2nd attempt; space armarda

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

I think it would like cooler if you added some nebula in the background here and there.

Heres my suggestions:

Mountains: Asteroid Field

Desert: Deep Space

Volcanos: Rouge Planet?

Barbarians: Space Pirates

What do you think of that Smoke? Workable?

 

[Kal-el]

SM, this looks fantastic. You may be right about them being too numerous. Try fewer and they may not seem as bright.

Will this work with the random generator or will all the maps have to be premade?

Also, I think I prefered when the whole tyle was shaded the color rather than just the border. I think it gave more of a technical readout display effect.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Interesting idea Kal-El, although it might look alittle funny for certain civ colors(like Pink).

Check out my last post above Kal-Els for my latest suggestion Smoke...

 

[A Viking Yeti]

I redid the explosion animation above, death2.gif. I couldn't lighten it up much more, otherwise the explosion would have hardly been noticable, especially with the models on top.

 

[Kal-el]

SoG,

I'm not talking about civ coloring. compare this previous image:

with this more recent image:

as you can see the old version had a red tint to the whole tyle, whereas now there is only a red border.

I am just saying that I prefer the older version.

 

[A Viking Yeti]

Yeah, but what about those terrain borders with the civ colored borders over them... If you guys edited to the civ colored borders so that they sit a bit farther back from the actual border, then it'd work out fine...

EDIT: Unless, of course, he did go with the old version, then it wouldn't matter ... Nevermind.

 

[WildWeazel]

I agree with Kal-el on the colors, but the shaded ones are a bit too obvious. Maybe an in-between look, with thin but distinct border and a faint but noticable tint throughout, would look better. As long as civ borders have a different pattern they should be easily distinguishable.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

Also a good idea would be to spruce up the background's appearence with various colorful nebula of various shapes. Trust me, alittle variety goes along way.

 

[subbss]

About the stars being too bright and numerous SM, I think it might look better if you made them very numerous (lot of stars) but very small (more accurate I think since stars do usually look like points).

The quality isn't very good because it is a badly compressed jpg but you get the idea. That screenshot is one vision (that I prefer) of how a space/strategy/tile-based game could look like.

BTW, that pic is from the game Galactic Core created by Chromite Software (which has now dissapeared off the face of the planet) and distributed by SpiderWeb Software.

I also mentioned this in post #100. I am trying to fing a screenshot program for the mac so I can show everyone some of the alien races and ships.

 

[vbraun]

I might be able to help on making any simple units (space craft and such). COuld you like post a list of needed units and pics to see if i could attempt them?

EDIT: Could you make use of a unit like this:

 

[Kal-el]

scratch my earlier comments about reducing the number of stars, I think subbss is right.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

That ship design of yours Vbraun looks like one of my old Star Wars ship creations I once drew, I think it was my C-Wing design.

Yes I can draw, but only Robots and Starships...no humans..

 

[vbraun]

Would you be able to use a unit like that though? Im really stuck on what to do with the textures and the top is pretty boring. I was thinking on adding a couple laser turret things on the top.

 

[Sword_Of_Geddon]

I'm not sure I can help you there. Maybe ask Smoking Mirror...its his project after all.

 

[vbraun]

Oh Yeah.

 

[Smoking mirror]

vbraun; Yeah, I can use all the help I can get with extra units. I'd say it'd look great with a laser turret on top.

I think I just found the CD thats got all my old models and the animations for the probe and satelitte. Unfortunately its courupt or scratched or something... Oh well, back to square one there then.

Any way, time for an update on the terrain. How about this, maybe the stars are a bit bright still, may dull the whole lot down a bit;

 

[Kal-el]

looks cool. might want to mute the red a bit though. maybe reduce the contrast levels.

 

[vbraun]

Do you have a picture of a laser turet? The best i can think of is a couple of boxes connected together.

Is the grey fine for the body color? I was going to add some kind of texture but again have no idea what do to with it.

EDIT: For the laser turret im going to make 2 mini tank type turrets on each the right and left side of the cockpit

 

[vbraun]

After this one how bout i take a shot at this:

I have no idea what it is beside that it is cool.

 

[vbraun]

An idea for Attack A that i had. Needs a little work though. (also notice the laser turrets)