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Offline Lightspeed

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Umm...

These are some really bad screenshots... As I cant just take some from the tech room. Ah well.





The Rakshasa. Glowmaps are (of course) animated. Don't mind the terran thruster glows :rolleyes:

There's still some visual flaws about it, namely V messed up the 'UV mapping' of the different tile maps. Any modeler would have to fix that, i'm afraid - I can only improve as far as maps go.

Oh, right. The linky: Rakshasa Maps (3.95 MB)
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Offline DaBrain

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Looks weird somehow...

I don't like that the glowmap gets completly red for a second.
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Offline Lightspeed

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I know. 'tis not my fault though. [V] messed up with the mapping... big time.

The glowmap doesn't get completely red - the contrast does drop at one point, but meh. As I said, bad screenshots :)
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IMHO it look awesome!

 

Offline DaBrain

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Well, cruisTileS1a is very good.
And also the shinemap for it.
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the raksasha's never looked this good.. kudos.. now, if i can get it to work with mine,  all will be good :)
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...muh... ...shinemuh... *breaks down and cries with joy*

 

Offline Bobboau

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I realy need to figure out a good way to interpolate between two glow maps
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It's very good in all but one department - the glowmap. My specific gripe is with the fourth shot from the top where you see it against the nebula. The glow looks to large, red and generally ugly (the stripes down the sides and the bit between the engine area and the rest of the hull). This could be improved by having larger dark areas around there, but I'm not sure if this is down to the dodgy UV mapping you mentioned or not. If it is, to bad.

At any rate, the rest of it is great :)

 

Offline J3Vr6

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Sweeeeet.

But are u just doing shine maps or cleaning up the textures too and doing the environmental mapping stuff?
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aweXome work LS :eek2::yes:
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Sweet. But I just realised how ugly the inside of the arms look with the armour so abruptly going to gray from the red on the tips of the arms.
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Offline Lightspeed

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I realy need to figure out a good way to interpolate between two glow maps


That would certainly help some people, yes.

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It's very good in all but one department - the glowmap. My specific gripe is with the fourth shot from the top where you see it against the nebula. The glow looks to large, red and generally ugly (the stripes down the sides and the bit between the engine area and the rest of the hull). This could be improved by having larger dark areas around there, but I'm not sure if this is down to the dodgy UV mapping you mentioned or not. If it is, to bad.

At any rate, the rest of it is great :)


It is not. However, the glowmap is animated so you'll see the situation looking like this for the fraction of a second. (look at the first image of the first row, for example)

I had an idea for a different approach on the animated glow pulse on capships, but i'll have to see how it turns out.

As for the UVthingy, some skilled modeler should re-UVmap the whole thing from scratch. If the maps were applied where they should, it would look a lot better - even more so if it were hi-polied :)
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Offline jdjtcagle

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I love it :yes:
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yes yes yes yes yes:yes:
:eek2: that looks....great:nod: :nod:

 

Offline jdjtcagle

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Just wondering... Why is the thrusters blue??
I quite like the look, especially the ani's :):yes:
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Offline Bri_Dog

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That thing look SO evil.


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Offline Lightspeed

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Don't mind the terran thruster glows :rolleyes:
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Offline jdjtcagle

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Leave it to me :D
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Leave it to me :D


do the Rivana next that ship will own with animated glowmaps!
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