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Xindi Kraid
Priano Trans-Stellar State Services Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2014.12.08 19:13:50 -
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PBR does do a good job of showing off how much some of the ships need an improvement in their textures. PBR is looking good as a system, but only gets a 7/10 from me because of how bad some of the textures are. Some of the ships look off color (even if it is more accurate to what was painted, some ships, especially pirate ships, have become much less accurate to what we are used to from all these years and come to expect), or plasticky.
Speaking of related things, what do you guys use besides just textures? I thought you guys used bump and normal maps, but after examining a few ships (eg. kestrel), some of the details appear to be just painted on and not corrected for with a normal map so are still obviously flat from an angle (eg. the hardpoint greebles on the kestrel)
Also, how IS that ship repainting coming along? |
Xindi Kraid
Priano Trans-Stellar State Services Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2014.12.09 10:00:04 -
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The formulas posted in this dev blog mean jack squat to me, but I do understand texture files somewhat, and would LOVE it if we could get an update on the devlog that is quoted above in case anything has changed and to mention how it affects the new rendering engine.
Also: about that ship customization? How's it coming? and high res textures: will we ever see any (I also wouldn't say no to models with extra polys as well)? |
Xindi Kraid
Priano Trans-Stellar State Services Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2014.12.09 10:59:45 -
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Would you folks care to give us a list of all the maps (and specific channels/masks) and other files you guys are using to texture with? |
Xindi Kraid
Priano Trans-Stellar State Services Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2014.12.09 11:21:46 -
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CCP Mankiller wrote:Xindi Kraid wrote:Would you folks care to give us a list of all the maps (and specific channels/masks) and other files you guys are using to texture with? Hmmm, I would have explained that in the devblog, but we have some brand new idea here for how to pack these channels and we are investigating this right now. So as soon as we have something solid, I'll let you know! Good to know. I look forward to seeing what you guys do. Just don't skimp on the details.
Last time you showed off the new file format you did a great job showing WHAT was possible, but didn't do as good on demonstrating WHY. There was mention of textures boiling down to hull, faction and race, but didn't really get into what each of those entailed (I am assuming hull has monochrome texture and stuff like glow and normal maps while the faction has the factional skin, but am not as sure where race fits in or how generic faction and race map to specific hulls)
The earlier dev blog about the Scorpion and new red files what actually showed example textures were great.
Is the new way of packaging related specifically to PBR, or is it just assorted ongoing improvements (or maybe to help another project like factional skins and ship repainting)? I figure PBR requires some textures to be reworked since some are kinda meh when actually lit up, but you've been working on other stuff as well it's hard to tell. |
Xindi Kraid
Priano Trans-Stellar State Services Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2014.12.11 08:29:38 -
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Hey random ass question in case my memory is fragged: Didn't Khanid ships (Vengance, Sacrelige, etc.) used to have a silver and metallic blue paintjob?
Under PBR it is silver and grey (i'd describe the color as graphite), but my mind is saying that's not quite right. |
Xindi Kraid
Priano Trans-Stellar State Services Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2014.12.15 06:24:10 -
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Kaylin Drake wrote:Not all of us like ugly.. if you introduce rust/dirt/damage over time to old ships and such can you please please make this optional. People who collect ships and that sort would be especially unhappy with this. Please just fix PBR first, too many ships are already ugly enough from that change... Could always give us the option to remove scars and clean the hull at the repairshop. |
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