[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Lightspeed

2.) DaB: Yeah, I practically had to redo 90% of the map as it was rubbish. I agree about the shading, but the original was like this too, and actually I like the smooth look on it - 'tis definately obligatory for other vessels though (like the Anuket).

Propably because your map is 1024x1024. At this high res, most parts of the old map look just like crap. (As the red parts of the Ares )

[Lightspeed]

eh, no. Look at it in its original size - it's just as bad. It's in 1024² because the original map was 782x620 or something, so it used 1024² in memory anyway, and cropping down to 512² would be a loss of even more detail. So I decided to scale up and - The refinement would have had to be done either way.

BTW, the Ares will be the next one. I wont get finished untill tomorrow, though.

[Taristin]

Ares. Vasudan Fighters. Anuket.

I love them all. Great stuff.  Maybe we can get you to reskin the Hotep for me.

Oh, and the two Vassy vessels that really need to be redone are the Bakha and the Sekhmat. Especially the Sekhmat. It's like 256x256.

[Bobboau]

new build up

fixes the seams that have been an issue for a while, was harder to fix than I thought it was going to be, but I think I got it .

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Ares. Vasudan Fighters. Anuket.

I love them all. Great stuff.  Maybe we can get you to reskin the Hotep for me.

Oh, and the two Vassy vessels that really need to be redone are the Bakha and the Sekhmat. Especially the Sekhmat. It's like 256x256.

Agreed. Not agreed (some of them look crappy). Agreed.

I will 'reskin' your vasudan ships, but that will be when we actually need them (i.e. Chapter 2) - you'll have to have patience till then. If you've got basic maps for each of them they should be done pretty soon after I start working on them.

Raa, *all* FS2 ships use approximately 256x256 textures. Thats why they look inferior to FS1 ships.

Bob: *downloading*

[Taristin]

Oh, I'm waiting, don't worry.

[Lightspeed]

The Ares. (screenshots taken with the last env build as the new one has problems (see builds forum))

Original hi-res maps made by DaBrain.

Further texture improvements, glowmaps, shinemaps and env map are my work.

Ares Maps (5.17MB)

@Bob: check the builds forum for my issues.

[Taristin]

5 mb?!

[Lightspeed]

The funny thing is, the files are exactly the same size as those of the Horus. But the compression ratio is err... rather bad.

[DaBrain]

I like it

Now I realize how super-bad my glow map is... I'll use yours

[Taristin]

Not too long ago I was trying to put a cocpit in this ship. Now I may just try again.

[DaBrain]

You saw my glow map ?

It was just a test... I knew it wouldn't have worked as I wanted it to.

I like the idea. In the cockpit is light, so why not add it to the glow map ?

[Taristin]

Actually, I was doing this like 2 days after Nico released the cocpit. I haven't seen your glowmap, no, but I'm sure it was good. I made a glow map for the cocpit using Nico's maps. The hardest part is getting it to render correctly. I wish there was a flag I could add to the subobject data in the pof to make it render first, or second, etc.

[Bobboau]

subobjects are rendered in the order they are found in the pof, the main hull is rendered after everything else

[Taristin]

So I should have the model setup as a cocpit, cocpit glass, then hull?

[JTK-1701-E]

Holy crap.

I <3 you guys...

[Janos]

Sweet Jesus. You just made me wet my pants. My favourite fighter..

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Not too long ago I was trying to put a cocpit in this ship. Now I may just try again.

getting cockpits into ships is the ONLY way to make cockpits look right.

What we'd need is modellers to put one into each Terran and Vasudan fighter craft - it'd eliminate all the lighting problems we currently have with cockpits.

[Taristin]

Ahh, but what does a Vasudan cocpit look like? I don't know how similar it'd be, if GTVA engineers had to modify each craft for Terran use.

[Lightspeed]

Look at the shield cutscene from FS1 and the Vasudan Mainhall from FS2.