[Turambar]

the Bahka is just a bunch of annoying little details and little aliased lines to fix, along with reglowmapping it and making temporary shinemaps so it doesnt look like sh!t ingame.  Erinyes means making all those pipes look detailed, making the plates look less like a piece of poop, and making the whole thing cleaner overall.

[TopAce]

Prefer the Erinyes to the Bakha, players encounter more of them than Bakhas.

[Taristin]

Bakha has no glowmapping... it's the strangest looking bomber in the game. I'm only doing it to practice. So far... it still looks like poo...

[DaBrain]

The Bakha is one one of the best looking vasudan ships.

Plus the map is not that bad.

But add some glowpoint on the inner-parts.

[Turambar]

http://swooh.com/peon/Turambar/Maps/Orion%20WIP/

heres my Orion maps

Edit: Well, technically theyre the Dabrain-Turambar Orion Maps because i used his nicely detailed maps to start with

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by redsniper
The textures are great but the Orion model is showing it's age, badly. We just need an HTL Orion.

seconded..
i mean, come on people, the herc and the fenris got the HTL treatment, why not the ever venerable orion?

[jdjtcagle]

In-Fact a HTL capship period would be good...  But I have always what an Orion would look like High-Poly

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by jdjtcagle
In-Fact a HTL capship period would be good...  But I have always what an Orion would look like High-Poly

precisely, since in FS2 we spend most of our time looking at capships.. we have to make them look pretty

altho, i do i have one idea, also give the turrets the HTL treatment.

[Bobboau]

before anyone says anything, 100-300 poly turrets would likely have no negetive effects at all.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Bobboau
before anyone says anything, 100-300 poly turrets would likely have no negetive effects at all.

yeah, i meant that the turrets /do/ look a bit on the ugly side, actually, most of them do, some of them look too simplistic in overall look.. (box with square or triangular barrels) something to make them /look/ the part, shouldn't be too hard to make them look at least a little better than they are now, without comprimising on the original design, of course.

[Bri_Dog]

Put blinking runway lights on the Orion!

[Nico]

Originally posted by Bobboau
before anyone says anything, 100-300 poly turrets would likely have no negetive effects at all.

You gotta have a reality check, Bob. It does have an impact.

[Bobboau]

not as much as haveing turrets with more than one texture on it, DX8 is optomised for 1000-3000 poly batches if you use less that 1000 polys the game stalls, so haveing 300 poly turret is actualy more than a third to few to have everything running it's best.

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Turambar
http://swooh.com/peon/Turambar/Maps/Orion%20WIP/

heres my Orion maps

Edit: Well, technically theyre the Dabrain-Turambar Orion Maps because i used his nicely detailed maps to start with

 Nice, but the parts you copied in look rather blocky.

And the glowmap is ... horrible.
But keep it up.

Edit: 512² is enough, the map is too blury for 1024².

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Bobboau
not as much as haveing turrets with more than one texture on it, DX8 is optomised for 1000-3000 poly batches if you use less that 1000 polys the game stalls, so haveing 300 poly turret is actualy more than a third to few to have everything running it's best.

Are you actually saying that we should make 1000 poly turrets for all our ships?

[Taristin]

That'd be frickin cool... But of unnoticed detail.

[Raptor]

Originally posted by Turnsky


yeah, i meant that the turrets /do/ look a bit on the ugly side, actually, most of them do, some of them look too simplistic in overall look.. (box with square or triangular barrels) something to make them /look/ the part, shouldn't be too hard to make them look at least a little better than they are now, without comprimising on the original design, of course.

Already done once, by me.  Turambar is using my fisrt release.  Check Sig.

Planing a Mark II version to my 'Reguned' version.