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Offline Rodo

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God this thing is gonna have some real tactical uses.

Definitely.

Do want :D
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So I'm thinking that the colouration is going to be in line with the SSD.

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Offline Angelus

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This might be my monitor, but it seems to me a bit dark-ish colorwise.
Maybe a tad bit lighter?

 
It all depends on the in-game executor

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An in-game Executor up to Brand's standards might be impossible to...execute?  But that's a long way off anyhow.  I'm an ISD-gray guy myself, but this looks pretty cool too.

 
So I've run into a strange problem. I'm trying to bake my AO, but the main hull is rendering wierd. The highest parts are rendering darker than than the lower parts, and the edges seem to be appearing in the AO. Any suggestions?

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Offline newman

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You need to use edge padding if you want to avoid those edges. Also, the texture appears to be quite low res, judging by that screen you posted. Are you using unique mapping?
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Offline Pred the Penguin

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I personally would like to see more color on the cruiser.
It definitely is more stylish than most Imperial cruisers and more suited to have colors other than boring Imperial.
I'm not suggesting to make it the Rainbow Cruiser, maybe something to accentuate the details of the model.

Just my thoughts...

Whatever you decide though, it will still look pretty amazing.

 

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That's an AO map, ambient occlusion.  It's not the base texture.  It gets overlaid onto the base texture usually to give a more realistic lighting effect, but for studying the AO map itself it's usually overlaid onto a plain white base.
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newman, the padding is at around three. The problem is that the AO almost seems inversed. On the other objects in the scene the AO works fine. But on this one mesh it's like the AO is done in reverse. Those edges are outlining raised portions, while the recessed areas arn't being darkened at all.

 
Okay, I fixed it. It seemed to me that it was backwards, but when I tried flipping the normals, it just came out black. So I just reset the xform and presto! The normals were all backwards. Flip them and it worked!

 

Offline newman

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Heh, was just about to suggest that. Also, padding pnly works on the image you set up to be saved inside the rtt dialog; it doesn't work if you have it render and then save the resulting pic from the rendered frame window. So for ambient occlusion, I find that the best way is applying a white material and rendering a complete map with a padding of around 2 (ymmv). Just in case it can help.
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That's an AO map, ambient occlusion.  It's not the base texture.  It gets overlaid onto the base texture usually to give a more realistic lighting effect, but for studying the AO map itself it's usually overlaid onto a plain white base.
While I did not know that, I was more replying to
So I'm thinking that the colouration is going to be in line with the SSD.
Guess I should have been more specific... >_>

 

Offline MR_T3D

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can we see the smexy fixed maps?
also, really like the SSD colouring.

 
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Offline Angelus

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looks good to me. can't wait to see the final.  :yes:

 

Offline Pred the Penguin

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I'm really liking the curves. :D

 

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Very distinct look, would be hard to get it confused with any Imperial ship I can think of.
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That means I need to colour it as closely as possible to another imperial ship, so that people recognize it as imperial. BTW, there are 41 turrets on it now.

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