Damn, I didn't know there were still people around who remember that. All the stuff we did out of love for that game... (and all the huge bloated projects that died before they could take off)
Piroton/guilee, go read the tutorials in the sticky! That's basically what I did, then I downloaded Trylobot's ship editor and messed around with it until it worked. And if you're going to clean up BSF screenshots in photoshop, make sure you set a pure white background first so its easy for photoshop/gimp to select and remove it.
Even then, your shipmaking skills were far beyond a couple of notches above mine. Mine still look cluttered. Also, I still miss all the crazy designs we submitted for the metagame, and all our bloated projects (which took forever to move forward)
Haha, I'm trying this out now. I must say, I don't have anywhere near the patience or the kind of photoshop skills you have, so this is going to get really bumpy, seeing as school commitments keep me from having too much free time or the drive to work on independent projects.
Also, for some weird reason the Metagame shipmaker arcalane built for us doesn't seem to want to accept my white background.
Makes me kinda sad, so I've had to make do with substandard wine-red.