Quote:Bugger off Eppy, it would take me an hour and multiple pages to "appraise all aspects" of his ship. I talk about what I like and what I don't. I make suggestions. I do what I very well please. With all due respect, STFU.

Quote:Way too much anime influence IMO. No Discovery ship should actually look like an animal with ears, eyes, teeth, etc IMO. Except for the back it doesn't really look like any of the other Kusari ships. Was this made to actually go in the mod?

Quote:I'm going to go out on a limb and say I like the model. It IS rather 'Anime-esque', I'll give it that, and a little too much for our purposes, but I don't think people will fly it for that. I know I certainly wouldn't. I'll blow it up the same I would any KNF bomber.

What I'm going to suggest for the model is angularizing the head. Sharp edges, more deeply set bow. I'm thinking drop the whole cockpit section, too, so it's in line with the base of the ship like on all the other Kusari models. The textures need work, too-The white's nice, but it looks like the animation out of Red Alert II, I'll be honest. We also need variation in the texture-the white alone is bland. More KNF colors on lesser parts to give it colors, maybe?

Either way, I think it needs development, but It's a viable start. I like the concept a lot.

Quote:i m torn there...

the model itself is very good from. - but its sublety is like a blunt axe. - so there i do agree with dopamino. kusari ships ( and every other ship around ) reminds us sometimes on what they are called, sometimes more - sometimes less.

kusari ships are abstract mythological creatures... but mostly cause they are named after them. - if the dragon was named "G-500 Uziel" i m not so sure we d see the serpent in the design. the ships are more or less abstract, - and funny enough, FL ships are not anime style at all.

BUT - its said so often, we re not playing FL vanilla, but a setting that is well in the future of that. - it was also said that ships do not follow any reasonable structural integrity.... ships do not NEED to look solid or build around this aspect. - ships are sculpures ... and so, there is no reason not to look like that. - looks are a military instrument - and have always been. often military units show there weapons in the most fearful way - and if they do not have many, they try to look intimidating all the same.

so - from that point of view... its reasonable to make a ship that looks fierce and dangerous. - but discussing if a transformer battlemech is going too far or not is a different topic than talking about the model itself. - more pressing issues ( yes, its sad - but there we go again ) .... is balancing.

size - damage output - mobility ..... those gotto be put into a specific order to ensure that the ship fits in.

( about the anime look - it looks VERY anime like atm, cause the texture is not really producing much "depths" and so it looks sort of .... 2 dimensional, cartoon like )


edit:

reminds me on a thread i made some time ago - about "how sculpturlike FL ships can get today" and i had an example of an adv. eagle looking much much more like a real eagle than the abstract one. - there was a consensus that ships shouldn t go that far in a nature-look-alike.

but we do have certain anime style ships around. - epyons outcast capital ships have an anime feeling about them - yours, xing do have an anime feeling, legenations ships had a certain anime feeling ( anime does not necessarily mean "bad" - its just a design style ) - dunno about my own models, but since i don t really watch anime, i think they have none. - turkish LH fighter is very anime like, too. AoMs ships are not anime like however.

' Wrote:@kambai: you have read that it would have an energycore too small to even fire a minirazor? - that means.... no pvp based capkilling. - but rather a good old RP ship that can blow up other fighters in a joust quite efficiently though.