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[Abyz]

You're really taking this faction to the next level looks-wise! Very nice.

[Cyan Leader]

I always thought the sprites of this mod were kinda lacking, glad to see that they have massively improved.

[Nanao-kun]

Those look amazing.

[PureBlind]

Be careful with editing the spirtes and making them too round. What I really like about Scy is that they are boxy, unlike most factions. They look like industrial/mining ships/freighters uparmored and converted to combat ships, and I like that. You should at least keep the occasional industrial orange/tan red coloration to make them pop.

[Ratheden]

Be careful with editing the spirtes and making them too round. What I really like about Scy is that they are boxy, unlike most factions. They look like industrial/mining ships/freighters uparmored and converted to combat ships, and I like that. You should at least keep the occasional industrial orange/tan red coloration to make them pop.

/agree

[Tartiflette]

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The sprite update is going swimmingly well, albeit slowly overall. The Megaera, Hydra and Euryale have been removed but newcomers took the names of the first two. In addition to that, given that my Medusa is long gone and I just removed the Euryale I figured I should go all the way and rename the last Gorgon left: The Stheno-class cruiser is now the Corocotta-class. Not only it will no longer near-clash with Blackrock's Stenos, but the new name is particularly fitting. Corocottas were huge mythical wolf-dogs, fast as horses, that hunt men. It is also the name of a legendary bandit that laid waste on Roman trade routes in the Spanish region. So yeah, a very good new name I believe.

[Orikson]

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The sprite update is going swimmingly well, albeit slowly overall. The Megaera, Hydra and Euryale have been removed but newcomers took the names of the first two. In addition to that, given that my Medusa is long gone and I just removed the Euryale I figured I should go all the way and rename the last Gorgon left: The Stheno-class cruiser is now the Corocotta-class. Not only it will no longer near-clash with Blackrock's Stenos, but the new name is particularly fitting. Corocottas were mythical wolf-dogs fast as horses that hunt men. It is also the name of a legendary bandit that laid waste on Roman trade routes in the Spanish region. So yeah, a very good new name I believe.

Oh my, I'm excited to see the next update. Newcomers means new ships right? I wonder what the cruisers, the Keto and Nemean Lion would look like anew.

People were worried the new sprites looked to similar to Neutrino, but I don't thing so.

[adimetro00]

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The sprite update is going swimmingly well, albeit slowly overall. The Megaera, Hydra and Euryale have been removed but newcomers took the names of the first two. In addition to that, given that my Medusa is long gone and I just removed the Euryale I figured I should go all the way and rename the last Gorgon left: The Stheno-class cruiser is now the Corocotta-class. Not only it will no longer near-clash with Blackrock's Stenos, but the new name is particularly fitting. Corocottas were mythical wolf-dogs fast as horses that hunt men. It is also the name of a legendary bandit that laid waste on Roman trade routes in the Spanish region. So yeah, a very good new name I believe.

It's nice to see the ship's exhausts improved. Much better than the old one.
btw, eta?

[Tartiflette]

   Yeah, as you can see, the newcomers are completely new hulls: a new set of frigate, destroyer, and soon cruiser. The other cruisers will look quite like the ones there (knowing that I'm removing all the Manticores but the carrier) since I'm also trying to consolidate the designs. Lore wise it make sense with Scyan engineers having to work from a limited civilian autofactory and alter the designs for their nefarious needs, and work wise it's easier for me (understand "sooner done"). Although the capital ships are a big unknown right now. I redesigned most ships from scratch since I wasn't satisfied with the look of the old ones, but the capitals are the exception to that. They might stay really close to their current sprite if only because they were a nightmare to paint in the first place.

   As for the "Neutrino" look I never quite agreed with that since they basically were boxier high-tech ships, but I decided to play it safe anyway and added that gold line to the paint job. It may not look like a big change, but it's something that set them apart at glance.

   Eta? Given that I have to recreate the mod from the ground up, add GraphicLib maps, add new effects to the weapons, add the new ships with new ship-systems and AI, etc, maybe in September. If all goes well. And I'm lucky. And my day job doesn't turn into hell in the meantime (hint, it certainly will in July)...

[Sabaton]

Your mod is getting more vanilla worthy by the day. Up there with Black Rock. Nice.

[Marcus Garvey]

Those look awesome, I was pretty apprehensive about the art update at first but you've really done it justice. Nicely done.

[Orikson]

  Yeah, as you can see, the newcomers are completely new hulls: a new set of frigate, destroyer, and soon cruiser. The other cruisers will look quite like the ones there (knowing that I'm removing all the Manticores but the carrier) since I'm also trying to consolidate the designs. Lore wise it make sense with Scyan engineers having to work from a limited civilian autofactory and alter the designs for their nefarious needs, and work wise it's easier for me (understand "sooner done"). Although the capital ships are a big unknown right now. I redesigned most ships from scratch since I wasn't satisfied with the look of the old ones, but the capitals are the exception to that. They might stay really close to their current sprite if only because they were a nightmare to paint in the first place.

   As for the "Neutrino" look I never quite agreed with that since they basically were boxier high-tech ships, but I decided to play it safe anyway and added that gold line to the paint job. It may not look like a big change, but it's something that set them apart at glance.

   Eta? Given that I have to recreate the mod from the ground up, add GraphicLib maps, add new effects to the weapons, add the new ships with new ship-systems and AI, etc, maybe in September. If all goes well. And I'm lucky. And my day job doesn't turn into hell in the meantime (hint, it certainly will in July)...

How do you do all of this wonderful things? I'm really curious. Any guides on modding? I tried looking at the resources section, but it seemed out dated and cluttered a bit.

[Tartiflette]

While most modding ressources are outdated, they still give useful pointers to start modding. When setting up your mod, do as everyone did: take a peek at an existing mod (a simple one, don't base your work on heavily scripted factions like Templars, Imperium... You should avoid pretty much any mod that compiled its code); then start replacing their stuff with your own while keeping an eye on the vanilla factions. There is no magic method to start modding: by definition it require you to be curious and observe how the game is built.

[Harmful Mechanic]

New Scy ships are gorgeous; I'm really enjoying the smoother, more unified hull shapes. I wouldn't mistake them for Neutrino designs in a second; they're much clearer, more readable, and more appealing IMO.

As far as modding resources go - you can get surprisingly far with just a copy of Trylobot's ship editor and the existing info on the forums. Certainly you can do ships, weapons, basic missions, and most lightly-scripted ship systems or hullmods without knowing terribly much about the game, enough to build something people would be interested in helping you out with.

[King Alfonzo]

When setting up your mod, do as everyone did: take a peek at an existing mod (a simple one, don't base your work on heavily scripted factions like Templars, Imperium... You should avoid pretty much any mod that compiled its code); then start replacing their stuff with your own while keeping an eye on the vanilla factions.

Wait, you can do that? I thought there were issues to do with copyright and so forth.