New Spaceships

Really? I thought that was this one:

 

I'd say remodeled because, this looks like a better version of tier 1 honestly, it looks less.. bulky and more well.. easy on the eye.

 

If you compare it with the other, the other one has improved visuals, but the design is the same.

 

This earlier pic's washed out color scheme looks like a bad 1980s TV cartoon. I'm glad they changed it.

 

Speaking of the ship design itself, I think it's great, but has a bit too much graphics towards the aft. I think that a game like Starbound should maximize spaces which players can customize (such as the internal ship space where you can place your own background), and minimize spaces that are hard-coded and cannot be changed, because a dominance in unchangeable graphics would undermine player ability to visually customize their ship.

This criticism doesn't apply to separate layers like planet/space backgrounds, only to the same foreground that you are supposed to be able to mine/build/customize.

I'm also concerned that the existing graphics, especially the bridge structure at the top-back, makes it look too "luxurious", like a "space cruise ship" as opposed to a military, research, or utility vessel.

I made a small experiment reducing the backside of the ship graphics. The smaller of the below frames is my change, the bigger is the original:



Other graphical features, such as those protruding beams at the top-right of the ship on the ship's roof above the nav computer and fuel tank, could likewise be trimmed down IMO. They don't create a sense of utility value, but just feel like extraneous graphics.

(I'm not an expert pixel artist so there are definitely spots in my change where pixels look a bit weird, and the overall design could be fixed up to match the quality of the original. I'm just emphasizing reducing the size of the overall structure, especially the parts which players can't customize.

 

I took the ship parts off, for an overall better view the of the increased space that the new ship has.

 

The interiors are different (especially the lights) and there aren't thrusters on the bottom of the white one (although they could just be off.) The lights in the blue one compare to the old apex ship, whereas the lights in the white one compare to the lights in the old human ship.

I guess maybe the Apex realized that ugly wall sconces are for proles, not cosmonauts.

 

I love the new look. Does the lack of a back panel on that one image mean it's going to be modular, or customizable somehow?

 

That door animation...

 

Honestly, I hate it...

I liked the old ones sooo much. This just looks chaotic and awful.

 

heh, , i love the new ones, and find the old ones kinda meh. and bland.

cant say i see the chaotic part your mentioning.

 

Have to say, I like that with this one there is a CLEAR indicator that "This is Storage, it has a lock on it."

 

I kinda preferred the older design myself. I love the radar dome.

 

Being able to move everything around would be good. Although not sure why people are worried about the transporter pad placement.
No matter where it goes, eventually everyone is just going to use the hud teleport button instead.

 

Engine space, yo.

 

The old ones were very clean and simple. This one looks like a Kindergartner drew a bunch of jagged lines and then turned it into a spaceship.

 

Personally, I LOVE this new ship design. Some of the old ones were kinda sorta fun, others left me cold, but this design looks really well fleshed out and unique. The various components on the ship (the locker/computer/etc) look much better than the old ones, and the hull is bright and well defined.

I really like it, and I'm hoping they continue in this direction.

 

And just a little while ago Tiy posted the new Hylotl ship:

 

This ship looks amazing, I am really looking forward to the glitch ship and turn into a flying fortress