New pirates shipset

oleg · #1 March 5th, 2003, 01:08 PM

The only problem with custom background in portrait pictures is when such picture is selected as a random candy in "race creation" menu. It can look very funny

Otherwise portraits do not produce any problems. Mini - yes, they all must have clean black background.

Gryphin · #2 March 6th, 2003, 02:06 AM

Trooper,
How about 2 Versions?

trooper · #3 March 5th, 2003, 10:44 PM

Perhaps, but there will be a official Version available on PBW and a alternate.

Seems thaht most people don't care about backgrounds or dislike coloured ones. So the official Version will be black.

trooper · #4 March 11th, 2003, 01:26 AM

Almost finished the shipset.
Just one picture to add, resize some mini pictures, clear ugly pink backgrounds and Version 1.0 will be ready for release !

Gryphin · #5 March 11th, 2003, 03:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by trooper:
Perhaps, but there will be a official Version available on PBW and a alternate.

Seems thaht most people don't care about backgrounds or dislike coloured ones. So the official Version will be black.

I fully understand. It would be great if you can.
Hmm, better get off my duff and make an obvers set.

trooper · #6 March 11th, 2003, 01:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gryphin:
I fully understand. It would be great if you can.
Hmm, better get off my duff and make an obvers set.

I'm afraid I won't. Two Versions is hard to maintain, and would make no sense on PBW, for instance. Moreover, as you can see on the preview page, many recent pictures have no background.

I follow the majority decision, hope you will understand, even if "majority" in the US is a foggy notion...

If you create a shipset, I would encourage you to use standard format : there no use working if very few people use your work !

Raging Deadstar · #7 March 11th, 2003, 09:59 PM

I like the race portrait as it is, and looks slightly like a fazrah, but it looks better in my opinion.

As for the shipsets they look great with the black backgrounds, i think they stand out more, great work on the dreadnought

Will this be released with a large transport design or will we just have to rename a couple of files? I rarely play P&N, But with this shipset roleplaying a pirate shipset race using boarding parties would be quite fun, can't wait till this is released

Any thoughts on making an extra baseship image? most shipsets now come with a baseship image and beginning to use them more, and the starbase image isn't really that ship looking! great as a base but you get the idea for baseships, just a suggestion