[Shade]

Nope. A glowmap is basically a map of the areas that are lit up even when they are in shadow, including the colour etc. So it's not a light as much as something that's lit up. A glowpoint is a light in itself, like the blinking lanterns seen on the front of Omega-class destroyers in TBP for example.

[Herra Tohtori]

In other words, glowmap is a map that makes areas of ship's surface glow based on the RGB value on the texture.

Glow points attach an effect to a point on the model, and the effect has it's own texture.


This total conversion totally rules.

[Spicious]

Someone needs to get collada support done. 

Care to contribute some models to the cause?

[brandx0]

What do you need?

[Spicious]

Anything that follows the naming scheme (which is about to change). Of course, you're welcome to make suggestions about the naming scheme too.

[Scourge of Ages]

Hey sorry I'm late, I've been unavailable for a couple days.
I just had to say before it didn't make sense:

The proportions are off.


Haha, jk. Seriously, that ship looks spectacular. You need to finish up the mod, and then go model make models for ILM.

[brandx0]

I certainly wouldn't mind doing so, they're probably pay me better than you guys do... hehe

[Shade]

Of course, there's the catch that you might have to model and animate the likes of Jar-Jar Binks. That's a pretty big catch...

[colecampbell666]

ILM?

[Jeff Vader]

ILM?

[MR_T3D]

ILM called: they say you stole their ISD mesh and have brought episode 7 to a grinding halt, possible cancellations





seriously great work

[brandx0]

Well, been neglecting this thread for a while, so time to post up some updates.  We have a bit more detail on the texture, but more importantly I have something fun to show ya.

I've been experimenting with a technique of lighting the model using the lights it emits on its own, then baking them into a self-illumination (Read: glowmap)

So without further ado:

[colecampbell666]

[Galemp]

Very nice, especially inside the fighterbay.

...but where are the windows?

[colecampbell666]

The scale is wrong. It should be longer and pointier.

[LordMelvin]

The scale is wrong. It should be longer and pointier.

No, it's too long and pointy. It should be shorter and wider.

That is, without a doubt, one of the awesomer things I've seen all day.

[brandx0]

I'm sorry, in the future I'll make it less pointy and long.  I'll also fix the problems with it being too short and fat. =P

[chief1983]

Honestly guys, the first time someone made a sarcastic comment about that after we said to knock it off, it was a little funny.  It gets exponentially less funny every time afterwards.

[Herra Tohtori]

I have to agree the joke is getting blown out of proportions.


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The lighting looks great. In fact I would say that no one who isn't familiar with FS2_Open lighting capabilities will be able to tell if it's dynamic or baked in lighting, but then again i's hard to make that kind of statement from a single shot from relatively great distance.

Could we see how the fighterbay looks close-up, like we were approacing it?

[Col. Fishguts]

The baked lighting on the engines and hangar bay looks great, the one in the side trenches not so much, it's a bit too strong/accentuated compared to what we see on the studio model. But that's just my $0.02.