New pirates shipset

jimbob · #1 February 24th, 2003, 09:13 PM

I like the texture that's added with lights on the ships, but I too think that the larger "portal" windows that are on the ships now tend to make the ships look smaller. I guess I had in mind very small squares or even individual pixels as representing the windows. sort of the same scale as the windows seen on the enterprise.

I still like the ships tho

Edit: Oh, and the shark set is pretty sweet too! Is it over at PBW yet?

[ February 24, 2003, 19:14: Message edited by: jimbob ]

trooper · #2 February 27th, 2003, 01:29 PM

I will try to decrease the windows size, in order to make ships look bigger. In my opinion, a scout ship is a very minimalist ship, with one or two rooms for the crew. So I think that my scale is not as wrong.

the sharks and pexlerr shipsets are available on PBW file library.

[ February 27, 2003, 11:29: Message edited by: trooper ]

Pax · #3 February 28th, 2003, 11:23 AM

A scoutship may be very minimalist indeed ... but it still masses a hundred thousand tons ... !! Nae wee bairn, is THAT, laddie!

trooper · #4 February 28th, 2003, 08:26 PM

don't be ridiculous... look at what a 100000 tons ship would look like :

http://www.kryon.com/cruise%202003/cruise4more.html

I think it's definitively not the size of a scout ship. Moreover, spaceships are built in light materials, so they would be even bigger. Ship tonnages mustnt'be considered as real one in SE IV. they are just a way to say " a light cruiser is two times bigger than a fregate".

That's the way I think when designing shipsets.

Fyron · #5 February 28th, 2003, 10:26 PM

You should keep the scale of ship sizes as seen in the default ship sets when making custom ship sets. Otherwise, using the custom ship set gets really annoying, esp. when an escort pic is either the size of a BC, or a small fighter or something.

Pax:
The SE4 kT is not a literal unit, and it does not mean the same thing when used in different places. It is merely a comparative aid. Do you really think that a Bridge weighs (not that it weighs anything in space...) 10,000 tons? That would just be absurd.

[ February 28, 2003, 20:28: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

trooper · #6 February 28th, 2003, 11:49 PM

You are speaking of the mini pictures, aren't you ?
I am used to making portrait images as big as I can, cause cause the purpose of the portait image is to show the overall "look" of the ship.

Unlike portrait pics, mini pictures have to be scaled. That reminds me a game against the addisian empire. As the escort ships are as big as battleships, every time I was encountering one of their fleet, I was terrified !

[ February 28, 2003, 21:50: Message edited by: trooper ]

Fyron · #7 February 28th, 2003, 11:57 PM

Both the Portraits and Minis. It does not look good when all ships are as big as they can be. You need a relative perspective of ship sizes, and the default one used for the SE4 races is the best you can use, as it is a good standard.