[Vrets]

Go for it. I'm sure people would want to try your model, myself included.

moar orions

[DahBlount]

Work never stopped. I fully intend to finish what I started, I've just been busy preparing for finals as well as placement exams.

Hey there 
I just have a question regarding the materials:
Are you going to make unique- textures for the whole ship or are you going to use some tileable textures for it?
And please, keep on the excellent work so far 

Much of the detail from the original tilemaps has actually been modeled in now, so giving it tiled maps would be rather strange/redundant. If should end up with a 4096^2 map for the main hull, 2048^2 map for the greebles, then a 1024^2 or 2048x1024 map for the turrets.

since the topic's been bumpped anyway,  How is the recent PBR work going to affect this?

That is a good question. I've looked into PBR map creation a bit so I'm going to try my hand at creating maps for the PBR build. That will most likely be after I finish texturing the damn thing.

[Lc4Hunter]

There he is! 
Greetings, DahBlount.

For a few days i started playing freespace ...again... well, there are already so many beautyful und awesome models.
And then i saw the "old" Orion 
No idea why nobody else already updated her - she is such a beautyful ship

But when you´re still working at the textures, then i will let you the precedence, of course 
Hades model is by far the best one i´ve ever seen (and in many point, my Orion is "inspired" by his one

A short side-question: Do you know if his Deimos-Class is already in texturing-process?
Would love to see her ingame, too 

Edit: Are you sure a 4k map will be enough for a 2000m ship? Ok, its a huge map, thats right, but i´m not sure if t his will be enough.
I´m currently working on a Vesuvius-class model for Wing Commander Saga and the Homeworld Wing Commander Mod and i am using 2k maps for it.
They are too blurred in my eyes
Or i´m to stupid for good texturing... i never really made it...

[AdmiralRalwood]

Do you know if his Deimos-Class is already in texturing-process?

Yes, it is.

[Lc4Hunter]

Any pictures of that available?
While looking on his thread on page 2, i do not find anything.

[AdmiralRalwood]

Any pictures of that available?

Not as far as I can remember.

[mralexs]

Would it be possible to make a version with the turrets rigged to bones? It would make porting it to other engines a breeze

[DahBlount]

I can do that. Hades will need to send me a final turret layout and I can rig all of the bones and export it to any most interchange formats. I assume you're working in either Unity or Unreal so .FBX and .OBJ should work I believe.

[mralexs]

I can do that. Hades will need to send me a final turret layout and I can rig all of the bones and export it to any most interchange formats. I assume you're working in either Unity or Unreal so .FBX and .OBJ should work I believe.

Nah I'm working in Source and Blender

[Colonol Dekker]

Will that be a public dump? 

[Skarab]

If it is a public dump, I have only one question...

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[DahBlount]

**** it has been awhile.

Anyways, just a preliminary post to expect an update within the next week and a half as I'm FINALLY going to be free from the shackles of engineering school on Wednesday.

In the mean time, a more specific game plan has been developed regarding the Orion:
Initial release will contain relatively simple textures baked from tiles with additional detail here and there. After that, I'll start running the Orion through Quixel Suite 2.0, allowing me to not only generate non-PBR and PBR textures, but also draw details directly on the model using calibrated brushes. This will be the ultimate texture release. While the PBR textures really won't be useful for now, as builds are experimental in addition to having long periods between new updates, but it effectively future proofs the Orion for PBR builds.

That's all for now.

[Shivan Hunter]

Excellent!! I've been planning on trying a tool like that for a WIP project. Good to see the Orion being worked on

[Bryan See]

And what about the Orion Refit derivative shown in Blue Planet?

[DahBlount]

If you're talking about the Sanctuary, there are no plans as of yet. As for the Carthage, additional geometry will probably be made to represent the tech upgrades it gets (weapons, armor, subsystems).

[Bryan See]

You are right. And... one more thing I would like to ask: Will this be a model to be used in the potential FreeSpace feature film if were to be produced at some point in the future?

[mjn.mixael]

You are right. And... one more thing I would like to ask: Will this be a model to be used in the potential FreeSpace feature film if were to be produced at some point in the future?

 

[Mars]

I feel like that question needed one of this response. I apologize if this is trash posting.

You are right. And... one more thing I would like to ask: Will this be a model to be used in the potential FreeSpace feature film if were to be produced at some point in the future?

lol

[Col.Hornet]

And what about the Orion Refit derivative shown in Blue Planet?

First let's focus on finishing the original Orion upgrade. The rest is up to BP team.

[Col.Hornet]

Sorry for double post guys but.

Man, I'm so grateful for mentioning the Quixel Suite. I checked out what it is and.... I'm astonished. Looks like this tool will save us a lot of precious time