Tech Shell Popularity Poll

[General BlackDragon]

Well, since I actually dont see any kind of poll options...Just tell me what you think:

How many of you would like to see me complete a "tech" shell for PB4? Here's a screenshot of mostly what I have so far. This would be very similar to my "Gothic Shell", but a "Tech Shell".



Do note, this would keep me rather busy and take atleast...2-3 weeks to finish.

What do you all think? Do you want it?

[anomaly]

Looks very good so far.

You should probably try to fill in those large gray areas with a little detail though.  Maybe use a brushed metal texture.
I really like the circuit board-like lines and aqua green areas in the corners.

[Steeveeo]

The coloring looks a little too, aqua.

Try greens instead of cyan and lower the brightness of the metal a bit

[Raven]

Agreed.
Looks cool so far, darker textured metal and less blazing blue and WOO!

[bigbadbogie]

hey - bbb like blue-blazing

since the only part of bz2 modding i cant do for s**t is iface cfg options, i say go for it!!

otherwise i would probably try something like that

[VSMIT]

I think it looks good the way it is, but agree with Steeveeo and Raven about darkening it.

Maybe a shell changer program like Boj did with Starfleet?

VSMIT.

[Steeveeo]

If you need me to whip up a brushed metal texture, I can make a good one

[Zero Angel]

The shell might look better like this

[General BlackDragon]

Uuuuum. 1: I've added more "dark" gray to the light gray since that pic was taken, and

ZA...uum? what? I see no differance...

[Raven]

Brightness has been changed

[Red Devil]

The color doesn't fit.  Needs to look military, nuts and bolts, muddy, worn, rough, etc.

[anomaly]

Nuts, bolts and a worn feel don't really fit the idea of this shell which is more high tech. 

Hmm... actually, maybe a few bolts would look good on the brown part, make it look like a shiny brass window fitting with glowing gas behind it.

Oh, and just a question, not a suggestion but, is it possible to change the scrolling background cloud texture to something else?

[Raven]

As far as I know you cannot change the fact that it is smoke, but you can make it invisible easily enough.

[mrtwosheds]

Nice!
do you have a plugin to make those nice polygon shapes or is it all hard work?

[General BlackDragon]

Uuum. Well, I take the rectangle selection tool, and "draw" each one as a selection box in a new layer. Then i render with clouds with w/e color, and use various filter effects. so...Hard