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[xenoargh]

Oh, and a screenshot, showing the dynamically-changing engines in action (i.e., it already works, this is not a waste of time):

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It speeds things up so much that this battle (and this isn't all of the fighters flying around in the sim- total was around 75 in this test) is running at a smooth 60 FPS, where before this would have been around 20 FPS on my hardware. 
Even huge fighter brawls (200 fighters or thereabouts) are still quite playable with this.

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Note that that doesn't really convey it- the engines flicker like the "vernier thrusters" in Vacuum do, so they're fairly dynamic.  I just would like more styles and visual refinement and I'm wearing the Coder Hat this week, other than the odd comment here

[Thule]

@Helmut Maybe™

small update of the viking

[Tecrys]

Ok, guys, thanks a lot for the help so far.
I couldn't figure out how to outline my crab ship but I did some improvements.
If anyone finds out how to outline stuff in gimp. If someone has a better editor choice for me, please let me know.
I'm getting quite hyped on my single little sprite and I really want to do an organic faction mod!

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[xenoargh]

How to do Stroke in GIMP.

[Tecrys]

Damn, I was stupid!

I could've googled it!
Thanks for the link, those outlines really do the trick.
Now let me get used to this, do a few more and I will be back with a bit more (and better?) soon!

Thanks a lot for your help!

Cheers!

[MesoTroniK]

@ Thule

You... that is amazing!

[keptin]

Adding a couple more updated ships to the line...a style is starting to come together.



Criticism is welcome.

[Doogie]

I love you.

[xenoargh]

Overall, I really think those are a huge improvement over the originals

There are various spots where I think a little more work on the lighting (for example, the Dakota's engine section should get some shadow from the hull, being lower and back) would get it just about perfect.  That said, they're being presented on black, which makes it a little too much like work to get them back to the point where I can do an attempt at an editing pass, which is usually a lot faster than saying "I see this and this and this thing", especially when most of it's really small details  

Anyhow, nothing that 99% of folks would care about; the scaling feels great and the details really pop well and the style is pretty coherent

[Grug]

Those are goddamn amazing to look at Kept. Much more 'Federation' looking than the old ones. They'll be fun to fight against, I bet.

[keptin]

Thanks guys, appreciate the feedback.

a little more work on the lighting (for example, the Dakota's engine section should get some shadow from the hull, being lower and back)

I totally agree, earlier I took note note of a few touch ups to make and that was one of them.

[Uomoz]

This thread quality has spiked up recently

[Jonlissla]

Adding a couple more updated ships to the line...a style is starting to come together.
Criticism is welcome.

And a very nice style I might add. It looks great.

The light blue plating on the Vixen fits perfectly. Perhaps you should use similar plating on the Dakota as well?

[keptin]

Thanks! The Dakota is an old utility ship.  In IFed's fiction it's a hundred year old hull with modern retrofits and I wanted to reflect its age with a different color pallet back when I originally made it, but I might explore the cold colors on it.

[Pelly]

First decent Kitbash I have done:

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