Topic: USS Warpath [TOS] (prev: bit boredom again :D)

[Mackie]

heh... pre-tos designs are nice... theyre fun to do

[Don Karnage]

hmm nice ship, so its for what race and what type of ship?

[Mackie]

Fed corvette i'd think I dunno really yet. im experimenting with texturing it, would be the second thing i've ever textured :p

[Bernard Guignard]

Nice work Mackie it makes me want to find  the CD sound track to Flash Gordon the
Queen version. Looking forward to seeing the Textured version 

[Mackie]

stilll doesnt look like much but its a start. as said, one of the first ever texturing attempts

[Klingon Fanatic]

 

Nicely done Mackie!

Queen Flash Gordon soundtrack plays: "Flash, aw ah!"

Weren't you working on an Oberth with 1 or 2 tug pods Mackie?

KF

[Mackie]

Nicely done Mackie!

Queen Flash Gordon soundtrack plays: "Flash, aw ah!"

Weren't you working on an Oberth with 1 or 2 tug pods Mackie?

KF

Not that I remember but then again, I have always a few bottles worth of not remembering handy :p

[Don Karnage]

what is the things around the hull?

its look like guns

[Mackie]

what is the things around the hull?

its look like guns

guns indeed. lots of small ones

[Scottish Andy]

Looks pretty cool, especially with her clothes on. 

She could be an early (or current) SFB Fed police cutter.

[Mackie]

sorry for the crusty looking modeler shots, deepexplo gave up on me so no more nice shots until i make renderings with lw :p
 trying to put on some details, propably need to change the font and something else... pretty tedious stuff, with my sk1llz on psp and with texturing generall...

[Mackie]

this is pretty much it. just needs a few finishing touches and im done :p



I redid the texts on the hull with the proper font too :>

[Mackie]

Almost there
ending up to be a sort of a tos ship, rather than just pre-tos

[Mackie]

oh yeah and to mention, so that i wont forget, i nicked the aztec template and few other things from DD (texture parts, like the fed stripw on ze beak of the ship) :>

[Darkdrone]

oh yeah and to mention, so that i wont forget, i nicked the aztec template and few other things from DD (texture parts, like the fed stripw on ze beak of the ship) :>

nicking my stuff again are we what am i going to do wirh you :p

looks sweet man kind of a pre-tos design did nice job on her

DD

[Mackie]

bloody love those renders dude she looks sweet i might have to ask for a custom TNG mesh for a texture job of my own

Yeah thanks, anywho, any idea how to do floodlights (you know like over the registeries) properly? I just cant get them done done on PSP. Its seriously breaking my balls... thats the only thing left to do before this thing is done >:/

Thanks to DD too, especially for letting me use your texture bits and so forth <3

[Rod ONeal]

I mostly use photoshop, but use psp for flood/spot lights. I take the final texture (.bmp) and without zooming in put the lights wear I want them, Adjust the size, brightness, etc... Enter, then backstep to remove the lighting from the color map. You actually only want to apply the lights to the light map, not the color map.
Create a blank texture of the same size, medium grey (128 brightness, 0 saturation). Apply the lights to this texture using the "last used" setting. I usually double the intensity and set darkness at 50%, but you can vary that to taste, then enter. Adjust brightness and contrast to get a black background and the light's brightness where you want it and save it. Stick it in as a seperate layer on the psp version of the texture it's for under the other glowy areas on the texture (windows, etc.) but above everything else. Flatten and save either grayscale, the way Taldren did it,  or 8bit (256 color) if you want to have colored light maps, for warp glows and stuff,  and use as little memory as possible.

I hope this is helpfull. It's a pretty "down and dirty" description, I know.

P.S. I love the shots in space dock.

[Mackie]

I mostly use photoshop, but use psp for flood/spot lights. I take the final texture (.bmp) and without zooming in put the lights wear I want them, Adjust the size, brightness, etc... Enter, then backstep to remove the lighting from the color map. You actually only want to apply the lights to the light map, not the color map.
Create a blank texture of the same size, medium grey (128 brightness, 0 saturation). Apply the lights to this texture using the "last used" setting. I usually double the intensity and set darkness at 50%, but you can vary that to taste, then enter. Adjust brightness and contrast to get a black background and the light's brightness where you want it and save it. Stick it in as a seperate layer on the psp version of the texture it's for under the other glowy areas on the texture (windows, etc.) but above everything else. Flatten and save either grayscale, the way Taldren did it,  or 8bit (256 color) if you want to have colored light maps, for warp glows and stuff,  and use as little memory as possible.

I hope this is helpfull. It's a pretty "down and dirty" description, I know.

P.S. I love the shots in space dock.

Unf ;P Horribly complicated. I know how to make lightmaps in general but its the damn floodlights that are giving me insane amounts of trouble. Just cant get em done with PSP's normal plugins and thats all I got :<

Got msn rod? I could use your help :>

[Rod ONeal]

Yeah, I never use it though. I should be able to log on and find you. I have to go out right now, but I'll look for you later today on and tomorrow. I'm in NZ so my time zone is really frigged compared to the rest of the civilised world. lol
We'll hook up though.

[Mackie]

Yeah, I never use it though. I should be able to log on and find you. I have to go out right now, but I'll look for you later today on and tomorrow. I'm in NZ so my time zone is really frigged compared to the rest of the civilised world. lol
We'll hook up though.

Okay no trouble :>
mahadeva666@hotmail.com is what im using currently as my msn account (not email) ...
NZ eh? Stay away from them sheep then