[DahBlount]

This is true.

I'm actually going to apply a recent experiment I did involving the Displacement modifier and the Boolean in tandem to make a holed Orion. Might as well put a few decks in for good measure.

[Nyctaeus]

I know some other good method and it's the best for me. Use Boolean on previously separating fragment that you want to modify, than merge it with your main model again. You can add more faces to make it magnifold temporarily, as Boolean does not work with more than one mesh. Select main model as active. It will save you a lot of time clearing the geometry afterwards. BW's method sounds good too, but I'm not sure if Blender has such an option.

[DahBlount]

That seems to defeat the purpose of the Boolean imo.

Anyways, work is going smoothly today. I've got plans written up for the Carthage and Bastion now. I would like to thank you all for helping me get the textures finalized, means I'll have more time to actually texture.


I should make Hades pay for my coffee expenses

[Hades]

no im poor

[Alan Bolte]

The first texture is definitely best, though if you could do something to break up the longer streaks it would help - I'm not sure at what scale this image will be used, but I figure we don't want features like that to be bigger than a bomber. I like the layered wires of the second image, but I don't think it would be appropriate on the entire ship, and the goopy mess on top of it just looks odd.

[DahBlount]

I'm actually scaling the UVs up, tiling the texture and baking to an 8192^2 texture, then scaling it down to 4096^2 for release and 2048^2 for MVPs. The method I use makes the texture detail higher because it is like the image is continuing infinitely. For an example of this method, view my tilemap baking tutorial here.

[DahBlount]

So all of the turrets and most of the greebles are marked and ready for mapping. Here's a screenshot showing the current progress on the main hull.

[Hades]

That's not most of the greebles. You've got several large chunks not even in the image.

[Nyctaeus]

Are You working on triangulated model?

[DahBlount]

Hades:  Well yeah, I have them in another layer entirely so they aren't  visible.

Betrayal: It's not.

[Nyctaeus]

Betrayal: It's not.

Yeah, now I see. My bad. Some lines on the wireframe looks strange a bit.

[DahBlount]

I've started getting the materials set up.



Any thoughts, feedback, or concerns on the color scheme so far? The color assignment is incomplete but I'm going to be adding a few more materials and work on assigning them tomorrow.

[headdie]

Spent a couple of mins looking at it and the only thing that jumps out at me is that the recess at the top rear of the hull should perhaps be dark grey to fit to scheme.  other than that its looking about right to me.

[Colonol Dekker]

Hazard stripes around the flight deck please!!

[Rodo]

Looks good Hades, you make me get back here everytime

[BirdofPrey]

I thought the Orion was a little more gray than that.
Great to see something actually being done, though.

Now about that Apollo. . .

[DahBlount]

I thought the Orion was a little more gray than that.

The retail Orion is significantly grayer than the MVPs version. It actually struck me last night that Hades modeled it based off of the retail textures, so I'm going to redo them in a much grayer color, with maybe a slight tinge of blue.

[DahBlount]

Here we go, nice colors that are closer to retail and don't drown you with blue.

[Cyborg17]

Ah!  So excited to see this still going. 

[Nyctaeus]

I think original Orion was darker a little bit. Keep going . I can't wait to see the effects.