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Title: how to make cartoony ships?
Post by: starlord on April 29, 2008, 04:24:18 am

I was just woundering what it takes to make ships appear more cartoony like?
I basically had this idea: I think WCsaga is going to become a great standard in the Wc universe mainly because of the possibility of including new models and missions (thank you fred). Once saga is finished, what is to stop fans from making a campaign with the movie ships (following the movie) or better still, an ACADEMY series campaign?
I definately think the latter would be cool, but I was woundering what t took to make ships appear cartoony. I think it's mostly texture work, no?

Title: Re: how to make cartoony ships?
Post by: Gun_Ship on April 29, 2008, 06:09:56 am

Why would you want to do that?

Title: Re: how to make cartoony ships?
Post by: starlord on April 29, 2008, 06:19:08 am

I wouldn't (and mostly couldn't), but I think saga will grow just as much as freespace , which might open up perspectives.

Title: Re: how to make cartoony ships?
Post by: gevatter Lars on April 29, 2008, 06:27:28 am

You could do this in two ways. Edit all the textures and graphics or code your own toonshader.
That are at least the two posibilitys that are comming up my mind.

Title: Re: how to make cartoony ships?
Post by: starlord on April 29, 2008, 06:33:25 am

just to know if it could be possible via FRED through the inclusion of other models...

Wo knows what the future could bring  :nod:

Title: Re: how to make cartoony ships?
Post by: Flipside on April 29, 2008, 07:29:31 am

Cell Shading used to be the route for this, but it currently isn't working. Once the material system is up and running, I suspect it would be possible to recreate it.