[jdjtcagle]

Needs more detail, try to do what I was doing...

[Lightspeed]

resizing with nearest neighbor?

[jdjtcagle]

No, the look of them... not the resizing problem deal.

[Lightspeed]

I didnt like that cloud overlay.

[TopAce]

I fail to see any change. It may be more apparent if you included a reference picture of the original Orion.

[Flipside]

That ship will always look halfway between a pinball machine and a level from the old arcade game 'Nemesis' to me It needs HT&Ling but I really wouldn't envy the poor bugger who has to try and model it

[Turambar]

has nobody noticed the inclusion of the little, uniformly colored lights (top screenshots) where the large randomly-colored lights used to be (middle screenshot)

i havent touched the armored plate texture yet (no lights)

[jdjtcagle]

Take bigger pictures, I barely noticed it.

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Turambar
has nobody noticed the inclusion of the little, uniformly colored lights (top screenshots) where the large randomly-colored lights used to be (middle screenshot)

i havent touched the armored plate texture yet (no lights)

Yes, I get what you want to create. I like the idea, but your realization is not good enough. (Well, that's for the so-far progress )

[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*

[jdjtcagle]

I have to disagree on many parts of that post... but that is just me

[Turambar]

Originally posted by Gregster2k

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*[/SIZE]

you know what i like to hear

Edit: lol

[Flipside]

No-one mentioned HT&L smoothing

[Turambar]

lol, a box with round edges

[Gregster2k]

What i mean by smoothing is when people go downright overboard with HTL "improvements" to a ship and start rounding off every possible edge and making it look streamlined or overly detailed even when the original sported little detail and was not streamlined (and never was supposed to be).

[Taristin]

Eew. Those maps make a UV Problem really obvious...

[jdjtcagle]

yes... they need more detail, try and darken things around corners and around lights. Not everything has to be shown, the less the better



Look at this, the lights are WAY to bright and it's alittle low resolution.  But, I think its a major improvement

[DaBrain]

Well, I gave it a shot too.

(15 min)

[Taristin]

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?

[J3Vr6]

wow that looks really clear.  U deserve a hug.