The ship designer is out now in the the alpha 2.0 patch, so when have a that ship designed feel free to post it here and so others can see what kind of cool things you can build with it.
Your ships are looking awesome as usual Rand!! Love em! Also like the Trek civ you made!!
Nastytang and I collaborated on my Civs graphics but the art work is his. He does some great work. If your looking to have your own custom race I highly recommend his art work!
Here is my most recent design.
STO's Vesta Class, GC3 version.
In Game
Comments always welcome!
Very, very nice!!
My newest huge hull
I like that Edladner...reminds me of a star destroyer in a way, as the bridge sits high up!! Great job!
I agree with jmccrea - that has a nice overall shape, though I particularly like the front end--it's interesting.
I haven't posted anything new in a while 1) because I've been swamped with work, 2) my wife and I have a newborn son and I'm a stay-at-home-dad (who is now swamped with work and diaper duty (and play time)) and 3) I'm now waiting to see what kind of curved pieces the new races have in Beta 5. I've been making some... well, you can describe it how you'd like. I wasn't entirely happy with the way I made curved sections of my curved ships...
Here is a preview of an unfinished redesign of one of those ships. I will be finishing this and the others in the set (as well as adding smaller ships and maybe some variants) once Beta 5 is out and I have time to check out new pieces. That also means all my ships will be in a different shade of awesome (rather than blue & white). Love to know what you think...
Also, I am curious of what other designers think about the component tray on the bottom of the designer. I would love a couple parts-management improvements, such as 1) the ability to rearrange where parts are in the tray to make grouping more intuitive, 2) faster scrolling and/or 3) a resizable boundary to display more than one row at a time (collapsible). That would make organizing and adjusting parts much easier.
ConGratz to you and your wife Trumpeter!................
Thanks Nastytang! Being a dad is 100% awesomeness. Nothing beats having my son look up at me and smile, except of course when he looks up at me smiles and giggles.
I second that!!!! Congrats!!! Now your next objective is learning to change a diaper in 20 seconds or less...
heheheh
Welcome to the USS Fatherhood! Its a great assignment!! One of the best! When you see that smile its amazing. Its also so neat, because of how your world changes...dont be sad about handing in your "man" card, because the "Dad" card is more awesome in everyway! I know with my little girl, who will be 3 in October, I wouldnt give in my Dad card for anything!! Grats buddy!
Well ain't that typical. My son has been stealing the show for the past three months (quite deservedly, I might add), and even here, I make a post and the only attention it gets is my son... Thanks everyone for the kind words. I feel exceptionally privileged to be a freelancer who works from home and can care for my son.
I am interested, though, if any of the designer-types here have any opinions/issues with the component tray at the bottom of the designer...
Just curious Rand, with the new patch none of your ships are showing up now. I have them in Designs folder as you told me to do before. Did something change and I need to put them somewhere else now?
I have a major issue with Hyperion shrinker. logistics and supply buildings. None of my custom ships I equipped and armed will show up in any new game in the ship designer or shipyards menu's until all three are built again and only as long as they are built next to each other. Other testers say its because I armed them in my previous game after I built the Hyperion structures. MY issue is that even if there are no Hyperion improvements built my ships should still show up listed in designer and shipyards as grayed out and unavailable but they do not even appear on the menu's until all Hyperion structures are completed. Dev's have not chimed in yet to address my issue even though I have reported this 3 times.
I think a contributing issue is the ship upgrade duplication bug. The ships list get so full there is no where for my ships to appear on the list I have to set menu's to USER just to see all my custom ships. I have yet to test Beta 5 to see if it's been fixed yet. I am also praying that beta five did not break all my custom ship designs.
I have not checked all my ships but in a short game i played some showed up correctly. And a number of customs ship which i should not have been able to see also showed up (with current mass larger than the maximum allowed mass) for my current tech and miniaturization level.
However ALL my custom ship classes (as defined in a custom XML) fail - XML errors during game start up. SD seems to have changed the XML structure for this. More than 50 ship classes down the drain.
Ugh...I hope this isnt true...i love having my custom race and was so looking forward to those ships...oh well. I can wait til you check on it and ill hope for the best!
My latest ship and an oldie in new colors
Hey folks. So I've been fiddling around with the ship designer and finally decided to submit something. I had a look through the last few pages of designs and decided to go for something...fairly ambitious and probably over the top. Still, a few rough edges aside, I'm pretty happy with the end result.
So, here's my Galcivified Kadesh Mothership from Homeworld. Thoughts?
http://i.imgur.com/aZlwRgn.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xAfnjVy.jpg
Boli_Delish I really like the looks.
Thanks! I wound up cracking open the designer again today and fixed up the front, which was a bit messy for my liking:
http://i.imgur.com/2v5xg58.jpg
This then inspired me to work on a freighter design, so I wound up with this:
http://i.imgur.com/yyalrmD.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/YKerDY1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/NF7Vi6E.jpg
Haven't really had a chance to make anything new yet with Beta 5, so I've been playing with the ship colour themes. Here is my missile cruise with I think Inverted Steel as the theme. Really liking it. Lights might be a bit too bright...not sure if one of the options can adjust that or not.
I remember Paul talking about giving us the ability to paint ship parts in the designer. I find it hard to believe that it is a viable option with the current planned release date, but maybe as a compromise they could try to hook up the themes into the designer so you could customise individual designs that way. Not sure if anyone else would be interested in that though.
Sisko That Ship Is Awesome!!
Rand...have you found out anything yet? Would setting the ships to User make them show up so i can use them? Where would I do that? So want to use your ships, but i have no clue what to do.
The issue was indeed fixed. All my ships show up now, shinker or not.
I am going to put a zip file together. All you need to do is open it and copy or move ship design files to your designs folder in C:/mydocumets/mygames/GalCiv3/designs.
Open and load game, ships should all appear in ship designer and shipyards.
The issue was indeed fixed. All my ships show up now, shinker or not. I am going to put a zip file together. All you need to do is open it and copy or move ship design files to your designs folder in C:/mydocuments/mygames/GalCiv3/designs.Open and load game, ships should all appear in ship designer and shipyards.
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