[Jadehawk]

As I said earlier, I was experimenting with some new textures and here is my first result shown on this Raynor Class Destroyer. The Archangel in the background also is tiled with these new textures as well as many of my other ships. Note, these also have normals applied to break up the large panel faces.

Opinions?
If you wish to use these on your GTD Capella, I'd be more than happy to upload these into a zip file so you can.



Close up of the front section:

[General Battuta]

Something about the lighting or textures is off. Do those have shinemaps...?

[Droid803]

Yeah...
Or it might be the light settings.
Also, the beam cannons look funky, being in the tropical-bird colored shade of blue they're in.

[Jadehawk]

Yes there is a shine map there. As for the blue turrets, they are sitting on the blue stripe on top of the hull. Kinda weird with them Gray on a Blue hull texture so they are Blue. And the lighting is at a lower angle than the ship is.

Yeah I see what you mean about the Beam colors. Too rich in color and I can fix that by toning them down some. Thanks for the reminder

[General Battuta]

Maybe we're just too used to the super-shiny Raynor from BP...

[Droid803]

Yeah...probably 
What's that about the blue stripe? I was talking about the beam turrets, not the multiparts. The Multiparts are fine.

And lol, derailed.

[blowfish]

There is a shinemap.  It's just not very shiny

[Jadehawk]

That's true. I could make it more shiny, but does everyone really like shiny ships? I was under the impression a more subdued shine was better and this is why you see them as they are. Also I hate how the environment lighting mirrors the planet off the hulls as it gives me a weird feeling. But hey, I'll make them the way people want too ya know. 

[blowfish]

You know, you can control environment mapping independently of the spectacular shine using the shinemap's alpha channel.

[SPECTRE87]

As I mentioned I was looking more at using something similar to the Hecate's textures... I don't really fancy windows on warships. Metallic dark-grey and brown is what I'm looking for here 

[Commander Zane]

Very sexy Destroyer.

[Droid803]

Hecate textures sound good

[Commander Zane]

I think if the beam cannon textures were more like the ones used on Blue Planet Jadehawk's textures would look pretty good on the Capella.

You could try using the blue beams that are used on the Raynor. Those things are incredibly powerful, and it'd help the ship fit in with the existing post-Capella fleet. (Not that that's a requirement, by any means, but it'd be cool!)

You can get the stats from the Blue Planet tables.

I agree with this as well.

[Jadehawk]

I'll be working on my beam textures you see soon. Should look better and not so bright.

I also might work on some Hecate textures to see if there is anything I can do to improve upon. But right now my plate is full texture-wise.

BTW...did someone on here mention about a month or two ago they were working on some Hecate textures? I seem to recall that but can't remember where. Maybe a Hecate update modeling thread if there is one?

[Commander Zane]

I just thought of something, are those smaller turret depressions on the area the two beam cannons are at on the front going to be missile launcher tubes, because they are impractical as anything else given their position and the fact they only have about a 35 degree firing arc with the hull blocking their path.

[blowfish]

Those four things behind the main beams are torpedo launchers.

[SPECTRE87]

REQUEST:

I'd really love if somebody could provide me with skp. files of the GTF Pegasus and Apollo... I got some nifty ideas for them

HTL versions, if you please 

[Hellstryker]

REQUEST:

Thread split.

[SPECTRE87]

Kinda stupid to have an entirely new thread with the only purpose of me asking for those skp's...    I'll give them their own dedicated threads once I have something to show...

[Hellstryker]

Kinda stupid to have an entirely new thread with the only purpose of me asking for those skp's...   

Which will (hopefully) evolve into a thread regarding these said ships being HTLed. So no, I don't think it's stupid. I can't get them right now but I'll ask blowfish to do so.