Dude digging into voxelmancy made me hate everything about it.
The tools we have to work with feel like playing a game that has intentionally clunky controls like surgeon simulator, I am Bread or octodad.
Voxelmancy as it stands is torture to me. There is nothing that feels fun about it. It infuriating and unpredictable and much of it basically comes down to hours of trial and error till you are able to get the shape that you want.
There is no sane way to defend the current state of the voxel tools. It's not even fair to say that they are unfinished - they are not even tools.
Making good looking ships in DU is about as frustrating as doing needlework while wearing oven mitts.
I honestly don't mind designing ships that look something like the Pillar of Autumn - in general, I actually prefer more "boxy" angular ship designs to the smooth stuff I see people trying to poorly imitate.
With that said, yeah, the tools still suck and I completely understand your stance on them. As for "voxelmancy", it's freaking epeen smeared cringe inducing nonsense. If I want to invest time into learning something, it'll be something that makes sense. I will not try and work around existing tools by endless amounts of copy-pasting-deleting insanity. The proper tools for creating appropriate shapes should exist and they don't. I don't need to learn to do "vectormancy" in illustrator to create illustrations - the tools simply work in a predictable way.
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I honestly don't mind designing ships that look something like the Pillar of Autumn - in general, I actually prefer more "boxy" angular ship designs to the smooth stuff I see people trying to poorly imitate.
With that said, yeah, the tools still suck and I completely understand your stance on them. As for "voxelmancy", it's freaking epeen smeared cringe inducing nonsense. If I want to invest time into learning something, it'll be something that makes sense. I will not try and work around existing tools by endless amounts of copy-pasting-deleting insanity. The proper tools for creating appropriate shapes should exist and they don't. I don't need to learn to do "vectormancy" in illustrator to create illustrations - the tools simply work in a predictable way.