Ship Painting and Aesthetics
Inspiration for designing and/or painting ships, as well as more detailed guides.
Info
You should start with the Basics. Then if you like one of the styles below, click the link for the corresponding guide.
If you know how to reproduce a style, feel free to add your own guide!
Basics
"Cosmoteer Basic Guide: Paint Overview", by SarisWinterwisp (offsite video)
"Painting guide : Sculpting", by kine & Nick (offsite link)
Painting reference visual, that you can also load ingame as a ship : "All Decals Horizontally", by Xsnow.
"A Basic Guide to Ship Painting" By Lord Draconis (offsite video)
Cabal Accent
Timelapse : 1h30 of painting in 5 minutes, by kine (offsite video)
"-Amber-", by Nick
Enlargification
Greenolith by XDERP7
Hephaïstos glow
Mossy Rock
These styles have no dedicated guide, only the text and examples on this page. Feel free to make a guide for them!
Cabal 3-Fade
"-Tiny_Diamond- EMP", by Nick
Cabal Shadow
"Blue-Ray Cruiser", by Nick
Fringe Gravel
- Rocky "Fringe Gravel" ships by tinport
"Unsecure Rock Formation", grey "Gravel" style
"Ruins of Olympia", brown "Gravel" style
Sunburnt Fringe Gravel
Fringe Gravel - built-in ships
Desecrator, Desolator, Hentzau
Fringe Shadow
"Skullduggery", by Nick
Fringe Steampunk
"-Workbench-", by Nick
Imperium 3-Fade
"-Red Horizon-", by Nick
Imperium Accent
"Woodpecker", by Nick
"Amory" by corrupt_again
Monolith 3-Fade
"Mailman" by Nick
Monolith Shadow
"-Lancer- V.2" by Nick
(move these to the appropriate guide chapters or pages if any are available)
2.5D ( = Multiple elevation levels)
"SSV Normandy SR-2 (Mass Effect)" by Mase
Asymmetrical paint
"UNSA-Retribution" by Raging Thunder
Circular shapes
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2897266029
Dome shapes
"[Old] Tick Class - EuroSpace" by Yaddah
Double symmetry
"Articulated Tug" by malakhglitch
Forcefield effects
"Yldaran Golden Foundation" by Dazenith
Isometric drawings
Lava
"Krakatoa" by "Milky I Sphe Co. Bodyguard"
Object-like
Organic look
"2005KBD-ff-1.ship" by 古明地·嗪 (warning : enormous amount of mods)
Pentagonal shading
Psychedelic
Retro game throwback
Smooth shadow shaping
"Grandet", by Pavloydus :
"Minor Extractor" by corrupt_again
Base game builts-ins : Mass Freighter (Monolith)
Structure drawings
"DOOM" by Christian Wehrschütz
Vegetation and foliage
"Pothos" by crazykippy08, painted in the "Living" style.
