[DaBrain]

True, true.

[WMCoolmon]

*Starts tracking thread.*

It's on my to-do list, there's quite a bit of summer cleaning to do.

[Turambar]

ok, so im on this new thing for my ADD called stratera, wich has the side effect of letting me stay awake as long as i want, which means i can make more hi-res maps faster!  this is going in my portfolio and i want to have quite a bit done

[Bobboau]

on the myrmadon, make the painted stripes non-reflective

[DaBrain]

But the painted stripes are not 100% overlapping the map.

There are areas (I think I did it the way it was intended to), in which you can see the metall parts of the hull. And they should be shiny.

[Turambar]

i tried making them somewhat less shiny, and it looked good, you should give it a shot

[DaBrain]

Ok, I'll try it.


But currently I'm having a problem  with the Perseus map.

It's very dark, so any detail is hardly visible...

Increasing the brightness makes it look odd.

[Turambar]

meh, you should see the way my herc 2's lookin.  Crazy fighter, that one.  The Glowmaps are so low-detail that theyre bringing the model down, I finally got a color that looks good with the lighter areas, and now i need to redo all of the lines and then i need to figure out how to make it not blurry ingame.   tried this pattern stamp thingy with this texture on it to "vasudanize" the metal.  I'll post some screenies when i get home.  You may like it, you may not.  I'm still not sure.  The front needs work too, and I'm working on it.

[DaBrain]

Here is my progress so far (~25% - 30%):

(Note: Old shine and glow maps.)

[Singh]

This thread 0wnz all.

Do the Erynies!!!


Edit:
*jaw disappeares and hit's satan's head as it drops through all of earth and hell at the incredible ub3rness of above pictures.

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Singh
This thread 0wnz all.

Do the Erynies!!!


Edit:
*jaw disappeares and hit's satan's head as it drops through all of earth and hell at the incredible ub3rness of above pictures.

The Erynies texture might be even harder than the Ares texture...
(In other words: I'm afraid of this texture...  )

[Turambar]

Fear is the path to the dark side DaBrain.

After the Herc2, i got dibs on the Serapis.

[DaBrain]

I'll do the support ship next.

The old map is butt-ugly and it's seen often in the game. So I think it's a good choice.

[Lightspeed]

Finish the Perseus

[Black Wolf]

The Perseus is the first one where I've actually had an issue with the contrast, but I understand that'll be going down anyway, which should also reduce the strength of the coloured stripes, yes? If so

[DaBrain]

Strength in color or in opacity ?


I wanted to lower it anyway...

[Taristin]

Looking good thus far.

[J3Vr6]

Can't wait to see more of these

[Black Wolf]

Opacity I guess - chucking down the saturation its the method I'd use though.

[JarC]

Originally posted by Flipside
Looking nice as usual, my only concern is that 'drain cover' in the centre of the map, but it'll probably look fine once it's mapped onto the ship

that shouldn't be a drain grate?!

@DaBrain:  If your continuing on the Ares map, you made a booboo...In the original, the vertical metalic ribs are cooling fins or somesort, look at the shadow on the left...
http://www.ystart.net/upload/20040518/1084900299.jpg

and not a grate as you have chainged it into in this map
http://www.ystart.net/upload/20040518/1084900690.jpg