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[SafariJohn]

I know you're not supposed to explain the joke, but:

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DR is comparing the colors and composition of the ship to Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.

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I got that I meant the situation in general.

[D00D]

So here's my first sprite for SS, it's a heavy fighter. Are there any effects, filters etc that I can run it through to make it look more like BRS type conversion?

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[Clockwork Owl]

...Firstly, reduce the size. It's almost frigate-sized if I guessed xorrectly.

[D00D]

I made it side by side with BRS's heavy fighter so it isn't actually that big if you consider the hull. The wider wings is due to the glowing engines which are built into the hull so they can't be disabled but can't get zero-flux boost.

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[Clockwork Owl]

Hmm, seems I oversetimated the size. Sorry for confusion.

BTW what's BRS?

[D00D]

Blackrock shipyards. I'm basing my techniques on his style because he also used Battleships forever and converted it over to SS. I already have a fleet ready, just need to get the feel of the sprite right before I can go full speed ahead.

[Clockwork Owl]

Ah. Most people use BRDY so I didn't recognized it.

[Zudgemud]

The polishing of a turd:



I'm still not satisfied with several things but the most severe mental itches have now been scratched with the last iteration of the sprite, especially the phasepads, the old look of them actually made me never use the ship as a flagship in my own fleets, god I hated those.

Edit: Updated more.

[Takion Kasukedo]

KORLO

On 2 pluses I like the new shape/bits you've added on to make it look more "unique"

and the other being it's insane speed.

On a negative however, I kinda prefer the old shape due to seeing it so much, but, eh, do what you wish with it, it'll stick.

[Lucian Greymark]

@zugemud

It seems really fragile where the 'arms' connect with the hull. Like a strong gust of wind would snap them clean off. maybe that's some of your trouble with it? idk

[HELMUT]

I think you made a good decision with that slight shade of purple on some parts, the far right version in particular.

[Zudgemud]

KORLO

On 2 pluses I like the new shape/bits you've added on to make it look more "unique"

and the other being it's insane speed.

On a negative however, I kinda prefer the old shape due to seeing it so much, but, eh, do what you wish with it, it'll stick.

Nice that you like it
The I'm currently fiddling with the speed of the ship, to make it a bit less "OP as hell under player control" while still being very useful for the AI. The new small turrets at the front help quite a bit in terms of missile defence when fitted with good PD. This also allows for some more reasonable speed boost as you now dont need to outrun all pilum swarms to escape certain death.

@zugemud

It seems really fragile where the 'arms' connect with the hull. Like a strong gust of wind would snap them clean off. maybe that's some of your trouble with it? idk

It is an awfully fragile ship, though I had to buff/normalize the hp stats significantly to make it more useful for the AI.

I think you made a good decision with that slight shade of purple on some parts, the far right version in particular.

Yeah that is my latest preference too, and I think I will have that colorscheme for my ships from now on.
Hopefully this will also make Mesotronik shut up about my overuse of true gray

[MesoTroniK]

Hopefully this will also make Mesotronik shut up about my overuse of true gray

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Image size: 176 x 364 px / 64,064 px
Solid pixels 38,468 px
Partial transparent: 1,004 px
Solid Area + pseudo transparent area is 39,030.90 px
Pixels that are shades of grey: 25,603 / 65.60%
Pure black: 412 / 1.06%
Pure white: 194 / 0.50%
Chrome Alpha > 0 SEM: NaN%
Chrome Alpha = 255 SEM: NaN%
Unique colors: 4493
Unique shades of grey: 256
Unique colors (inc. grey): 4749
Unique colors/are avg: 0.11511393
HSV Average: 2466.767671511744
HSV SEM: 4570:577368235108%

Average grey area: 65.59675%

[Lucian Greymark]

Okay, got two redraws for you guys. One of them (the first one) is a redraw of the intervention class prototype destroyer from my mod and has a picture on my mod you can compare it to, the other is a redraw of the cardinal class gunship also from my mod, but I don't have a picture handy for you to compare the before and after to.

The bottom line is that I'm trying to bring them closer to the vanilla style of spriting, more as an experiment than anything else, but they came out looking (imo) pretty *** nito.

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[SafariJohn]

Images aren't working for me, Greymark.

I like the shape, but they're very dark and grey.