[Overlord]

I've Bob's Herc and there is no error.
http://www.overlords-from-hell.de/ares.jpg

[Taristin]

Well, then that is indeed odd, because it's using the exact same texture.

What does Modelview show you?

[Overlord]

The same, but without pilot.
It says the tercoc01 and intglass texture can't be found, but they are in the maps folder.

[Taristin]

Dunno, then. Looks like a problem on your end.

[Unknown Target]

Pretty cool


Now if only someone would do something with my Herc II model

[Anaz]

what file format is your map in raa? Bob might've made his a .pcx, and these peple might be forgetting -jpgtga...

[Taristin]

Umm. My ship only uses the intglass for the cocpit, which is a DDS (DXT5) Aside from the original maps. The cocpit texture , I believe, is PCX already.

[Lightspeed]

I'll have to test this one

[Lightspeed]

Alas, things don't work. The pilot renders properly, but for some obscure reason the rest of the cockpit is transparent, and only the cockpit glass is rendered (i.e. I can see through the Ares, and the pilot "hovers" in the air.)

This is just the problem we always had with cockpits, 'cept that the pilot itself now renders as it should. There's some pretty bad lighting issues on the cockpit (try smoothing, it's... bumpy?).

I've traced the problem back, it's definately a problem with how the model's set up; If I remove the intglass texture, the cockpit renders as it should, but obviously the glass is missing. If I put the glass texture back in, the cockpit is missing again, except for the pilot. It's the same old problem with models not rendering behind alpha transparent textures

[Bobboau]

you need to make the entier inside of the cockpit a seperate subobject not just the pilot

and I finaly got started on some new textures, that isn't any were near being done but it maches the geometry a little better than the stock textures

[Bobboau]

and I don't know why you guys focused in on the modeled in mechanical bits (if someone wants to give me a better looking mecahical texture to put in there I'll do it) when I wasn't talking about that I was saying that not a single poly of my HTL herc ever came from the origonal model, it is 100% origonal geometry, I did not simply cut wholes in the origonal V model, if I had what I ended up with would have been far less... eh... good looking.

[Lightspeed]

You should stick to the geometry, however. While your mesh is really nice (except the little pipes), the textures kind of ruin it.

[Bobboau]

I disagree

[Bobboau]

are you realy telling me that the top one looks better than the bottom?

[aldo_14]

Bloody 'ell, that red light must be bright...........

[Bobboau]

it is

[Moonsword]

Is it a spotting light for use in the darkness of space?

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Moonsword
Is it a spotting light for use in the darkness of space?

running lights, watch a jet airliner when it's high in the sky, at night, you can see its running lights.

[BlackDove]

The bottom one is _way_ better.

[Taristin]

This should be easy enough to fix.


And Bob, that's not a fair comparison. Use Lightspeed's textures when you try to compare against your own, and not stock maps with no shine maps, or the ones from the port shine map.