[SypheDMar]

Yay! Sweet. Texture's not how I envisioned it, but I like it, regardless.

[Water]

http://www.filefront.com/14103797/Moscow.zip
Model - Blend and Obj. Occ texture only.
Single UV layer, as it is fairly easy to add another if needed.

Yay! Sweet. Texture's not how I envisioned it, but I like it, regardless.

Heh, I'm not too happy with the textures.

[Vasudan Admiral]

Yeah I don't much like the textures there either sorry - they just eat up 90% of the detail that's modelled in.

I tried the same thing with the Iceni textures (heh, I remember sending that to you when you asked actually), and I feel the technique degrades the overall quality a lot by combining the worst of both worlds: the general crappy looks of tiled textures with the larger time, memory and complexity demands of a UV map.

[Water]

Yeah I don't much like the textures there either sorry - they just eat up 90% of the detail that's modelled in.

I tried the same thing with the Iceni textures (heh, I remember sending that to you when you asked actually), and I feel the technique degrades the overall quality a lot by combining the worst of both worlds: the general crappy looks of tiled textures with the larger time, memory and complexity demands of a UV map.

Most of it was just blocked in for colour, but I hadn't yet figured how to solve the tile problem. Although it looks like a mess something tells me I'm close, and that really bugs me.

[Fearless Leader]

This thing looks amazing! I greatly impressed with it and how far it has come

[Hades]

Also, the download link seems to be broken.

[Water]

http://www.filefront.com/14243127/Moscow.zip
The link will probably disappear in a week or two. Filefront seems to be for shorter storage periods now.

[Black Wolf]

Champion. That's a really solid UV map BTW . So, what does everyone think of cumulative texturing? I will start a new thread if there's a decent amount of support for the idea, although I can see massive potential problems, most significantly getting even a semblance of continuity across the thing. Anyopinions? Yea or Nay?

[Colonol Dekker]

Why the hell not
 
Edit- i'd wager more people are likely to have image editing software than modelling software. So you might get a greater response.

[Black Wolf]

Yeah, but that's half the problem - if everyone who has Photoshop or GIMP jumps on board and does a panel here or a doodad there we're going to have a mishmash of both styles and quality levels that'll be much harder to repair and make consistent than geometry. Consider how it would look if, at one end we had the one of Diaspora's texture guys working, while at the other end we have someone who's just figured out how the fill button works in GIMP?

On the other hand, spreading the load would speed the process up considerably, as well as ensuring nobody gets bored and forgets about it for six months at a time (something I'm guilty of with texture jobs )

TBH, I'm tempted to give it a go as a pure experiment, but I want to hear from a few other people first. Hell, realistically, the files are freely available. There's nothing I can do to stop anyone who wants to try texturing it, be it an individual effort by themselves or a cumulative system.

[Colonol Dekker]

There we go, a verbal/written  endorsement. Request split please