[jdjtcagle]

Very nice

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Gregster2k
The ship IS a box, because thats how the GTA liked to design their ships. It's FS canon (I'm strongly against heavy modifications of any ship featured in a FreeSpace 2 ingame movie). Ever since Terrans and Vasudans became friends, ships in the FS universe underwent the equivalent of the change in automobile design from the 1970's and 80's to 2004 - they went from being extremely boxy and hard-edged to being super-cucumber-smoothed.

With the exception of the Colossus.

If someone ever HTL smooths the Orion please shoot me. Only a few details would be needed to spruce up that beautiful destroyer, by the way. And Turambar's interpretation of the textures is absolutely wonderful.

P.S. this thread has inspired me to do the OPPOSITE of what someone else said -- taking Deimos textures and putting them on an Orion? Nah, I plan to put Orion textures on a Deimos...grin*

I think the Orion is the best-looking FreeSpace ship. It is because your 'the higher the polygon count the nicer the ship' mania that you don't like it.
The sentence in Italic is valid for most of the community members, especially for modellers. Exceptions deserve a monthly $500 loan without interest.

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
See that bottom-most light? It can't overlap the end of the map. Otherwise it won't tile!

DB: Looking better. Does the little details you added in there also tile?

I don't think so...

That's just an example, how it should look like.

On the other hand, it's an easy task, to make it tile-able.

edit: Nope, doesn't tile.

[jdjtcagle]

That looks sooo... much better, I'm glad I made this thread

[DaBrain]

Uhm, I will not release this. I only wanted to help you, because IHMO you took the wrong way.

[jdjtcagle]

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by jdjtcagle

Ok... if you want it, then finish it. It is not perfect yet. (~90%)

And you might want to redo the shine map and perhaps the glow map, cause they were for testing purposes only.

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


Notice: It tiles perfect now.

Oh, I spent too much time playing around... cYa.

[Turambar]

good, I'll be adding the lights to it and well see how it looks

[DaBrain]

Better try to get rid of the lights on the texture.

It's better to have them only on the glow map.

[Turambar]

ill try it

im workin a bit on the Artemis, then ill brush up the herc 2 for you, then ill do the orion

and finals in the middle of all that

[jdjtcagle]

Worked with it, but not a whole lot of success

[Lightspeed]

For love's sake. GET RID OF THE BRICKS.

They ruin it all, DaB

And finish the Perseus already

[Flaser]

I guess the whole tiled texturing ruins it. It would be much more sensible to use huge armor plates to cover most areas since all the seams in a "brick-work" make it more volnurable.

[Rictor]

LS: What bricks? I'd love to see the Orion get retextured from scratch as much as the next guy, but right now this is about as good as its going to get.

great work DaBrain. You've really improved. But, as Confuscious once said, "Wise man finish one meal, before starting next." Finish the Perseus, its really a beauty.

And whats that little thing near the back of the Orion? Around the middle of the pic (horizontally), and about 2/3 down vertically.

[Lightspeed]

I mean those little bricks DaB added as a texturizer filter.

[DaBrain]

Yeah, old pice of work....
But I like it.
I believe that only people who know the 'brickwall-effect'
will notice it.


Same thing fot the standard lensflare...
If I see it in an image, I somehow hate the whole picture, for no reason. Only because I know it's cheap to create.
Even though it doesn't look bad.

[JarC]

Originally posted by kasperl
Does anyone remember the blue&black maps someone did a long time ago? They had those little glowmapped windows, and made the ships look huge.

did you mean this one?


This is how it looks on the model (texturing was done by Psycho)



Honestly speaking, I think it is impossible to re-texture the Orion without redoing the UV...one problem is that the capital01-01a texture is used as a tiled and as a tiled/stretched texture (bottom and right side protrusion), which makes it look terrible

[Lightspeed]

This does not look huge. It looks crap.

But the windows are indeed nice. I doubt you could add that to the Orion skin, though.

[Taristin]

I wonder... if I baked an orion, and left the mapping up to one of you guys to play with, how could it be improved...? I hate the Orion. Always have. Always will.

Mmmmm... Typhon.....

[kasperl]

Originally posted by JarC
did you mean this one?

No.

I meant the one with all the tiny little blue windows on the hull. It was someone with a green avatar with white letters in it.