Yeah. But then there's the emitter lifetime problem.

I like this idea, I like it a lot.

Gold generator faction sounds great, and I'm sure it'll look great if your previous sprites have anything to say.

And I came up with it

Huge gold generator...

I'm sorta using this as a way to improve my spriting, though I'm noticing that I can't seem to dither right,

You weren't kidding!
Hm, I would suggest making it attachable-tastic, though you probably already have that planned (I remember the first time I blew up a Tantus).

Seriously, you don't need dithering with the quality of sprite you make.... -_-"

YES!!! So glad to hear that.

That gold generator looks pretty sexy. Keep it up.

That shading style of yours doesn't require dithering, the dithering looks out of place.

Make it emit piles of smoke, to keep up the image of terrible wastefulness.

Yes he does. His shading has always been sub-par.

This looks like a decent explanation of proper dithering. Read this: http://kitted.deviantart.com/art/DITHER ... s-69747353

Looking at it, I'm doing it kinda wrong myself. Though perhaps there's more than one way to do it.

But that doesnt seem to make any difference... the particles still wont ignore you. Does this technique make the weapon load inherit the velocity so well that no matter how you move, the shots wont get you?
And besides, the emitter thing is mostly used for wide/multiple line weapon which DSMK2 was aiming for. A wide beam.

Not only that, but emitters allow you to set the particle speeds to differ which allows for really long looking shots. (MinVel 10, MaxVel 100 = long beam of particles)


Also yes, a gold generator is a good idea since this faction produces some expensive stuff in large quantities like a mighty power hungry army.
Only digging wont do the justice so a generator will work fine.

You can make the generator be a brain unit too or a brain variant of it because its fairly important and looks like you could stuff in a powerplant inside that thing besides a gold gen.



Oh yes... C :

Yes, that's why i use it instead of emitters, usually.


Depending on what you mean by wide, this is also possible. Give the pixels different Y values for their offsets. Besides, he said it worked himself. :U


That's true, which is why i can't forfeit emitters entirely. >.>

ANYWAYS, hueg gold generator = Om nom nom. I also smiled when i heard "UT2004 Ion Cannon".
And another note, this faction be very nice. Quite overpowered, but very nice. And fun too.

IDEA:
Give it a turbine type thing that animates as it emits gold! And make it emit tons of smoke from every visible hole in the plating.

Nah, not lots atleast. If youre giving an emitter to stationary and lasting objects, try to have them rare and emit smoke at slow and small intervals.
I hated Thanatos' old reactor since the emissions eventually were like a lag drain than a cool detail in the end.

Credits to Geti for the help!

Er, am I doing this right?