As you can see here my deckplans for my Traveller spaceship designs are starting to look more like the standard Traveller format. Photoshop is not a dedicated deckplan maker, so it takes a little longer, but I do win more control over my creations.
I’m enjoying creating spaceships and other stuff for science fiction role-playing games, with the Traveller rules and I’ve found a graph paper image to use with my spaceships to make their deckplans more compatible.
I based my Traveller spaceship deckplans on this graph paper File
I ended up having to redesign the paper extensively, so that it competed with the role-playing game spaceship design less. I’m starting adding deckplans to my Traveller spaceship designs with the rambunctious design, which has some neon green – very pretty but not very detailed – deckplans at the moment. The deckplans above are a work in progress and there are another couple of decks to go before the sf rpg starcraft design is done.
I’m also reading The Stars are Cold Toys, a nice fat chunk of Russian, almost soviet SF. I can’t give an Amazon link, at least not at Amazon UK, they don’t seem to have it. But the link goes to a Wikipedia page with a synopsis. I’m hoping it will inspire some science fiction role-playing game illustrations. It is an interesting read, but very old school. There are no nanobots or cybernetic implants here, just spacemen in overalls flying chunks of iron around the galaxy. But there are interesting ideas, such as the euphoria of the Jump for some creatures going through hyperspace, but the fear of others.
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