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Cykur -> RE: Diverse Worlds v19 - Shandar (3/3/2011 12:26:32 AM)
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Woodman, I love these shipsets and wanted to express my appreciation at all the hard work you put into them. I've used many of them in my custom games because I hate it when races have the same shipset, so I was really happy when I found these.
I wanted to give a bit of feedback, because I think there is a ton of detail in these shipsets and you've obviously put many, many hours of work into them. At the scale we see ships in Distant Worlds, I think a lot of the detail is lost and many of the shipsets end up looking kind of monochrome and bland. With a little more contrasting colors or highlights, I think it would really help some of the ships pop and the detail to show up when viewing the shipsets in game.
For example, your Teekan and Gizurean shipsets are great because the colors pop. Mortalen is also great because of contrast between the light and very dark -- it also really works as the ship you would see these guys flying. Securan and Ackdarian work very well too -- Securan is kind of the opposite of Mortalen, with the dark highlights contrasting with the very light metallic ships giving them definition.
Shipsets like the Boskara, Ugnari, Sluken, Kiaden, Human need the colors to pop a bit more so they don't end up looking so bland. There is a ton of detail in these models that just doesn't come through as well as it could if the colors were a little brighter and more contrasty, or they had little highlights like a racial colored running light, etc. With a bit of unique color swatches or brighter running lights, I think it will do a lot to make these racial models distinct when they get crushed down to the scale of DW.
Again, these are all great models, and I really appreciate you making them available to the community. I just wanted to provide some feedback since you obviously will be continuing to do this kind of thing.
Best,
Cykur
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