[starfox]

That's what I like to see it too, ovals to the top engines, circles on the smaller ones...

[Corhellion]

Eck...circles...is...no...good...

Ovals all the way 

Detailing is coming along very very noicely!

[knn]

I wanted to make all six engines the same, it's a single array and IMHO they should be identical. I'll try a few more combinations tomorrow.

[G613]

I don't know the nature of the array you speak of (I'm new to FS2 modding) but couldn't you make two arrays, one for the top oval ones, and one for the bottom cricler one?

[WMCoolmon]

I've never liked the ovals, they look too much like stretched textures to me...

[Corhellion]

...In my opinion it should look like the textures...that's how V wanted it to look like.

Otherwise they would've given the Iceni rounded engines, but they prefered the oval ones. So there.

...either that or just do both...have one version with round engines and have one with oval engines...shouldn't be too much trouble...and it'd appease the masses.

[Gregster2k]

What if you make that entire upside-down-U shape that holds the top four [V]-stretched-texture engines ONE HUGE ENGINE EXHAUST? Just a thought. Might look visually cool to have one huge-arse engine trail streaming in a cone from there.

Yes, I've played Homeworld 2. (Yeah, that was sorta what gave me the idea.) (Yeah, I'm nuts.) (I still want to see something like this tried though.)

 

If not that though, I agree, leave it as [V] had it --- oval-shaped. Just dicker with the sizes of the ovals a bit if necessary.

[knn]

Just to avoid confusion, the "bottom" two engines are not the ones on the pods below the entire ship, they're the bottom two of the 6 top ones

Yes, I've played Homeworld 2. (Yeah, that was sorta what gave me the idea.) (Yeah, I'm nuts.) (I still want to see something like this tried though.)

Me too, but I didn't notice those. Which ship is it?

I don't know the nature of the array you speak of (I'm new to FS2 modding) but couldn't you make two arrays, one for the top oval ones, and one for the bottom cricler one?

It's not a technical thing or problem, it's just a visual thing.

...In my opinion it should look like the textures...that's how V wanted it to look like.

Otherwise they would've given the Iceni rounded engines, but they prefered the oval ones. So there.

...either that or just do both...have one version with round engines and have one with oval engines...shouldn't be too much trouble...and it'd appease the masses.

IMO you're right and wrong. They could've given it 8 small circular engines plus 2 bigger circular ones on the top, that wouldn't have been a problem (except maybe they wanted to keep the number of thrusters down, to increase performance). However, they couldn't make the two bottom engines exactly the  same, because they used a tile texture, and there'd be 1.5 engines on both sides, so they had to make them wider.

[Herra Tohtori]

Hmmh, why don't you make it something like this:



Sorry, it's drawn with paint and in quite a little time... Let me explain it a bit further:

It's basically a circular engine sunk into a diagonal  hole on the surface: that way the thrust will actually point backwards and the ship moves forwards - PLUS it will be circular when viewed from behind.

That would be the way I'd do it... Actually, should there be any resemblance to real life physics, it'd be the ONLY way to fit a thruster onto a diagonal surface. But as we know, real life physics don't apply very well in FS universe.

I'll make a better drawing if you have trouble interpreting that daub of a picture I made...

[knn]

Hmmh, why don't you make it something like this:



Sorry, it's drawn with paint and in quite a little time... Let me explain it a bit further:

It's basically a circular engine sunk into a diagonal  hole on the surface: that way the thrust will actually point backwards and the ship moves forwards - PLUS it will be circular when viewed from behind.

That would be the way I'd do it... Actually, should there be any resemblance to real life physics, it'd be the ONLY way to fit a thruster onto a diagonal surface. But as we know, real life physics don't apply very well in FS universe.

I'll make a better drawing if you have trouble interpreting that daub of a picture I made...

I understand, thanks. It's a good idea, but the problem is that it still looks circular from behind. If I do make it circular, this'll be the way (and I may actually try this for every thruster, so thanks for the idea).

[MetalDestroyer]

Why don't you make the engine like the first post ? I think it's better than the circular thing.

I mean this :
http://tinypic.com/4tvnya

[knn]

Why don't you make the engine like the first post ? I think it's better than the circular thing.

I mean this :
http://tinypic.com/4tvnya

The central two oval engines were too small because there wasn't enough place.

[knn]

OK, how about this:



They're not completely circular, but not very oval either

[BlackDove]

YOU KILLED IT. YOU ****ING KILLED IT!!!!!!!


I really don't care to be honest, just make the thing look cool from the front and the sides, you can't see the engines anyway with the insane thruster glows these days.

[WeatherOp]

I say just leave e'm oval, the texture is oval, so it's not stretched.

[knn]

YOU KILLED IT. YOU ****ING KILLED IT!!!!!!!


I really don't care to be honest, just make the thing look cool from the front and the sides, you can't see the engines anyway with the insane thruster glows these days.

 

[BlackDove]

Eloquent aren't I?

[knn]

Eloquent aren't I?

What did I kill?

[BlackDove]

It was a joke.

The sentence was my real reply.

[knn]

It was a joke.

The sentence was my real reply.

Oh, ok