[Kopachris]

It's supposed to be even more maneuverable and harder to hit than the Dragon, so I'm leaving it at 10m.  I'm going to have to tone down the hp, though.  I'll take a look at the Dragon's table entry.  And I say again, anyone know a good Shivan texturing tutorial?  Please?

[Flaming_Sword]

And I say again, anyone know a good Shivan texturing tutorial?  Please?

These retextures I've been doing are simple replacements using existing textures. I usually just fiddle until i come up with something that looks better. That in itself is highly subjective, so I've been posting here for second opinions. So far I've mostly been using supertile1A (the red) and supertile5A (the grey).

btw, PCS2 can render like that O_o...I can't even get it to read the textures in my mod directory >.> I suck.

There's a preferences option in the menu, which you can use to point to multiple directories, like the default, mediavps and other mods.

[Droid803]

I have those directories set already.
Guess it doesn't help to try again.

EDIT: Oh, NOW it works... 

[Flaming_Sword]

You forgot to click reload textures?

[Droid803]

Urp, its more embarrassing than that.
I added \data\maps when, obviously, they weren't needed >.<

yes, I suck.

[Flaming_Sword]

 

In case anyone is interested, I added turret points to alliance jump gate also found in blueplanet (turret models were there, just no turrets defined in the pof).

[Droid803]

 turret models but no turrets?   
one weird POF. lol. The turrets are even in the table entry lol.

[Flaming_Sword]

Yes, but now the weapons actually fire

[Droid803]

nice.
maybe you should upload some of this stuff to FreeSpaceMods.net

[Flaming_Sword]

I'll be putting my next release on there. I'll probably up stuff up separately if there's enough demand for it.

[Flaming_Sword]

 

In response to a PM I received, I'll upload the next release when I think I've done enough to it. Also, I think I'm finished with adding shivan ships, at least for now.

[Droid803]

You adding green shivans though?
you don't mind if I use some of your uhm..stuff (like the main hall and loading screen) for my campaign, do you? It was just too good to pass up on (lol)

[Flaming_Sword]

You adding green shivans though?

Green shivans might appear as an optional pack. Easy way to do it is to override existing glowmaps with an extra vp. Hard way to do it is a whole new set of textures/pofs/table entries (which will probably require an inferno build).

you don't mind if I use some of your uhm..stuff (like the main hall and loading screen) for my campaign, do you? It was just too good to pass up on (lol)

Go ahead. The mainhall isn't mine (check the credits text file), the loading screen is a modified screenshot (mostly because I'm no artist).

[Flaming_Sword]

 

Okay, I'm considering making the next release use the 3.6.10 beta mediavps, possibly taking advantage of adv effects. (yay, feature creep)

What do people think I should do?

1. Stick with 3.6.8 zeta
2. Redo some of my stuff based on 3.6.8 zeta advanced effects
3. Redo stuff based on 3.6.10 beta
4. Redo stuff based on 3.6.10 beta advanced effects
5. Do both 1 and 2 and release the advanced effects as a separate optional download
6. Do both 3 and 4 and release the advanced effects as a separate optional download
7. Do all of the above with graphics packs as separate downloads (you pick which to download depending on your setup)

On the one hand, I want to make this look good. On the other hand, I don't want to neglect players who play with older machines and/or don't want to switch to 3.6.10 (I know I resisted for a long time). I also want to minimise the work I have to do so this gets released faster.

People's thoughts? (should I make a poll? )

[ShadowGorrath]

I told you- make it all in one pack. It'll be a single download, and won't matter which mediavps you have ( 3.6.8 or 3.6.10 ). That means less headaches, more convenience, larger filesize ( which doesn't mean much nowadays ). But that's just my opinion.

[Flaming_Sword]

We're talking significantly larger, as in copies of advanced effects features. It could all boil down to the efficiency of 7-zip.

[jr2]

...which depends on the settings used in 7-zip... latest version is 4.57, set method to LZMA, compression level to Ultra, dictionary size to 64MB, word size to 273, and see what it does.  (Keep an eye on the memory usage displayed, though, you might not have enough memory.)  Eh, and you could switch on the Solid mode, that helps the compression ratio too.. but then you can't change the archive afterwards, but you shouldn't really need to anyways.

[Flaming_Sword]

Oh, I know all about that. Those are my usual settings, though it seems like I've left word size on 256. Whoops.

Solid is always on, as my test archives are not in vps and consist of lots of little files. Also helps when multiple vps contain similar content (like the shivan recolour packs).

[Flaming_Sword]

 

Playing around with adv effects beams (3 images because the effects are animated):

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Again