[CountBuggula]

How's the texturing going, rhettro?  Things were looking great last time we heard from you.  Have anything new to show us?

[rhettro]

Still working on it. I'm sort of blanking on how to proceed with the texture. I've got it UV unwrapped and the Photoshop layers setup. I guess i need to break up the surfaces a bit more, then start thinking of dirt. There aren't a lot of modern spaceship texturing tutorials on the internet, at least not for low poly ships.

[chief1983]

I would think the dirt layer would be last, and making a nice pretty, new looking ship would be first.  Plus it's imperial so it wouldn't be very dirty anyway would it?

[CountBuggula]

Yeah the empire keeps their ships pretty well maintained.  No dirt at all on TIE Fighters.

Feel free to go back and look again at the lambda for inspiration if needed.

[rhettro]

Playing around with a few ideas. I've got momentum going again.

[CountBuggula]

Nice!  Might I suggest shrinking down the Imperial Emblem a bit?  Maybe use this for inspiration to make it a bit more subtle:

[CountBuggula]

Now that I look at it, that F-16 is probably a good inspiration for dirt too.  Doesn't have to be really heavy, just look for obvious places where there might be a bit of grease stain.

[Colonol Dekker]

Real air forces keep all their kit clean. Especially vintage kit.

[The E]

Fixed your link there

[Colonol Dekker]

Thank you The E. <3

[rhettro]

I think I stated earlier that the A10 would be more of an inspiration for the Assault Wing. Although as far as panel / dirt goes, it's about the same.

Idea for the color actually comes from the original video model.



I'm just using blue to make it look Imperial and I think it helps differentiate its look from the Lambda Shuttle. The lines were made with the PS pen tool, which is a pain. I'm going to redo them in either AutoCAD or Inkscape. But, basically they were layed out to show design intent.
I am going to shrink the decals, and I'll likely tone down the brilliance of the color.

[CountBuggula]

I think using the A-10 for inspiration is a fabulous idea.

Personally, I'm not totally sold on the blue patches, but I may change my mind after seeing them lighter.  Honestly I'd prefer more visual cues matching with the lambda, not less.  And since we don't see any of that sort of marking on other Imperial ships in the films...

Maybe Chief could weigh in with his opinion?

[chief1983]

Yeah, I'll admit that an 'Unborn' Gunboat doesn't really need to draw too much more from the video game styling decisions.  Sticking closer to movie ships, real life, etc would probably come closer to the feel we're looking for.  That said, it would help if it was easily distinguishable from the shuttle, from a gameplay perspective.  I think a shrunken emblem would help more than removing the blue, it's less surface area already than the old one and much more subdued overall.

[Boomer20]

I thought the blue touch was actually quite nice, you could always try making it more the blue seen on the TIEs maybe to coincide with the colour/tones of the Imperials.

[CountBuggula]

The giant missile pods, guns, and extra wings already change the silhouette enough from the Lambda that I don't think anything else is really needed as far as gameplay goes.  I'd say focus on getting the panel lines cleaned up, find some good places to put some subtle dirt and grime, and maybe a smaller and lower contrast imperial emblem.  Show us what you have then, and we can make a more educated decision as to whether panel colors are needed/wanted.

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