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I recently picked up weapon spriting, so thought I'd show some of my work with you:

This was my first attempt at spriting, so feedback is appreciated. P.S this was not spliced, I just made it by scratch.

I really need to finish this, but I'm way to lazy. Here's the progress I've made on the Ion Cannon in my attempt to delay the inevitable.



I'm just realizing how much of a nightmare the shading is going to be. I need some feedback on the solar panels and the radar disk thingy though, I'm really bad with perspectives.

WhiteWeasel wrote:

Better, but the glows around the 1x2 pixel bits are still barely visible.

SciGuy303 wrote:

One again it looks really good, but the glowing effects could be improved.

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SciGuy303 wrote:I recently picked up weapon spriting, so thought I'd show some of my work with you:

This was my first attempt at spriting, so feedback is appreciated. P.S this was not spliced, I just made it by scratch.

I really like the shape of that weapon. What program did you make it in? That white background won't do if you plan to animate it.

Chrono Vortex wrote: Better, but the glows around the 1x2 pixel bits are still barely visible.

I see, all the lights on a beam should emit a glow effect, I'll fix that. Here you go:

WhiteWeasel wrote:

SciGuy303 wrote:I recently picked up weapon spriting, so thought I'd show some of my work with you:

This was my first attempt at spriting, so feedback is appreciated. P.S this was not spliced, I just made it by scratch.

I really like the shape of that weapon. What program did you make it in? That white background won't do if you plan to animate it.

I made it in GIMP. Also I know about the white background and I'll fix that soon.

I've got all the primary bits for the Ion Cannon pretty much finished.



Now I just have to throw on some more detail, do some shading and add shadows. Easier said than done...

Ok guys, here's my first take on missile weapons. Though to be honest, I stole the "lip" on the end of the missile tubes from captains edition.
EDIT: Here's a more detailed launcher.

Chrono Vortex wrote:I've got all the primary bits for the Ion Cannon pretty much finished.
Now I just have to throw on some more detail, do some shading and add shadows. Easier said than done...

Awesome satellite, as for shading, have you picked a direction for your imaginary light source to be yet?

That ion cannon is coming along nicely.
I recommend you look at A Strange New Galaxy though. There's a Space Station/Satellite ship with no weapons you can draw inspiration from (Or ask Metzelmax if you can outright copy it and modify it )

Stations and solar panels were meant to be in the vanilla game at one point.

WhiteWeasel wrote:Have you picked a direction for your imaginary light source to be yet?

Naturally it'll be in the top left corner as it is for everything which appears in the target box.

stylesrj wrote:I recommend you look at A Strange New Galaxy though.

I appreciate the suggestion, but I already have a pretty good idea of what I want.

I did mention the the Ion Cannon is going to be like a mini boss and not a player ship, right? I'm also thinking of making an entire C&C (probably primarily Tiberian Sun) themed sector to put it in eventually, but first I have to make space Orcas and Nod stealth ships and all that good stuff.