I design shipsets

[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!

[mlmbd]

Hugh; Ship 1, part 36. Tank 1, part 62, flattened. Either of those would give you really nice wings. IMHO I am not saying you should change what you have. These are a couple of parts you just may not have seen!

mlmbd

[Raging Deadstar]

Hugh, it's much better than the original one. If there was anyway i could consider improving it would make them more natural with blue and black wings or brown camouflague, but they're space moths so they can have tinfoilesque wings, can't wait to see more of your work

EDIT: I decided to bestow you with a rating of 5 stars for your work on the swarm and the upcoming space butterflies, you deserve it!

[ April 01, 2003, 19:41: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

[Hugh Manatee]

wow, 5 stars, I don't know hat to say

Thank you and I am making the wings different colors according to their jobs. Red will be the "combat" class(scout-heavy base ship, yes this will be a neostandard compatible), blue for colony ships, brownish orange for transports, and purple, green, or yellow for carriers(haven't decided yet). the models phase is about 40% done, I haven't done the basic combat classes (scout-heavy base ship) or the carriers yet, but most everything else is done(units like troops, and fighters and the drone, transports, colony ships and the first 3 of the "base" sizes).

I think the classes I've done so far look great(to me at least ) , the stations are big shiny brown chrysalli(sp I'm not sure of the plural of chrysallis) and the troops are little green spiky catepillars (like the one in the previous picture) that are carrying small chrysalli(sp again) on their backs. The "little" ships are catepillars with wings. the colony and transports are bigger flys like the one in the picture below but carrying cucoons(more drab and without the spines)

[Lord Kodos]

MOTHRA!

im sorry, i had to say that in this thread.

Anyhow, looking very very nice Manatee, im very impressed with both of your unique and interesting shipsets. Cant wait to see the Butterflies finished.