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Congratz, really cool. The WPLs look really cool.
One complain though. The fighters are very good. They are okay, but arent canon. There is canon material about shadow fighers available, search the web for "shadow" and "spitfire", cuz "spitfire" is how they are named, you will see considerable difference compared to standart shadow vessels since they have no "arms" or "legs".

Nontheless, great work.

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Please, don't get too wound up on "canonical accuracy". I'm sure AT knows about Shadow fighters. Maybe they don't look good in SEIV format. Besides, we lost one AT shipset already (Mimbari) because people got too picky on "canon", so cut him some slack. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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The thing with the fighters is they all looked like some of the large ships. I used the fighter design as the SCOUT ship.

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Actually, you are wrong, AC.
Attached is a picture, which shows a proper Shadow fighter. Dont take me wrong, i just wanted to correct you. I like the shipset nontheless.
Which leads me to another point. Im about to join a new PBW game. Is there any chance you might finish the shipsets missing pictures ? In that case, i would love to play it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

http://www.b5tech.com/shadows/shadowships/spitfire.jpg

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But I could tell this was an AT shipset straight off, you do have a certain style of design. Most of the ships are scaled up or down versions of on hull shape. just a comment.

Compare them to the stock shipsets, and you will see Atrocities is doing his shipsets exactly the way all stock-ships are done. The different ships of each shipset are usually only bigger and have some extensions. I would like to have each shipset with truly unique ships/pictures, but that would probably multiply the amount of time necessary to create just a single set http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

We aim to please http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif That was my goal with the Bartelians, but it didn't turn out exactly as planned. Right now I'm working on a (massive) set which does do that thing.

Of course, some ships'll look like each other; but these are just the ship "families", in which each ship is based on the previous incarnation. The Scouts, Escorts, Cutter, Corvette and Light DD are all based on the same design, and so are, for instance, everything between Cruiser and Battlecruiser, but regardless of this each "family" is significantly different from the others. So while a Cruiser seen from the front is somewhat reminiscent of a DD family ship seen from the front, there'll be plenty of differences in them. Not in the least where texture is concerned http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I'm working on the Battleship family now, and trust me it's wholly different from everything else I've got so far.

Sorry to post semi-related stuff like this here, but I just thought I'd mention it. Looks very nice as always AT http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif You have a high standard of quality!

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Really nice ships AT. However, I noticed that some of the images have a dark grey background instead of black. Might want to fix that before release. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Thanks, but those are all PNG images and not the ones being used for the set. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Good set, I really like the weapon platforms. They're just dripping with menace. The Shadow purists might ask for the pine cone fighters from the series, but that's your call as the author of this set.
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TAZ

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zircher, did you actually read the thread before posting :p You assume some purists might ask for the canon fighter...actually i made 3 posts asking for that figher :p
Look 6 or 7 posts above, even with a link http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif