Kusari "White Wolf"

[kingvaillant]

Could you texture it with a KNF skin?

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[Xing]

this is knf skin. just, white.

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[bluntpencil2001]

I intend it only be sold on a kusari guard base, making their circulation limited, if thats what you are afraid of.

This will not limit circulation. Stats limit circulation, not location.

If it has rubbish stats, it will be limited. If it has uber stats, regardless of location, it will be whored.

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[Xing]

Well, make it cost a battleship then.

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[Jinx]

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.

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[Xing]

I dont know exactly how anime design can be defined. To me, anime design on sci fi would be gundams, and thats it.

Of course, balance of this ship is a bit tricky, but, what I stated in first post was the general idea. The RP ability behind its legs are only to make it a bit more awesome artificially compared to the liberty Grizzly unique and the rheinland Thrudgelmir unique.

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[Jinx]

i m sure there is an official definition of "anime" style - but generally... ships that follow anime style characteristics are like sports cars.

looks over everything else. - anime pleases the eyes with shapes that are generally agreed on to be sleek, decorative - but often not really practical. anime designs make use of overstretched shapes, spikes - wings, extrusions.

it makes use of shapes that we associate with being aesthetic - even if there s no use for it in space. one will hardly ever find the protagonists ships look like a borg cube in an anime or a sphere, even if it might be the perfect shape for space.

babylon 5 is a nice example for the differences between non anime and anime style. - earth destroyers in babylon 5 are not very anime style. they are tubes. blocky shapes, functional. they have a rotating section that creates artificial gravity ( the rest of the ship does not have gravity ) they are tanks like the military would build them. - a long structure with turrets nailed on it. - one habitational module that is rotating - and thats it.

but babylon 5 also makes use of more anime like ships like for example - the shadow vessels



with their long spikes and a look that is much more descriptive than the the earth destroyers. - these things are not meant to reveal how they work. - you cannot see anything on that that makes sense - their only function is to LOOK a specific way... function is secondary.

so to me - anime is form over function.... and freelancer is mostly still - function over form.

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[Kazyumi]

I like it, though it kinda reminds me of the Rogue shipline more then anything, definately would fit in FL for me.. but that's just me.

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[Ash]

Very sexy.
Point made.

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[Etaphreven]

I like it, though it kinda reminds me of the Rogue shipline more then anything, definately would fit in FL for me.. but that's just me.

Now that you mentioned it, it -does- look quite similar to the Barghest. o_O