thanks for your comments. i am really willed to finish my first game after
many years with gamestudio and with this type of game it is realistic.

@cowabanga - i tried easy particle but even using this tool it is not easy to create good looking particle effects. In addition i use lite-c which behaves different.

@darkinferno - at the moment i really need help with particle effects. The laser beam, the explosion and the express gate effect is created by myself. The effect used on the engine was a contribution from the forum. There you can easily see the difference.

So any help on the mentioned topics is warmly welcome!

@EvilSOB - The control panel is a 3d model. But i am playing around with panels and it looks not much different.