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[HELMUT]

Mendonca, the new reaper is much better, the gray middle part in particular was greatly improved. For the Kraken, my screen was indeed doing weird tricks to me and every darker parts seemed pitch black to me, so yeah, forgot what i said in my previous post, it's great!

FlashFrozen, as Mendonca said, the 808 is good but the 909 is too repetitive. Also they seems a bit too... Gray? Might not be too much of an issue with the weapons on top of it though.

Lcu, it lack some details i think. Also if it's a carrier, shouldn't it have some kind of launch bay strapped to the hull? Currently it looks more like some scout rather than a carrier.

Anyway, i did some more new ships:

Firestorm Federation Cascade frigate and Greenstone destroyer. BGE Coronatus and Paradigm. ICE Phantom and Jester. Also reworked the Silver Vortex to make it more "Paragon".

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[Zudgemud]

Hell yeah, daddy wants a discoship 

[theSONY]

Hound lvl 99 

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[SpaceRiceBowl]

Huh, took me a while to figure out that the ultrahound was actually BGE, interesting take on turning an organic ship mechanical.
Has there been any progress on the most wanted ships being implemented?

[Sundog]

Great work as always helmut! I love what you've done with the eidolon and soulbane

[Debido]

It's BIG, really BIG, the next BIG thing in ship sprites

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It's...a new scout ship

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Work in progress.

[Erick Doe]

Love it! Love your sense of humour as well. And the ship reminds me of Star Control. I have very fond memories of that game.

Graphics wise, they look like they would go along nicely with the Zorg.

[Debido]

Thank you Erick, that is very encouraging. I think it would be quite flattering of the sprite was "assimilated into the zorg collective" as it were, wouldn't be difficult to change the blue to a green hue. Not much left to do on it, though I am going to see if I can get those conduits to pulse/glow. But I need some advice on having animated ship hulls, and need to look into the coding part more.

How many frames do people usually put into something like a simple glow? Are there any restrictions on the frames etc.

[Erick Doe]

A simple glow wouldn't need many frames. Just the basic lit one, plus maybe four extra frames that make the glow pulsate a little. This also depends on how rapidly you'd want it to pulsate.

[kazi]

Ok need some input on this one. How is the contrast? Too light? Too dark? How is the level of detail (especially at the front)? Does the large mount in the middle seem to go "in" too far? My eyes are going crazy lol... Gonna call it a day and come back to this one later.

It's a heavy carrier, btw (for those interested).

[Cycerin]

I like it, but if it's a heavy carrier, I'd have preferred to see more surface area being used for flight decks. Right now I'd say it seems more like a warship that also has a flight deck, but if that's intended, then I don't see any problem.

[kazi]

It's pretty much an Apogee, but trades weapons/shield for a single flight deck. It's not intended to be a dedicated carrier, but nonetheless works best in a support role. (perhaps "heavy carrier" was the wrong choice of words...)

[Lcu]

Ok need some input on this one. How is the contrast? Too light? Too dark? How is the level of detail (especially at the front)? Does the large mount in the middle seem to go "in" too far? My eyes are going crazy lol... Gonna call it a day and come back to this one later.

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It's a heavy carrier, btw (for those interested).

I think the large mount is okay if it goes in too far, but it needs to be a little bit darker (considering the other ones that doesn't goo too deep are darker).
Those flight decks look like huge beam weapon thing-y.

*snip* (perhaps "heavy carrier" was the wrong choice of words...)

Maybe support carrier are the words you are looking for.

Okay so i have been trying new methods at shading. Does this look strange?

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It is still a WIP, and ignore the transparent glow around it, it was just the side effects of blurring.

[Debido]

Shift the light source so the front is lit a little more, and use less shadow range. That is if you're going for vanilla, otherwise it's up to your own artistic license.

[Lcu]

I will reduce the range, however i am not going to shift the lighting source, i will only do it on smaller parts (because i am too inexperienced to do that  )