[General Battuta]

Yeah, that's a big improvement, Herra.

I also think the texture could do a slightly better job of conveying a sense of scale. The elliptical lights are really big. (I know it's not final, hopefully this is constructive.)

[Sushi]

I'm really liking the look of it. Are those ridges on the red parts modeled, or just normal-mapped? If modeled, I'm worried about nasty aliasing artifact and lighting problems...

[Kolgena]

I'm still hoping we lose the red grills. They're not making much sense to me. You don't want ginormous statue of liberty-sized (delicate) fin arrays out where they can be shot to pieces. And they can't claim rule of cool because I don't think they look cool.

Could we replace them with the scattered black/yellow windows texture? Or at least make them grey/black?

[General Battuta]

Yeah, Herra's changes pushed me a little more towards favoring them but frankly it still looks a bit like the Colossus is trying to be the USS Defiant.

[Hades]

This happens whenever subsystems are blown up, and they all seemingly occur at the ass of the ship.

[chief1983]

Isn't the centerpoint on the Colossus in the back?

[Dragon]

Seems like a bounding box problem, Scooby's Midway had similar issues.

[ssmit132]

Maybe there's a vent out the back that expels debris and fire whenever a subsystem is destroyed?

The hangar bay is cool.

Wow.

And I don't like the red either.

[Thaeris]

Sweet eggs and bacon! That's epic!

That said, if at some point we could turn that into a mainhall... oh man...

 

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Sweet eggs and bacon! That's epic!

That said, if at some point we could turn that into a mainhall... oh man...

 

The Colossus could have it's own campaign...

[Hellzed]

May I suggest making the hangar bay darker (basically black and gray textures), with green lights on empty fighter bays and red lights on full ones, with a big blue lighting (a large line on the rectangle perimeter) around the floor and the top, and some kind of control tower deploying from the top of the hall, and a decal of the ship insigna on the wall ?

[Thaeris]

This is FS2, not FS1 - the grimdark has subsided to a degree. Furthermore, as the pride of the GTVA, do you think the ship is going to be dingy like so? I think not, good sir! If anything, you may want to brighten it up a little, with the Aquitane mainhall as a prime example.

[Herra Tohtori]

This is FS2, not FS1 - the grimdark has subsided to a degree. Furthermore, as the pride of the GTVA, do you think the ship is going to be dingy like so? I think not, good sir! If anything, you may want to brighten it up a little, with the Aquitane mainhall as a prime example.

It's probably just my lighting settings that are grimdark.

[General Battuta]

This is FS2, not FS1 - the grimdark has expanded to a degree.

fixed

[Hellzed]

Sorry for the ugly effects, but here's what I tried to explain : darken textures, but make some shiny green and red points, two glowing blue rectangels (floor and top) and a control tower with spotlights, like in an airport at night.

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[mjn.mixael]

 

The amount of time ANYONE would spend in the hangar is not worth that effort...

[Liberator]

Emotional impact or not, no human is going to spend they're work time in a poorly lit environment if they can help it.  Especially on a starship I can imagine every nook and cranny being illuminated fairly elaborately.  I'm not saying 100,000 lumen floods every 2 feet, but on a ship with couple dozen fusion reactors it shouldn't be a big deal to have decent lighting.

[rscaper1070]

I think mjn.mixael was talking about "in game" no one is going to be spending much time in the hanger. I do like the idea of the red and green lights though.

[Liberator]

Oh, yeah.  Don't spend much more time on it because it's tiny.  My point was that "in uni" it would be a fairly well lit room.  Tractor beams or not, I'd like a lot of light when I'm trying to manuver a multi-billion whatever star fighter in a tight space filled with other multi-billion whatever star fighters that are on my side.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Hmm, we could have baked shadows with those floodlights...