[Galemp]

Ah, the humble TAC 1. Behold its new polygons.



"But Galemp," you cry, "there's already a high poly TAC 1 in the media VPs!" And right you would be.
But I desired a larger UV map for it... so I can do this.



I've noticed on my commute the vast variety in colors and paint schemes of modular freight containers, so I thought I'd bring that to Freespace. The POF and textures will be forthcoming, but for now, HERE is the template so you can make your own.

[Retsof]

oh I am SO gonna try this... don't know what I'll do yet but.......
EDIT: Uhhh.... what program do I use to open it?

[Droid803]

This looks fun

Its a PSD, so open it with Photoshop.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Or The GIMP, if you don't wanna pay for it.

[Mongoose]

This is fantastic.

[lostllama]

Looking good Galemp!! It would be cool to add the corporate logos for Han Ronald, Triton Dynamics and so on to them as well using that template.

[Stormkeeper]

And we can have actual commercial cargos! Awesome work Galemp!

[Herra Tohtori]

Does it mirror text on the side?

[Galemp]

Sadly, no. I ran out of space on the map, and I don't really want to make it any bigger.

Unless of course the community really really wants me to.

[Herra Tohtori]

Well, we can always write Bosch Beer on the top section... though it won't be as impressive as it would've been on the sides.

How much more work would it be if you put six rectangular polygons (two per each section, on opposite sides of course) overlayed to the surface (similar to the insignia system) that would use a transparent logo texture (or even better, part of the base texture rather than a separate texture)? If it were possible to map, say, 40x120 sized corner of the map for the logo and then UVMap that location to the rectangles in the model. That grid-like detail could probably handle a bit of resolution reduction...

....kinda like this:

[tinfoil]

DESTROY THE BOSCH BEER PILOT!!!!

[Galemp]

hmm, you're right. Lemme see what I can do.

[Galemp]

ta-dah.


I think this works better, thanks for the encouragement Herra. Template's at the same link.

I'll re-wrap the container with this map and it ought to be OK.

[Stormkeeper]

We can do this for Vasudan containers and put "Headz" on the side.

[Retsof]

So where's the fancy Hi-poly POF?

[Droid803]

I hope the POF is fixed so that it doesn't spin on death.

[Herra Tohtori]

I dunno droid, it would at least justify the Red Shirts' reaction to them...

[lostllama]

I'm thinking that the more brightly coloured ones look at bit out of place for TAC 1s, as they are usually found near front-line areas, according to the tech room. Perhaps the TTC or the other container classes more often used for civilian freight would be more appropriate for those textures. Just a thought. Still I'd like to see these TAC 1s as they are in the game anyway.

[Galemp]

I'm actually going to be putting a hold on this for now, as I've been playing around with the Chronos/Amazon textures and they, too, are very cramped. There's no room for text on them either. I'm going to remap both of them onto the same 512 x 2048 map so they both have room to breathe.

[Stormkeeper]

A Bosch beer freighter?