Am I even on the right track - ship design
 

I have been wanting to try ship set design for a long time and finally got to doing it. This is the frist ship I have tried putting together.. its not textured or sized yet but I wanted to see if I was even going about it correctly.. its done in DoGA.

Thanks for all the feedback.

Rasorow

Re: Am I even on the right track - ship design
 

Absolutely! Looking good!

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Looks good, be sure to play around with the lighting, however.

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I like it.

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Interesting; I think it would look a lot better if it had better lighting, though.

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It's quite good, especially as a first effort. Perhaps I should have a go if DOGA isn't as hard as I thought.

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Do you have a Broad Band connnection? If so look for me on line msn - pcpatrocities AT hotmail DOT com or yahoo - pcpatrocities AT yahoo DOT com. I use Messinger most of the time, but I run Trillan as well. I will send you some DOGA files and Examples that might help you learn more about the program.

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Cool thanks... Yes I do... I will login from home and look for you.

Thanks for the feedback... I still need to learn a bit (lot) about the lighting aspect so I will definately work on it some more.

Thank you,

Rasorow

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The ship looks good! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif The front triangular part of the ship appears to be kind of flat-looking and two dimensional, maybe some more depth could be added to it? The rest of the ship is great... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

The picture loaded in my browser from the bottom and then upwards! Never seen that before. Pictures usually load from top down...

Re: Am I even on the right track - ship design
 

I wondered if I should change the front somehow... wasnt quite right but couldnt put my finger on it.... I will try your suggestion and see how it turns out.

Rasorow

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That's what I was going to add...the front looks too much like a 2D triangle. I think it needs a bit more "3D" to it and, perhaps, break up the 2 straight lines that form that triangular look. The rest looks fine, though! Good first effort!

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For the most part, it looks just dandy!

The triangle part in the front makes it look like a weapon itself. If that's what you're going for, nifty, but I think it takes away from the "ship" idea.

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I am re-working it now... I finished one alternative Last night and hope to work on another alternative tonight... I will see which I like best and post them for comment here.

Rasorow

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Select that triangle from the side-view and drag the vertical blue box upward. That will "fatten" it on the z-axis. Then you'd have a surface on the front where you could insert a gazzillion forward cannons!

Weeeeeeeeeeeee! Doga is fun!

Happily,
Turin

Re: Am I even on the right track - ship design
 

Came up with two variants and going to post them.. then I think I am going to learn how to texture stuff before I put these back up. I like the first one the best. What do you think?

Rasorow

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this is the second Version.

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Quite an improvement, Rasorow. Removing the dark grey from the center really makes the "bridge" look like it is not hanging in space. Although that would be neat too.