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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => The FreeSpace Port Upgrade => Topic started by: FSU Staff on August 29, 2011, 03:48:43 pm

Title: Current FSPort Assets Thread
Post by: FSU Staff on August 29, 2011, 03:48:43 pm

After talk between FSU members, it's been decided a new thread was needed, because of the lack of frequent and recent updates.

NOTE: Due to the relatively common occurrence of two people unknowingly working on the same ship, we request that rather than keep it as a surprise, an announcement thread of some sort be made ASAP. This is ESPECIALLY encouraged for ships of corvette or above scales due to the huge amount of work involved in their construction. This is not intended to discourage anyone from upgrading whichever ship they please (though ships that do not already have upgraded versions are most definitely preferred!), but merely to try and reduce accidental doubling up.

NAME: The name in Italics means that while there may be an updated Mesh (compared to Retail), it was either done a long time ago, or could still use more detail or another look.
MESH: The model itself. Higher poly count, managed smoothing and where ever possible, textured details should be present or defined (within reason). (If it can or should be handled by the Normal map, then use the normal map for the feature)
GLOWPOINTS: Glowing balls often times used to accentuate glows on a texture or use on edges of wings to simulate how we do it on fighters today, done via POF editor.
MAPPING: A UVMap is usually 1 or 2 maps for the main LOD instead of having many tiles.
"UVMapped" looks better as it can have more dynamic detail present and it doesn't hit performance as hard as tiles do.
"Retail/Tile" means that the model is still Tile Mapped. Mixed means both a UVMap and/or additional Textures are used, or lower LODs are still separately mapped.
TEXTURES: The original 256x256 8-bit PCX textures can be made larger and more detailed, with carefully designed glow and shine maps to match.
"Retail" means that it is an up-sized DDS version of the Retail map, rather than a unique to the model details map. While not a "bad" thing, not a lot of Retail maps were of the right resolution for the DDS "power of two", so whenever possible, a new map (even based on Retail alignment) should be made.
NORMAL MAP: This new functionality greatly improves the appearance of every texture, it makes the illusion of more detail modeled than is actually modeled.
"Texture Based" means that somebody simply ran the base diffuse map through a Normal Map filter/generator. While not necessarily a bad thing, it can be noisy/messy (as indicated by italics).
STATUS LINK: A link to the development thread or image to the completed in-use asset or Wiki page.

--==<< Terran Vessels >>==--

Fighters

Name	Mesh	Glow-points	Mapping	Texture	Normal Map	Status Link
GTF Apollo	Old	Yes	Old	Old	Texture Based	Thread Link (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=70037.0)

GTF Valkyrie

Yes

UVMapped

Yes

Thread Link (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=55672.0)

GTF Angel

Old

Yes

Mixed

Old

Thread Link

Bombers

Name	Mesh	Glow-points	Mapping	Texture	Normal Map	Status Link
GTB Athena	Old	Yes	Mixed	Old	Old	Thread Link (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=71926.0)

Support and Cargo

Name	Mesh	Glow-points	Mapping	Texture	Normal Map	Status Link
GTS Centaur	Old	No	Mixed	Old	Texture Based	Thread Link (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=56335.0)
GTFr Chronos	Old	No	Mixed	Old	Yes	Thread Link

Additional Misc

Name	Mesh	Glow-points	Mapping	Texture	Normal Map	Status Link
GTI Polaris	Yes	No	Mixed	Retail	Texture Based	Thread Link
Terran Probe	Yes	No	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link

--==<< Vasudan Vessels >>==--

Fighters

Name	Mesh	Glow-points	Mapping	Texture	Normal Map	Status Link
PVF Anubis	Yes	No	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=55719.0)

Bombers

Name	Mesh	Glow-points	Mapping	Texture	Normal Map	Status Link
PVB Amun	Yes	No	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link - WIP (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=81274.0)

Support and Cargo

Name	Mesh	Glow-points	Mapping	Texture	Normal Map	Status Link
PVS Scarab	Old	No	Retail	Retail	Texture Based	Thread Link
PVDr Jackal	Yes	Yes	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link
PVFr Bast	Yes	No	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link
VC 3	Yes	No	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link

Installations

Name	Mesh	Glow-points	Mapping	Texture	Normal Map	Status Link
PVI Karnak	Yes	Yes	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=53232.0)
Karnak Reactor	Yes	Yes	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=53232.0)
PVI Shah Pylon	Yes	Yes	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link
PVI Cheops	Yes	Yes	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=69056.0)

Additional Misc

Name	Mesh	Glow-points	Mapping	Texture	Normal Map	Status Link
PVSC Imhotep	Yes	Yes	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link

--==<< Shivan Vessels >>==--

Fighters

Name	Mesh	Glow-points	Mapping	Texture	Normal Map	Status Link
SF Scorpion	Yes	No	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=73987.0)
SF Gorgon	Yes	No	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=73987.0)

Bombers

Name	Mesh	Glow-points	Mapping	Texture	Normal Map	Status Link
SB Shaitan	Yes	No	UVMapped	Yes	Yes	Thread Link (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=73987.0)

Title: Re: Current FSPort Assets Thread
Post by: FSU Staff on August 29, 2011, 03:49:19 pm

Reserved.