[Lightspeed]

I wouldnt call that good. It REALLY needs a better model

-edit: Hey, I've always liked the Orion

[ShadowDrakken]

I didn't say it'd make the Orion look good, just said it'd make it not look horrible

[Lightspeed]

I was talking about the Aeolus model. The Orion is pretty good already.

[diamondgeezer]

This is awesome work as usual, Lighty. But those Rakshasa maps pulse WAY too fast. Might look OK in an intense firefight, but when it's just cruising the ship looks ridiculous. I really think you ought to slow them down a whole lot, like a quater speed at least.

And ****ing good job on the Aeolus. What happened to the uber version that was in production?

[Rictor]

I see you went and added a shadow to each individual bolt, you bad, bad man. At times like this, I can't even bear to look at you


Do the Hecate next, though she does have The Tiledness goin on, bigtime.

Also, stuff just look better when its framed by your nebulas, especially that one. We should do that to ever ship.

[Jonathan_S47]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
The Aeolus. I seriously hope someone's gonna hi-polify and re-UVmap this thingy
 

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,21161.0.html

Raptor is working on it.

[Jetmech Jr.]

The maps themselves are excellent GRADE A work, but you are correct, without a new model its just one big

[Nico]

The... griders? on the arm that connects the engines to the main hull should not be reflective... And they're like ****ing mirrors on the dark pics. Darn, those things are all rusty, for pete's sake

[Setekh]

You're right, the Aeolus model needs serious work. I wonder how the efforts on that are going now...

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by Rictor
I see you went and added a shadow to each individual bolt, you bad, bad man.
 

The original maps had that too, for your information

[Lightspeed]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
This is awesome work as usual, Lighty. But those Rakshasa maps pulse WAY too fast. Might look OK in an intense firefight, but when it's just cruising the ship looks ridiculous. I really think you ought to slow them down a whole lot, like a quater speed at least.color]

Hmm. There might be something wrong with it, I guess. It should pulse pretty slow.

See, animated glow maps seems to work the wrong way for me:

The fighters are in 25 FPS ANIs. The pulse takes about 1 second to complete as in: Pulse Pulse Pulse Pulse Pulse

Now, if I put in a slower FPS (like 12) it will effectively be TWICE as fast (Pulsepulsepulsepulsepulse)

And if I double it (50 FPS), which is what i've done, it will take twice as long: Pulse...... Pulse...... Pulse...... Pulse.....

It might be working the other way 'round for you. Could you check if fighters pulse faster or slower please?

[diamondgeezer]

To my untrained eye, they appear to be running at the same speed. That's in ANIView, mind - did you need me to view them in the game?

[Lightspeed]

DUH!

Aniview will NOT display them correctly.

[DaBrain]

These maps are damn good.

I hope they don't look aliased in-game.
No time to test them now. But I've got them


Ctile4 could need some more work on it.
This map is especially important, because this map is used very often and in different colors. I.E on the Orion(blue) and the Colossos(orange-brown).

[Lightspeed]

Yes, but ctile4 is only used on the Aeolus.

[DaBrain]

Aww !
You know what I mean.
Just rename it after you changed the colors.


btw I thought I saw this map somewhere on the Deimos, ... or was it the Argo... just forget it

[Lightspeed]

It's on no other ship. I thought so too, but it it isnt the case.

[diamondgeezer]

OK, inspite of your 'DUH!' I had a look at them in the techroom. The fighter maps pulse about two-three times faster than the cruiser maps, and if you want my opinion they're way too fast as well. The fighter maps do need to be faster, but at about the speed the current Rakshasa maps are (and then those need to be slowed down in turn)

[WMCoolmon]

*Agrees with dg*
At the moment the animated glowmaps are taking away from the impact of Shivan ships. Really, I think all the animated glowmaps are too showy, or too garish (For lack of a better way to say it). Flashing lights don't fit; something like subtly shifting colors in the shivan textures seems like a better effect, it'd be more alien. Slowing it down would work too, but IMHO the shifting-lights would look better. Don't get me wrong, I love what you've done with the ships, I just think it could be better.

[diamondgeezer]

Now we're getting somewhere. To be honest they've got something of a dicso mirrorball about them at the moment. I think the shifts in contrast or whatever you call them need to be much more subtle