[mitac]

This is one of the best-looking FS2-work I've ever seen. Partial reason may be that it has always been my favorite FS2 capship.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
Can I copulate with it now?

If you only knew how much time I was laughing on this one. . .

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Bobboau
to fix that thruster bug we're probly goiong to need to use volumetrics

and I'm not done BTW

no, we wont need to. Theres like dozens of workarounds; I daresay.

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Singh
The ridges are a bit too pronounced, not what it should look like at all. The sides of the diemos was meant to be smooth, not ridged like that...

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Those ridges, IMHO, change it too much. There weren't any such things in the textures, nor do I remember anything indicating they should be there.

Plus I just don't like the way they look...too abrupt.

[jdjtcagle]

I love the ridges, they make it look... I like them

[Rictor]

yeah, who said it has to be 100% accurate. I personally like the little touches, I hope every hi-poly ship looks that good. It looks better with the ridges, because thats one of the places where the detail is most visible.

[Ace]

I'd add a little detail onto the bottom of the ridges section. As it is, it seems like you have all of this detail and then *bam* a big flat plane.

Maybe smooth the corners off there a little bit or something, make it less harsh of a transition. It makes sense for the area to be flat because of the engine, but something is needed...

[Bobboau]

I implemented my idea for alpha blended windows, tell me if you think it was a good idea, the idea was to have some stuff behind the windows, but nothing too complicated, just enough detail that if you looked at them you could see some paralax with something behind them, the light comeing out still glares out all detail, if someone has an interior texture that they think would work good here give it a shot.

[Singh]

I'll give it a whirl when I get back later.

[Singh]

Originally posted by Black Wolf

On a totally unrelated topic - Singh, what scale numbers do you put your nebulae at? I kjeep mine at 3x3 and I never get as cool a BG as you seem to get before I run out of background bitmaps.

You keep yours just at 3x3? O_o
Mine normally range from 4x4-6x6. All the ugly spots that show up are covered by smaller, pretty looking whisps

[Nico]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon


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Those ridges, IMHO, change it too much. There weren't any such things in the textures, nor do I remember anything indicating they should be there.

Plus I just don't like the way they look...too abrupt.

Please, enlighten me: what WAS on the textures save for blury squares?

[Bobboau]

yeah that part of the hull was covered by thick metal plates, I just changed the order of it slightly to make it a bit more regular and greebleable. all it does is add detail, and IMO it doesn't alter the ship's visual presence. that part of the hull had nothing but a tiled map, this leaves a lot of room for artistic lisense

[WMCoolmon]

Well, I'm going to try it in-game before being completely sure. But...

Before the Deimos looked very sleek and tough; this one just looks tough. It doesn't flow any more; looking at it from an air resistance point of view, or any sort of friction, the edges just beg to be rounded off and the earlier design would've looked much better.

It looks more like a beefed-up variant of a Deimos than the Deimos itself.

[Nico]

Of course it looked sleek: it was all flat with it's 10 polys per side. And what should I say about looking at it from an air resistance point of view? A spaceship?

[aldo_14]

This is a proper war-fightin' Deimos

[Setekh]

Dude, that is sweet and a half. Can't wait till you're done.

[Rictor]

Yeah, it definitely looks tougher now, due to the side plates. And as Bob. mentioned, its adds detail.

[Nico]

Really, my only grip is that you reused the original tiled maps. You really should make custom, non tiled maps for it, coz those really ruin it.

[jdjtcagle]

I really don't thinks so... I know you are tired of the old :V: maps, but that is not the best idea for canon ships

[TopAce]

To be more exact, it is not the best idea for canon large ships. Remember that fighters are bombers are being reskined. (Thread)