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Offline General Battuta

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Re: [Release]Vengeance-pattern GTCv Diomedes
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Re: [Release]Vengeance-pattern GTCv Diomedes
He told me he might do the rest of the StratComm fleet. I hope he brings back the original stripe pattern on those ships though, the glowy light texture that replaces the stripes in the BP reskins has always looked off to me from the moment I played BP for the first time (I was at the time already very familiar with the original appearance of those ships).
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(I was at the time already very familiar with the original appearance of those ships).

Might have something to do with it

 

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Re: [Release]Vengeance-pattern GTCv Diomedes
I definitely could get used to seeing something like this.
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Re: [Release]Vengeance-pattern GTCv Diomedes
I intend to do the Chimera, Bellerophon, Hyperion, Titan, and Raynor.  Probably in that order.  The Titan's not going to be easy, so it *might* switch places with the Raynor (which in turn might switch places with the Hyperion).  The textures will look similar to the Diomedes, including the stripes.  I'm not fond of the glowy lights either. 

In fact, the Chimera's coming along nicely.  Overhauled the engine section.  Don't like the current model's curvy look in that area.




I like AO renders.  Lets me see where I need to add detail.

Unlike the Dio, this will be a drop-in model.  No table changes whatsoever.

Definitely seeing the "wings" and conning tower as significant aspects of TEI ships, kinda like centrifuges for Fed ships.

A question for the Bellerophon when I get to it: Would it be better if the BBlue actually looked different from the two MBlues (as in bigger)?  Because right now, all three of its beam cannons look identical.
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The radius of the turret cannot change but please feel free to make any other aesthetic difference. Think of it as being more powerful as in 'longer' rather than 'wider'.

 

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Re: [Release]Vengeance-pattern GTCv Diomedes
Ohshi-

Depending on the rate you release those, I might delay HWBP's planned progress to implement em. Not that I was doing much progress lately to begin with...
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I like the homeworldian flaps on the engine block and the ribs on the wings. But the conning tower could use some more geometry details to give it a sense of scale (same applies for the Diomedes, which looks badass otherwise)
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Re: [Release]Vengeance-pattern GTCv Diomedes
Okay, I downloaded the Dio...  Really Impressive work!! however I do feel that the theme is very similar to the UEF (the blues stripes reinforce this)... however, really good model!  :yes: :nod:
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Re: [Release]Vengeance-pattern GTCv Diomedes
i thought stratcomm's ships are already the best looking ones we have in FSO.  why do we need to redo them?  i know nothing about modding though, are they missing some of the high-tech fancy stuff other models have? 
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i thought stratcomm's ships are already the best looking ones we have in FSO.  why do we need to redo them?  i know nothing about modding though, are they missing some of the high-tech fancy stuff other models have?

They aren't really up to the standard of the new UEF models.

 

Offline Aesaar

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Re: [Release]Vengeance-pattern GTCv Diomedes
The designs themselves are excellent.  The issue is that the models are a little low on detail when compared to BP's more contemporary models like the Karuna and Solaris.  And most of all, they're tilemapped, which just doesn't look good.

Cybertrance: Everyone knows this war is light gray, white and teal versus dark gray, black and blue :p.  But actually, I put in stripes because I don't like the glowing blue lights on current ships, but still consider blue a GTVA color.  And there were blue stripes on the original (non-WiH) Chimera and Bellerophon.  And I love Homeworld, which has lots of stripes on ships.
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i thought stratcomm's ships are already the best looking ones we have in FSO.  why do we need to redo them?  i know nothing about modding though, are they missing some of the high-tech fancy stuff other models have? 
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Re: [Release]Vengeance-pattern GTCv Diomedes
I like tiles. Sure, one could do better, but I don't think it looks that bad.

  

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Re: [Release]Vengeance-pattern GTCv Diomedes
Exactly. Tiling is a good way to save time, and it looks acceptable if done well.
Thankfully, those models won't hold the release back, so time isn't a concern with them.

 

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I like AO renders.  Lets me see where I need to add detail.

Should try to bake it into the final diffuse map too ;) IMO, the diomedes on first page could use a bake like that.

 

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It has one.

 

Offline Kolgena

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Oops, sorry. looked like it might not have had one in the first shot. I guess the shadows threw me off.

 

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Re: [Release]Vengeance-pattern GTCv Diomedes
Can someone test if this ship works in the very first mission of WiH? My Game crashes instantly after i start Mission 1 with the new Diomedes.  After deleting the new files everything works fine egain, so it has to be related to the Diomedes.

 

Offline Aesaar

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Re: [Release]Vengeance-pattern GTCv Diomedes
This is my first attempt at making a direct replacement for an existing ship, so I actually have no idea why the diomedes-shp.tbm has issues (I'm sure someone more experienced could tell me what I screwed up).  The simplest fix is to extract the bp2-shp.tbm and paste the new tables over the Diomedes entry in there.  That's the way I have it set up, and I understand it fixed issues for others.
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