[Knarfe1000]

In all honesty, I think that's a good thing, as it's just one of the many little things that makes it look less advanced compared to the X-wing.

You do know that aerodynamics doesn't matter in space, right?

That´s why the Borg fly in a cubus. 

[brandx0]

You don't need to bother counting the polies in the cockpit as they'll be detail boxed, and thus won't really affect performance until up close.  A general rule is that your polycount is the total number of polies minus the number of polies which will be in detail boxes.

Secondly, I think at this point we've almost thrown poly counts to the wind.  Do what you need to do, we'll tweak LOD settings later.

[chief1983]

Actually, if we're lucky, player cockpits will be a separate POF, and then you just have to worry about the cockpits everyone else sees.  Those could possibly just go in the normal LODs, although having a somewhat nicer one that pops up closer than LOD0 might be nice.

[maje]

So, here's a little WIP update of the textures.  There are a few things that bother me and the flight group design is still in the experimental stage.  Also need to find the correct balance with color variation and panel line depth.  And then of course dirtying everything up.





Oh yeah, belated Happy Thanksgiving!

[Black Wolf]

Holy goat that's good

[TopAce]

Why green? Why not red?

[maje]

I chose green instead of red to give some variation.  Red and Yellow (Gold), aren't the only colors used in the Star Wars universe.  Besides, this Z-95 doens't belong to the Rebel Alliance, but to a smaller unaffiliated rebel cell whose colors are represented by a dark Forest Green, (the flight-leader's Headhunter is all black with lighter green markings to help with contrast).

Don't worry though, I'll give the Z-95 it's traditional red Alliance markings.

[brandx0]

Well I think it looks great!  Love the colour scheme, except I'd think of adding a bit more saturation on the green, I'd suggest more of an olivy colour just to make it stand out a bit more from the panel lines.  As Content moderator, you get my red stamp of approval

[spartan_0214]

Spectacular Maje. Looks like that color scheme is that of CorSec.

[maje]

Here we go.  Experimented more with flight group colors and dirtied up a few things.

[Starman01]

Damn, this is awesome

Outstanding work

[chief1983]

One thing about the texturing, it looks like it has detail, but it's just not clearly defined.  It's sort of hazy or something.  I would hope for something a little sharper, maybe this will happen with the normal maps and it goes through a render with them in use, I don't know.  I just think the panels should be a little sharper.

[spartan_0214]

Here we go.  Experimented more with flight group colors and dirtied up a few things.

Oh, so dirty... 

[brandx0]

Agreed, looks as if the dirtying has blurred the panel lines quite a bit

[maje]

Yes, proper contrast has never been my forte.  I'll see what I can do with the burn and dodge tools.  I'm hoping to have the color map completed today and then get to work on the specular and normal maps.

[brandx0]

You should really leave the Panel lines on a separate layer, and once they're done, not touch them again with any other tools.  Dirt, sand, etc, don't change the grooves of the ship itself.  Add your weathering effects to a new layer on top, but leave the panel lines alone.  This'll also help you when it comes time for those normal maps

[maje]

here's a render with spec and normal maps

[Black Wolf]

Is my monitor going dodgy, or does that look all... blurred? Like... cross between motion blur and I-need-glasses blur? Are you sure all your maps are lined up pixel perfect? I can imagine getting an effect like this if the normal map was displaced one pixel over from the main texture.

[BS403]

it looks blurry to me as well.

[chief1983]

It looks to me like it has sort of a hand drawn sketch effect applied to it during or post-render.  Or there's just some wierd compression artifacting.