Excellent work!

[Guest]

Hi, new here, must say excellent work.

This is pretty much the game I've been waiting for. Can't wait to see the finished product. I'll try my hand at coming up with some vessels, but I can't guarante they'll be any good

[etheral walker]

not really hard with wings, I promise you just let speak your imagination.
What sort of ships are you thinking about?

[Guest]

not really hard with wings, I promise you just let speak your imagination.
What sort of ships are you thinking about?

Cargo, mostly. I'm trying to get the hang of wings as we speak. I'm putting it on my laptop so I can take it with me to work so I can use it in my off hours. I'm coming up with a pretty basic design right now. Texturizing should be interesting, though. /me wonders what he'll need for that.

[etheral walker]

great great great
waiting for your meshes

[Spanner]

It'll be awhile, I'm going to be away for a month atleast, hence the laptop.
The first one's looking kinda boxy, but I figure that's the way they would look. I wonder if I could redo the Merc. cruiser from Traveller. That would be cool.

[enlightenment]

Texturizing should be interesting, though. /me wonders what he'll need for that.

Photoshop and/or Painter if you have a few hundred dollars to burn. The GIMP if you want/need to do this on the cheap.

[Spanner]

Photoshop and/or Painter if you have a few hundred dollars to burn. The GIMP if you want/need to do this on the cheap.

Does the version of Photoshop matter? I've got an older one around here, I think it was 5.0 LE. If not I'll go with the GIMP, I don't really feel like shelling out $200 right now

[enlightenment]

Does the version of Photoshop matter?

Any of the full releases are good enough if all you're doing is painting a few textures. Depending on how you'd rather work, however, demoware versions ('LE') might be a problem depending on what features were left out.

[Linknoid]

I should just point this out: Adobe also makes a "consumer" version of Photoshop, called Photoshop Elements. Instead of spending $500 on the full version, it only runs between $70 and $100. I was running a (oh no!) pirated version of Photoshop 5.0 for a while because there was no way I was going to shell out $500 for any piece of software, especially one I barely ever use. Then someone pointed out Photoshop Elements, which has basically all the features of Photoshop except the ones that only a professional graphic designer would need (I think stuff related to other color spaces like CMYK and other prepress related stuff). And in fact, this version of Photoshop Elements is more featureful than the old Photoshop 5.0 that I was using, plus it's a legal copy I don't think most people are aware of Photoshop Elements, but I think it's a great deal. I guess if you can understand the GIMP, you might want to use that since it's free, but I spent about 3 hours with the GIMP and still have no clue how it works.

[enlightenment]

There's also an educational edition of Photoshop that's fully functional but costs considerably less. This version is avilable to anyone involved in education, both students and teachers/professors/faculty.

[Tovi]

Uw, there's no multiplayer mod.
There ar hundred games like this since Elite.
And I got azerty keybord (and no numerics).
No time to loose with that game...

[Duality]

I use corel photo paint for skinning my ships....
Hay I'm a total fond of 3d space flight sims..