[Hades]

Hurry up, dammit, I wanna see a GOOD-looking Iceni.

[Nx]

Hurry up, dammit, I wanna see a GOOD-looking Iceni.

While you're waiting patiently , why don't you test the model I uploaded for collision detection errors? Just point your fighter toward the ship and hit tab 

Here I'll post a mission. You should be invulnerable Try to kill her without your weapons

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[IceyJones]

looks nice ingame but i have some points:

- i´m always able to look inside, when my ship has an exact 90° angle to the wall i´m hitting. then i can shoot through the whole ship....
- some flak and laser-turrets look like beam-canons

but thats it runs smoothly on my machine.....no drop in framerate......

[Nx]

looks nice ingame but i have some points:

- i´m always able to look inside, when my ship has an exact 90° angle to the wall i´m hitting. then i can shoot through the whole ship....

As long as you can't actually enter, it's not a problem (at least I can't fix it)

- some flak and laser-turrets look like beam-canons

but thats it runs smoothly on my machine.....no drop in framerate......

Thank :V: for the crappy turret setup. I originally wanted to make turrets different based on their type, but that's not such a great idea...

Having used differentiated turrets for beams and blobs in the past, I actually have to recommend a generic approach.  The Iceni especially is a strange animal (it's weapons are bizarrely imbalanced from one side to the other, for one thing, and its configuration is never really firmly established) so it's hard to know exactly how it is used.  Remember that for mission purposes, especially with that ship, that it's likely modified in the mission files rather than the tables because its true power is never really adequately shown.

[Koth]

Do you still have the version with the GTFf Cypher texturing?

[Nx]

Do you still have the version with the GTFf Cypher texturing?

The Saphah class is currently a modified Iceni mesh without the Colossus textures. The untextured gray polygons should get a different texture.
For reference: the original Saphah

[Koth]

Will you release it someday?

[Hades]

I did the Saphah once, but I deleted it.

[Nx]

Will you release it someday?

Iceni and Boadicea have greater priority. I have exams in January, so don't expect updates

[Koth]

No problem I can wait.

[Admiral Nelson]

She looks absolutely outstanding with the new normal maps from DaBrain.  I'll be delighted when we see the last of the Boadicea, too!

[Nx]

She looks absolutely outstanding with the new normal maps from DaBrain.  I'll be delighted when we see the last of the Boadicea, too!

Normal maps? What else happened while I was away

[Admiral Nelson]

Ha ha, a lot.

DaBrain's Media VP betas have normal maps for the Iceni.  Check it out.

[Admiral Nelson]

I see the radius issue that the old model had is gone.  The Iceni used to get "stuck" passing under the Colossus in this mission.  You can also see the new maps and other effects at work:

[TrashMan]

If you're having collision detection issues with PCS2 (shots go trough faces, bounding boxes to small or too big), there is a way around it...
Convert with PCS1, preferably a version that doesn't chrash when trying to import glows.

looking mighty purdy b.t.w.

[Nx]

If you're having collision detection issues with PCS2 (shots go trough faces, bounding boxes to small or too big), there is a way around it...
Convert with PCS1, preferably a version that doesn't chrash when trying to import glows.

looking mighty purdy b.t.w.

I have to convert using PCS2, PCS1 crashes - the funny thing is, the collision detection errors are gone. First I thought it was because I boolean united all the hull objects together before exporting (that's the file I uploaded), but I tried without doing that (too lazy to fix all the problems the boolean operation introduces for a simple test), and I couldn't find collision detection problems (yet).

Now, the reason I have to use PCS1 too is that PCS2 global import is borked. For some reason firing points (at least, haven't checked anything else) end up incorrect. PCS1, on the other hand, perfectly imports everything, and then it's also fine when opened in PCS2.

Edit: maybe it was just the pof exporter plugin causing bad geometry

[Nx]

Please read this post: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,51229.msg1048614.html#msg1048614
I appreciate any help, but please let's not make other peoples' lives harder by making them try to reproduce a bug only to find that it's not their fault at all. The HTL Iceni pof has incorrect turret positions, because they are all taken from the vanilla Iceni. That will be fixed, but I didn't want to fiddle with it, since I was only testing collision detection.

[Kazan]

so is it a bug or not?

[Nx]

so is it a bug or not?

It seems I fixed the turret locations, since the particle effect is positioned correctly, although the effect is a little bit small. It's much bigger on the HTL Deimos, but it's the same size as on the lowpoly Iceni. The glow is missing from every ship.
With mediavps 3.6.9, the particle effect size is just right, and the glow fits almost perfectly.
This is AAAf, btw.

Some screenshots (the last 5 in the album) http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Nx.devnull/Iceni

[Aardwolf]

Am I right to believe that the HTL Iceni is alive and well?