I spent some time poking around in photoshop today. Sadly I don’t use it often enough to be comfortable with it yet, but some progress is better than none.

The real issue is I’m not sure what kind of style I want to use for the workshop images. It’s a kind of branding and it’s somewhat important for long term recognition.

I’m thinking something with top and bottom banner ‘bars’ to really hem in the subject of the image and give plenty of room for text.

The unit name would be on the bottom like so and the faction and probably their flag/icon would be at the top. Something like that.

This is a pretty rough placeholder and I’ll get back to work on it over the weekend, but for now I thought it was a good idea to show some progress.

As an aside, the Cosmo Messer is a lot more nimble than I remembered. Its braking ability isn’t great, especially once it’s going over 30~40 or so, but it can reach those speeds very quickly, and low speed maneuvers are pretty effortless. Basically the ship’s got good responsiveness, and I haven’t flown anything that handles its own momentum at high speeds well. Not yet anyway.

One last little note: Something wonderful happened while I was testing the SEToolbox. There are some old blueprints like my Graf Zeppelin build from well over a year ago that I managed to import.

The older ship blueprints almost never load in game, so this was my last hope of saving any of them. Thankfully, it worked perfectly and didn’t mess up the save file. After having a look around I saved a new blueprint of it and now one of my old ships is officially revived, albeit with a lot of missing and loose parts. It has a lot of areas that need patching, but after I fix her up I’ll post some screenshots.

I’m going to try the same thing for the other ships if this works for them, too.