Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[xlandar]

Thanks for the criticism everyone! I know it's a fairly simple ship, and i will try to improve on it. as for the editor, i do use GIMP, but i'm pretty new to it, so i'm not really sure what a lot of the stuff does. As for what the ship actually is, well, i'm not really sure. i want the end goal to be something like the mule, as some sort of combat tanker.

[ORMtnMan]

Keep experimenting! I am by no means a master of gimp but I learned what I know by experimenting (trial and error) and reading online art articles. If you want a couple that I used I can give you some links.

For a suggestion, if you are going for a combat tanker like the mule. Consider adding more "meat" to it. The strength of the mule is that it has heavier armor and armaments.

The current sprite, has what seems like an added engine section and one additional small turret over the normal Dram compliment.

The Mule has 3 small turrets in the back and one medium in the front. It also has the feel of a heavier armored ship. Something to consider.

[xlandar]

Keep experimenting! I am by no means a master of gimp but I learned what I know by experimenting (trial and error) and reading online art articles. If you want a couple that I used I can give you some links.

For a suggestion, if you are going for a combat tanker like the mule. Consider adding more "meat" to it. The strength of the mule is that it has heavier armor and armaments.

The current sprite, has what seems like an added engine section and one additional small turret over the normal Dram compliment.

The Mule has 3 small turrets in the back and one medium in the front. It also has the feel of a heavier armored ship. Something to consider.

Alright, thanks! I would love to see the art articles.

[ORMtnMan]

First off,

David's blogs he wrote were the main basis:
Part 1
http://fractalsoftworks.com/2014/05/16/let-me-draw-you-a-starsector-ship/
Part 2
http://fractalsoftworks.com/2014/05/22/let-me-draw-you-a-starsector-ship-part-2/

Then some links he suggested were very helpful:

One on Pixel Art
http://androidarts.com/pixtut/pixelart.htm

The Art Tutorial
androidarts.com/art_tut.htm

Finally, here is a link to a listing of 30 different tutorials that really help with pixel art.
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/

Hope they help you like they are helping me!

[xlandar]

Thank you! i'm actually in the process of reading dave's post right now!

[xlandar]

alright, i've updated the sprite quite a bit.

cleaned up the original sprite a bit, and i added some armor plating and a medium turret mount. It feels a lot more like something that could be used in battle now!

[JDCollie]

alright, i've updated the sprite quite a bit.

cleaned up the original sprite a bit, and i added some armor plating and a medium turret mount. It feels a lot more like something that could be used in battle now!

It looks awesome but I would be a bit dubious about taking a ship into battle who's prow is composed of fueltank.

[ORMtnMan]

xlander,

That is a great improvement over the original!

Definitely looks a lot more formidable. To JDCollie's point, it could be a very heavily armored tank

To fine tune the sprite some more, there are some stray black lines on the outer edges (one large one in particular on the bottom right). The outer edges could use some anti-aliasing (something I am still learning as well).

In case you don't know anti-aliasing is the softening of line edges especially in non straight ones. You notice how some of the diagonal lines on your sprite look jaggy even zoomed out? AA will help with that.

[xlandar]

could you point out the black line? i'm afraid i don't quite see what your looking at.

[ORMtnMan]

Unfortunately I am at work and without art capabilities so I can't easily point it out. Tt is hanging off the lower right wing, right off the red stripe part.

[Sabaton]

A compact destroyer sized tanker that can tell a frigate to *** off?
Fills a neglected niche, I suppose, as we still have to see a well armed and armored utility ships faction.

[xlandar]

@ORMtnMan
ah, now i see it, i'll do something about that!

@Sabaton
yup, that's basically what it is, or at least it will be once i figure out how to actually mod this stuff.

[silentstormpt]

Well, we could make it a kamikaze tanker for crazed pirates and fanatics

[xlandar]

Well, we could make it a kamikaze tanker for crazed pirates and fanatics

¯\_(?)_/¯

[HELMUT]

Well, we could make it a kamikaze tanker for crazed pirates and fanatics

Fills a neglected niche, I suppose, as we still have to see a well armed and armored utility ships faction.

It's in the pipeline.

Spoiler

[close]