[Scooby_Doo]

Oh how I could get normal map working like that pic... that looks sooo awesome 

[Flipside]

well, one tip I can give you is those top panels were done using a Black -> White gradient fill in the bumpmap to give them a more 'scaly' appearance Also, I draw almost no lines on the main colour map for the panels, it's just blank colour, until the normal maps are working, I'll just use a baked texture, but I'll include the normal maps and possibly a normal-friendly texture at release

My only concern is that the normal map is, as with almost all fighters, mirrored, so hopefully that won't cause a problem.

[Scooby_Doo]

Well I'm making headway since I last posted it.  It's crude by it's there  *jumps up and down with joy*

[Colonol Dekker]

I like the above pics,  , It looks just plain HARDER as if it oculd take a load of punishment or VTOL style hover round an enemy garisson on a planet just "%$"%" the crap outta them 

[Flipside]

Hehehe, well, these sort of things would be cruiser suppressors, like the Erinyes, but I don't want to give it too much of an advantage, if it has tough Shields and Armour, then I'd need to balance that by making it slow and clumsy to handle, so I'll try to find a 'fair' balance of settings

Ok, two more piccies, with high ambient light for visibility.



Shootey bits bevelled, the cockpit it nearly done, but still some texture work to do and some vertices to jiggle around a bit.



Movey bits and panelling. I've made the armor look thicker and bevelled in the Engines as far as I dare, I've already slightly warped the UV Map, but it's going to be covered over by an engine glow 95% of the time anyway so meh.

Sitting at 1604 polies atm.

[spartan_0214]

One question: what makes it hard for a space-fighter to maneuver? They have little maneuvering thrusters, but why not just put on better maneuvering thrusters to make it to faster....

On that note, it would be pretty hard to maneuver a ship in space: constant increase in speed, little maneuvering thrusters that could either go all by themselves or be shot to pieces when you're shot at, plus the need for artificial gravity creators......dang, I'll take an F-14 any day over that....

[Unknown Target]

Well, it also has a lot to do with weight and the fighter's CoG. If the thrusters are close to the fighter's CoG, then their usefullness is actually diminished, I think. Also, if the fighter is heavy, then it takes a lot more power from the thruster to move it.

[Col. Fishguts]

Reminds me of the Soomtaw Acolyte. Looks pretty in its own chunky way

[Thor]

i really like it, but my first thought on looking at it was more along the lines of an Asault Transport or something similar.  I could just see that thing fighting its way to a larger cap ship, and then docking and unleashing a buch of rowdy, trigger happy marines. 

Just my thoughts though.

Whatever it ends up as, its looks ammazing, a tip of the hat to you flipside

[Black Wolf]

Make it Blue 

Seriously though, looks good .

[Flipside]

Make it Blue 

Seriously though, looks good .

Don't you worry, Blue ships are next in the works

Just got tinkering around with this and thought 'I haven't actually released anything to the community since the original Tyr, which was about 4 year ago.'

[Flipside]

Nearly ready for release, just trying to figure out these guns..

I know I need to set them up as weapon models and then define animation, but it's pretty hard to find out exact details on how. I've tried using the Wiki and the Search, and I think I'm close. Could anyone post up quick details of how they got Gatling guns working (Nuke... I'm looking at you )? Unfortunately, the VWep page didn't get transferred over with the Wiki



Still some colour tweaking to do, but other than that, it's just the rotating guns to go. The guns are part of the main Hull at the moment, but are easily removable/reconvertable etc.

[Taristin]

Part of the main hull? Err... then they definately won't rotate! Flip, of all people, you should know that much!

[Flipside]

Yup, that's why I pointed out that they were easily removable, that model was only converted up for checking the shine/glow maps They were only bundled in with the main hull in the cob file when I converted that particular one

I've figured most of it out now, they're spinning properly, so now I'm just tweaking the last few bits...

[spartan_0214]

pretty.....

[Flipside]

Ok, here's the release pack, it's got almost everything working, but still needs some tweaking, they are deadly against unescorted Cruisers and can, in a group, take down a Corvette, however, there seems to be a problem with reloading ballistic primaries. I'll check about that and a couple of other queries in the SCP Forum.

Anyway, enjoy

http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/Azaes.zip

You should just be able to drop that into your MediaVP folder and use it. Note it uses a file from the Media VP's for the muzzleflash, so it needs the EffectsVP and an unaltered mflash.tbl.

One other problem I had is that it won't appear in the Tech database, I've hardly touched the campaign with this pilot, so it might be caused by that. Works fine in Fred though

Edit : Give it 2 mins, updating the file.....

2nd Edit : Ok, in preperation for normals, I've included a -norm dds file with the normals on it. It's of no use now, but might come in handy in the future

[Scooby_Doo]

Hmmmm I should start adding -bump to my stuff since I can't seem to get normals to work right.  At least with these I'm not dealing with 100MB+ psd files 

[Flipside]

Well, to be honest, I've never seen the normals 'working', just the heightmaps. I'm sort of hoping Goober will use it to help test the normal mapping builds

[NGTM-1R]

That link does not seem to work...

[Flipside]

Hmmm... could be my usual ISP's trick of not transferring anything other than standard filetypes. I've uploaded a Zip..

http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/Azaes.zip