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Oftentimes a gun has to apply to many, many different ships, not to one thing specifically, so you have to work within metrics. Do you find metrics help you or limit your creativity?

Aleksandras AkstinasConcept Artist

Well, it obviously limits my creativity because our metric system, if I'll draw it right now, because all ship weapons, they kind of follow this rough bounding box, so the mounting point and the gun itself, and then it has components that are generally located in the same spots so we can put them on all the ships. So within that bounding box I can design whatever I want or whatever the art direction requires. But generally I wouldn't say it's too restricting, but if there was no bounding box, for example, we could concept something where maybe, I don't know, maybe the mount is at the front and the big bulk of the weapon is at the back or something like that, but we can't do that.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

But it would limit the number of ships that it could be placed on.

Aleksandras AkstinasConcept Artist

Yes.

Star Citizen Live›Gamedev - Concepting Ship Weapons·
Published on this date.4 Oct 2019