[NGTM-1R]

Originally posted by pyro-manic


Umm, I think you'll find that most of them do. The pennant numbers are often larger, but the names are alwys there...

Nice work Trash, but like people have said, make them a bit dirty so they don't seem to glow so much.

Having spent an inordinate amount of my life in and around naval bases like Norfolk, VA for someone not a member of the armed services, and also an equally inordinate amount of time looking at pictures of said ships...no.

The US Navy, the Royal Navy, and most of their allies, paint on hull numbers (they also remove them during a war). Only a few, larger ships (read that: carriers, and at one time battleships) have other insignia. The Russians don't even bother with any insignia to tell one ship from another.

[pyro-manic]

Well, I can only respond by saying that every single RN warship I've ever seen (from HMS Ark Royal down to coastal patrol vessels) has had it's name painted across the stern...

[AnnihilaterD]

Well, not in this picture

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/rn/data/gallery/full/1047472345f.jpg

[NGTM-1R]

Out of curiousity, is there any way to remove the new nameplates and substitute older-style ones?

Actually, not quite out of curiousity; I'd like to use the upturreted model for my Orion Block 3 in Police Action, but the custom nameplates I got from karajorma would appear not to be compatible with this.

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by ngtm1r
upturreted

[Cobra]

well, this is something. nice, TrashMan.

i need to look at dark's nameplate tutorial... by the way, can anyone direct me to that site? thanx

[NGTM-1R]

Originally posted by Black Wolf

I blame you completely.

[StratComm]

Originally posted by Cobra
well, this is something. nice, TrashMan.

i need to look at dark's nameplate tutorial... by the way, can anyone direct me to that site? thanx

It's out of date with a number of models.  New models use alpha transparency to map the name on, so all you need to do is create an image with the name on it, make the background completely transparent, and reduce the transparency of the foreground to ~50%.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by StratComm


It's out of date with a number of models.  New models use alpha transparency to map the name on, so all you need to do is create an image with the name on it, make the background completely transparent, and reduce the transparency of the foreground to ~50%.

Better to have a proper alpha map, though; if you look at the V nameplates the hull lines show through more clearly than the other bits.

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by Black Wolf


And you don't see how that might break balance?

I played the normal campaign with these modifications... 3 Terran Huge Turrets really don't change Hecates firepower...

Do you really think that 4 more turrets make any difference to even a moderate player?

I only had problems in one mission (the one where you have to lure rear admiral Kolth), and that's becouse I wasn't using normal FS2 weapons but modified ones (where the Terran Huge Turrets has far more range and damage)

Anyway, if you just frop the models in the model directory, it won't work (since they aren't names the same..you'll have to change the tbl to reference Orion.pof insted of capitalt-01.pof), but other than that, if you don't enter the extra turrets in the tbl, the game will just ignore them, so it will be as if no tuurets were added in the first place..

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by ngtm1r
Out of curiousity, is there any way to remove the new nameplates and substitute older-style ones?

Actually, not quite out of curiousity; I'd like to use the upturreted model for my Orion Block 3 in Police Action, but the custom nameplates I got from karajorma would appear not to be compatible with this.

Well, you can make your own nameplates really easy.. as you can see, the nameplate is nothing more than a pure green pic with greyish letters on it (conversion to windows 256 colors changed it  to a more whitish color, but thats easily fixed).

Other than that, I used the normal Orion model, not the bastion one when I added the nameplates. Teh bastion model has the special nameplate secion, normal Orion doesn't.. so I didn't remove anything..


On anotehr note, I have a question - is there a way to make a texture PARTIALY (or should I say SLIGHTLY) see-trough?
Instead of making new nameplates with a pannelish backgound, I was thinking of making hte letts slightly see-trough..that way some of the detail will see trough, giving it the apperance as tough it's actualyl painted over the hull....

If there isn't, I can allway make new nameplates if you don't realyl like this one, but I'm kinda satisfied with them as they are.

[TrashMan]

Added the Deimos for download..only nameplates, no otehr changes..

*didn't put the tbl entry for this one..no need...just set the modelFile to Deimos.pof*

[Trivial Psychic]

Hi-Poly Deimos or reg.?

[TrashMan]

regular...I am fixing up stock ships...

[Grimloq]

(HLP ate my post...)

Originally posted by Mefustae
Yeah, the nameplates are great looking and all, but they just stand out WAY too much...they need to be a lot more subtle, not just grimy and dirty, but only visible to someone who knows it's there...or someone who's about to be destroyed by it...

Joy. We have a screenwriter in the works.


('turrent'... Whoever made that smiley has my warmest thanks...)

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Grimloq
('turrent'... Whoever made that smiley has my warmest thanks...)

[WMCoolmon]

I'm going to reserve judgement until I see a better version of the nameplates. No offense, but I think they could definitely be done better.

[TrashMan]

The are originaly darker.. the Hecate shot doesn't do it justice...

Anyway, I once saw a cruiser (the Orc) I liked very much.. So i wnet and made a version of my own..Meet his bigger and meaner brother - the Blade

ADDED TO DOWNLOADS!

[Taristin]

Ridiculous to paint letters on there the size of houses.  IMO

[Grimloq]

Actually, I quite like the Blade.