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Sunfire

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Ships I have badly kitbashed
« on: April 15, 2012, 01:58:14 PM »

What do you think? Advice? Hate? Anything?
(my god, spoilers make this so much neater)

Ships from me and Upgradecap's mini-mod (psyion helped with the sprites too)
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High tech
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(oops, seems I accidentally based it off of this http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f9/Dante80/Minecraft/plus_puma.png)
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mid tech
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low tech
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which of these two is better


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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2012, 02:03:03 PM »

they aren't terrible, however they could be much better if you changed the colors so that they match on each ship, the stark color differences area little out of place, however other than that they are pretty well done.
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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2012, 02:25:43 PM »

Second from the top looks cool, the one at the bottom looks a little weird due to the arrow at the front.

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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2012, 02:55:08 PM »

The bottom one is supposed to be a carrier, that's a flight deck

On the recoloring note, do I have to do it pixel by pixel or is there an easier way? (im using paint.net by the way)
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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2012, 03:20:57 PM »

looks good lol we should team up and make tons of bashes :)
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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2012, 03:42:30 PM »

looks good lol we should team up and make tons of bashes :)

Thanks, we shall flood the forum with bashes!
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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2012, 05:50:58 PM »

Only thing I would really suggest there is for the second one to have some transitionish colour/panelling between the two ship parts.

And perhaps a little bit of blurring on the bottom one, where the yellow meets the black. Or perhaps some light-shadingish stuff
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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2012, 06:10:47 PM »

Only thing I would really suggest there is for the second one to have some transitionish colour/panelling between the two ship parts.

And perhaps a little bit of blurring on the bottom one, where the yellow meets the black. Or perhaps some light-shadingish stuff

The first i'll do, the second, im not so sure, I like the distinctness of the flight deck and it feels classic to me, so there. Thank you very much on the feedback though, it's much appreciated.
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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2012, 06:54:29 PM »

Well, I was more meaning that instead of:

You'd get roughly (only did a quick job as an example)


The effect I was trying to get at was lights rather than paint on the deck markings. That said, I do like the design a lot though I'm a sucker for that Valkyrie
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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2012, 06:56:19 PM »

Ahh, see i thought you meant something transitioning from yellow to black and i was like what?!?!

Could you do that to this one? I fixed a mistake that's on the original



or explain how to do that?
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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2012, 07:02:25 PM »

Well, for that one, I had single pixels directly connected (not diagonals) the same colour but half transparent of the yellow. Where they overlap with another, I applied it twice, I think that gives a 3/4 opacity maybe. After that, I go through the diagonals with the alpha at 40, again overlaps get applied twice. That's the lighting-shine stuff. For the main yellow itself, all it really needs is made to a paler shade for shiningness
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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2012, 07:16:19 PM »

Thanks! I'll have to try that when I fix it i'll post it
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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2012, 07:50:42 PM »

i think the yellow arrow could use a little sharpening up so you can still tell its an arrow without having to squint. or get closer to your monitor.
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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2012, 08:25:16 PM »

Should I make the arrow larger? What do you suggest?
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Re: Ships I have badly kitbashed
« Reply #14 on: April 16, 2012, 12:48:22 PM »

Here is an Eagle/Sunder

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