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Offline Dragon

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Polies should be spent mainly on edges, 3D details (like guns) and things that can't be done with a normal map.
Flat surfaces can use normal maps, so they can stay flat with the exception of the extrusions visible from behind.

 

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Better normal maps are better! This is the same geometry I just showed you, btw.

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Offline Kolgena

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Much sexier. Still ugly as ass though, due to weird fighter design :P

The join between the diagonal fins and the rear cockpit bubble looks really weird. Especially at the very front of the edge where they meet. Retail's like that too, so I don't know what to say.

  

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I still feel the barrels could use some detailing, and those vents be modelled in, they look kinda...comical right now.
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And you doubted me.


This is in the Ship Lab and in-game, using substantially the same geometry. Though I hope you guys like the cockpit and sensor dome.  ;7

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Offline Vasudan Admiral

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Wow!
Very very cool. :)
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Offline Rga_Noris

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Great stuff.

**** the haters. ;)
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Offline Galemp

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Hey VA, I'm having a little trouble getting the cockpit/glass/hull draw order correct. What's the right way to do things?
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Offline Commander Zane

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Damn, good job.

 

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That poor doomed vasudan makes all the difference :D
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Wow looks great Galemp!

The top bubble is the cockpit? :eek2:
I would have never guessed.
Again looks great.

VA's right though,  seeing that vasudan makes all the difference! :D
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Offline Commander Zane

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Makes sense, looking at the pilot I don't think he would fit in the other section.

 

Offline ION3

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I'm having a little trouble getting the cockpit/glass/hull draw order correct.

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Blender_to_POF_Conversions

Guess you read the part about cockpit glass already. Transparent objects have to be drawn after solid objects. And they have to be sorted so the nearest ones are drawn last. Most engines figure that out on their own, fso doesn't. By making the glass a subobject you tell the engine to draw it after the fighter.

But you have two glass parts and i guess you have to settle with one drawing order. So, one of them will always be invisible or cause rendering errors when seen through the other one.

Can any of the more knowledgeable people confirm this?

 

Offline Vasudan Admiral

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As far as I'm aware, yeah that's quite correct. There will always be 1 glass chunk drawn after the other, so from some view angles that won't work properly.

Looking at the second of the two pics though, it does look like the render order in relation to the hull is what's not quite right.  If you've already separated both glass sections and called them detail0-trans though, send me the .blend and I'll see if I can spot anything; cos by that stage it should be working fine. :\
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Offline Rga_Noris

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Also look at the textures in PCS2. I found out recently that the glass (or whatever texture your using on your detail0-trans) texture also must be ordered last here as well.
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WOW! nice fish pilot there :yes:
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As far as I'm aware, yeah that's quite correct. There will always be 1 glass chunk drawn after the other, so from some view angles that won't work properly.

Looking at the second of the two pics though, it does look like the render order in relation to the hull is what's not quite right.  If you've already separated both glass sections and called them detail0-trans though, send me the .blend and I'll see if I can spot anything; cos by that stage it should be working fine. :\

Huh? It looks fine in both pictures...

Edit: never mind, I now notice I can see out the back of the cockpit where there should be opaque stuff... Maybe that's just an aspect of the model though?