[StratComm]

Thought I'd have a go with glowpoints...  My testbed was the Arcadia, and because of the spotty effect the lights on that station already have with glowmaps, I didn't go overboard with the lights.  Look around its edges, as well as around the hole and fighterbay for the glows.  Looks best in combination with the glowmap effects.

Blinking Arcadia

[Starks]

SOD? Is that like **** outta luck?

[Rampage]

I guess it's dead.  The last viable topic was over a week ago.  Sorry, Petrarch.

[pyro-manic]

Damn! Musta missed this. Sorry, Petrarch!

I'd give it a go, but I don't know how the hell to make one of these. If someone can show me how, or point me to a decent tutorial, I'll give it a go. Can't let StratComm just walk away with this without a fight, can I?

[StratComm]

Speaking of which, did anyone ever even look at my model?  I actually thought it was quite an improvement.

And Pyro, the best way to learn is to play.  That's what this contest is meant to inspire is people learning the tools and getting the advantages into the game.  Open a relatively simple model (a fighter is good) and just have at it.

But for advise, the best way to do it I've found is to open Modelview and a recent version of PCS with the same model loaded.  Use the gunpoint editor to get the coordinates (create one gunpoint and just move it around; the crosshairs give you a good sense of location), and then enter them in PCS.  Just keep in mind, deleting glows can be extremely annoying, so make sure you don't create extras.  And don't save from modelview.

[Nico]

oh, yeah, I missed that topic too.

[J3Vr6]

Why do you think you've missed it?  If you have an idea for the contest, it wouldn't hurt to work on it anyway.  It wouldn't hurt...

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by StratComm
Speaking of which, did anyone ever even look at my model?  I actually thought it was quite an improvement.

I did, and it ias very, very good. I especially like the fighter bay projected lights, that looks cool.

[Nuke]

ive done some stuff, but nothing too fancy. unfortunately i cant put up any pics, my webspace provider doesnt like me link to my files from here. im still having some problems with aurora, every time i try to fix something, it screws up something else. for example when i reloaded a model i previously tweaked with aroura, gunpoints, subsystems, and missile glows seem to disapear. also pofdvew shows some anomalies in the file structure, is this normal? i like the interface though, i hope its still a work in progress, so it can become as good as pcs is.

[StratComm]

wow, I've been gone for almost a month and this thread hasn't changed since I left.  I thought that this was a really good idea, and if I had more time to spare I might continue to do them (gets an idea ).  If anyone else remembers that this contest is here, use PCS; Aurora may be more user friendly on the input side, it isn't stable enough yet to be actually used.

[Thor]

Originally posted by LLivingLarge
SOD? Is that like **** outta luck?

It means screw it, but nicer!  And more Brit.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Indeed, it's a more arcane version of screw/****/bugger/to-hell-with it.

[wojta]

I have recently completed GTF Ulysses with lights.
http://fsworld.wz.cz/index.php?page=5&setlang=en#ulysses

[Nuke]

my version has lights, but it also has an extra set of engines, 2 gatling guns, a happy death glowing eye smiley face pantjob arount the cockpit, and horns for an added evilness.eyes have glows with laser thingies and guns have laser thingies too.it sucks that i cant put any pics up, my ulessys variant kicks ass!

[Taristin]

send me a pic, I'll up it and give you the link.

[Taristin]

*bump* I wanna see more of these! Keep posting!

You too, wojta!

[WMCoolmon]

I'm interested too... has anyone else made glowpointed fighters?

[Flipside]

The Arcadia looked pretty good

I think the main problem here is that the SCP is growing so fast that us modders are struggling to keep up, we just create our latest ship with Glowmaps, and then Bobboau pulled shine-maps out the hat, and then Hi-Poly models and then rotating turrets, not to mention adding the glowpoints and in the space of about 6 months, most peoples' mods don't use half the new features available
This isn't knocking the work of the SCP team, I'm GLAD they are adding all these features, but I think I need some time to catch up with them all! I will get round to adding Glowpoints to some of my ships, but it's just a question of finding time whilst upgrading everything else.

Flipside

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Flipside
The Arcadia looked pretty good

I think the main problem here is that the SCP is growing so fast that us modders are struggling to keep up, we just create our latest ship with Glowmaps, and then Bobboau pulled shine-maps out the hat, and then Hi-Poly models and then rotating turrets, not to mention adding the glowpoints and in the space of about 6 months, most peoples' mods don't use half the new features available
This isn't knocking the work of the SCP team, I'm GLAD they are adding all these features, but I think I need some time to catch up with them all! I will get round to adding Glowpoints to some of my ships, but it's just a question of finding time whilst upgrading everything else.

Flipside

wait till fading / ANIs are supported.

[Flipside]

Starts pre-emptive animating

That should help matters along

Flipside