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Mods / Re: The Confederacy of Free Stars
« on: April 02, 2012, 11:03:07 AM »
I really like the way these ships look, the Cobra and the Viper are my favorite ships. And the Joyeuse pretty much roflstomps everything.
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I make ships with paint.netThat's what I want to try out first, thanks. ^^
it's very good for kitbashing.
David uses Photoshop, and other spriters that use it agree that it is a good tool. I understand the process to be generally that you start at 4x the intended size, aligning to pixel boundaries for near-verticals and near-horizontals, and then reducing; which is sort of a hybrid of painting and pixeling;Alright sweet! Thanks for the well detailed response man. I'll check those and GIMP out( thanks again :O)
I use Paint.NET because it's simple, but also has layers, and a lot of times I borrow from existing Starfarer art for the greebling, especially when I want sprites to look like they belong with other Starfarer ships. My process for Nomads was to create outlines in Inkscape, because it has good alignment tools and can export to bitmaps via the clipboard easily and quickly, and then do the painting and detailing in Paint.NET.
Other than that, it really comes down to artistic eye, and attention to detail. There are a lot of pixeling techniques outlined at the pixelart community on DeviantArt that I used to frequent, so I would reccomend that as a potential resource.
Can't think of anything else ~
unfortunately that looks exactly how everyone in America drives. they cant figure out to either slow down for safety because I DON'T WANT TO DIE or get a ticket for there stupid obsession with speed. or to go the frig around.I thought cRPG was the only place with the stereotypical Euro's :/
but i have seen this a bit as well in game. the AI needs a little tweaking when entering the map.
lol, regardless of which one could take out another one, the demolisher looks more intimidating than the parrot.
the parrot could take it out most likely.