[Turambar]

attempt 1: feedback plz





shinemaps currently are in the "complete suck" dev phase, so just ignore them (if possible)

[Unknown Target]

Too dirty, and the panel lines are too pronounced.

[Rictor]

It looks good in some areas, and a bit overdone in others. The "thrusters" (the body essentially - the darker grey) looks nice and detailed. Some might argue its a bit much, but I like it more or less. The "nose" (the lighter grey areas) does show the lines too much. You may want to tone it down if you're able to. You need to strike a balance between detail and subtlety.

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[TopAce]

I quite lile it. It apparently has a new texture.

[DaBrain]

I think I'm on the right way. (The shine map isn't very good... but that will change )


Well, I've additional 10 min, to work on it.


(~45%)

[TopAce]

It looks better than the standard FSO shine map. It is not too bright.

[Fineus]

Agreed. Nice job.

[Taristin]

Indeed, it is coming along well. My only gripe is that the bright orange-red-yellow-whatever colors make it look too much like a kid's toy. But that'll change, right?

[DaBrain]

Sure.
Acually it was fixed. But I had to go a step back and forgot it.

The rusty thing was less colorful.


Edit:
@ Turambar Try to get a bigger shot of it. And it's better if your shot doesn't show menus, and stuff.

[Star Dragon]

I take it you will continue to release the retail friendly maps like you have so far for the rest of the uprades? I for one appreciate the improvements to the FS fleet.

   I installed the newest FS open and boy what a hit! It took 5 mins for the first campaign mission to load and I skipped the first one cause it was training and waited another 5 mins to load and played it cause it was a training mission and I was getting frustrated about the laod time. I have a p4 1.8 gig 32mb ati 7500 and my perfomance sucked... I am afraid to try an actual mod now with it so back to retail for me    so PLEASE keep up the great work and never forget us little guys who can't run FSO for beans!

[karajorma]

There is no way you should be getting that kind of performance hit SD. Try running it without the media vp files if you want to be certain that they aren't causing the hit and then report the bug in Mantis.

[Lightspeed]

Turambar: Rework the whole thing from scratch. Sorry to say, but it is worse than it initially was.

Originally posted by DaBrain
I think I'm on the right way. (The shine map isn't very good... but that will change )


Well, I've additional 10 min, to work on it.


(~45%)

Thats a very nice start. The contrast is extreme again, though - tone it down considerably and you'll be near to perfect. Also try to clean it off a bit, there's too much rust.

However, the general shape is A-1 supar

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Star Dragon
32mb ati 7500

I think this is your trouble. I'd advise upgrading.
My system was a GF2 MX with 32 Megs running on a Duron 600 with 128 megs, and FS was unplayable. But now that I have a R9600xt with 256 (yes I am bragging now ) the game has run smooth and beautiful, with D3D settings for both the game and the card at best image quality.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
I think this is your trouble. I'd advise upgrading.  

It's not the nicest card but given the complaint about loading times I doubt it's the biggest problem.

[Taristin]

True. Could be the build as well. Bob's environment build runs smoothly, and hardly takes more than 30 seconds to load, whereas taylor's 4-05 build takes a long while.

Also, SD, what flags are you using?

[Flaser]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
Turambar: Rework the whole thing from scratch. Sorry to say, but it is worse than it initially was.



Thats a very nice start. The contrast is extreme again, though - tone it down considerably and you'll be near to perfect. Also try to clean it off a bit, there's too much rust.

However, the general shape is A-1 supar

IMHO that shine is excelent - though if all of the models are shaded in your darker scheme LS, that would make it possible to restore it to this shinyness with some console tweaking.

[Rictor]

oh..my..

Turambar, that Perseus is perfect. Even better than the Myrmidon. Don't change a thing. Damn, thats awesome. I'm going to have to disagree with LS here, and say that the contrast is not too high, its just right. Wow, that rocks.

[Taristin]

Err. I think LS is right when he said the contrast is too high. And it was DaBrain who made it.

[jdjtcagle]

Keep it up, please don't quit here

[Bobboau]

paint doesn't shine, remember this little fact