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Offline I-KP

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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2014, 01:14:41 pm »


Evuck Herald added and touched up the Acutian Executor a bit.
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2014, 01:17:34 pm »
These are looking pretty great.

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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2014, 01:19:08 pm »
Can't wait to see those in-game :D.
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #18 on: May 10, 2014, 02:34:09 pm »
Wow, they're really awesome.  :o

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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2014, 02:35:24 pm »


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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #20 on: May 12, 2014, 11:01:55 am »
Lol @ Peltian no-nonsense ship plating. They're totally not into fins.

EDIT: W.r.t. suggestions thread about whether to make them available under GPL, what are your intentions about modding?
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #21 on: May 12, 2014, 11:57:07 am »
Peltians aren't really all that into 'edges' and 'pointy' bits.  Given that their ships are only good as flying bombs I expect they'd need to be pretty easy to build en masse, almost sheet metal press kind of easy to build.  ;)

The intent was to make a gfx mod that players could use if they choose to, and if Chris is okay with that.  A decision will be made when there's a full set to consider.  (Only a couple left to do, and these all include the ancillary stuff like shadows, mode overlays, lightspeed etc., which aren't shown in the samples.)
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #22 on: May 12, 2014, 06:58:40 pm »
I'm sure that Chris will have no qualms with you releasing a texture pack. After all, there is a folder in the game specifically for them, and AI War had a number of cool things that were released.
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #23 on: May 13, 2014, 11:49:11 am »
I registered just to say that this topic and ships are beautifull, and I would dearly love to see them in game!

Please Arcen, make it happen!!!

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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #24 on: May 14, 2014, 12:14:26 pm »
If these are popular and I-KP has no issue with it, I'm fine with introducing these into the game as an official replacement, not just doing them as a texture pack.  But of course texture packs of any sort are perfectly fine with us, too!
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #25 on: May 14, 2014, 12:16:17 pm »
If these are popular and I-KP has no issue with it, I'm fine with introducing these into the game as an official replacement, not just doing them as a texture pack.  But of course texture packs of any sort are perfectly fine with us, too!

Wohoo! :D

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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #27 on: May 14, 2014, 01:15:40 pm »
If these are popular and I-KP has no issue with it, I'm fine with introducing these into the game as an official replacement, not just doing them as a texture pack.  But of course texture packs of any sort are perfectly fine with us, too!

And that's why so many people see Arcen as the best example of dev-player interaction :)

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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #28 on: May 14, 2014, 02:16:40 pm »
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Re: Custom Ship Art Pack - What Do I Need To Know?
« Reply #29 on: May 14, 2014, 02:38:04 pm »


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