Thank you! That’s exactly the reaction I was going for with that ship. I knew that I wanted something that felt all-encompassing, and I wasn’t going to be able to find a ready-made asset for that. I needed it to wrap around the player, but also have a way to shoot through it to hit the engines at the back. It took me probably three or four hours in GIMP trying different combinations and putting together pieces from the spaceship construction kit asset I was using to make something I was happy with.
I spent a decent amount of time on the parallax effect, especially getting it to took good while the camera expands when you hack a bigger ship. Another sneaky thing I did with the parallax is, since the parallax doesn’t loop and if you fly far enough away you won’t see it anymore, I made the big red ship always spawn in the direction towards the center of the arena from you to try to guide you back to where the parallax looks the best.