[Yuzuki5749]

ah, thanks.
I haven't editted the lightning settings. So i'm playing with the default settings, i think.

[Jeff Vader]

I recommend you give those custom flags a try. There's a world of difference to be seen in terms of lighting.

[Yuzuki5749]

I recommend you give those custom flags a try. There's a world of difference to be seen in terms of lighting.

Ok, I'll give it a try, but not yet.

Here's the Artemis D.H.

[Lester]

I definitely prefer your version on this one. It shows a lot more texture detail than the previous one, and is simply better looking in general. 

[Kolgena]

See, the thing is, these ships look extra matte because the specularity settings aren't turned up in your lighting settings. That's what I'm concerned about.

(tbf, the Artemises are fairly matte compared to the rest of stuff)

[Commander Zane]

It looks like the hull is made out of jade, which despite the silliness in the idea, it looks really cool.

I propose if this shinemap replaces what we currently have, that D.H. wings are parts of Aztecan-themed squadron names.

[Yuzuki5749]

It's intended that the Artemis D.H. is darker than other terran and vasudan fighters and bombers. I don't know what D.H. means but I know that the "D." means "Dark" and the "H." could mean "Hunter", "Hawk" or something else...

Whatever...
It's intended that I set the texture a bit darker than the original.

[Gregster2k]

Yuzuki5749, you get my vote but please don't worry about whether or not the FSUP uses your textures.  Please plow ahead, make yours as you wish, and make an alternative pack out of it.    It'll last until models get updated.

[Hades]

Keep going, Yuzuki, I really like both the medusa and artemis shine maps you have done so far. Please be sure to make them at 2048^2 resolution for the mv_advanced pack and that way they can be scaled down for regular (easier to scale a texture down than up)

[Yuzuki5749]

The Artemis:

[Rodo]

lower the intensity of the shine map by 50%, maybe that will improve more, as it stands now I would still go with the original one.. yours gets too intense.

[Kolgena]

I agree. It looks like tin foil in the middle and bottom pic.

(Did you talk to Sab0o about doing these?)

[Flaser]

Are you also playing around with the color of the shine-map? One of the coolest, thought oft unused features of FSO is that you can give an object a different colored shine than the diffuse map.

[T-LoW]

Shinin' it up real nice. Turn that sum**** sideways and stick it straight up their candy-***!!

Always liked shiny textures. I'm good with them. Especially when there's enough roughness on the hull's detailed textures.

[Raven2001]

Nice ones Yuzuki, that gets a thumbs up.

The thing you could try exploring is the differentiation in materials. As it is now, every material shines by the same amount more or less. If you would, for instance, make the differences between metal and paint really stand out (paint doesn't shine as much as metal: the red stripes on the Artemis could be almost black on the shine map, for example), I'm sure the ships would look miles better, more graphical.

[Yuzuki5749]

Is this better?

Are you also playing around with the color of the shine-map? One of the coolest, thought oft unused features of FSO is that you can give an object a different colored shine than the diffuse map.

...like this?
I've done this month before.

[Rodo]

that looks way better, I still think it might need a tiny reduction on the reflection but it's definitely a big improvement.

[Yuzuki5749]

The Ulysses:

[Commander Zane]

I like it, but maybe the Ulysses could wait until the glaringly obvious untextured strip above the primary mounts is fixed.

[Hades]

I've asked both peterv and VA about it and they've both pointed me to each other so I have no idea when it will ever get fixed. Besides, the thing needs to be reuvmapped because it currently uses the retail texture, and thus needs a new, custom one made for it.