Petition to ship sets designers

[oleg]

There are many, many very nice sets. Unfortunately, some of the most beautiful ship sets, like Slaanesh and Nostrpholo, are made in direct cotradiction to MM guidelance:
http://malfador.com/se4/se4race.html

Namely, "mini" space/battlestations should be same as "portrait", NOT top views.

Besides, it makes them much better. Just compare 36x36 Version of slaanesh_portrait_spacestation with stock slaanesh_mini_spacestation and you will see my point.

P.S. I remade many shipsets this way and can send pictures to anyone interested but it would be much better if shipset authors expressed their view.

[Captain Kwok]

I disagree. I prefer to have the mini space station pics top down. It makes more sense (even the Phong examples on the MM website are actually top down) because it matches better with the ships display on the system and combat maps.

[Krsqk]

From MM website:

Notes: Some of the Mini pictures are labeled as "Top Down" or "Same as Portrait". The "Top Down" pictures are for vehicles which can actually have a facing as they move. These will be rotated by the game to the correct facing. They should always be drawn facing straight up. The "Same as Portrait" pictures are for vehicles which do not have a specific facing.

My guess is that "Top Down" and "Same as Portrait" are categorical, rather than instructional, labels. Their purpose would seem to be to distinguish between those minis which are rotated during movement and those which are not. Having said that, I have no opinion on the matter--at least not a universal opinion; I think which looks better depends on the individual shipset.