I design shipsets

[Hugh Manatee]

This is the "chrysalis", I'm not sure how I'm going to use it but I am.

I like the 'Butterfly'! Might I suggest just a little transparency in the wings?

Nah, I'd rather have the wings glow, I turned the "emission setting" up about one third of the way to get this great eathereal glow, I turned the "glow" on the antenae all the way up and I like the effect. I don't know If I can get glow and transparancy at the same time. The chrysalis is partially transparent as you can see, I turned the emission setting on the body of the cattepillar way up to make it look all freaky.

And do you think Space Moths sounds cooler than Space Butterflies? I think they look more like space moths than butterflies on account of the feathered antenae, what are you opinions.

[ March 31, 2003, 02:17: Message edited by: Hugh Manatee ]

[Desdinova]

i suggest you use it as a colonizer or cargo ship. then again something that can spin a cocoon and carry cargo in that may work better for that.

[ March 31, 2003, 04:11: Message edited by: desdinova ]

[Lord Kodos]

Again Manatee, youve impressed me :-D

I would suggest using the Chrysalis as a Carrier of some sort, and make the Fighters into i dunno caterpillers?

[dogscoff]

Cool, another critter set. Nice one Manatee.

[Raging Deadstar]

I really like the chrysalis, if all the other ships turn out like that this will be better than the united flora, IMHO

As for the butterfly/moth it's quite good but don't moths have 1 wing that slightly splits into two,a dn i'm not too keen on the wing textures, most moths and butterflies have patterns and i think this would look better than the glowing effect on the wings, the rest of the butterfly/moth is superb, it seems the latest wave of shipset designers are getting better everytime! Keep up the good work

I agree with kodos, the chrysalis should be a carrier and the fighters should be minature moths/butterflies, but if you have a better idea go with it!

[ March 31, 2003, 18:38: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

[Hugh Manatee]

Actually I couldn't find a "buterfly/moth wing texture" to use or I would have, the wing textures are just the best I could find on my hardrive at the time(it's a wallpaper that came with windows XP). If anybody knows where I could find a free pattern I'd apreaciate a link greatly. I'm not even sure what to search for on google... Also I didn't want you average butterfly patterns I wanted something a little freaky but I can't seem to find exactly what I need, anyone know of a big, free, image archive I can sort through, maybe something with desktopbackgrounds or something...

The wings were hard to figure out, there aren't many "rounded" parts in Doga, so I flattened Tank part #62 to about .10 or.05 scale on it's Y axis and it worked for me.

And Here's my overall plan, I'm going to have different kinds of butterfly/moths, combat sizes will have redish/orange wings and non-combat transports will be blue/green or maybe purple(puple possibly for carriers). the combat ships will carry "cucoons"(like the chrisalis, maybe a little different with each class) which are bristling with weapons and such and the bigger the cucoon the bigger the ship class, the biggest sizes requiring several flies to pull them. the Idea is that they can escape their planets gravity, and they "breed" ships for this purpose, the little cattepillar in the cucoon is like the crew of the ship(gunner/scanner ect.) and the fly is the pilot/navigator and the cucoon is the biological hardware,(the weapons, electrical equipment, armor, and you get the Idea). They are again Psychic and Organic.

EDIT How's this,



[ March 31, 2003, 22:07: Message edited by: Hugh Manatee ]

[David E. Gervais]

About all I can suggest is that you do a search for "textures" here...

Altavista Image Search

I hope you find something that will fit!

Cheers!