Race variety, ships & gfx?

[Baleur]

Well, yeah. Since there are 20 races i am assuming (to my dissapointment) that they share a common general artstyle for the ships and starbases?
Basically, is there any visual difference to the races, or is it essentially just a stats difference?

[LarryP]

There are differences. Colors of course are entirely different and also changeable from within the Editor even while playing a game.

The ships are different designs per race. A lot of time was put into the ships designs in this game by PixelPusher, and the ships are incredibly detailed zoomed in. [&o]

[Okim]

I suppose that he was talking about customization guide that tells that there are only 9 (0 - 8) ship image families available:
 
"Designs picture family index: [font=calibri,calibri][font=calibri,calibri]index of ship pictures used for this race from the ship pictures in the folders “images\units\ships” or “customization\YourTheme\shipImages”. Valid values from 0 to 8.[/font][/font][font=calibri,calibri][font=calibri,calibri]"[/font][/font]
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[font=calibri,calibri][font=calibri,calibri]Since there are 20 races - only 9 ship families looks quite low. [/font][/font]

[elliotg]

ORIGINAL: Okim
I suppose that he was talking about customization guide that tells that there are only 9 (0 - 8) ship image families available:

"Designs picture family index: [font=calibri,calibri][font=calibri,calibri]index of ship pictures used for this race from the ship pictures in the folders “images\units\ships” or “customization\YourTheme\shipImages”. Valid values from 0 to 8.[/font][/font][font=calibri,calibri][font=calibri,calibri]"[/font][/font]
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[font=calibri,calibri][font=calibri,calibri]Since there are 20 races - only 9 ship families looks quite low. [/font][/font]

There are 9 major families of ship pictures, plus many other minor design sets for pirates, etc. So in total there's at least 270 distinct ship and base images. Some of the races share a design family - usually because the races are related in some way. I think you'll find there's plenty of variety in the ship images.

[Baleur]

Thats cool