Spaceship design
Modular elements
I have been working on the requested tutorial about space, spaceships, and science-fiction. It’s time to post a quick status. These are just the first bits and pieces. Basically, the idea is similar to the guns and rifles tutorial. It’s breaking up the spaceships into smaller, easier to create elements to build a ‘spaceship construction kit’.
I put together the first ships from a limited set of ‘modules/ elements’.
Let me know what you think.
It sounds great. I just miss that I cannot identify the towers easily.
Awesome! :O
Perfect! Looking forward to this tutorial! The yellow ship on the left seems to have some light / shading effect on those tube parts. But I think they should not be just mirrored for the left and right side of the ship. The light/dark switch should be switched on either the left or right side.
Anyways, can't wait to learn how to create wings, hulls, turrets, cockpits, engines and weapons ;-)
Also looking forward to space nebulae, asteroids and planets and thanks for considering this sci-fi tutorial!
Great! I'm also looking forward to this tutorial!
Modularizing spaceships is a great idea.
I have some code without graphics waiting for this tutorial to bring it alive :)
Thanks for your great work!
Noel
Looks great already
cool :)
it would be great if you could make the uploaded images a bit bigger
was having problems with the diamond tut as well, because sometimes its hard to see the smaller details
Cool idea. I wanna see too a moonscape…
Will it be a big paid tutorial? hope so :)
its all in inkscape?
I will try and see how it goes with 1024px wide images… if I can remember it.
yes… it's going to be in inkscape like most of my tutorials.
Great tutorials on this site! Can we use them in our games freely?
I wil make some of the elements of the tutorials free for sure.
Thanks for deleting my comment Chris.
I am sorry, it must have been by mistake. I am travelling at the moment and just got my ipad with me. Let me see how i can restore it.
Those designs with the turrets reminds me of a space shooter game i had on my old sega genesis. When I first heard the spaceship idea, I was kinda thinking sideliner ships with a blockbuddy character inside. But that's just me :)
Any idea when this tutorial will be online?
Ive been hoping that you release a book containing all your awesome tutorials. I just bought the city skylne one the moment I saw it. I always thought that I would never be able to draw anything for my games, Im no artist now but I dont feel unable anymore.
THANKS from Mexico!
I'm looking forward to the tutorial!
Can you take a look at screenshots from Gratuitous Space Battles? (example: https://positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/content-img/full9.jpg) I know these sprites were done using different techniques. I wouldn't expect similar results with Inkscape (not even close) but the different types of colors, shapes of components adds a lot of depth, openness and complexity! Maybe it's possible to draw some inspiration from this. :)
I know the game very well [worked on it] and yes… I will include some shapes for more complex ships and also layer elements to add depth. The ships posted were the very first test. :)
I was away for a week but hope to find some time this weekend to finish up the free part of the tutorial and then start with the pdf for the more advanced parts.
Great! now I'm even more looking forward for the tutorial. :D
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how to contact you?
c(dot)hildenbrand(at)gmail(dot)com
Nothing new about the tutorial?
Hi blacky123… I am sorry… I have continued on the tutorial but then got flooded with work and am still in the office at the moment even though I should be hitting the road to make it to the holiday destination on time. I will put the tutorial on top of my todo list as soon as I am back from a week's vacation with the family (and will probably be rather eager to work again… :) )