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STICKY: SHOW OFF your cool ship designs

STICKY: SHOW OFF your cool ship designs

What have you made?

Have you made some cool ships? Show others what you've managed to make!

Here's a robot shp that Synthetic Orange pointed me to:

Show off your designs here!

BTW, if you're having trouble hosting your pictures, the Library here allows for screenshots to be uploaded.

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Reply #26 Top
Sensor ship - Blackbird



Constructor - Catepillar


Small Fighter - Intruder


Huge Capital Ship - Battlestar




Colony Ship - Mayflower


Medium Hull - Valkyre



Post some smaller ships too, not just the monsterous ones
Reply #27 Top
NOTE TO DEVS: I can't edit my first post on the page, it keeps giving me an error, i was trying to update the image locations, as they have changed, but it appears i can't. Please either delete that post or cut and paste the content of this post to my previous (1st) post. THANX!

Colony Ship




Freighter




My ode to Star Trek, The Firefly Corvette




Hawkeye Fighter




Monsoon Class Cruiser





My ode to Babylon 5, Omega Class Destroyer





Redemption Class Heavy Cruiser






Tempest Class Destroyer






Catalyst Class Battlecruiser






Emancipation Class Battleship





And the bad boy, Vindication Class Dreadnaught



Reply #28 Top
*Sigh* These designs are all beautiful. In fact, I've not even been able to play this game for the last couple of days after seeing the designs some people are capable of. It breaks my heart to see my own ineptitude showcased so clearly.
Reply #30 Top
Small request. Please scale down your image size or link to the images.
A width of around 550 or 600 would be nice.
Reply #31 Top
For some reason I cannot edit my above posting so here are some more screenshots of my Small Ship Hull design (Gladius)







Reply #32 Top
GAH BANDWIDTH AGAIN! is there a good image hosting site out there? appearently i keep running out of bandwidth
Reply #33 Top
google> Imageshack
Reply #34 Top
Respectively, Imageshack and a long listing of free image hosts, sortable.

If you dig around, some support galleries, if you're interested, and there are varying Terms of Services if Imageshack doesn't fit the bill.

http://www.imageshack.us
http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-image-hosting.php

Oh, and I want that Gladius.

If I want to make a cool ship, does it have to be in gunmetal grey? It certainly seems to help, though that may just be me.
Reply #35 Top
VagaBlade, that Gladius is very nice. Is it naturally that nice?
Do you have custom textures, graphics tweaks, or do I just need to update my ATI 9600 graphics card to get things looking that nice even in the designer screen?
Reply #36 Top
Here are my older ones. I'm working on newer ones, now.

Lance:


Explorer:


Pioneer:


Worker:


Battleship:


Dreadnaught:
Reply #37 Top
Bovine Cannibal ...Nahh nothing special used...just took a little time...what really sucks is that I thought I had updated the game to 1.0X...well come to find out the patch did not take for one reason or another and I was still using 1.0D...so when I re-patched it to 1.0X..guess what...no Gladius...

So now I have to start from scratch...oh well it was so much fun the first time
Reply #38 Top
Vaga - use the savegame trick. If you had savegames with that ship in them prior to the update, load up the savegame and the custom will be rebuilt for you.
Reply #39 Top
Just a couple from my latest game. Both made using my mod, as you can see the first has no base hull at all (built entirely from jewelry) and the second has a Large or Huge model used as a Cargo, with other hulls strapped on as jewelry.

Snathi SenSphere-class Intel Drone



Snathi "Pouches"-class Colony Transport


Reply #42 Top
Mechan9 there is such a place. look in the metaverse. unfortunitly there are very few uploaded so far, hence my previous post
Reply #43 Top
Here we go... all screenshots are of the unequipped base hull

Swallow class Scout
For when you need to explore early on in the game.


Albatross class A.W.A.C.S. ship
I generally outfit these with survey mods in midgame when there's still a chance of anomalies, but i drop it for more engines late in the game. I like my sensor shis to be FAST.


Kingfisher class Fighter
Cheap & cheerful firepower


Sparrowhawk class Frigate
Tha mainstay of my attack or interdiction fleets


Roc class Defence Frigate
No engines, no sensors, no life support. Designed to spend its entire time orbiting a planet... basically just a weapon & defense platform... shame cause its so purdy ^^


Eagle class Cruiser
I was looking for a peaceful, relaxing design that would put my neighbours at ease and convince them once and for all i have no interest in bloodshed... thus, the Eagle was born. I think it satisfies its design brief wonderfully, dont you?


Lammergeier class Blatteship
The galactic neighbours werent convinced by the Eagle, so i designed this to do some real hard convincing. Make 'em terminally convinced, so to say.


Simurg class Dreadnought
Also known as "Doom Wagon" and "Fleet-in-a-Can". I've taken out multiple empires with just one fleet of 4-5 of these babies, never taking a single loss...
Reply #44 Top
Hey all, first post, although I've been lurking. Quick question, is there a screenshot repository (location where the game saves your screenshots) I've been missing, or do I have to manually PRNTSCRN, exit, paste, and upload.

I've got some designs I'd like to share, just have no clue where the directory is.
Reply #45 Top
I would like to know the above question as well...

Additionally, I would like to know how you all got those great shots of your ships. I have this hornet class colony ship I want to share, but can't do it well because the view thing cuts off my ship's design when editing it, since its centered on such a low reference point. And if I zoom out, it loses so much quality.
Reply #46 Top
Raziaar, I've noticed it's far easier to get a good angle while in battle mode, especially for the ultra-large ships. Plus, if you don't mind equipping them, you can get some nice action shots in while you're at it (I generally don't like equipping them since it sometimes ruins/changes the design...but only sometimes
Reply #47 Top
just fresh from my new game lol..

a destroyer and a cruiser side by side.

You can see they share a lot of parts.. lol I like to design my ships along the same overall lineage so it feels more like they belong in the same civ... XD



Reply #48 Top
A pair of Diaspora class corvettes engage a lone raider along the Sol-Altros trade route.



Reply #49 Top
Wow, thats pretty sweet Lohengram... are you using the any hull mod? I dont quite get how you managed to connect the fin under the main hull that way.. but ive only played like 3 games... care to share some tips?