[Herra Tohtori]

Lighting in the first shot looks a little odd.

The longitudinal specular "streak" on the starboard side of the nose is caused by how the shaders work on mirror-symmetric models. As far as I know, it can't really be avoided without mapping both sides of the ship separately, which pretty much would double texture memory consumption. It happens on all ships that use mirror symmetric uvmaps (check the GTFR Chronos / Amazon Advanced for example); on some geometry it's more obvious than on others.

Basically it's related to how the direction of the normals needs to be inverted on the mirrored side of the ship, otherwise they would cause opposite effect as intended.

It isn't that distracting in-game, but on some still shots it does tend to look bad.

[EtherShock]

I'm sure someone will figure out a workaround for that eventually. Maybe not for a long while though.

[Scourge of Ages]

Without undue pomp and ceremony, I gladly present our X-Wing

*silence*

*slow applause* 

[Scooby_Doo]

Lighting in the first shot looks a little odd.

The longitudinal specular "streak" on the starboard side of the nose is caused by how the shaders work on mirror-symmetric models. As far as I know, it can't really be avoided without mapping both sides of the ship separately, which pretty much would double texture memory consumption. It happens on all ships that use mirror symmetric uvmaps (check the GTFR Chronos / Amazon Advanced for example); on some geometry it's more obvious than on others.

Basically it's related to how the direction of the normals needs to be inverted on the mirrored side of the ship, otherwise they would cause opposite effect as intended.

It isn't that distracting in-game, but on some still shots it does tend to look bad.

There's a bug in the shader's.  You'll want to talk to Keldor about it.  He developed a fix for Saga's special shaders.

[DaBrain]

Yeah, it would be nice to see the current FSO shader set fixed.
Most projects use the standard shaders.

[aRaven]

i don't care.
I want R1.
Now.
Fix these insignificant things later.

[chief1983]

Maybe but we have to get all the significant stuff done first.  We are working on it though, and there's been a bit of a pace acceleration lately, usually happens each summer it seems.

[aRaven]

wierd, summer is normally the time when people should get out and live a little ^^.

I guess it would take few more summers before we can kill some TIEs eh? I hope I won't die before that .

[chief1983]

Hopefully not too many more, and you should see why I think that within a day or two.

[MR_T3D]

Hopefully not too many more, and you should see why I think that within a day or two.

there goes my ability to sleep..

[chief1983]

I wouldn't get too excited.  I'm just talking about more pretty shots for now.

[MR_T3D]

I wouldn't get too excited.  I'm just talking about more pretty shots for now.

phew, that just means ingame screens of TIE's then tomorrow.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzz

[Demitri]

That is one purdy fighter y'all got there! 

[Thaeris]

Good to see this. I must say the blue almost seems familiar: I think the old X-Wing game had blue engine exhaust for this particular bird.

Just curious about another thing: I've seen a few WIPs for other fighters with 3D cockpits (at least for external views). Is there any chance of seeing this in the future?

-Thaeris

[EtherShock]

Which X-wing game are you thinking of? If you mean the sims, they were either flashing lights, textures, or actual engine glow, but none of which were blue.

[Thaeris]

The great "X-Wing" which had its origins in '92 as a DOS game, I believe. I had the Collector's edition for the Mac. Heck, if that old iMac was still up and running, I'd still play it! What a great game... often very hard, actually. They don't make 'em like that anymore...

-Thaeris

[Herra Tohtori]

Aye, the original X-Wing was a really hard game, especially to fly through perfectly (fulfilling all goals and not just the necessary ones). Or to survive, for that matter...

However, regardless of the previous games, the Incom T-65 X-Wing starfighter has red engine exhausts. Just look at the image below for irrefutable proof:



Therefore, the X-Wing exhausts will be red in this game.

[aRaven]

It's not that hard anymore...I'm playing it all the way through at the moment .

It's ****ing fun.

[chief1983]

Considering SMF has a built in (and toggleable) word censor, you should probably just spell out profanities and leave it up to the user whether they want to see it or not.

[EtherShock]

It's not that hard anymore...I'm playing it all the way through at the moment .

It's ****ing fun.

I made it harder by trying to keep all my wingmates alive, otherwise it'd be too easy with all the skills I've developed playing flight sims. Now that's hard!