Old Carrier vs New Carrier

[Triceron]

Silhouette is important in SC2, making it easy to pick out units. This is what the art direction is talking about - Ease of Recognition, being able to spot a unit out of the background noise. TF2 is used as an example because the silhouettes are so dynamic.

Blizzard never stated that units required to have unique silhouettes. A Brood Lord shares a similar silhouette with a Drone and Mantaling. This is balanced out with the fact their sizes are different.

In TF2, each class needs a unique silhouette, because a Heavy at a distance can't look like a Scout close up. In SC2, your camera never changes distance. Scale can be used as a way to differentiate units in an RTS with a fixed camera.

[Norfindel]

GnaReffotsirk, your models are a very good improvement. They have much less empty space, and less of that blue stuff that sucks, and looks much more balanced.

One thing that sucks too much on the yellow Tempest model, are the engines. The ones in the SC1 model looked powerful.

[scorpio19]

I hope you like it...

[imdrunkontea]

Boss, is this what you mean?

It's kinda like a compromise. Now without the mustache and horns, and a little angle tweak on the ribs:


First one:

I really, really like that first one.

[Visions of Khas]

And GNA doesn't work for Blizzard... why?

I'm totally digging the newest iteration. By comparison, SC2's carrier sucks. Yep, I'm now joining the carrier-hater bandwagon.

[ArcherofAiur]

I think there is legitamate concern in two points that have been brought up

1) The new carrier has 50 less hit points and should reflect this

2) It shouldnt be too obtrusive and sight blocking.


Yet even with those concerns I still think Gna is on the right track. Can we brainstorm ways to improve the carrier model with these points in mind (while still keeping the spirit of the old carrier)?

By the way I found this link of a rotating tempest that might be useful.
http://img405.imageshack.us/i/tempestsi2.gif/

[Visions of Khas]

Blizzard admits defeat, adopts fan-based design. More at 9.

[ArcherofAiur]

Blizzard admits defeat, adopts fan-based design. More at 9.

lol post that on bnet. People will flip out rejoicing that Blizz finally fixed the carrier

[Nicol Bolas]

God, that looks even worse in the actual game. I'll take the slim, sleek Carrier to that fatty any day.

[Roobster]

lol post that on bnet. People will flip out rejoicing that Blizz finally fixed the carrier

This must be done, we all know it. It does look somewhat fat now, perhaps the hangar part could be made more elongated and the rear engine segment made a little smaller and "moved into" and more integrated into the hangar part, kind of like the old Carrier.