I know I would be. But then, I sort of find the existing colour palettes limiting as well, so I'd love to be able to custom define new ones and stuff as well. I don't know if that's in the works or even feasible, but the current palette choices seem somewhat limiting to me right now.

Quoting Nastytang,

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Quoting Rand Johnson,

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Quoting Rand Johnson,

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Quoting jmccrea,

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Rand...have you found out anything yet?  Would setting the ships to User make them show up so i can use them?  Where would I do that?  So want to use your ships, but i have no clue what to do.

The issue was indeed fixed. All my ships show up now, shinker or not.

I am going to put a zip file together. All you need to do is open it and copy or move ship design files to your designs folder in C:/mydocuments/mygames/GalCiv3/designs.

Open and load game,  ships should all appear in ship designer and shipyards.

 

Let The Fun Begain!!!!................

 

 

Quoting trumpeter87,

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What did you do to fix them Rand?

 

StarDock fix it!!

Yup, what he said. It's all fixed now in Beta 5.

jm check your email I treked you!!!!!

Have them in my folders and nothing coming up...wonder what im doing wrong?  Sigh...i noticed alot more ships too!  Which makes it worse haha

Okay update...I see the ships now, but not with a custom race.  They will not show up even when i make a new one.  I wonder if it has to do with selecting a race's ships.  When i play the humans, they are there, which is awesome, but not sure how to work around this.

Update 2- Ok found a work around.  I play a game as humans, saved the ships i research out as templates, then when i make a new faction boom they appear as templates and then I can change them.  Now i just have to figure out how to research all the techs and ill have them all haha

They don't work with custom factions. I found out the hard way too. They will show in a regular game using choosing Terrans as your race, Stardock still has much work to do for us to create our own races.

I just hit a bug with pirates in the game. See my thread on Steam forums.

I'm not gonna scream for a refund, lol, but I'm soooo disappointed that light/window colors are still broken in the ship designer (in saved games, not new games), especially with custom races now.  I'm sad.

My first Beta 5 creation: a new fighter!

Beefed up version

Sweet fighter Sisko needs to be in our contest at the GC-SD.  My latest ship, a massive carrier.

I have mostly finished my redux of my first terran ship set. I had started that set not knowing the ins and outs of the editor and various bugs, so a fresh start was needed to rid myself of the issues. I think its all the better for it, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

Now that videos shows everything, but at 2:13 minutes, is my absolute favorite, the Large Carrier. The ship itself, won't win a beauty contest but...

I decided to try and actually make a ship that housed the fighters internally and give it some interior decorations. For a first attempt I think it worked splendidly. The problem is scale. There was simply no way to make it work with anything but a couple of bombers internally without drastically reducing the scale of the bombers/fighters and that would clash with everything else. So instead, I decided that Fighters were mounted externally (something I do a lot with my other designs), and that only two heavy bombers were kept internally. The Fighters need to react quickly and launch, but the bombers require more prep and have much shorter operational times and thus require the bays for maintenance.

One of the few designs for this ship set that I haven't started is a Huge Carrier, and I'm hoping to get that to show off 5-6 bays.

Really appreciate any feedback on any of these.

I actual did want some animation in it on the wings, but due to the repeating nature it would look like it was flapping. 

It would be nice to have a "once" animation that just ran an animation once.  It would make the pre-engagement part of the battle viewer more interesting if you had ships appearing to prepare for combat ala X-Wings with s-foils locking in position.

Was working on a small ship today and realised afterwards I had selected a tiny hull by accident.  It would be nice if we could port designs across hull sizes.  Anyway, here is the Combat Assault Platform or CAP...I was struggling with what to name it.

wow awesome stuff guys, its been a while I've now got pages to look through! since I've lost all my previous works I'm starting from scratch here.

Dragon Class Strike Fighter 

@ Admiral_Bob

I like that fighter a lot, good work, though I wonder is that last picture just three in a fleet? 

@Edladner

As usual, nice retro look. Though Its getting hard to judge ships in screen shots with that color scheme, its very dark and obscures some details. That could just be me and my weak and feeble organic eyes.

For myself, and for the GalCiv 3 Fighter Design Contest I decided to take my first real stab at an organic ship. Previously I've made some robo-insect ships, but now with the Iconian parts, well, organic is WAY easier to achieve. This guy is called a Neophyte and virtually every part is animated a little to make it look... breathing.

@ Gauntlet03

Thank you very much, I'm quite happy with how it turned out. The last picture is just three in a fleet I haven't gone into the animations much as its been a while. I was making some small and medium ships too with an old part of mine from beta 2 and it causes the ships to turn out a lot smaller and sometimes glitches so I have to remake them  

I agree about the black and red colorscheme, not only is it hard to judge but its hard to build when everything is so dark. I wanted to do a red and white color scheme but I don't like the white presets.