Gryphin's Tessellate Ship Set

Gryphin · #1 January 5th, 2003, 07:21 PM

http://www.windingstream.com/se/se_gallery.htm
(Thanks, and Thanks a Lot!

I really appreciate the feedback.
I had already started down the "non-proportional" path. This way you get a good idea of what is up. It had a second benefit. Trying to add more and more detail I was forced to learn more about doga. I realize most of the Barrels look like they fire shells like those on Battleships today. Oh well, next time. Most likely my next set will be pro proportional. That will not likely be before June.

Major Thanks to mlmbd for rendering these in Doga L3 and his assistance in getting me started. I could not have done this without him.
Before my next set, I will write a "The Gryphin Way to use Doga L2 to Make SEIV Ship Sets" .

[ January 05, 2003, 18:10: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

Timstone · #2 January 5th, 2003, 08:08 PM

Great set Gryphin!
Why Doga L2 and not L3? Maybe you could write it with Mlmbd.

Andr�s · #3 January 5th, 2003, 08:18 PM

Nice shipset.
About scaling, what needs to have a good scaling are the 36x36 minis, ships portraits are never pust togeather so you can crop and scale the rendered pictures or move and zoom the camera to show more detail.
And BTW that background looks cool, but it will look odd in the SM window or the eyecandy previews in the setup window.

Gryphin · #4 January 5th, 2003, 09:27 PM

Thanks Andr�s ,
What do you mean “SM window”? I don’t follow.

Does “eyecandy previews in the setup” – do you mean When choosing races or ship sets?

I just learned
If you have an incomplete ship set in your \..\races folder and try to change ship sets it will eventually try to read that race. Since there are errors in that set, (missing ships), it will give you an error message pointing to said folder and return you to the opening screen. Makes sense to me. I thought I’d share this with other budding ship set designers.

Andr�s · #5 January 6th, 2003, 01:49 AM

The Stellar Manipulation window and the ships shown in the left side of the screen during game setup.

Any missing pictures will be replaced with the "neutral" shipset during the game.
It works this way for all vehicle and group pictures, shields and explosions. It doesn't work for pop pics, and I'm not sure what happens with main and race portrait.
But you will have an error in the setup screen if you don't have the pics it shows there, that is race portrait, main, and portrait_battlecruiser.

Gryphin · #6 January 6th, 2003, 03:15 AM

Got it Andres,
I tested that. I had to "borrow" a race and main pic and rename them to Tessellate_... to make it work. Thanks.

Desdinova · #7 January 6th, 2003, 03:31 AM

i downloaded DOGA L2 today. i keep getting 2 problems after using it for about 30mn. any ideas on problem.
1. screen goes blank and get invalid synch. this has happened 3 times.
2. computer locks up completely. this has happened twice.

i am running windows xp professional, amd athlon 950, have 768 meg ram, 128 gig of available harddrive space.