[DaBrain]

It's not dead....





50% done (mostly the back part)

[Grug]

Woah, looking good.

[Omniscaper]

Excellent! Keep the "shinies" going!!!

I haven't been this impressed with shiny things for years since my magic mushroom days!

[DaBrain]

I've replaced the old glow and shine map (just for testing, the quality is not on final level.)

It looks quite a bit better.

[Jetmech Jr.]

ooh, that looks nice.

Shame Lightspeed left, though

[DaBrain]

He will come back... probably.
I'm sure he will one day see I took over this thread and we can start criticizing each others work again.


BTW I got a lot better at this. The current state of the map took me less than an hour...
I can't spend much time on it anway, so I quite happy with this.

By bumping this thread nobody will forget about him.

[Trivial Psychic]

Interesting timing of this bump.  I check by his site on a daily basis, just in case he's updated something... and it seems he has... today!

http://www.penguinbomb.com/lightspeed/

[Taristin]

Last night, actually.

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by Trivial Psychic
Interesting timing of this bump.  I check by his site on a daily basis, just in case he's updated something... and it seems he has... today!

http://www.penguinbomb.com/lightspeed/

I didn't see it. I'm just trying to avoid real life work.
It's not like he told me something...

[Flaser]

What's the new shinemap like for the Shivan gas miner?
In those shots, the shinyness seems a bit muted...though that's fine with me, what I miss is the golden look LS gave the ship.

It's the thing I really liked about shinemaps and rarely was used is the feature to give a different shine glint to the material, than the diffuse color.

[DaBrain]

For now I am only working on the main map.
The shine map is is just a darker version of the map for now.

I'll create a real shine map as soon as the high res map is complete.

Current progress: Pre-shine map, pre-glow map, 65% main map.
(Best view at full size)

Old


New

Note: Both @ 65% JPG quality

This should ilustrate what I'm doing.

[Jetmech Jr.]

Originally posted by Trivial Psychic
Interesting timing of this bump.  I check by his site on a daily basis, just in case he's updated something... and it seems he has... today!

http://www.penguinbomb.com/lightspeed/

Aw, it sounds like he ain't comin' back

It started as a more realistic approach to Freespace weaponry, a useful and differenciated selection of equipment for the various ship classes. It's very... unfinished, and basically but a dump of my dev folder; but it's still worth a look, even if only to steal files (you're welcome) for your own MOD. It'd be a shame to let the work be wasted.

but as it's uncertain where things will go from here, perhaps this is the best thing to do.

Thank you, guys. You've made the stay a worthwhile one

[Taristin]

Only time will tell. I keep telling him to return when he is ready. But he's got a few points I cannot argue.

[Trivial Psychic]

At least he says that he intends on finishing the textures work.  Perhaps he'll re-do textures for some of the newer hi-poly releases.

[Scuddie]

It would be too bad if he didn't come back.  He has done some amazing work, and earned a great deal of respect from the community.

Raa, since you've been a bit hush-hush, I am assuming the absence is due to personal/Real Life[tm] reasons?

[Taristin]

[DaBrain]

Hmmm ?

[Flaser]

He pops in, once in a while to check what the rest of the project does. However as Raa said he is said to have RL issues, and that's what the rest of the project knows and respect.

[DaBrain]

Ok, almost done. I only forgot to recolor the red part to yellow on the shinemap.

[DaBrain]

Rahu miner high res map +shine/glow map
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