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Small transports for the shipset I am now working on, after having let it sit on the "drawing table" for about a year now: It's going to be an asymmetric shipset, which to my knowledge is a rarity.

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...ortwostuff.JPG<second image deleted>

Re: Texture comparison ---> New shipset in the werks
 

I like the top one. The texture you used is very cool. Thumbs up!

Re: Texture comparison ---> New shipset in the wer
 

Shiney!

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to make an avatar look like this.. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1063109706.gif

This is the procedure in Artgem. Sorry there is no easy way I know of in PSP without making multiple layers then merging them in at the end..
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...arTutorial.gif

I hope this helps. Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Hahaha... LOL!
Great advise David! [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon43.gif[/img]

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Oh my! That's so kind from you, David, to make this avatar! I really, really, really thank you.

David is 31337 4r7i5t!!!

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../beerglass.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../beerglass.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../beerglass.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../beerglass.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../beerglass.gif
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon04.gif[/img] http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I think I like the carrier without windows; it appears more menacing somehow.

Wildcard [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon46.gif[/img]

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I love the armored look of the new ships. They look alot tougher when you can see actual armor on it like that. Can't wait for the set!

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FYI, I made that avatar way back on sept 9, 2003 It's been sitting in my 'emporium' all that time. (shame on you for not adopting it earlier. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif Just kidding.)

proof? ok, look here.. September avatar Posts..

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

P.S. Oh, you're welcome btw. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Bumpy bumpy: http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...6-Corvette.JPG

Edit: Quick reply - sometimes helpful, sometimes sucks

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Nice ship! I like the texture on the guns especially.

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I'm having too much fun with these new textures of mine:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...battleship.JPG

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Scary!

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Those are great looking warships! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Holy crap, batman! That ship could shoot down about anything else in the sky. Great ship though, I love the military feel and intimidation such a ship brings.

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For a moment I thought, Ooh, he put stars in the background! Then I realized it was just the dust on my monitor. :p
Seriously though, cool ship! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Here's my shot at a Se4 plug.

Click on the attachment above to see the 1024x768 wallpaper/picture.

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Shiney!

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Very nice wallpaper. Are you having fun yet? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Texture comparison
 

I am. Thank you for asking. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...1-Starbase.JPG

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These ships are great. The second Last one you did reminds me of the Ob'enn from Schlock Mercenary for some reason, big, huge and very "You will find the power of these weapons most impressive for the brief seconds you're alive" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

That Last one is just obscene.... What the heck is it? It's incredible, the sort of ship No-one wants prowling through their systems! The more i Look at it the more i think "Alliance Ships from Firefly" for some reason.

Great Work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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That will be the starbase for the set. It won't prowl anywhere, but I wouldn't want to see it in any starsystems I'm going to conquer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif And I suppose it does resemble the alliance ships from Firefly (Seen the first few episodes, seen the ship in the episode when the reavers struck a settler ship), if Slynky saw this, I wonder if he'd say 'Shiney'. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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I'll say it for him. Shiney http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Texture comparison
 

I'm not crazy; I'm only doing this for the fun and to satisfy my insomnia: Most of the shipset models are now finished, and I've only got a few more to go until I start to render the set.

Here are the models I've made so far, in no particular order:

Scout
Cutter
Escort
Corvette *
Light Frigate
Frigate
Heavy Frigate
Light Destroyer
Destroyer *
Heavy Destroyer
Light Cruiser
Cruiser
Heavy Cruiser
Battlecruiser *
Battleship
Dreadnought
Heavy Dreadnought
Baseship
Heavy Baseship
Massive Baseship
Escort Carrier *
Light Carrier *
Carrier
Large Carrier
Massive Carrier
Fast Transport
Small Transport *
Medium Transport
Large Transport
Huge Transport
Space Station
Cargo Station
Space Fortress
Large Space Station
Battle Station
Large Battle Station
War Station
Starbase *
Orbital Fighter
Attack Fighter
Small to Massive Fighters
Small to Large Interceptors and Bombers
Drones, Mines, Satellites
All 4 weapon platforms
Starliner
Large Starliner
Barge
Mining station and ship

the asterisk denotes that you've seen the ship in this thread.

Models I've yet to make:

Worldship
All troops, including infantry

which I will make this labour day monday.

I guess I'll go to sleep now, stay tuned to this thread for more information. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Edit: Also, I would like to point out that all models currently finished with the exception of the weapon platforms are asymmetrical.

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(bold emphasis added) Blasphemy!

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The models are done! The models are done! Muahahahah! I am free, free I tells you!

*Ahem* I'll begin rendering the shipset. If you'd like to know more about and maybe share a shield pic or two, please log on to #spaceempires IRC channel at freenode. http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...0-Infantry.PNG

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Shiney!

I guess it wants bigger Posts, so babble babble babble very nice pic, very nic textures, very nice ground, babble, Fyon, babble, babble.

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The shipset is almost finished! 164 images rendered, catalogued and after securing 2 more images it will be finished! Expect to see something big tomorrow; all you modders out there who ever wanted an image for something will not be disappointed!

New Shipset Released! Come and get it!
 

It's finished! It's finished! 173 Pictures! 173 damn pictures for all you crazy image-conscious people to use!

You said it couldn't be done, well who's laughing now! Certainly nobody who's dowloaded the set! Ahahahahahaha!

*ahem*

Announcing the newest arrival to the se4 shipset scene: the sev set! (That's the name, not affiliated with se5)

Get it today! Rar format 1.1 MB Click on the attachment link above to download.

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Sev_AI_General for Fyron and others.

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soooo... comments? criticisms? praise? (A guy can hope...) death threats?

I know the main sats and the transport tiny mini has problems, and will get around to fixing those soon.

(edited: Fyron has kindly provided a preview page for Sev. Thanks if you wanted to provide one.)

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What, didn't think to ask me on IRC? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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I like the appearance of your shipset. The ships and bases (especially bases!) look very threatening and gloomy. And huge amount of models make it possible to use really unique ship for each hull size for a bunch of Neomods. Cool work, TC! [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon44.gif[/img]

SOme criticism: strangely, but the positive fact that some of the models are very complex and with many small details turned into the negative side: it's difficult to determine up, bottom, left and right for some models, and they look as chaotic conglomeration of parts.
Also many models rotated into the left (considering that right camera position is a canon for se4 shipsets). It's not a disadvantage, actually, just slightly uncomfortable for perception.

PS: sorry for spelling, I'm in a hurry to check it.

Re: New Shipset Released! Click and get it!
 

I have Winzip, and I can't unzip this one.

Re: New Shipset Released! Click and get it!
 

If you don't want to buy Winrar, download freeware unrar utility http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarw32.exe
put unrar.exe and shipset archive in the same directory, ie c:\temp
run the command line and type: <font color="red"> c:\temp\unrar.exe e 292500-Sev.rar </font>. Hit Enter. What's all.

Re: New Shipset Released! Click and get it!
 

The Sev set is now offered in Zip Format!

It's the attachment link above.

Also, for those of you who downloaded the first RAR Version of the set now needs (or does not need) to download the Sev set fix, which is a file containing the revised transport tiny mini pic and sat mini pic.

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=292803

The original WinRAR Sev Set format:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=292500

Re: Texture comparison
 

Thanks, yeah, since the set is asymmetric, I sort of had to rotate the ships to get the best camera angle, but hopefully nobody will mind and some might even find the new angles refreshing, hopefully. And about the chaotic conglomeration - one of the limitations of DoGA or my insane mind I guess, but hopefully it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Enjoy the set! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Announcing Preview Page
 

The Sev now have a preview page, generously hosted by SpaceEmpires.net!

http://shipyards.spaceempires.net/Sev/

Re: Texture comparison
 

I've been hearing from some people that the "backward" (they're not backwards, grumble, grumble) portrait pics are somewhat quirky to their eyes and feel that they should be faced the "right" way, that being where the back of the ship is on the right side of the picture and the front of the ship being on the left side of the picture.

While I personally feel that there is nothing wrong with the pics, and that they add visual flavour to the set, I am nevertheless only a humble shipset maker that will render pics at your whims; the customer is the king, as they say.

Thus, I have flipped some of the pics the other way, and have created the Sev Backward Pictures Response Pack, which will replace some (ships and drones, not bases) portrait pics with new ones.

You can choose to download the pack, but it won't do anything to harm your enjoyment of the set if you won't (and I recommend that you don't, personally).

You can download it by clicking on the attachment link above.

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finally ships that are travelling in the correct direction
*elkcuhc* recnamisp eht syas os

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The shipset looks great! You have put in a LOT of work into those ships... I like the very detailed ship images and especially the very alien and unusual-looking race portrait.
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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The race portrait came from Monolith's site:

http://jdtaylor.home.mindspring.com/

Too bad he disappeared... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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It's a great set TerranC!
My compliments!

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The set look like a very simple set to make with an interesting texture. Not bad.

Gonna make a wallpaper, Need Input
 

*Bump*

In honor of the 100th download, I want to make something special, say a wallpaper of a ship from Sev. What ship would you like to see in 1024x768 or 1240x1024 resolution?

Re: Gonna make a wallpaper, Need Input
 

Sev ships attacking BOB ships! All out warfare!

Re: Gonna make a wallpaper, Need Input
 

Yeah!

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To bump or not to bump; that is the question...

I'm still working on that 100th download picture, I'll have it done sometime in the future, meanwhile I've got (what I think is) a nice picture preview for you all:

I plan to redo BOB sometime in the near or not so near future; if only to satisfy Fyron for his need for high-quality BMPs. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

Stay tuned to this thread for more "updates". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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The SEV have got that "starblazer" kind of feel with the large intakes.

Hmmm...

I like the above shipset a great deal... What's the name? BOB?

Wildcard [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon46.gif[/img]

Re: New Shipset Released! Click and get it!
 

Dogscoff has sort of suggested ReBOB, but I'm not sure what I'll call it yet. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif