Additional artwork for the Galactic Empires era ground units

[Rbuck]

Greetings fellow artists,
this art is for inclusion in the Galactic Empires mod by Bob_the_Mighty.
But before I have it added, I would appreciate bugs in the artwork brought to light.
Constructive criticism is welcome.

[Flameslash]

I couldn't tell the difference at first. Maybe you could redesign one of them slightly? A different cockpit or a 'fin' might be enough.

[Blarumyrran]

Is it meant to be asymmetric? It would look better if there was the same gun/wing box on both sides of the cockpit; and then the gun/wing box on the obscured side should be at least slightly visible.

The ducking pilot is very cool!

The shadow is not compliant with standard wesnoth shadows in shape (a standard wesnoth shadow has no "edges") & color.

If the blue oval under the ship is meant to be magic scifi fire coming out of a downwards-directed engine, then it should probably be at least slightly animated; if it's still then it might be confused for some glass bulb.

[Rbuck]

Flameslash wrote:
I couldn't tell the difference at first.

That is because I based the missile boat off the mech. I could redo the missile boat, once I get a better idea for the missile launchers.

Blarumyrran wrote:
Is it meant to be asymmetric?

At first, no, but when I drew the chassis for the mech I noticed that the left-side gun box would only protrude past the cockpit a pixel or two; I decided to leave that part out. I might draw the missile boat facing a little more towards the observer, enough to see that it has one launcher on each side.

Blarumyrran wrote:
The ducking pilot is very cool!

I didn't draw him. In fact, I borrowed the whole cockpit from the Servicer unit sprite, which Bob_the_Mighty took from Spacenoth.

Blarumyrran wrote:
The shadow is not compliant with standard wesnoth shadows in shape (a standard wesnoth shadow has no "edges") & color.

If the blue oval under the ship is meant to be magic scifi fire coming out of a downwards-directed engine, then it should probably be at least slightly animated; if it's still then it might be confused for some glass bulb.

The shadow should fade, then.
The blue oval is rocket exhaust (which, oddly enough, is its only melee weapon). I'll get on it.

[Rbuck]

A couple of anims for the Mech unit:

[Rbuck]

Here are two different missile boats, but I cannot decide which is really the better.
Please give me feedback on them and on which one you think is better.
If everyone likes the Speeder-like one, I will cannibalize the actual Speeder image.

[Mr_Kipula]

Hello friends. Well, I thought to make a science fiction themed addon. Unfortunately I have too many projects I (and overworked) but very little time to devote to this. I do not know if in the future I will use these ideas, but if here are good for something, I'll be glad someone to use.

[Rbuck]

Mr_Kipula, thank you so much for that sprite pack. I don't think I can use them all, but I am positive that some of them will be extremely useful. Those walkers, for example; before I decided to make those Terran units hovering, I tried to make them more like the scifi "mech", with legs (the first one, with laser and cannon, still bears the name). However, there are several legged vehicles in your sprite set, which will come in handy.

Btw, I haven't heard much about the Galactic Empires mod recently. Does anyone know what has become of it?

[Mr_Kipula]

Well, my friend. These sprites are not to be used as an obligation. It's just a job that has already been done, and it is always better than someone uses part of it, before they are dead. Glad you like, feel free to use whatever you want (all, part, or none). Also, maybe you can interest in one specific detail, and not the entire model. No problem, you can add, remove, edit, or just copy small details to add to your models. Again, feel free.

Regarding galactic empires, well, I am running the game in 1.10 version (this is the version available from ubuntu software center), and the addon is not working properly. It seems to contain several errors in compatibility with this version of the game. Perhaps the original authors should update the package.

[Rbuck]

I suppose that this isn't the place for it, but it's the only Galactic Empires forum currently active. Even though Galactic Empires is already complex enough.

I was thinking that, for 1.10 somebody might make a lvl2 worker unit, e.g. for Terrans, a bulldozer; for Vendeeni, a cyborg laborer on some kind of infernal machine; and for Iildari, an even bigger robot (Dwarthans not being operative, I left them out. Besides I can't think of anything they might have.)
These new units would have the ability to terraform a planet, like in ANL.

I thought of it when I read the old Galactic Empires thread where Bob_the_Mighty said that it was part ANL. In addition, who ever heard of a race that could travel the stars but was unable to change their planets to their liking?

[Dragonchampion]

Huh... glad to see someone using the old scifi sprites. If anyone's interested I can supply the ones I tweaked for The War of Terrador. Don't have much time for it anymore, unfortunately...

[Mr_Kipula]

Hello again!
I know that maybe this is not the right place, but I have not been able to resist comment. Dragonchampion, you are the author of "The war of Terrador"?! It was one of my favorite addons ... unfortunately does not work in BfW 1.10 ... I do not know how can update it (I just do cartoons ...), nothing can be done about it?

[Rbuck]

After a long period of labor (and a much longer period of other things) I present another contestant for the Rocketman to advance to - the Missile Walker.
I made most of it from one of the walker sprites which Mr_Kipula donated, so thank him for the good parts & blame me for the bad.
Please post your opinions of these different units-to-be, so I can decide which one to use.