[JarC]

Shivan variety


Sandwich's variety

[Carl]

lotsa black squares.

[JarC]

yeah, dunno what these ares, keep seeing them flying by...probably some star glitch? yep, definitly a glitch, it's stars...should probably have set them to zero in the misson...was just a quick throwtogether...ok that's odd, I changed $num stars to 0 and I keep seeing them wizz by?

[Rictor]

Do the textures move at all, does the model rotate or is it just static?

I love the Shivan one, though the blue-green in the second pic makes it come off as too bright and colourful. Replace it with a darker texture and it will be better, IMHO. The "lighting" texture is excellent though.

Also, notice how the blue-green texture is such that the "streaks" are horizontal along the inner perimiter of the pof. If you simply reversed the direction of the texture by 90 degrees, they would be facing the other way and would thus give off the effect of "speed streaks" like you see in cartoons. That would maybe create the impression of movement, or at least speed.

[jdjtcagle]

Carls Subspace Maps
Here they are

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Carl
lotsa black squares.

I know what those are. That's the little tweakage the SCP team did to show particles. Remember how out of nowhere, one build suddenly had more space debris particles? They were on little black planes like that.

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Rictor
Do the textures move at all, does the model rotate or is it just static?

Subspace has 2 pofs. One rotates, the other stays static. And on both, the tetures move. They are run along the z (?) axis of the UV mapping.

[aldo_14]

Has anyone tried animating the texture maps (i.e. so they oscillate or whatnot)?

[Rictor]

IS that even possible, I mean animated textures? I'm not up on the latest SCP achievements.

[Bobboau]

yeah

[Rictor]

Cool, then you could have the speed streaks that I described. I mean, if the textures move along the z axis anyways, just flip the 2nd (green-blue) texture that Sandwich provided and you've got the sense of movement. That is, if anybody wants to have that..

[Taristin]

Flipside tried animated textures, he said it didn't work.

[JarC]

Originally posted by Rictor
just flip the 2nd (green-blue) texture that Sandwich provided and you've got the sense of movement. That is, if anybody wants to have that..

tried that, didn't look half as nice...

[Liberator]

Originally posted by Antares
Keep the visible portions of subspace--the blue "walls".  Maybe change the color, but that might offend the purists, so put that aside, for now.  I want to address the dark "gaps" between the subspace wall itself.

Would it be possible to replace this darkness with another image?  Or, to add a lightning-like "flashing" effect that would flicker every so often, to illuminate the darkened region?

I'm envisioning fighters traveling through subspace, engaged in a battle of some kind.  The swirling walls rotate around them, spinning and spinning, but beyond the subspace barrier, there's something else.  Something briefly lit up by each flash of light... or bathed in low, red, constant illumination:

Silhouettes of Shivan craft.  Battleships.  Destroyers.  An armada of shadows, within sight, and yet out of reach.  Drifting.  Waiting.

Watching.

The classic designs can be seen, the black outline of Sathani, Cains, and perhaps Lucifers against the lighter background.

Along with other craft that dwarf anything previously seen in the Shivan fleet...

I'd like to to see something like this, especially in the later portions of any future campaigns as the Aliance get's it's collective butt kicked and then saved in the nick of time by a fluke.

[AqueousShadow]

Originally posted by JarC
thnx for the reminder. edited msg accordingly...img replaced

NP! Although...it was actually -jpgtga... but oh well. At least you got it to work. Still lookin' nice...

[Ransom]

Sandwich's makes it difficult to see any directives or text. It's too bright. I prefer Carl's, although the blue is a bit sporadic compared to the original (too much black).

[Flipside]

If you use an ANI, it seems to only use the first frame of it, at least, that's what it did for me

[Liberator]

Try using some of Lightspeed's Nebulae, their cool!:)  The same tiling issue come up though.  We need a model with one texture that runs the length of it, or textures with good alpha blending so the tiling doesn't become an issue.

[Taristin]

Or a good tiling image

[TopAce]

Originally posted by JarC
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Sandwich's variety
http://freespace.kicks-ass.net/_images/fs/subspace3.jpg

This is the best of all, in my opinion. I find the first image(on this page) a bit too bright, the red subspace is unusual. This cyan subspace looks appropriate. However, it is still not out of the world.