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Old March 1st, 2004, 10:39 PM

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I am trying to make a shipset for personal use, and I am following the shipset tutorial by Atrocities. The tutorial calls for 2 images--one is the potrait and the other for a top-down view used for the mini-pic. The problem I am having is that i cannot find any Images that are top-down for the ships i wanna use. Is there an alternative method for creating a top down image/pic?? I
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Old March 2nd, 2004, 02:42 AM
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I believe that you need the top-down view for the combat screen, so unless you want your ships to look funky from a top-down view, you need these.

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Not only there, that is how you see ships on the main window

As to original question : make an appropriate model in Doga and you will have both views
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Old March 2nd, 2004, 04:26 AM

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Yea--heh i do undertand that i need a top down view--is there another way besides Doga to just work on the top down view?? --am curious cause i cant make good stuff with Doga (Artistically Crippled--lmao)
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DREDNOOTS!!!

MOCK YOWER OLD SHIPSUIT FOR TOP DOG FIELD!!

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