I am making two new AIs for the next universe. The Flicker will be a smaller AI on the same theme as an Inferno, but lower level, wandering warp 0. The Wattage will be a higher level tougher AI on the same theme as voltage and ampage, probably around level 200-300.

What I need are graphics submissions. 2D images are fine, but bonus points for any animations you can make as well. Super extra special bonus points if it comes with a 3d model and texture that can be used in Client 2.

These AI will be uncapturable, but the players with the winning art submissions will get a player version of their ship. The winner will be decided by me, but community feed back will be taken into account.

The contest will end January 31, but the date might be flexible.

what you think?

I do like that basic design for the Flicker, it could probably use a better paint job though - it currently looks like its just monotone with a splash of lighting, nothing against the color. I would envision a ball of fire in the open area, to form a sort of torch - this can be achieved with our existing particle effects system so I wouldn't be asking you to do that.

Could be made into something nice but just like that it's not a complete ship.

tweaked it a tiny bit and added a glow effect to see how it would work with the ship, and yea i agree voom i just need to work on a texture or something for the ship as a whole as it just looks too incomplete

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newest version

Any thoughts?

I like that one....

Think it would look nice in SS...

Im going to whip something up in Corel/Photoshop/Gimp/Wings3D

Expect a Shitstorpiece.

What i would do is make one image without the glow thing ( the sun ish thing on the back ) and then make one with it. then have highlights on the glow one that get brightened, test it on a UrQa ship to see what it does.

Why do you keep doing this?

Mostly because they either have items that we don't want players to capture easily, or because the ship itself would cause serious game balance problems.

Cough cough, Adum's eyes, Jeff_L's brain.

wattage with some anim(made from paxius anim)
so dark coz black background




ingame screen(instead of pax)


ship files

flicker ship
small pic to game


I will see about ship effect
cracked 1

/me loves them all.


Kanga

This is 45 minuts of work, still needs alot of tweaking, but you can see baciks.. It mostly needs texturing now, 750 polies.
And yes, it is usable for c2.