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[Zudgemud]

I have very bad imagination and i have a very good weapon:
This is a mine who if ennemi is near, he attack (very random) this ship. And when this mine is dead, you regen 1 ammo. (Three ammo, no ammo regen) , mine have long duration. He is a missile. If ennemi touch this mine, just explode, ah ah. (I have not reason create a ship for replace mine, i think)
For the moment i have this mount:

And this mine:

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I search better design, but i have not idea what >< .  Thank you for your help.

Looks like a really cool concept

[StarSchulz]

WIP for the mod i am slowly creating:

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The engines, extra armor, and weapons are things that have been mounted as extra to what is basically a UFO saucer type ship that pirates could not get up and running. it is and will be literally a flying armored disk that some goofballs attached weapons to. [ for the purposes of lore, that ship -WAS- a shuttle class ship for the original owner. but pirates have better ideas ] I haven't added weapon mounts quite yet, but they will be added where the two armored plates are. not sure whether to scale this down to a corvette or keep it as a frigate.


How do you guys do the shading? i made that in paint.net, so the ship and armor/engines are on different layers.

[Clockwork Owl]

I have very bad imagination and i have a very good weapon:
This is a mine who if ennemi is near, he attack (very random) this ship. And when this mine is dead, you regen 1 ammo. (Three ammo, no ammo regen) , mine have long duration. He is a missile. If ennemi touch this mine, just explode, ah ah. (I have not reason create a ship for replace mine, i think)
For the moment i have this mount:

And this mine:

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I search better design, but i have not idea what >< .  Thank you for your help.

1. Slower mine travel speed, and maybe acceleration/deceleration to make movement less awckward
2. For mine spriting, refer to the colouring of Pirahna bomb. And... a flashing red dot might make it look more dangerous.

[Snrasha]

A think use this sprite for this mine "semi" turret (not a spawn ship)

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1. Slower mine travel speed, and maybe acceleration/deceleration to make movement less awckward
2. For mine spriting, refer to the colouring of Pirahna bomb. And... a flashing red dot might make it look more dangerous.

1:This is not hard for my mine turret because he do not move, but it is more hard for my detect mine.
2:Yes, think, i go add this flashing red, just find where active this flashing red for a bip bip bip effect.
I have also just a mine who detect ennemi in range and active engine.

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The most hard: create weapon, not projectile, ah ah.

My idea(not sprite):

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I have a capital ship who have this three special weapon. I have create capital ship( ugly, but it is good for me), put all weapons, all functionnals. Very dangerous because same without shield, a wall of missiles( My faction have only homing missiles, ah ah) protect my ship(A shoot of a large weapon destroy easy my capital ship) . And, with weapon who spawn turret, if this is this ship, spawn wings <3 .  And this travel speed is very good for this huge ship, i think... but yes for small ship....

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I need find better weapon sprite because, but except this sprite weapon with reload ammo effect, i have not find >< . Maybe in subject where we can find no allowed sprite...

[star_sektor]

Not sure if I should put this here but the thread said "non-sprite art allowed" so I'll just put it here.



(obviously WIP)

[Clockwork Owl]

Not sure if I should put this here but the thread said "non-sprite art allowed" so I'll just put it here.



(obviously WIP)

A PARAGON!

[SafariJohn]

I always imagined the Paragon as being taller, but wow you are convincing me otherwise.


Though I got distracted by another creative project over the break, I did do a little bit of spritework.

The Rocksaw Heavy Assault Fighter:


The bare sprite looks a bit odd without the LMG turret and chaingun barrels rendered on top.

[mendonca]

@Hartlord: that looks frightening. I'd suggest throwing a bolder / sharper highlight on the inside edge of the 'wing' - maybe it looks a bit soft (being a bit picky, perhaps).





Drawing some new portraits for Junk Pirates ...

[kazi]

I highly recommend working from a reference mendonca for at least the general facial shapes. Even though I can draw a okay-ish person without aid, having a reference somehow makes my stuff at bit more realistic and help avoid the "uncanny valley" problem.

For lighting and coloring, I recommend not using pure white as a highlight color and tone down the ridges in the face. It's incredibly tough to use when just painting (works decent in layers set to soft/hard light though). Start with a skin tone that works as a "normal looking" skin tone and then add other colors/shading from there. And if in doubt, do all of your stuff in an extra layer on top, then merge down once you have something you like. Add colored lighting/highlights at the very end or at least in a new layer on top of everything.

Also, they need clothes.

Middle portrait is by far and away the best one.

[Lcu]

May i ask the opinion on how does everyone draw ships here? Do you work on large images then shrink it down, or work on the original size instead?

[StarSchulz]

For fighters i start with the most important part of the ship and just go from there, since they are so small i don't bother with the resizing. But with anything else it seems that making a larger version and then shrinking it down is very helpful for the early stages.

[FlashFrozen]

I do 1:1 so the final proportions are always a bit off :V

[StarSchulz]

Funny how i just said i make larger images first, while the thing i have been working on was drawn by hand, and not a scaled down version. oops! Making half of the image and then mirroring it helps a ton, though.

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I still don't know what i should use to shade it with, but i like where it is going.

[Lucian Greymark]

I always draw 1:1 scale I constantly find that shrinking ships makes them lose their sharpness and I end up having to go over most of the work trying to get that back anyway. It's much more efficient just to draw at a pixel scale.

[Harmful Mechanic]

I do 1:1, but since I'm working in Illustrator it's a different sort of question, because it's only '1:1' as long as I have Pixel Preview turned on.

If I were painting (and the next mod I do, I think I'll paint, just for a change of pace), I'd probably work at 4:1 or 2:1 and use Nearest Neighbor resizing to make a rough, and then clean it up, add detailing, etc. at 1:1.