I'm already in the progress of modding this in. In fact, I COULD release it now, since it has all the basics. But since I've only completed two tiers of equips, I feel like it wont equate to much. I'll need to get at least 3 more tiers done in order to release an extremely small beta.
This is Brilliantly done, love the set out, its extremely well done and thought out and you can tell a lot of effort has gone into this post/suggestion, I look forward to possible implementation, keep up the good work
Thought I'd post something to notify that this isn't dead. I'm currently working on implementing the furniture and blocks for the mod. Currently finished with Swift Steel, working on Neo Iron. Once this is finished I'll be able to start making generated dungeons/villages. As for equips, expect to see up to tier 4 as soon as the first version of the mod is released.
I don't have much of the assets colored that intensely, the ones that are would either be light sources or things that are generally bright. However, stumbling into a cave when mining crimzon would probably be an eyesore, so I'll do something about that when I get to the underground.
I dunno, I think being really really colorful is kinda neat. Though since not everyone will think that way, it might be a good idea to have a colorful skin tone and a muted one. That may work nicely.
I don't know if he was referring to the scale color or the color of some of the furniture. In regard to scale color, there are duller colors than that red.
Is it me or are like the drales look a tiny bit to cartoony? I mean don't get me wrong the sprites are amazing but look at them in comparison to the other races. They are a tiny bit, cartoonish can you make them look more like... Feirce dragons? Or like a awesome scaly reptile that's gunna messssss u up if you messss with it.
They aren't fierce dragons though. They are a scavenging race of Reptiles that use crystals for power. Also, after this much being put into it, I doubt he will wish to change the sprites. they look amazing as it is. Just look at it as a black dragon with red eyes. This is as fierce as it gets.
Yes I got your point there. But look at the art at the top of the post. That looks awesome and a bit different compared to the sprites. (don't get me wrong that pixel art is awesome) Also if you look at the other races they look a bit more "fierce" then these guys. (but again don't get me wrong this is a awesome race that should be in starbound) I just think their model should have a bit more "shading"? I don't know but any way to make them look a bit more like the dominant species on their planet. Maybe bigger horns? Spined backs/tail? The black with red eyes is pretty much as fierce as it gets right now. P.S. like dargona said their scavenging race of reptiles that use crystals for power. So maybe have some where like they have crystals sprouting out of them or something?
since their respawn animation shows them being born/evolved by crystals. Maybe make them crystal reptile hybrids?
That was something made by Dragonith a while before we all decided to have wings be something possibly added in armor. This whole idea has been going on for over a year, so things have changed. Please read the lore and and everything on races before blindly commenting on things that will be answered if you take ten minutes and read. This is because they were little lizards (basilisks) in the beginning, living in caves where the only light and food source was crystals. The respawn animation, not unlike the official ones, show them at the beginning (egg/chicks in Avian), then something happening (growing larger in Avians) and then their form as of now (full-grown Avian). This has done the same thing. Basilisk -> Change from crystals and evolution -> Full-grown Drale.
I'm kind of nitpicking by addressing just this part of your post but I'd like to point out that You get all these options to look tougher or fiercer in character customization. These Drale look quite a bit tougher than human beings, yet we're the dominant species on Earth. I guess that's kind of subjective, though, depending on what you think about Earth and what you think about the Drale's planet of origin. The question is; changes to what?
Considering that the default races have ( ._.) and ( 0-0) faces, (Or eyes at least) I'd say they're pretty "cartoonish" as well. The amount of "shading" is pretty much the same as the default races as well. (4 shades of 2 colors.) As for intimidation, their intelligence makes up for their lack of scary facial features. On another note, Drale aren't true predators of their planet-If the Rogue Robots they faced actually consumed flesh, they would be considered to be. Otherwise, Drale would deal with giant bugs as predators. They are the "dominant species, seeing as they're some of the only sentient beings there.
The problem is that for gear to make sense and for the engine to deal with them properly, they have to have the same silhouette as existing races, adding spiky bits is made much more difficult as such. I also think that it would be difficult to add more shades to the sprites, as those are handled in a different way than you'd expect.
