I thought about a nose-to-top orientation when I made it. In addition to the reasons I explained in Jun 2019, consider that when doing inter-system jumps, the starfield moves from right to left. So if the nose of the ship were at the top instead of the right, it would seem to be flying sideways.

Changing the orientation would involve not just rotating the wingTx.pgn and wingTxLit.png images, but entirely recreating the Blocks images, which are the hard part of making a ship mod. You might also have to tweak some values in the Structure files, I don't recall what those do anymore. If you want to do it, that's cool. I only ask that you credit the artwork back to me.

fits better and keeps it from sucking ass to move around inside

why not make viewing from the back or front, or hell even have the front of the ship be top or bottom, so it fits better? always been a little (very) iffy on wide ships being turned tall, so why not just rotate it up and down rather then sideways?

I gotta say I'm a fan of this, the design and lore fit pretty well in my opinion, although I do find that it doesnt have as much big room as I like and I gotta say that theres is some charm in the vanilla ships that this kinda lacks with the vannilas greenhouse at higher ship tiers although this one has a nice touch with the whole interior being basically over overgrown with foliage which is something I can definitely see floran doing on there ships, hell I think it's what most floran players do, TLDR, Good ship replacement would gladly suggest if your looking for a new ride

Fitting the wing design into the game's 2D platformer environment did require some trade-offs. I chose the dorsal aspect for the ship mostly because a lateral view would not look or feel substantially different from the vanilla ships. My engineering background admittedly biased me to give each level of the ship only one entry point because it is more efficient on space, and for my play style each module/room has a single purpose -- storage, crafting, dining, quarters, colony tenant, display, entertainment, etc.

It's a nice concept, I give you points for creativity and some thinking pouring into it, but it seems strange that the Wing is oriented vertically. It would better work for a top view, but not for a sideway view/ platformer game. It really is a great design, but seeing, that the ship was originally flying horizontally, not vertically, breaks the immersion. At least it does for me. The Floran are my favorite of the vanilla races (Avali are from the moded ones), but for me this ship won't work, won't do the job right. Would be fine to come up with a similar design, but better suited for the sideview style of Starbound. Cheers and keep up the great work.

as greensniperhat already said you made a mistake with the burn markings? anyways since you repair your ship at beginning you should take away those markings after repair. that only bug i see so far

The title image, showing the perspective view of the ship, was rendered in Anim8or, the same app in which I made the ship model. Anim8or is easy to learn and use, with the trade-off being that the interface is not very powerful compared to, say, Blender, which is very powerful but much harder to learn. But Anim8or is good enough for me...I've used it for over a dozen years to make models, rendered normal maps, animations, walk-through architectural renderings of key rooms in a facility that was still being built, and even a short movie/cutscene for an open-source game.

was that screenshot made in garry's mod?

That was the case when I made the animation o all the tiers, but the damaged areas in-game are working as intended.

seems like your forgot some scorch marks at tier 4/5, and some of the scorch marks migrate between tiers.