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    Working on a simple technical layout for a space ship.
    Ideas or proposals?
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    Oooh, very awesome! I love spaceship maps! Love this WIP, I will be following it.

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    A slightly faded white line grid instantly makes it look more blueprint like

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    Yeah, I think a grid might be a good idea. Also on some blueprint maps I've seen, some people add a slight gradient to the blue background, or darken it slightly towards the edges.
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    Thank you for the feedback.
    I've added a few more details and a hex pattern in the background - I think it looks better than a square grid.
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    Love the style, this would be perfect for the Alien RPG

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    I think it's done. Ideas?
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    I like this design...

    But I've looked at this a couple of times and the lower two drawings in the right-hand side confused me.
    Today I looked at the dimensions and finally realized that those two were for the combat drone,
    and that the right-hand column is really a secondary drawing.

    I think it would help if it was more obvious that the right column was not part of the main ship drawing.
    A couple of possibilities:
    - Use a larger font size for the combat drone title to emphasize that it is a different set of drawings
    - Move the drone dimension call-outs closer to the drone drawings to provide a visual separation from the main ship drawings
    - A simple line box (dashed or solid) around the drone column would really help, and that's what I would expect to see on a real engineering drawing.

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    It's delightfully simple, great use of the style. The one part of it, the way you did it, reminds me of popsicle sticks though... hee...

    I agree with that critique, I did also have to think a lot to figure out what was going on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bkh1914 View Post
    I like this design...

    But I've looked at this a couple of times and the lower two drawings in the right-hand side confused me.
    Today I looked at the dimensions and finally realized that those two were for the combat drone,
    and that the right-hand column is really a secondary drawing.

    I think it would help if it was more obvious that the right column was not part of the main ship drawing.
    A couple of possibilities:
    - Use a larger font size for the combat drone title to emphasize that it is a different set of drawings
    - Move the drone dimension call-outs closer to the drone drawings to provide a visual separation from the main ship drawings
    - A simple line box (dashed or solid) around the drone column would really help, and that's what I would expect to see on a real engineering drawing.
    Quote Originally Posted by Tiana View Post
    It's delightfully simple, great use of the style. The one part of it, the way you did it, reminds me of popsicle sticks though... hee...

    I agree with that critique, I did also have to think a lot to figure out what was going on.

    Good point. Updated.
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