[manwiththemachinegun]

How do you make this stuff so fast? Are you a wizard?

[Nyctaeus]

How do you make this stuff so fast? Are you a wizard?

10 years of zen meditation. When I texture stuff, I slow down my brainwaves to Theta amplitude, and engage something close to "autopilot mode". I just watch my brain doing stuff for me, only interfering when I find something I consciously would like to be done different way...

Kidding. Just buy more beer and start painting. You will get it instantly.

[Colonol Dekker]

By the time this game happens it will be all telemetry from external sensors anyway.   It could be anywhere on an orion, for all we know.

Commercial sea travel and air travel run through the automation of most standard procedures today already. It is the procedures that have no standard conditions (i.e. there are too many variables involved) that don't get automated, such take-off and landing or docking at a port.

Complete navigation by instruments hits a snag when you have account for the possible failure of instruments and/or referrence data - that's why you still supplement satellite navigation at sea with methods using every tool you have at your disposal - that includes eye sight and set squares.

Commercial Sea travel isn't prone to attack by multi megaton weaponry.

[Nightmare]

Commercial Sea travel isn't prone to attack by multi megaton weaponry.

That's why people are demanding for such lovely painted Orions for protection

[Pnakotus]

The bridge is actually located behind the two radars on top. Secondary bridge is on the bottom side of the ship, behind the radar cluster. CIC is located deep in the hull and is not represented by any surface detail.

Lets hope they have elevator chairs between the two levels of the upper bridge.

And holy cow, you work FAST.  This is excellent!

[Nyctaeus]

I can't believe this thing is in the works since 2012...




Anyway, this way or another... I am it's end.

[manwiththemachinegun]

Doing God's work my dude.

[Su-tehp]

So how soon until this bad boy is ready?

[Sobbsy]

That is insanely beautiful...  It's incredible how it retains that classic brick shape that makes your brain go "Freespace", but just the way it looks feels SO modern, ULTRA modern. I'm genuinely blown away by these new high detail models you guys are working on.

I was curious, a lot of these new high poly ships have significant aliasing (is it normal mapping causing that? I'm way, way out of the loop on what we're using these days, old fart alert). Do we have any means, present or planned, to deal with that? I'm sure there must be some technical solution to it out there. SMAA or FXAA help mitigate it somewhat, but then I've found I need to use something like reshade to add a little sharpening to make the rest of the game somewhat clear... There's a nice balance to be found, but still, I was just curious

I can't imagine Freespace full of ships this beautiful, it's like a dream haha

[Colonol Dekker]

There are loads of graphic settings. 👍👍

[Nightmare]

...and already ingame

[Nyctaeus]

this conversion is actually buggy as ****. Random shading artifacts popped up like crazy, probably from bad triangulation. Has no debris, glowpoints, destroyed versions of lots of subsystems and other stuff. It's gonna take a while before this one is released. It is likely to have lots of revisions before release. Including significant texture update.

[manwiththemachinegun]

this conversion is actually buggy as ****. Random shading artifacts popped up like crazy, probably from bad triangulation. Has no debris, glowpoints, destroyed versions of lots of subsystems and other stuff. It's gonna take a while before this one is released. It is likely to have lots of revisions before release. Including significant texture update.

I have no idea what any of this means, so I am going to nod my head and say yes.
...
Yes.

[Colonol Dekker]

Curious thought.... Can I fly into the hangar? Is it a detail box?

[Nyctaeus]

Curious thought.... Can I fly into the hangar? Is it a detail box?

It has no modelled hangarbay. I never modelled a hangarbay for ingame usage... And I never will.

[Colonol Dekker]

That's that answered 👍