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Seriously I thought this one was kind dull.
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I mean gray scale value, nice contrast.
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I think its just so so Im still lacking something.
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wow these are awesome! where do you ger your ideas for the actual designs of the ships?
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I I think I got part idea from Starwars part idea from theΒ Dreadnought in HW Catalysm.
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what about the aesthetics of the design? Like the random lines on the ships surface. I still have no clue how to design spaceships like this. its so cool!!
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The aesthetics would take a while to comprehend. Those patterns aren't pure random, tho it can be but will not give good result. Texture are very important in spaceship design next to geometry, it highlighted many things such as scale and the kind of technology. Tow things to keep in mind are graphical design and manufacturing in RL. graphical design is rather a wishy washy term, you can just look up some basics on google, one thing worth noticing is composition, composition matters both on the picture itself and on feature distribution within the depicted object. As you can see, Im ok with the texture but terrible at composition.Texture would also look different depend on the coloring method. Spaceship and mech in general borrow alot of visual element from RL mechanical construction, mostly from military vehicle and utility structure. If you take a look at power plant or fighter plane or ship you will notice how things are fitted together and how to distribute the features, most spaceship are a blend of those three things. J-mech like those you see from anime and games got their inspiration from smaller things such as automobile and appliance. Despite the setting of its fictional size, most J-mech are made as if handheld gadget. This way, the merchandise can be conveniently made with plastic, and of course better fit into hand. Mind blown?
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I understand the connection to RL when it comes to fantasy architecture but I just find a very hard time designing things like this. Or even mechs.
this is one of the only mech drawings Im proud of showing and as you can see its still pretty bad lmao
I simply just dont understand the concept I guess.
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That wasn't bad, it lack the mechanical aspects on the joints, but the overall looks like a fine robot design. Mech comes with many diverse styles, and just because you did not manage to get the look you wanted, does not mean it is wrong or bad. The drawing you have there remind me of how they design robot in Starwars.
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Artist progress is rather hard to describe most times, even if you know what you are doing, its still difficult to explain what;s going on. A lot of things are just what you have to get used to.
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I am not too pleased with how this turned out. However I further developed my technique.Β
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So many panels hiding weapon bays...Just so nice.Β Or they could be civy ships of some sort.Β Either way its still a neat ship.
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It rather a minimal design, I was getting lazy these days. I still need to think of a role.
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Q-ship.Β It looks like a commercial transport but its be packing the big guns for those unsuspecting pirates.Β
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The way I imagined this would be some kind of military ship like destroyers, its been hulled around, no structures visible for utility, this design provide higher integrity, reduce signature, but limit its useful docking position. Your idea isn't far form this. BTW what is Q-ship?
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Exactly what I described.Β It is a commercial/civilian looking ship that hide high end weapons to blast away uninvited pirates.Β Generally they are either short ranged or not that heavy weapons, but powerful enough to convince the uninvited to leave or be crippled.Β
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I was thinking a spaceship maybe different to our ways of vehicle, or the level of tech required for that kind thing would blur the specialization. Maybe all ships share a lot common features that they can easily be used interchangeably. Because spaceship in many respect need to be self supporting, and that maybe needed to be all encompassing in its roles. However there still is factor that dictates their variety. Spaceship may be classed in a way not what we expected.
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Few Pirates expect their pray to have claws.Β Space ships will most likely follow our ideas of seas vessels.Β They started small and flimsy.Β Then they got bigger they could be both more specialized and general as the needs of the job.Β With space ships that could be taken to another level if we can develop true energy shields and not have to rely on Armor.Β
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They look like either carriers filled with shoals of fighters, or scout ships designed for deep space travel. XD
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I never thought of that but not far from reality XD
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Normally an overall design of a spacecraft would cue me to its functions. i.e. Scout, Assault, Frigate, Destroyer, Carrier, Flagship, Mothership etc. (I remember hearing Forgeship somewhere.)
It doesn't look human-like, maybe a spacecraft of an alien species who colonizes planets?
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The way I imagined this would be some kind of military ship like destroyers, its been hulled around, no structures visible for utility, this design provide higher integrity, reduce signature, but limit its useful docking position.
Never heard of Forgeship, is that ship that can build more ships? A fancy name for mobile ship factory?
I think human likeness is rather relative to the rest of universe. 
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Yeah, that would be another way of seeing it. XD Yeah, all for military purposes and having heavier armour plating. Slow and Cumbersome, however.
It's mentioned in a science fiction novel I read A LONG TIME AGO, sadly I forgot the title. Yeah, you are right. It's a huge spacecraft that builds smaller spacecraft from the raw materials shipped in by other utility spacecraft into its factories within. A mobile spacecraft factory in other terms.Β
Yeah, there's some mentions of that too. In some of the science fiction novels I read before, the humans ironically built their ships to be alien-like. XD
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I was thinking a spaceship maybe different to our ways of vehicle, or the level of tech required for that kind thing would blur the specialization. Maybe all ships share a lot common features that they can easily be used interchangeably. Because spaceship in many respect need to be self supporting, and that maybe needed to be all encompassing in its roles. However there still is factor that dictates their variety. Spaceship may be classed in a way not what we expected.
Perhaps the forgeship is a ship that incorporate mining and production, very much like the mothership class or carrier in Homeworld.
LOL did they build that on purpose?
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You make an interesting point. That's highly possible. There are many classes of spacecraft, and some blur into the functions. XD
Most probably, it probably tears apart asteroids and mines planets while building more ships for the fleet. XD
I have a feeling those humans might have been influenced by the alien races.
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I don;t think the plot of human try to reverse engineer alien tech is anywhere near strange these days, only they will find out the alien got it from some older alien XD
Spacecraft in SF are mostly based on RL's navy, this isn't how things should be done for real, but it is the only way to build an interesting story, some SF attempted to be scientific, and was incredibly boring and confusing. Human's sensory processing aren't used to weightless space, the scale of real universe is impossible to illustrate in its accuracy, and we don't know how things would turn out yet, you have to imagine the mech horse if you never had cars.
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Well, to reverse-engineer something, you need to have an original template to do it. XD
Ah I see, that's really interesting. Thank you for telling me!
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More like steal it than reverse XD and alien was stolen it from older alien XD
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My theory is that there has to be an original design lying around somewhere, and all the subsequent designs were all derived from it.Β
And humanity just took the copied design and made their own version of it.
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That makes sense, I suppose it would take at least 10 years to translate the documentation. Actually adopting an alien tech is not fun sense it is potentially dangerous. Imagine 18 century people fiddling with nuclear reactor, one small mistake can lead to a horrifying divine punishment.
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Of course, alien tech can have "WARNING: Weapon of Mass Destruction! Do not TOUCH!" in giant alien language and humanity will still go and open it.Β
Happens in quite a few science fiction novels.Β
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I tried to leave a critique, but DA kept freaking out my browser and net security. If it helps - I have you full stars. Top marks!
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That is unfortunate, but IΒ recognizeΒ your application, many thanks.
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My application? And no, no - thank you!
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Β I miss spelled appreciation
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Meh, I do stuff like that all the time, LoL
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I heard you have to be a core member to give or receive critics, but what's up with triggering internet security? Anyway we know DA is very messed up.
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Bugs and Viruses. One of the video player files contains a Port Jacker script which tells your computer to leave a port open so people can snoop your system when you are doing other things. They steal bank info and stuff like that. Hell, one of them was just so aΒ guy (assuming it was a guy) could get in to peoples systems and trash their HD's... I lost one a few years ago cause of that. It broke my heart, I had pictures of myself, my family, and some very dear friends on it, plus chat logs I had saved.... nearly 10 years of stuff, gone in 1 night.
I have tried and tried to contact DA about it, but they don't have any bug reporting pages or places to mail them directly.
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It is possible to salvage things out of magnetic HD, but can be expansive. Also those HD would age and break on their own. If you happen to have a malfunction HD, don't format it, just keep the way it was. Fortunately I never trusted my HD, and used removable disks for the important stuff. If I see the guy in RL, I would give him a good kick to the balls. Computers in the late 90 and early 2000 was the most vulnerable to malware, because it was around that time things gets complicated and people still takes sometime to adjust. Now days security covered much more aspects than it used to be, but still cannot get let grad down. Websites become more centralized and motivated not to distribute stupid things as it would hurt their profit. Don;t worry about DA errors, just move on.
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I really wanted to do this, but first got quoted a $300 bill to have it done, then found out it wouldn't matter. Whatever thy unleashedΒ just corrupted every file on the drive. Probably my fault for not having better security back then. Oh well, long past now.
I am sure I will get another chance to critique your super awesome art ^_^
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Looking froward to see your critique, but if things don;t workout, just leave the comment.
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