[ShadowGorrath]

This is slightly off-topic, but, Esarai, can you send me a link to the fighter's engine maps?

[Kobrar44]

You can ALWAYS add some:D
F****G AWESOME!
THE BEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN!
I WANT TO USE IT! NOW!

[Dragon]

I have found some bugs and uploaded a fix.
http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.534

• First ,you used helheim01a name for model texture ,while your updated helheim is named helheim01.
  It caused one texture to be missing ,so I have fixed it.
• Engine texture had "a" on end of the name ,so it was retail quality.
  Changed to mediavp one.
• Textures was missing normal maps.
  Fixed ,now most of them have normals from mediavps.
• Model was missing pathes.
  Fixed ,even because it's mainly a texture update ,model included there has fixed pathes.
  It was basically one click on "auto generate" button in PCS2 path editor.

I have also added height maps to some textures ,to use them you need to put "-height"
(without quotes) into launcher custom flags and have normal maps enabled.
I hope this path will help you with making Amaretsu even more awesome than it is now.
And at last PCS2 and lab pics of my first Amaretsu reskin.

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[asyikarea51]

Damn, 169 turrets...

I seem to be missing some textures but preoccupied atm, can't check...  nevermind, saw Dragon's post


I really don't know what to make out of this capship. The stock textures just make me go "WTF freaking hard to see" like an over-shiny little toy, and I question those giant pillars that hold the top and bottom sections together.

Then there's the extreme use of blue colour...

viewing in pcs though, haven't tried it ingame and i don't make a good bug tester anyway.

Certainly not GTVA styling but oh well. XD

[blowfish]

And this ship doesn't have a single anti-fighter beam on it, this thing's gonna be nomming on torpedos.

Srsly?  I've found that most of the time, anti-fighter beams are not so effective against torpedoes, but laser turrets are MORE effective.

I really don't know what to make out of this capship. The stock textures just make me go "WTF freaking hard to see" like an over-shiny little toy, and I question those giant pillars that hold the top and bottom sections together.

There are lighter variants of some of the textures in that pack if you want.

[asyikarea51]

I think playing around with it is fine by me... the styling is too radical for my uses anyway

[esarai]

I'm somehow missing textures.

Oops... I think that might be the naming in the .pof.  Thanks to dragon for the fixes.

And this ship doesn't have a single anti-fighter beam on it, this thing's gonna be nomming on torpedos.

In my tests the laser storms this makes are so thick that almost nothing can get through. Four complete wings of bombers disappeared inside of a minute without a single successful bomb hit.

Here's the engine texture for that Starstrider fighter I included as a little present.
http://www.mediafire.com/?memezynq5y2

Thanks to everyone for the feedback, and special thanks to Dragon for uploading those fixes!

[Jadehawk]

When I get home, I'll use my custom hull and engine textures and see if you all might like it. My hull textures also have normals too. Looking good so far

[Jadehawk]

Texturing done. Now I need to do a shp file for it unless I missed one?

Then do some in game screenies for ya.

[TrashMan]

Texturing done. Now I need to do a shp file for it unless I missed one?

Then do some in game screenies for ya.

It's in the Wiki..

Just make a shipname-shp.tbm file and put the ship.tbl into in it, with a #Ship Classes on top and #End on bottom...methinks.

[blowfish]

Filename: blahblahblah-shp.tbm

Code: [Select]

#Ship Classes

$Name: MyAwesomeShip
[rest of ship table]

#End

[Jadehawk]

As promised:
This is a 15 min job using my existing textures I have. Yes there are normals applied in these shots too. But this ship is freakin huge and you really cant see them until you get close like in shot 2.





Opinion away.

[blowfish]

IMO shinemaps are a necessity.  You can use the alpha channel to make them not look like mirrors.  Plus, they tend to bring out the normal maps more.  Also, I would increase the glow on the turrets.

[dragonsniper]

I like it. Sooo much better than what I could do.

[Retsof]

Looks good, not sure I like those cyan stripes though, but I cant suggest an alternative so...

[Jadehawk]

The Cyan color is just the Battlegroup's color for ship identification. Any of them can be changed and I got plenty of colors under the rainbow for Battlegroup colors. But can change it to a Medium Gray color for a plain ship.

[General Battuta]

Love your work, Jadehawk. I just think it needs a shinemap.

[esarai]

@Jadehawk: The Amaterasu-shp.tbm file included in the archive should be what you're looking for. It's in the tables folder that extracts with the distributable. Just copy that file into your FreeSpace2\data\tables folder and everything should be skippy. Let me know if you have trouble finding it.

Interesting retexture. Looks a lot heavier, if that makes sense. Much more militaristic feeling. I agree with blowfish; needs more shine and needs more turret glow. Good job!
@Everybody: Thanks for the feedback and help!

[Jadehawk]

IMO shinemaps are a necessity.  You can use the alpha channel to make them not look like mirrors.  Plus, they tend to bring out the normal maps more.  Also, I would increase the glow on the turrets.
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only used Alpha for making planets but for textures too in the fashion you say? How does that work?

[Flaming_Sword]

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Texturing#TextureName-shine.xxx