OMFG DO NOT DO THIS


Battered and sci-fi are designed by nature to be used as a SECONDARY texture BEHIND main features and greeble pieces like beam blocks and exposed pipes

Also just around the edges of thruster blocks

IF YOU PUT IT ON THE MAIN OUTSIDE SKIN YOU ARE SKILLESS TRASG PLAYUR

So you want to make a dope ship huh?
yeah you do.

So what you're gunna wanna do is start off with trying your best to create a replica of a ship from star citizen for example or halo.

Make the same ship from scratch 10 times without looking at the previous attempts and try to change at least 1 thing every iteration.

Once done choose the best one and delete all the others to move on and prevent slipping into nostalgia later on.

Take the best ship and ask some people on discord or your friends about what they like and what they want changed

If they call it ♥♥♥♥ it probably is but they would'nt do that.
i would lol we do a little trolling

Take any number of small, universal details you have come up with - these are things like little intake areas that will not be recognized as clearly part of another person's intellectual property.

For example don't make a paris class frigate from halo and change it slightly, then call it your original design - its still a paris class

Implement the chosen universal features into your own design.

One of the easiest ways to design a ship is to build a very minecraft like box shape with wider and narrower areas - do this on the vertical and lateral axis, sideways is irrelevant as the shape of the ship with manifest naturally around the constraints.

The frame should look like a warped plus sign when looking from the front of back

Repeat the same steps from chapter 1 and build your own design multiple times without referring to your previous attempts to stop repeating the same mistake.

Choose the best one out of the rest and use it to blow up all the others with its weapons if it has any.

Nice! you got your foot in the door now, just practice from now on.