Alternate original seven faction mod

[Dio]

Quick spray on job to add some depth. I hope this helps.

[Buster's Uncle]

Probably a little too edge-on, but it's hard to get that just right with the curve of small circles.

[Dio]

Probably a little too edge-on, but it's hard to get that just right with the curve of small circles.

Do you mean the domes are too symmetrical ?!?!?!?!?

[Buster's Uncle]

No.

[Dio]

Does anyone know how to make curved cylinders on a 2-d surface? Is that even possible without visual trickery?

[Dio]

I am leaning towards it being visual trickery.

[JarlWolf]

It is possible to do a dome, you just got to shade it right, if you need help creating it let me know. In the current moment I will be completely honest and admit I am recovering from a bit of a hangover so teaching/explaining it is out of the question (for now), but I can see if I can help you.

[Dio]

How does this look so far?

[JarlWolf]

Shift the central line a little to the right, and for the top portion of the line, straighten it out. The hook bit. It's only about 5-6 pixels it seems, but if you do that you should get the angle right.


The most important thing on how to make domes is primarily shading to make it appear to have circumfrence. Domes are just half spheres, is a good way to think of them, so if you can shade a sphere, you can make a dome. Just shade a sphere, and then cut the bottom off of it with a C shaped slice or so, or basically a ) but have it on it's side, like this --- as opposed to I
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[Dio]

How does this look so far?

[Dio]

Update.

[ariete]

  it seems cool

[Dio]

If you thought the previous version was cool, what about this?

[ariete]

more cool.
domes are well done reflection of light.
remember in game you've 256 colours and i've seen certain shades of color change grouped into a unique color, and the shades of grey can tend to become too light.

for what i saw, your work is singular with a own graphic concept. i'm curious to see in game how looks (i know you're working on it)

[Dio]

After numerous tries, I have decided to put off the coloring until the very last step in my base creation process. Also, it is a lot harder than it looks to get the colors right...