[Mobius]

The way the messages/directives/ship names are hidden is fantastic, too!

[IPAndrews]

I love that one of my screenshots is on page one of this thread

[DaBrain]

A new SoL model!









Bridge model in the old city (new one is still wip).

[jr2]

Check this out...

[DaBrain]

Looks like it wasn't obvious enough...

[Mobius]

WOW!



Fantastic! Keep it up!

[MetalDestroyer]

Looks like it wasn't obvious enough...

Normal Mapping at least supported ?!

[DaBrain]

Yeah.

It's no secret that taylor has been working on it.

I've been working on a lot of normal maps for the MV pack, to cover at least a few ships.
Same goes for VasudanAdmiral.

Edit2: Also credits to blackhole and Bobboau!

Edit:

[Vasudan Admiral]

Wait...I've been keeping it secret for months now when it's not really a secret?

[jr2]

@DAB: Can you do any fancy stuff with that link I posted?  Or is it still too early in development? 

BTW, your shots are enough to make me drool...

[blackhole]

Sooooooo, is anyone going to mention how i helped out on this? I mean, come on, that parallax mapping code is almost all mine, at least credit that to me!

[jr2]

Bah.  You are a coder.  You live to serve us, the gamers!!!

Errrrr... nvm that.  Here's for you:

[blackhole]

I got recognition!

OMGWTFBBQ!

Seriously though, thanks

[jr2]

Well it helps if I know about it.  *looks at DAB*  You could have mentioned it... but then again, perhaps he didn't know..  And, yeah, bows to you, too, taylor. 

[blackhole]

*mutters something about personally PMing DaBrain to retrieve a normalmap and hieghtmap*

Uh, yeah, he didn't know. Nope. Had no idea.

Then again he was probably waiting for taylor to say something, which usually takes weeks.

[jr2]

...cause he's so busy programming up ye olde SCP goodeness!!

[DaBrain]

Wait...I've been keeping it secret for months now when it's not really a secret?

Taylor said it was ok to post shots of it.

Sooooooo, is anyone going to mention how i helped out on this? I mean, come on, that parallax mapping code is almost all mine, at least credit that to me!

Whaa don't spoil everything yet. 

Of course blackhole was also working on this, although I can't show any parallax mapping shots. Bobboau also was involved.

There will be a real announcement later. I just wanted to see how oviously visible the new changes are.

[Mr_Maniac]

There will be a real announcement later. I just wanted to see how oviously visible the new changes are.

To me, it WAS very obvious... At least the FS2-Shots...
Very good work! But maybe a bit TOO bumpmapped (too deep)?

Well... Now with Normal-Mapping... Maybe the ugly old Colossus will look at least a BIT better?

[DaBrain]

I've also tried to promote the feature, so other mods use it...

So far it's mostly standard FS2 and SoL.
It's far easir for me to create normal maps for stuff I've the source files for...

[Vasudan Admiral]

I've also tried to promote the feature, so other mods use it...

So far it's mostly standard FS2 and SoL.
It's far easir for me to create normal maps for stuff I've the source files for...

Heh, tell me about it. That said, my normal maps thus far have all been too strong and visually rather crappy because I had no idea what I was doing. Thus far only the loki has decent normal maps, but they're still too strong. I'll get it right eventually.

How do you do yours btw, since yours are looking much nicer? Also, I'm not up to speed with what's happening with Blackhole's parallax mapping. It uses a heightmap, but is that heightmap supposed to be included in the DXT5_NM texture, or is it still a separate file?