Neo Coalition ships

[Xing]

I'll pitch in my personnal thoughts on these creations.

Personally, I prefer the old ones. Aesthetically speaking, I prefer the old ones because, they have so much more depth. They look agressive, bulky, well, you know. The general idea we have of our commie machines. Sort of.

These have very little... thinking going on. They are, much like Jinx put it; made to be pretty and efficient. Nothing more. I took the shape of the Basilisk, which I thought as rather pleasant, and extrapolated from there.

The white is meant for uniformity. Since stealth isn't that useful - or applicable in Freelancer, since we rely more on automated targetting systems rather than simple sight, painting them white seems like a fine idea. IMG ships have recently more or less all been converted to the black and red stripes theme, and the drab blue was, well, tbh, the blue from borderworld ships actually.
I like white because it is a nice contrast in space. Yes, they may be a bit too cartoony, but it's a bit hard to make it more metallic. Maybe by augmenting its metalic texture property... I'm not too sure how that work on FL engine. The only thing I can say is that I hope they look better in game.
The reason I didn't chose black is simple; most black ships lack details, even if they are there, they are hard to discern. We don't want just a flying black thing barely distinguishable, though some may argue it is cool, I think its rather unoriginal.

I chose the red star and white border, because I thought it prettier than gold. Simple as that. Beside, most coalition ships from Starlancer were painted in the color of the soviet airforce (and I recall only one other ship using the vietnamese star I believe, while another used the chinese PLAAF star, and apparently one gunboat was of arab build, but that's about it)

I used to like putting various color of stars on my different ships, but thing came down to a lack of uniformity, which is rather strange for a military force.

On a more technical aspect, those ships are extremely low poly, and use relatively small texture files.

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Also, I don't really like the idea of making them civilian...

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