[Bobboau]

it should work sort of like what you said

[KARMA]

in ts6, yes. In precedent versions there could be problems (or so I've been told).
you'll have (in truespace) a different material for each different autofacet setting, althought all the materials will use the same texture.
This way you can have polys almost smoothed and other polys faceted, althought all the polys are mapped with the same texture.

[Omniscaper]

Finally, I'm getting the hang of TS's horrid material application process. Thank you Karma. My first successfull test of PROPER smoothgroups.



There must be a way to view a mesh's materials in a list of some sort. I find that I have to keep checking to see if the material I'm using is not already being used or else I start joining different smoothgroups together.

AND LOOK KARMA, NO FACETING IN THE SPECULARS!!!!

[Vertigo1]

Thats a mighty purty Enterprise you got there!

[karajorma]

Looks great

[Singh]

holy crap thats better than hte last one!!!!!!!! :EEK:

[KARMA]

Originally posted by Omniscaper


AND LOOK KARMA, NO FACETING IN THE SPECULARS!!!!

and how the hell you did it? cuz I'm not able to obtain the same results with autofacet, and believe me I've made lots of tests.
If you can replicate it then tell me how to, thanks:)
BTW the phaser array seem to still have this spec problem, maybe you could be able to see where's the difference between the phaser array and the rest of the saucer (either in the materials or the procedure you used)

[Omniscaper]

Getting close!!!  

Karma, I've been using low number autofacet settings for the saucer, something I doubt would work well with the Tie Fighter's sphere. The phaser array in the previous post was set to 0 in autofacet.

Faceting still occurs, but the autofacet numbers I've set has reduced it tremendously!

[Omniscaper]

Wow, check out this shot with latest Environment map implementaion.....    



Now if only stencil shadows would stop crashing with this model.......

[vyper]

[FreeTerran]

awesome

[Omniscaper]

Now can someone tell me how to use those new blinky lights 3.6 offers?

[Fractux]

That's really beautifull.

Cheers!

[Trivial Psychic]

Originally posted by Omniscaper
Now can someone tell me how to use those new blinky lights 3.6 offers?

If you are refering to those seen on the Arcadia and Ulysses included in the mv_models,  those have glow-points.  Glow-points are seldom-used, but have their advantages to glow-maps.  I think there are controls in PCS to add them, but dammed if I know how it all works.

Later!

[Bobboau]

glow points were like the first thing I added, like 2 years ago, they arn't new, just nobody uses them, in PCS there should be a glow points section, there very similar to thrusters, a few things diferent though, you have to specify a texture within a group, and points that have a NULL (0,0,0) normal will be rendered at all times, otherwise the'll fade in and out as they point at/away from you, if you want to make them blink, have all the points that you want to be on at a time (that have the same texture) in the same group, then give the groupe an on and off time (these are only needed if you want the group to blink) disp time is only needed if you want diferent groups to blinnk in a sequence.

[Nuke]

i use glopoints , its just i havent released a new version of nukemod in like 3 years

[FireCrack]

i can genuinley say that looks better than the "real" one.

[Styxx]

Hm, if you had just waited a few more days you probably wouldn't have had to do all that work on Truespace... but hey, it's looking great, so good job!

[Taristin]

Oh? Hey! Get it done then! I prefer the 3dMax shading to TS. So what if MT will be delayed 3 day more?

[Omniscaper]

Whoa wait a minute....

Is there a 3dsmax > POF program in the worx? If so, PLEASE direct me to it. You'll be my personal digital savior!!!