[DaBrain]

Lightspeed finished the shinemap. (Danm he is fast, I thought it was only his name )


So get the Perseus release from here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,23518.msg488232.html#msg488232

[Turambar]

Originally posted by Lightspeed

-edit: Turambar, just make sure you do NOT (NOT!!!) flatten the glow to the base texture. This will just give me more work. Keep it as a seperate layer.

The reason is the following: You can have a base texture with the lights turned off - and use the lights turned on as the glow map. This will give ships with turned off lights a realistic look (not a turned on light that doesn't glow anymore).

ok ill fix that,  ithink i might even design little lights so that when the glows are off it looks like lights that are switched off instead of black spots.  now why didn't i think of that before?

Ill do it for Ptah and Nephitys

[Lightspeed]

have a look at any of my maps for reference purposes.

[Setekh]

Dude, that Perseus is just remarkable. Can't wait till all of these improvements are packaged together and made easily available to all.

[TopAce]

Then this thread will go into the highlights.

[Turambar]

wow Raa, vas support really needs help, serious help.  I can only do so much, as i have no modelling skills and a remapping seems to be the best way to fix this.  ugh, im going to work on the ptah or something for a while.  heres a screen of my progress, and the shinemaps also suck, btw.



if anoyne wants them now, i say 30%, then ask and ill put them on swooh,

[TopAce]

I finally took a screenshot of my sharpened Valkyrie.
Contructive critism or commendation is appreciated, and smileys are ignored.

[kasperl]

That's just terribly pixelated, not any improvement, IMHO.

[TopAce]

But does it look better than the original one?

[kasperl]

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Originally posted by kasperl
not any improvement, IMHO. [/B]

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[Janos]

What have you done?!?

[TopAce]

Originally posted by kasperl
That's just terribly pixelated, not any improvement, IMHO.

Your 32-bit [V] nebulae images in the Media VP do not make any improvement, too. Only the slowdown. At least my work is apparent on that texture, next to the slowdown.

[kasperl]

Originally posted by TopAce


Your 32-bit [V] nebulae images in the Media VP do not make any improvement, too. Only the slowdown. At least my work is apparent on that texture, next to the slowdown.

Who's?

Dunno what's so apparent, since I have no comparison shot.

[TopAce]

It will become apparent as soon as you take a look on the older one.

[Rictor]

Topace, no offence man, but the pixelization is very apparent. Are you using the high-res textures that V released, or the ones that come with FS2? I think that might be the source of the problem...

What method did you use to sharpen the textures? I don't know what would produce that sort of pixelization, it doesn't look like unsharp mask to me, that tends to look different....

[TopAce]

I used the texture which was included with the FS1 -> FS2 converted Valkyrie. I doubled the size and sharpened it. I do not clearly remember which tools I used.

[Taristin]

Using filters does not help. You have to actually go over each line and redraw them... that's why I've stopped on the Bakha for a little while.



Turambar: I never really looked at the Nepthys' UVing before, but from that shot, I'd say, yes it's bad.  If I was able to bake ships better, without getting UV slices all over the place, I'd bake it, and give you the files, but as of yet, I haven't gotten anything decent.

[TopAce]

OK, if you don't like it, you won't get that texture with the RR files.

[DaBrain]

Perhaps it looks worse than it is...
Your colors look pretty screwed up.
Are you unsing this commandlines?
-spec -glow -pcx32 -jpgtga

If not, do it. If your system is too slow, do it at least for sreenshots.


Now to the texture:
Looks like you resized it via pixel doubling. You can do that for some maps, but "sharpen" won't do good if you use it.

Originally posted by TopAce
Then this thread will go into the highlights.

I'd rather like to see my name in the current highlight. (High res by Dabrain/Shine by Lightspeed)

The thread in the Source forum is where the real releases take place. But don't stop looking into this thread.



Edit: What are the RR files ?

[TopAce]

Originally posted by TopAce
OK, if you don't like it, you won't get that texture with the RR files.