[Aardwolf]

Oh, that was the front?

[Colonol Dekker]

They kept this transporty thing in "Something Something Something Darkside"

[bobbtmann]

An update. Some details, tubes, panels, and the like.

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[Scourge of Ages]

An update. Some details, tubes, panels, and the like.

I approve of the slightly less-bubbly bubbles. Good work!

[brandx0]

Agreed, it's looking much better

[Thaeris]

Sweet beans and hot damn sauce! I love it!

[bobbtmann]

Some reverse detailing:

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[Aardwolf]

I take it you disliked some aspect of some parts and want to redo them?

Or is this for LODs ?

[Thaeris]

*Facepalm

Well Aard, I'd assume the only reasonable thing it could be would be a LOD... 

[bobbtmann]

It's the LOD1. For some reason, I've always found them to be more interesting than the full detail models.

[Colonol Dekker]

Me too. I think it's because they're more achievable for me
 
 
 
Or is this being detailed front to back? Seriously, this is some serious attention to detail to a minor almost unknown ship.
 
 
Kudos.

[Aardwolf]

*Facepalm

Well Aard, I'd assume the only reasonable thing it could be would be a LOD... 

If you had read what I had said you'd have seen that I already had an alternative (mis)interpretation, which is why I asked.

I was thinking maybe he didn't like the front he had given it, and was redoing it. But apparently he's not.

[bobbtmann]

No, I'm quite happy with the front. I'm doing the debris right now, and I don't really want to do too much revisiting. Speaking of which...

chief1983: Is there a damage/debris texture for FotG? I would like to have a copy, if you would send one to me. My texture for the Carrack debris was not very good. Inefficient, since it couldn't be used with any other ship.

[brandx0]

No, we don't have one yet, as none of our models have a debris mesh yet.

Maybe I'll try and cook one up sometime soon.

Also, I know, I'm not chief.

[chief1983]

I was going to say, one does have a debris mesh but then I realized it's the Carrack he's talking about.  Personally, I always wondered why debris looked like a piece of lava rock, and not more like a bunch of sawed-off corridors and piping and broken hull.  I mean yeah that'd be hard to do on a flat surface, and hard to do generically, but I always felt like we could do better than the retail stuff.

[brandx0]

I'll see if I can come up with something.  I think ideally we should look more at breaking the ship up, still using mostly the original texture, and then a debris texture for the areas where breaks occur.  Have the glowmaps on the original mesh disappear but have a glowmap for the debris texture to simulate fires and the like.  Maybe animated if we can keep the size low and tile it.

[bobbtmann]

I think the biggest problem with having sawed off corridors and pipes is that they have to be modelled and mapped. The end product doesn't even get seen, since he ship blows up and the pieces spin off into the distance.

Speaking of having glow maps disappear, can the glow maps be disabled if the ship were disabled?

[TopAce]

It can be done in FRED simply enough.

[Stormkeeper]

Looks like it can easily be converted into a tank.

[bobbtmann]

She's actually very graceful.