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Lightspeed · **Reply #80 on:** November 03, 2003, 10:39:18 am

I like the Nahema. But then again, I like most shivan ships

The 'quite odd' Sekhmet.

And last but not least the Taurvi bomber, which completes the bomber shinemap selection.

Here's the zip, i've also done the meson bomb, since it fits bombing quite well

Download all bomber shinemaps

Comments welcome

mikhael · **Reply #81 on:** November 03, 2003, 01:47:27 pm

Your maps are good, Lightspeed, but are hampered by the fact that Volition completely screwed up the Mjolnir in the first place. From the model down to the textures, there's not one thing done right on that unit. Someone needs to sit down and put together proper maps for the thing from scratch.

Taristin · **Reply #82 on:** November 03, 2003, 02:15:59 pm

Actually, you missed the Bakha... But it's filename is fighter2v-03, so I understand how you could...

Flaser · **Reply #83 on:** November 03, 2003, 02:37:44 pm

I see what you meant by the Artemis being special.

I wonder if we could do something like this for every texture...

Lightspeed · **Reply #84 on:** November 03, 2003, 02:42:44 pm

about the Bakha...
You can't really consider that thing a bomber, but of course it'll be done

(i'll prolly add it to the fighter pack, lol)

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Originally posted by Flaser
I see what you meant by the Artemis being special.

I wonder if we could do something like this for every texture...

no it wont work with every texture. I tried it once and it was deh suck. It only works with some of the textures because the original stuff already has it, but it's so incredibly weak in contrast that you fail to notice it unless on a 400% zoom

Taristin · **Reply #85 on:** November 03, 2003, 02:43:16 pm

The blue hue is cool. It's like the purple crimion cocpit I made, and the orange alves cocpit.

Taristin · **Reply #86 on:** November 03, 2003, 02:45:38 pm

What do you mean you can't consider the Bakha a bomber?! It's the GVD Bakha for goodness sake! Plus it packs a punch, all be it a small one...

Lightspeed · **Reply #87 on:** November 03, 2003, 02:45:44 pm

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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
The blue hue is cool. It's like the purple crimion cocpit I made, and the orange alves cocpit.

the really cool part about it is that the ship itself isn't any blue-ish but light cast on it will have that blue touch to it.

(another reason we want ambient lighting back

)

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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
What do you mean you can't consider the Bakha a bomber?! It's the GVD Bakha for goodness sake! Plus it packs a punch, all be it a small one...

well, the Bakha is... the Bakha.

Lightspeed · **Reply #88 on:** November 03, 2003, 03:42:44 pm

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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h

Yeah, I'd like to do that to a few ships...

But I like it without ambient lighting... But it's probably just me.

ideal would be to have the ambient light slider in fred, but a command line like -amb (strength) would do.

For example:

-amb 1.0 : Textures are all displayed with full brightness + specular lighting
- amb 0.5 Textures are displayed at half brightness + specular lighting

that way, you could set whatever you like most (-amb 0.0, for you)

maybe we could even add those two things together (the slider and the -amb command line:

ambient setting in FRED * ambient in Command line = ambient light

Bobboau · **Reply #89 on:** November 03, 2003, 05:59:49 pm

I gave the artimus a purple highlight for the cockpit, I think it looks cool, but that's just me. I generaly don't see people takeing advantage of the fact that shine maps can have completly diferent colors than the base texture

Lightspeed · **Reply #90 on:** November 03, 2003, 06:32:04 pm

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Originally posted by Bobboau
I gave the artimus a purple highlight for the cockpit, I think it looks cool, but that's just me. I generaly don't see people takeing advantage of the fact that shine maps can have completly diferent colors than the base texture

made use of that for the Artemis, The Mjolnir, and the Boadicea.

StratComm · **Reply #91 on:** November 03, 2003, 07:13:58 pm

You know it'd be nice if someone just spun it on its side, so that it shoots its beam forward like it is supposed to. The model is, well, sort of goofy too, especially around the cannon itself.

Fineus · **Reply #92 on:** November 03, 2003, 07:31:29 pm

I don't know, it has the whole "directed beam weapon" look to it, but god knows there isn't such a fuss made about all the other beam cannons in the game.. why does this one spin and have prongs etc?

Take a page out of HW2s book I say!

Flipside · **Reply #93 on:** November 03, 2003, 07:40:57 pm

It's ok as a model, it looks like what it does, but it always looked like the UV Mapping was done as a rush job before lunch

Flipside

mikhael · **Reply #94 on:** November 03, 2003, 08:14:24 pm

Go look at the mesh in a 3d editor. Its utter garbage. I swear, some :V: crony had a spare ten minuts on his lunch break and threw something together. Then they realized they didn't have a model for the Mjolnir and took the first mesh that was offered up.

I'll remodel the Mjolnir cleanly if anyone wants it. If you'd like, I'll model it as a low poly version of my Mk2 model. Someone will have to texture and convert it though. It'd only take me like a couple hours to throw it together.

StratComm · **Reply #95 on:** November 03, 2003, 08:50:30 pm

Do it, someone around here will take a stab at it. (Maybe even me

)

And Kali, I really think the spinny stuff is what makes the Mjolnir. The homeworld2 platforms are a real stretch, since you're mounting 4 of the weapons that are supposed to be so big that only a frigate or better can use them on one little thing with no speakable engines. The Mjolnir, on the other hand, just screams "big beam" to me.

Black Wolf · **Reply #96 on:** November 03, 2003, 09:28:33 pm

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Originally posted by mikhael
Go look at the mesh in a 3d editor. Its utter garbage. I swear, some :V: crony had a spare ten minuts on his lunch break and threw something together. Then they realized they didn't have a model for the Mjolnir and took the first mesh that was offered up.

I'll remodel the Mjolnir cleanly if anyone wants it. If you'd like, I'll model it as a low poly version of my Mk2 model. Someone will have to texture and convert it though. It'd only take me like a couple hours to throw it together.

Feel like UV- Mapping it too? I mean, lower poly or not, that Mjolnir mesh of yours would confuse the hell out of Lith - at leats, with me at the helm it would...

Setekh · **Reply #97 on:** November 04, 2003, 12:28:22 am

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Originally posted by Kalfireth
I don't know, it has the whole "directed beam weapon" look to it, but god knows there isn't such a fuss made about all the other beam cannons in the game.. why does this one spin and have prongs etc?

Take a page out of HW2s book I say!

Wow, HW2's rendering engine is quite nice. I can pretty much guarantee it won't run on my PC, though.

Heh, Bob, you've been saying that a lot lately. I agree.

Lightspeed · **Reply #98 on:** November 04, 2003, 07:12:48 am

Ravana shinemaps!

the two on the lower left are taken in tech room since i didnt get the right angle in-game

Ravana shinemaps

note that you need the FS1 shinemaps in order to have all textures the ravana needs.

As always, comments welcome

J3Vr6 · **Reply #99 on:** November 04, 2003, 08:20:23 am

Besides the shinemaps, is HTL what makes those ships look so incredible? My game doesn't look even remotely as nice as any of the ships Lightspeed has shown

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