are you using hardCMP to make them? i would.. what are their orientations?

Edited by - Cold_Void on 6/8/2005 9:08:12 PM

Yes, and I didn't change the orientation of the front facing, rear turrets.

Using glow for the white and yellow areas looks very strange, the way that they're painted. It doesn't feel like they're lit from within- you need to use a darker shade at the edges of the painted areas, and give it a much more subtle gradient, or work a lot harder to give us the impression that these are lit window surfaces. Go look at real-world examples of light passing through things and art in graphic novels and anime where light's being transmitted through an object's material. A great example, if you're bored and have the time, is the "lava wall" sequence in The Incredibles, where they used a combination of depth shading and angular diffusion to create really nice lava that fit the style of the movie really well.

I guess my feeling overall is that I just don't think that you've lit the right areas of this ship. I'd have made the interior the glow area, and have that be the fun part- instead of "just" being able to see into the cockpit, players could view multiple parts of the ship through the copious glass- making the interior tell as much of the story as the exterior. The glows you have... don't really do that for me.

LOL, like I said, it's just an excercise in function not form.

The white part is just paint. I was going to make the interior the glow part but that was more work and I wanted to get this in game to see how it would look. Yes the white stripes are waaaayyyyy over done but did you look at the pics?? Do you know why the guns are doing that??

BTW does the glow actually cast light onto nearby geometry as in a real light source??

Okay, I fixed the texture and the glow mapped parts. It didn't work right in FL though.
I set a glow map for the exhaust and a glow map for the interior of the cargo hold. You can do this right?!?!

Sure... you can make anything glow...

The question was: can I have more than one group with "Glow" in it??

Yes. Just use the naming schema correctly. For example, you could have 2 different levels of Oc for two Groups... just name them

ModderName_ShipName_glow_glass_one
ModderName_ShipName_glow_glass_two

...and then edit them appropriately.

It's not strictly even necessary to use the word "glow" in the name, btw- the word "glass" is all that matters here. But I'm very strict about naming Materials, because it ensures that every single Material I use is garanteed to be 100% unique.

Well, makes sense.

Okay, fixed the turrets and countermeasures. It apears that in order to get the weapons to look like they are flat against the hull, you have to put the hardpoints half-way into the geometry in HardCMP.
But for some reason my pilot still isn't showing up.

You won't see the pilot unless you're in space. Also, the HP for the pilot needs to be "Hp_pilot", not "Hp_pilot01"

As for the hardpoints... basically, the centerpoint of the cube is the "base" of any weapons. After a bit of practice, you can use this feature to get Hardpoints onto difficult angled areas.

Okay, is it Hp_Pilot or HpPilot?? HardCMP says HpPilot and I already figured that you only have one pilot so you don't use the enumeration.

Yeah I also knew that you only see the pilot in space.

Thanks again Argh, I'll go check it out.

Okay, everything is working. I've added 6 color options for the mod and you pick when you activate it.

This mod is going to replace the Rhino as it's starting to show it's age.