[HotSnoJ]

Originally posted by DaBrain
The Apollo is very detailed. But it looks odd somehow.

It's probably the missles on the struts.

[JarC]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
The FS1 medusa map ...

...FS1...missed that one

[TopAce]

That Apollo model is from the intro cutscene, isn't it?

[Taristin]

Yeppers. I wish we could 'obtain' that mesh somehow...

[TopAce]

That model could be more than 10,000 polies. Considering how detailed it seems to be. And the texture size ... ARGH!
Some other hitbacks of that model would be the transparent cockpit and the pilot. They are all useless for us, since we want it in game. The cockpit glass cannot be made transparent and the pilot takes up at least 50% of all polies(As seen it the cutscene).

[Taristin]

Ehh, I doubt it's that high. of it loks like textures and bump-mapping. Still would be fun to fly one.

And we _can_ have transparent cocpits, and pilots. Nico did it, and I'm doing it for some of my meshes as well. (For fun, nothing official:nervous: )

[TopAce]

Nobody knows it for sure. I think It is needless to continue guessing ... we will never get that model.

[Turambar]

hmmm, guess i need to get more practice (learn how to do better shinemaps, figure out the alpha channel, learn more about photoshop in general) and then once summer comes along, I'll put LS and DB out of business!  (I can dream, can't I?)

[jdjtcagle]

I got them from the freespace vp under interface

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Turambar
I'll put LS and DB out of business!  (I can dream, can't I?)

See? Now that's what I don't like. We need collaboration, not competition.

[Turambar]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h


See? Now that's what I don't like. We need collaboration, not competition.

Ok!  Dabrain, end me your maps so that i can get rid of those little lines-within-the-lines and add my "dirtiness" (clone stamp on low opacity) and touch up the cockpit (one place where I know mine is better).  Then I'll send them back to you and we can upload it as the Dabrain-Turambar Myrmidon Maps

Edit: I'll PM you my Email adress (if you want, of course)

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h

See? Now that's what I don't like. We need collaboration, not competition.

That's TRUE. This is a community, not a championship.

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Turambar


Ok!  Dabrain, end me your maps so that i can get rid of those little lines-within-the-lines and add my "dirtiness" (clone stamp on low opacity) and touch up the cockpit (one place where I know mine is better).  Then I'll send them back to you and we can upload it as the Dabrain-Turambar Myrmidon Maps

Edit: I'll PM you my Email adress (if you want, of course)

The lines in the line are already smoothed to death.

And if "dirtyness" meens the black areas in this picture, I don't like it.

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7486/260.jpg


And what part of the cockpit is better than mine ?


Edit: If we all work on the same maps, we just waste time. So let's declare who does which map next.
(I think LS is the best at vasudan maps)

[Turambar]

I don't want to touch anything shivan, lest LS or Carl decide that my head would look good above the fireplace.  I think that the Herc 2 needs some improvement, so I'll do that one next, OK?

*opens up photoshop*

[Rictor]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
Compare your Ares map with the one that comes with my Ares shine/env/etc zip.


 

thats looks amazing. just...wow.

but for the love of god, don't mess with the shinemap. Its look perfect as is.

[Lightspeed]

Uhh, just work on any FS2 ships. For several reasons:

- The FS1 ships already have better textures
- I'll finish the FS1 ships' shinemaps/envmaps/glowmaps/etc first
- FS2 ships are the thing you'll see most when in-game.

Just do any maps, i'll give them an overhaul (if neccessary) when working on them for shine/textures2.0.

I'll use anything that looks like a definate upgrade and is worth the extra memory consumption. So far this includes DaBrains Ares and Myrmidon.

If you plan on upgrading any FS1-era ships, use my textures (that come with the shine zips) as they already have a lot of issues cleared (namely colour edging for example). This will be faster for you, look better, and prevent hours of work from being redundant.

[Taristin]

Loki!

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Turambar
I don't want to touch anything shivan, lest LS or Carl decide that my head would look good above the fireplace.  I think that the Herc 2 needs some improvement, so I'll do that one next, OK?

*opens up photoshop*

If you want to, you may use my WIP Herc mk2.
I'll work on something else.

http://www.8ung.at/dabrain/hercMK_WIP_10.zip

It's not much done tough. (10 = ~10%)

Myrmidon is at 95

I need to get a better understanding of the shine maps.


@ everybody What map would you like to see next ?

Is the perseus ok ?

[Lightspeed]

Don't worry - i'll have to make proper shinemaps (with alpha env) anyway when I get to the FS2 ships, anything looking not *too* bad should work for now.

Bout the Perseus: It is my favourite terran ship from FS2. You'd better make it look as good as ever

Raa: Will be the last fighter from the FS1 series. Next thing to appear is the Thoth.

[Turambar]

i see you LS, just going down the list, in the order that theyre in the .vp