://i.imgur.com/2edhP.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/MYF8U.png) (http://i.imgur.com/bHead.png) (http://i.imgur.com/2edhP.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/rmg3r.png) (http://i.imgur.com/yw6uO.png) (http://i.imgur.com/EUljT.png)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 04, 2012, 04:20:42 PM
Thank you king walrus, those will be useful. (I hope)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 04, 2012, 09:52:50 PM
Sry for the delay. I was taking some time off from any PC-related work ^^ Now I'm back with even more energy and ideas xD
Here's a new ship: Solar Empire Frigate (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpirefrigatesmall.png)
I think it might be a frigate, though you guys decide. Btw. what's that about turrets? I don't mind making some sprites but I would have to know what resolution should I be aiming at.

Sorry for not having commented earlier. Bin a hectic day for me. Lots to do.

Your ship looks great, I'm sure we'll find a use for it, thank you for the donation.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on June 05, 2012, 05:38:16 AM

Sry for the delay. I was taking some time off from any PC-related work ^^ Now I'm back with even more energy and ideas xD
Here's a new ship: Solar Empire Frigate (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpirefrigatesmall.png)
I think it might be a frigate, though you guys decide. Btw. what's that about turrets? I don't mind making some sprites but I would have to know what resolution should I be aiming at.


(http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh558/Sonicraptor/LunarBat_normal5.png)

I think i derped on that one a little bit i am guessing this is what you wanted.

Amazing work SonicRaptor! You make excellent ship models. I simply luv the shape of that ship, man! ^^
*Try touching that texture in gimp. You'd make it even more awesome. I think you have a real potential! Keep it up :D


I have some experience in GIMP but not a lot and i don't know what you mean by touch up.
I am guessing you mean pixel by pixel but i am not sure.

P.S. thank you for the high praise :)

Your welcome, you earned it;) By touching it up in gimp I meant experimenting with various visual effects. You might try adding light effects like neons (always looks good on ships) or create bump maps. Changing colour schemes is also very easy in gimp. And last but not least, one can never overestimate the power of layers in 2d editing :)

Sry for the delay. I was taking some time off from any PC-related work ^^ Now I'm back with even more energy and ideas xD
Here's a new ship: Solar Empire Frigate (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpirefrigatesmall.png)
I think it might be a frigate, though you guys decide. Btw. what's that about turrets? I don't mind making some sprites but I would have to know what resolution should I be aiming at.

Sorry for not having commented earlier. Bin a hectic day for me. Lots to do.

Your ship looks great, I'm sure we'll find a use for it, thank you for the donation.

Thx Vandala ^^ There's one more:
(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/SolarEmpirefrigate2small.png)
I think I'll move on to the other faction now. Thanks to king walrus :P I now know how to make turrets (or at least I think I know), so I'll give it a try.

Cheers :D
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 05, 2012, 06:50:22 AM
Another beauty Kalthaniell.

I would rather not see turrets, so if you could at least include a turret-less version with it then please do, it would help with scaling the image should we want to.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on June 05, 2012, 07:05:18 AM
I agree with Vandala. Once everyone's happy with the size of the ship, then we can work on turret placement.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: mrsnuggles on June 05, 2012, 07:37:24 AM
what about making factions for discord & the changelings & maybe a few of the other creatures such as dragons
also there should be ships in the solar republic to represent the elements of harmony
 

just some thoughts


i just did a marathon of my little pony watched season 1 & 2

any one know when 3 starts, or did it already?
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: SonicRaptor on June 05, 2012, 07:47:18 AM
what about making factions for discord & the changelings & maybe a few of the other creatures such as dragons
also there should be ships in the solar republic to represent the elements of harmony
 

just some thoughts


i just did a marathon of my little pony watched season 1 & 2

any one know when 3 starts, or did it already?

season 3 doesn't start until after the summer.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on June 05, 2012, 07:58:37 AM
Discord ships could simply be versions of ships from both the Solar Empire and the NLR recoloured to represent the corrupt and chaotic nature of Discord. As for Chrysalis and the Changelings, perhaps a line of seemingly insectoid ships would work for them?
I think for now, let's get the SE and NLR padded out with a line of ships first.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on June 06, 2012, 05:25:48 AM
          (http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/126/c/5/c51309820b76d25ad8a0428e8071c0b0-d4ypq7c.jpg)

(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/Changelingshipsmall.png)(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/Changelingfightersmall.png)

I didn't know what symbol does this faction use so I made one from the shape of the necklace from the drawing above. :-\
I tried to reflect the organic/shapeshifting feature of the race by adding reptile-ish/insect-ish scales and shapes to the texture. What do you guys think?

Bigger pics here:
 Capital ship  (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/Changelingship.png)
 Fighter/Bomber (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/Changelingfighter.png)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on June 06, 2012, 05:42:21 AM
S'awesome dude.  :D


EDIT:
Are these ships done in a 3d modelling program? If they are, I'd love to see some beauty shots from various angles, even if they'll never be seen from such angles in-game.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: WKOB on June 06, 2012, 06:17:39 AM
Those are pretty neat, dude. I feel like a lot of detail is lost, though. Contrast and gamma boost would be good here. Maybe some glow on the green highlights as well.

Also, Vandala, can you get all the art assets into the OP?
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on June 06, 2012, 06:19:04 AM
S'awesome dude.  :D


EDIT:
Are these ships done in a 3d modelling program? If they are, I'd love to see some beauty shots from various angles, even if they'll never be seen from such angles in-game.

They are, but there's no detail at the bottom side. Mostly they are flat without any textures there. It's just too time consuming to make full 3d details for 2d ships :( But this way I can make two ships in time of one ;D Have a look if you want to though, I don't think they look all that bad on the catwalk :P :
 Preview0 (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/Changelingshippres.png)
 Preview1 (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/Changelingshippres1.png)
 Preview2 (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/Changelingshippres2.png)
 Preview3 (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/Changelingshippres3.png)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on June 06, 2012, 06:38:47 AM
Ship looks awesome from different angles.  :D

Somewhat tempted to use Trylobot's ship editor and play with that changeling fighter. Hrm, looking a bit closer, is it me, or are there no visible exhaust ports on those changeling ships?
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on June 06, 2012, 06:48:34 AM
Ship looks awesome from different angles.  :D

Somewhat tempted to use Trylobot's ship editor and play with that changeling fighter. Hrm, looking a bit closer, is it me, or are there no visible exhaust ports on those changeling ships?

Thx. I have no idea what the trylobot is, but feel free to use it on the ships. It sounds technical though, so it's probably sth cool. I didn't put ant exhaust ports on the ships - I forgot :P They could be underneath though   ;)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on June 06, 2012, 06:54:40 AM
Trylobot is one of the dudes out there on these forums. He made a program which makes editing and defining a ship's characteristics much easier. Only thing is, I have no experience of modding anything on Starfarer, aside from dragging and dropping modpacks into my mod folder.  ;D
Exhausts could be under the ship, but, I don't think there is any way to hide exhausts under the sprite to make it look like the engine is under the ship. And from what's been said earlier in this thread, having no exhausts whatsoever causes strange things to happen.


Could add to the alien-ness of the Changeling vessels by simply having the exhausts spew forth from a point behind the ships.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Zebster10 on June 06, 2012, 07:58:06 AM
Kalthaniell, you are a ship-making master. Although, of course, there may be a few possible improvement tweaks, overall you got the Changeling style spot-on, imho. I know I couldn't do better.  ;D There really needs to be an applause emote.  :D
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 06, 2012, 09:21:07 AM
OMG those look so damn cool!

Not having a visible exhaust port isn't a problem, we can probably have the flame shoot out of nothing a few pixels behind the vessel, don't know if it will look good but it would be a different approach then the other ships so that would make them more unique in a way. (what yoshi said)

I'll see to it that all art gets onto the opening post.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Danne-Outlander on June 14, 2012, 10:54:35 PM
At this point, I really like the direction the ships are taking. They are sleek and shiny (SHINY!!).
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on June 15, 2012, 12:11:25 AM
Needs more lens flare. And bloom. Everything looks better with bloom, amirite?
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Danne-Outlander on June 15, 2012, 12:13:03 AM
Even if the ship quality decreases drastically, no one would be able to see it due to the awesome BLOOM!!!!
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 15, 2012, 12:44:53 AM
NO BLOOM!!

Damn Michel Bay wannabes.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Danne-Outlander on June 15, 2012, 12:47:04 AM
Overuse ALL the bloom!
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: IIE16 Yoshi on June 15, 2012, 02:09:29 AM
Overuse ALL the bloom!

HUZZAH!
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Kalthaniell on June 15, 2012, 03:25:58 AM
 (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/Changelingship2.png)

Not sure what you mean by the bloom, but I agree the changling ship needed some re-texturing. I had some spare time today so I played with it a bit. I think it looks better now. Here's a link to a small picture: Small pic (http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/Kalthaniell/Changelingshipsmall2.png)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on June 15, 2012, 04:03:01 AM
Both versions look very nice, I'm sure we'll find a good use for both.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Vandala on July 07, 2012, 04:39:18 AM
Added a single ship. Campaign only.

Ship Mod - changeling_fighter.zip (11.00KB) (http://www.sendspace.com/file/pj0ksi)
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Reshy on July 07, 2012, 12:27:55 PM
I don't see why you want to make a mod based off of being a fan of another product.  Why is this rooted in a show that isn't even remotely related to Starfarer as the basis for the mod?  This perplexes me.  I can understand most of the mods here, but it would be just as strange if a pokemon, digimon, or any other mod not related to the space sci-fi setting was made as the basis for the mod.


On a side note I wonder if sins of a solar empire would work as a basis for a mod in starfarer.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Upgradecap on July 07, 2012, 12:40:59 PM
On a side note I wonder if sins of a solar empire would work as a basis for a mod in starfarer.

Yes, yes it would. It would work very greatly. :D
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Reshy on July 07, 2012, 01:00:09 PM
On a side note I wonder if sins of a solar empire would work as a basis for a mod in starfarer.

Yes, yes it would. It would work very greatly. :D


Yeah I was wondering is Sins or Gratuitous space battles would make interesting mods.  Heck both basically tell you what their payload can or could be.
Title: Re: MOD - My Little Pony *under construction* *oppinions needed*
Post by: Archduke Astro on July 07, 2012, 01:42:20 PM
Yeah I was wondering is Sins or Gratuitous space battles would make interesting mods.

Anyone considering that idea needs to make certain that they contact Cliff Harris (the developer of GSB) and obtain permission for using any elements from his game before they proceed with plans to mod any of them into Starfarer.