[Galemp]

Oh man. I just tried out something on the model?

It's even BETTER.

But I won't tell you. Not till it's redone.

Spoiler:

Thank Bobboau.

Herra, I think there's something wrong with your video drivers or something. There's some bizarre stuff happening with the textures; the glowmaps don't overlap the pipes like that.

[Herra Tohtori]

Well I did have an interesting episode with Medieval 2 Total War before taking these shots... perhaps re-installation of video drivers would be beneficial. I'll let you know if it has a positive effect.


EDIT: Well, re-installing the GPU drivers fixed the slowdowns (whaddayaknow) but actually it seems like it's the height map causing that overlapping (among other stuff).

[blowfish]

I just tried out something on the model?

Is that a question?

Spoiler:

Thank Bobboau.

Spoiler:

THANK YOU BOBBOAU! (without even knowing what it is )

[Androgeos Exeunt]

That's not a moon...



Lock S-Foils on attack position.



Stay on target...



Nice view those Zods are having here...





EDIT: nevermind the shiny moon, it's a normal map experiment (I just fixed it with a black shinemap after taking these screenies).

By the way. I'm experiencing a really strange, huge slowdown (down to about 5-10 FPS) as soon as the "destroy blast door" phase of the mission begins. It isn't there with the old Karnak, so I'm guessing it has something to do with the new model.

Wow! A Karnak! How many polygons are there on it?

[starlord]

do you intend to keep the red color in the reactor chamber? this makes it look like you were more in a gargant than in a vasudan vessel.

[Titan]

do you intend to keep the red color in the reactor chamber? this makes it look like you were more in a gargant than in a vasudan vessel.

even better.

so you just replace the model in the tables?

[blowfish]

To use this with fsport, just put the model in freespace/fsport/data/models/ and the textures in freespace/fsport/data/maps/

[Snail]

do you intend to keep the red color in the reactor chamber? this makes it look like you were more in a gargant than in a vasudan vessel.

It's a reactor room. You think it would be all shiny and happy?

[starlord]

I don't know, perhaps a bright green halo. (i may be wrong, of course).

[Mobius]

Suggestion: what about some nice Karnak extensions? You're surely able to create them. It would be nice to see this improved installation with extensions docked with it.

[Galemp]

Believe it or not, it's already on my agenda. I plan to have a new Shah drydock extension that plugs into the trapezoidal docking bay socket.

[Mobius]

Excellent!

[Solatar]

One with dockpoints to connect them? I love the Shah/polaris pylons but they're a pain in the arse to put together.

[Snail]

I don't know, perhaps a bright green halo. (i may be wrong, of course).

Well, IMO, I'd say that the Vasudan mechanics are more or less the same as Terran technology, they just used a different material to cover it. I mean loads of Vasudan ships in FS1 and FS2 all have pipes and stuff in it. It's not like it's too different like Shivan technology or anything.

[IceFire]

Fantastic work!  The new model looks brilliant!

[Ace]

Nice, I honestly didn't think that ten years later people would be updating this. I do need to release some planet backgrounds to replace the old ones it seems though.

[Galemp]

Hello, what's this?



Looks like a further enhanced Karnak mesh, with a Hammer of Light reskin.

 

I'm looking at putting the finishing touches on this tomorrow, so if anyone has any input, speak now!

[blowfish]

Looks nice, though I'm not sure about the hieroglyphics ... the yellow looks a bit odd, but if that's just an optional reskin than I'm OK.

Oh, and an upturreted version would be nice, but if that's too much work, no worries

[Droid803]

I liked the blue and un-hieroglyphed skin better, tbh.
I would've gone orange and green like TrashMan's for the HOL skins 

Still, it looks like much win.

[Mobius]

OMG the hieroglyphics are fantastic! IMO the regular Vasudan version should use them as well...

Spoiler:

THANK YOU BOBBOAU! (without even knowing what it is )

WTF...I know you consider yourself a n00b but that's exaggerate!!!